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**suse** · 22 January 2008, 07:15 PM

Originally posted by SunKrux View Post

Depends on where in the South one heads. I know of places where the people don't talk slow and drawn out. Anyone here heard of Paula Dean? She does NOT talk slowly.

<<<melts into Paula Deen's from scratch recipes....>>>

She's right. Butter makes everything taste better.

suse

**tsaxlady** · 22 January 2008, 07:35 PM

Originally posted by Tracy Jane View Post

In terms of lexicon, I think many people interchange pants with trousers now,

Were I grew up it was britches.

**sg-1fanintn** · 22 January 2008, 07:41 PM

Just dropping by to congratulate Uber for having a video posted on GW's home page in the Gateworld Play section.

You go, girl!
lll

* Smilie by Mala

**NZNeep** · 22 January 2008, 07:51 PM

Quarantine...

Spoiler:

Heh, because of the books I read and the stuff I watch, I understand most British and American stuff. We do use the British version of most things... not pants though.

Oh, I know it's different because it's someone completely new to English but the other day I met a French guy who was telling us about his experiences as a waiter in New Zealand. He used to say to everyone he seating, "please, sit here and I will come on your table." The other waiters thought is was so funny that no one told him what he was saying for months. Oh, and once all the tables were full so he told some middle-aged women "if you sit over here, I will take you on the bar."

Heh. Heh.

**rderoch** · 22 January 2008, 10:18 PM

Originally posted by Tracy Jane View Post

We still call it a bonnet, yes. Bonnet and Boot.

When I was at school, my friends and I understood very little American English. We'd get incredibly confused at words like "trunk", "pants" and "flashlight". We also only used "like" either as a verb "to like" or in the context of a similie or metaphor. As for the word "so", it was a conjunction and never a quantifier. When we watched "Friends" or at the end of term, our teachers would put on subtitles so we could understand - many of us couldn't process the accents quick enough to understand the jokes, and the accents were from New York, not the international sound that Disney tends to opt for.

You can see just how much American TV and culture has influenced people in Britain. For a start, there's the grammatical changes - we often use "so" in a quantifying context (that's so funny) and we also use "like" to pad out sentences. In terms of lexicon, I think many people interchange pants with trousers now, we also use cookies as well as biscuits. I would say that fries and chips are still very different things, but that's changing with the younger generation.

It's a fascinating transition to watch.

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, in the US, it's cool how cultures have become mixed and homogenized, because it all melts together into the American culture. But on the other hand, it's sad because individual cultures should be preserved. When you start speaking on a global scale, it's a negative thing for the same reason as above. But on the positive side, the blending of all the cultures brings us closer to a common ground and a "one world" feeling.

Originally posted by Celandine View Post

Oh yes...there's also a section entitled 'stumblers' in my book which advises this very thing.

Also, they state 'to avoid the British version of giving someone "the finger," don't hold up the first two fingers of your hand with your palm facing you. (It looks like a reversed victory sign.) Kinda funny

One more thing, and I dearly have to remember this cos I'm a big finger counter, when asking for one or more of something to start with my thumb. If I only hold up my first finger to request one item, I'll probably get two lol

Note to self.

Originally posted by tsaxlady View Post

Were I grew up it was britches.

A friend of mine's father was from a holler in Kentucky and she grew up calling them bloomers.

Originally posted by ames View Post

Quick note:
'fanny' in N.A. English = butt/bottom/booty
'fanny' in England = female genitalia
'fanny-packs' = 'bum-bags' (I have made this mistake in public before. Don't. Respectable-type people tend to have all the colour drain out of their faces...and ames got smacked. So yeah. Bad slip of tongue!!!)

Well, on both continents it's the same general area. Below the waist and above the knees.

**Chelle DB** · 23 January 2008, 01:48 AM

Originally posted by JennyJ View Post

Hello! HD caps of Quarantine have just arrived to my Photobucket... If you are interested, check them out!

Thank you Jenny!!!

Originally posted by SamJackShipLover View Post

O, this has me laughing so hard. Poor you. I'm positive you will do better when you finally get to meet her.

Oh I hope so....for my sake as well as Amanda's!!!

Originally posted by Bekah See View Post

That's what you originally said??? Oh. Um. I knew that. This is much better, except I'd probably say a "cup of coffee" instead of just coffee. OR hot cocoa. Coffee is nasty

Uhm...coffee is the cure for all ails...didn't you know???

Originally posted by bossluna View Post

Hello hello hello!!! I think this is my first time posting in this AWESOME thread, but have always loved reading the posts!

I'm just so full of Samanda goodness right now that if I don't say something I fear I might burst at the seams!

Spoiler:

check it out! I know it is! You can kinda of see it here in JennyJ's HQ pic

Spoiler:

For some strange reason I had the urge to say "Hello Urgo" when I first started reading your post!!

Spoiler:

Originally posted by ames View Post

I once tried to compliment a British fic writer by saying I couldn't tell her fic was written by a Brit, and she became incredibly offended All I meant is that the dialogue and whatnot was written so that it wasn't jarring, but she assumed that I thought that US fic was best (funny that, considering I'm not American, but hey, that's the joy of assumptions, I suppose).
I agree. It doesn't bother me where the writer is from (so long as the work is beta'd - one thing I can't handle is when you have to *work* to read something full of spelling and grammar problems), and I don't mind local variancies popping up in the descriptions ... but when it hits the speech patterns of the characters, I find that it does tend to throw the momentum of the story.

I have yet to come across a fic that was difficult to follow because of "local dialogue"...I have come across fics where the writing was hard to follow because it was written like it may have been spoken in broken English...but the odd spelling or grammatical error phases me not...I've learned to work around them and enjoy the fics anyway!!!

Originally posted by Skydiver View Post

brit american
torch - flashlight
car park - parking lot
boot - trunk
trolly - cart
telly - tv or television
jumper - sweater
biscuits - cookies (american biscuits are kinda ilke an unsweet scone)
fanny - part of the girl's anatomy that only her OBGYN sees
pants - underwear/boxers/briefs
tube - subway (by the way, colorado springs does NOT have one. only a half dozen or so US cities have subways)
add more that i haven't thought of

As far as I know...and that's not that far...a subway here is the walkway that goes under a main road or highway so pedestrians can get from one side to the other underground...our underground rail system here in Melbourne is called the loop...or just a plain old tunnel!!
Also...we have windcheaters here too...basically a jumper is the woolly kind whereas the windcheater is more polyester/cotton.

Originally posted by Celandine View Post

Anyway, in the back it has a British to Yankee dictionary which I thought was fun. Here's a few that cracked me up.

cos - romaine lettuce (where they got that one I'll never know

)
cotton buds - Q-tips
car boot sale - temp flea market - trash and treasure
cat's eyes - road reflectors
face flannel - washcloth - face washer
fruit machine - slot machine - pokies
ice lolly - popsicle - icy pole
ironmonger - hardware store
jacket potato - baked potato
knackered - exhausted (my official new fun word to use with friends now..hehe) - buggered
mangetout - snow peas (huh?) - yum!!
mobile (pronounced MOH-bile) - cell phone
moggie - cat
sleeping policeman - speed bumps
twee - quaint, cute
twitcher - bird watcher
whinge (rhymes with hinge) - whine - sook

Lets not forget about the bathroom/toilet/outhouse/dunny/loo
Oh and as for the whole chips/fries thing...basically fries are skinny chips...and you can't get chips at McDonalds...although I make a point of always asking for them...and here chips can be the hot ones you get from the fish and chip shop and take away places or they can be those yummy flavoured cold thongs that are loaded with fat but taste so darn good...I think you call them crisps!
And you know that thing you stick in your babies mouth...we call it a dummy...you might call it a pacifier!
That's all I can think of right now...

Just thought of another one...Gobsmacked - amazed...without words!!
Oooh...and another one...do you guys call a guy a bloke..or a girl a shiela??...must go find that aussie slang book of mine!
Jelly - jello
Jam - jelly

Originally posted by Agent_Dark View Post

afaik, australian english is basically the same as british english, and pants don't mean underwear. pants mean pants...

That is to say....slacks or trousers...jeans and the like...our underwear is as follows:
Girls wear knickers, g-strings (thongs for those elsewhere), undies
Boys wear jocks, boxers and briefs
Babies wear nappies!!! (diapers)

Originally posted by Tracy Jane View Post

When we watched "Friends" or at the end of term, our teachers would put on subtitles so we could understand - many of us couldn't process the accents quick enough to understand the jokes, and the accents were from New York, not the international sound that Disney tends to opt for.

It's funny you should say that coz I have never needed subtitles for English speaking shows...but I have seen subtitles on an Australian show that was aired in the states and found that most bizarre!!

...I understood every word the fella was saying!!

Originally posted by jckfan55 View Post

To go back on topic--AT seems to have a facility for accents & has devised an interesting one for Helen Magnus. I also think it's great that Helen speaks quite formally b/c it gives her more of an air of being special.

I think Amanda does an English accent quite brilliantly...I wonder if she can do an aussie one without sounding like a kiwi!!

Originally posted by Über View Post

FIVE WORD CHALLENGE update:

Spoiler:

Thanks y'all for playing this little game! It was fun, no???
If you haven't and still want to...or if you have one and you want to change it like chelle did...just post it here on Samanda and I'll do a new update. Otherwise...we'll let the above stand and call it a day.

Thank you Über...this was fun...we should something else like this...after I get back from Taz please!!!

Originally posted by Skydiver View Post

so if a girl named fanny marries a guy named dick....

Don't laugh...fair dinkum...my parents actually knew a couple called Dick and Fanny...twas many years ago though...poor buggers!!!

Originally posted by NZNeep View Post

Quarantine...

Spoiler:

Heh, because of the books I read and the stuff I watch, I understand most British and American stuff. We do use the British version of most things... not pants though.
Oh, I know it's different because it's someone completely new to English but the other day I met a French guy who was telling us about his experiences as a waiter in New Zealand. He used to say to everyone he seating, "please, sit here and I will come on your table." The other waiters thought is was so funny that no one told him what he was saying for months. Oh, and once all the tables were full so he told some middle-aged women "if you sit over here, I will take you on the bar."
Heh. Heh.

Oh man...you make me PMP every day...you're such a cracker Eileen!!!

Anyhoo...I've had fun yet again...missed it all...yet again...but stil had fun...it's always nice to end the day with a little fun in Samanda...thank you guys!!!
Night all, take care, be safe and have fun!
(((Samanda)))

**Chelle DB** · 23 January 2008, 02:41 AM

Originally posted by Skydiver View Post

hey guys, check this out
[permission to forward]

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I really hate to be a pain but I can't get this site to work...it keeps coming uip with the logo but that's it...nothing else...not here or on IE...is anyone else having issues or is it just me????
I registered last night..got the confirmation email and all...and got into the fics for about an hour and that was it...now I can't vote and I can't read the fics...please help me!!!!!!!!

**RealmOfX** · 23 January 2008, 02:58 AM

Originally posted by chelle db View Post

I really hate to be a pain but I can't get this site to work...it keeps coming uip with the logo but that's it...nothing else...not here or on IE...is anyone else having issues or is it just me????
I registered last night..got the confirmation email and all...and got into the fics for about an hour and that was it...now I can't vote and I can't read the fics...please help me!!!!!!!!

It's not you Chelle, it's broken

**Chelle DB** · 23 January 2008, 03:01 AM

Originally posted by RealmOfX View Post

It's not you Chelle, it's broken

Thanks RoX...well I hope they are aware of it and are fixing it!!! Night all!

**SmileyGidget** · 23 January 2008, 03:05 AM

Boo!!

**samcarterrules** · 23 January 2008, 04:27 AM

Hey Everyone,

I missed you all yesterday, I was having an SG1 day cause I got my S10 DVDs, so I watched all the special features, they were great

Originally posted by Skydiver View Post

nonono, international fic has sam taking the lift up to the car park, hitting the market on the way home, where she uses a trolly to purchase her groceries. she puts the bags in the boot and drives home, turning the telly on in the lounge room while she makes herself a cuppa and has some biscuits while she snuggles in her jumper and picks at the plaster janet put on a minor cut of hers

LOL, that is kinda how I talk but why is it funnier when you 'say' it?

ROTFL!

Originally posted by SamJackShipLover View Post

LOLOL. Well, being from te Netherlands most doesn't bother me at all (I don't even notice), the only thing I hate is when Sam & Jack (I mostly read ship fic ) call each other my love. Is that typical english? It sounds wrong somehow for them to be saying that.

Oh yeah I hate that too, I like fics that 'speak' with the characters voices I can read OOC as long as the characters voice and dialect are right.

And boo! Smiley welcome back!

Julia(samcarterrules)

**Celandine** · 23 January 2008, 05:40 AM

Originally posted by chelle db View Post

Lets not forget about the bathroom/toilet/outhouse/dunny/loo

Don't forget washroom and restroom as well.

Oh and outhouse for me is the lowest form of uh..facilities. When camping at primitive sites, these hole in the ground wooden shacks are to feared!!

**ann_sgcfan** · 23 January 2008, 06:37 AM

The older generation in the south adds an extra "R" to some words, including an onion... it's an urnion to them.

Perhaps Colonel originated in the south

How else to you explain the extra "R" that is silent when you spell it

As someone already mentioned a Hollow is the area between two hills or mountains and pronounced hollar to the older southern generation and holla to the younger generation. lol the one difference I can't get used to is creek - a small stream of water is pronounced creak (like break) by some. It must be from a different part of the south. lol I had no idea what my boss was talking about. Someone else had to translate

**hisg1fans** · 23 January 2008, 07:03 AM

Originally posted by ann_sgcfan View Post

The older generation in the south adds an extra "R" to some words, including an onion... it's an urnion to them.

Perhaps Colonel originated in the south

How else to you explain the extra "R" that is silent when you spell it

As someone already mentioned a Hollow is the area between two hills or mountains and pronounced hollar to the older southern generation and holla to the younger generation. lol the one difference I can't get used to is creek - a small stream of water is pronounced creak (like break) by some. It must be from a different part of the south. lol I had no idea what my boss was talking about. Someone else had to translate

I grew up saying creek like 'crick' (rhymes with Rick).

**PengYn** · 23 January 2008, 07:16 AM

*sigh* I'm late. Oh well.
*scribbles quickly on bottom*

Originally posted by Über View Post

FIVE WORD CHALLENGE update:

Alan: Will you marry me Amanda?
RepliCartertje: Your boobies all the way!
Mandysg1: Thanks for Sam and Helen.
Agent Dark: your micro is teh pwnage
mapsc (Mike): Sam rocks. So do you.
suse: You are a class act.
Sg Gato: You're an inspiration to us.
hisg1fans: Keep up the good work
The-rage: Who inspired you for acting?
SunKrux: How's Olivia's Devil Duck Doing?
JanSam: Please run for US President.
jckfan55: Sam's a great Atlantis Commander.
NZNeep: Inspiring, goofy, loving, smart. Hugs?
Deejay435: Your work brings me joy.
antoa315: Holy ----! You ------- rock!
Tittamiire: Amanda, thank you for everything.
antoa315's offline friend Mysterious Stranger: Purple monkey dishwasher... thank you!
Skydiver: hey, wanna go get lunch?
donamac: She's beautiful inside and out!
majorsal: YOU ARE THE WO MAN!!
Rocky456: Amanda, never change a thing.
RealmOfX: Amanda's amazing, awesome, astounding, awe-inspiring.
Bekah See: You're my all-time favorite actress.
LaCroix: One all around magnificent person.
tara3583: Amanda, Fans, circle of love!
SamJackShipLover: Amanda you are the best!
Spacegirlnz: Thank you for being you =)
helenmagnus23: AMANDA, the greatest role model.
Julia(samcarterrules): Amanda, you are my hero.
chelle db: You're the awesome-est Tappinating Spottie!!
sofie: You have the biggest heart.
Celandine: Thanks for just being you.
scifithinker: Making our lives more colorful.
Suz: Come back to New York!
Ames: You rock the rock-rock!
Tracy Jane: My girlfriend wants a hug.
Coley: Thanks for your megawatt smile.
SWMBOTGSG (aka Mumsey): Thanks for always being yourself.
jz9: Sam: Captain, Major, Colonel, General?
Atlantis_babe34: Can I Have A Hug?
Forestia: You make science geeks cool!
Suse:Your graciousness is an example.
PengYn: Honey, you own the room.

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