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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: CaptainDesslock on May 26, 2009, 02:29:57 PM
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I just found this rather quirky,
From my time scoping about the British "custom instruments/pickups" scene my daily vocabulary has seem some slight additions that I didn't use before:
"that new custom guitar is ace!"
"that was bloody $%&#ed up"
"alright cheers!"
and
"wow, i finally know what a quid is!"
Just curious of any other nationals had picked up a few words from this boards, as I've never seen any americans use any of the above in the context that the British use.
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Sure I have expanded my vocabulary a bit.
But I already was pretty adept in the English lingo, including 'street' lingo.
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I don't know about the non-British, but I'm continually picking up phrases and words I have certainly never heard before from my compatriots up north. Sometimes I think they almost speak a different language !! :lol:
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regional dialect is pyar boss lid. get yer taigs out, don't be arl arse!
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Some brits speak non-british
I have to deal with this on a daily basis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbrian
(No, I dont speak with a cumbrian accent myself, though some of the dialectic has snuck in, people still think I'm american/south african/australian/canadian, for some reason)
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I was expecting more non-british to come here :lol:
As for me, I have to say I learnt a lot here but......well, learning "street lingo" is quite a never ending story here, this place is full of *fresh* posts everyday. And if now we also have to consider cumbrians, well... oh no !! :lol:
Anyway I put some of my favorite posts here :
http://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=16947.0
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Some brits speak non-british
I have to deal with this on a daily basis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbrian
(No, I dont speak with a cumbrian accent myself, though some of the dialectic has snuck in, people still think I'm american/south african/australian/canadian, for some reason)
I had an Aussie mate who used to live in Penrith. He loved it, he was always talking about how he couldn't understand what his workmates were talking about. I went to his wedding up there and I couldn't understand them either. I bought a postcard there, which was a photo of a hand made sign in a country lane, which said "Tek care lambs ont road"
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I bought a postcard there, which was a photo of a hand made sign in a country lane, which said "Tek care lambs ont road"
Quite another new *weird* langage :lol:
The only one place where I could have expect finding that kind of sign would have been in Ireland, because the lambs ARE ALWAYS on the roads, but I don't remember having read such a usefull forewarn sign during my Irish trip (maybe because it was written in another dialect :lol:).
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Non-UK natives may find the following useful for translating some of our weirder slang terms: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom (http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/) :D
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Non-UK natives may find the following useful for translating some of our weirder slang terms: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom (http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/) :D
they missed out two of my favourites...
* ass-muncher
* c--k-polisher
my momma is SO proud :lol:
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I'm not sure if I've, but I hope so...
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Some brits speak non-british
I have to deal with this on a daily basis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbrian
(No, I dont speak with a cumbrian accent myself, though some of the dialectic has snuck in, people still think I'm american/south african/australian/canadian, for some reason)
Tsk Tsk, MDV! With non-words such as 'snuck' appearing there, I'm not surprised that people think you're American!! Just one of the horrible Americanisms that riles me with scarily high frequency. :)
Roo
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Bitham is a common insult around here... as in when someone does something really stupid you call them a bitham - i still like it a lot. The local special school is on Bitham lane and used to be called Bitham school... untill it became a local insult
also, when i first went to uni no-one had a clue what i meant when i said mardy - i didnt know it was a local thing. i guess artic monkeys changed that and tried to make it northern
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AC/DC Adj. Bisexual.
Haha I'm going to have fun inferring an alternative meaning next time that one comes up on here :P
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AC/DC Adj. Bisexual.
Haha I'm going to have fun inferring an alternative meaning next time that one comes up on here :P
:lol: It mean that in the UK long before Bon and the boys arrived - I'd always assumed they chose the name fully aware of that meaning? It's certainly what it meant to us pommie boys when this "Aussie punk band" called AC/DC appeared...
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Haha I am so very young! :oops:
AC/DC has always meant Malcolm and Angus to me.
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I don't know about the non-British, but I'm continually picking up phrases and words I have certainly never heard before from my compatriots up north. Sometimes I think they almost speak a different language !! :lol:
arlreet marra ow ya deein? greetings from sunderland
cheers
keith
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also, when i first went to uni no-one had a clue what i meant when i said mardy - i didnt know it was a local thing. i guess artic monkeys changed that and tried to make it northern
I first heard "mardy" from my stepmother 30-odd years ago, and she's from Hull. Then again, she did live in Leicester for a while so it could be a Midlands thing.
On the AC/DC thing, I thought everyone would know the legendary (or mythical?) Bon Scott quote:
Journalist: "So are you AC or DC?"
Bon: "Neither, I'm the lightnin' flash in the middle!"
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I'll be delighted to read more street lingo from Welsh peoples around here.
I never went to Wales but it seems to be an amazing experience, I'm quite tempted to go there ! :drink:
(http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/gales.jpg)
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Well no !
I won't be able to even buy a ticket to go to this city ! ^^
If I am not mistaken (help me welsh friends !), I think this city name can be translated in :
"The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave"
PDT_006
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also, when i first went to uni no-one had a clue what i meant when i said mardy - i didnt know it was a local thing. i guess artic monkeys changed that and tried to make it northern
I first heard "mardy" from my stepmother 30-odd years ago, and she's from Hull. Then again, she did live in Leicester for a while so it could be a Midlands thing.
that will be it. its hard to pin down its origins between nottingham and derby so leicester is in the right area.
funny thing is i can go on a bike rideand within 5 miles be within derbyshire or leicestershire and the whole dialect changes completely
anyway, hello around here is kinda derbyshire and goes like
"ay up me dook"
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"regional dialect is pyar boss lid. get yer taigs out, don't be arl arse!"
I hope upon hope yours is not the same dialect as mine.
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Can't be true that pic of Dr Vic :o
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it is
http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com/
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I first heard of mardy on 27th May 2009 when Wez posted it :lol:
(And I still don't have a clue wot it means!)
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it has its own meaning that one word cant really cover
its a bit like being grumpy and childish. think about the way a child acts when not getting its own way and thats about it
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Oh good grief... don't tell Mrs R about this word and what it means - I'll never hear the end of it! :lol:
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I'll be delighted to read more street lingo from Welsh peoples around here.
I never went to Wales but it seems to be an amazing experience, I'm quite tempted to go there ! :drink:
(http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/gales.jpg)
I went when I was a kid, seem to remember it being cr@p.
As for Leicestershire, I agree, they're all wierd around here. I was raised in Warwickshire and we used to say mardy (both parents brought up in Warwickshire too, so maybe it is a midlands thing). My misses calls me a mardyarse sometimes.
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Oh yeah, and I saw Fernando use the word "bugger" earlier and thought that must have come from here.
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I went when I was a kid, seem to remember it being cr@p.
Thanks for the info, this would avoid me to spend money for a ticket, and to spend my time trying to spell this city name ! :tin:
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also, when i first went to uni no-one had a clue what i meant when i said mardy - i didnt know it was a local thing. i guess artic monkeys changed that and tried to make it northern
The northern version of mardy is maungy. I only found out about mardy from more southern friends.
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anyway, hello around here is kinda derbyshire and goes like
"ay up me dook"
Oh don't get me started on that one. I work in Barnsley and they all do that too. Freaked me out as living only 25 miles north of there, I'd never heard the expression before.