Thought for the day

[Tori Muir]

I found 'nice' to be most troubling after having married a Brit. In that 
US it's a bit of  a limp compliment, but in the UK it carries stronger 
positiveness.  "Did you like the curry?" "It was nice, thanks" has a 
totally different effect in the two dialects, especially to her who 
cooked the curry!

And it never fails to crack me up when I hear him say "I could just 
murder a glass of water!" or "they do a gorgeous crab salad" -- in 
Amurrican English, we don't use "murder" or "gorgeous" that way.

Tori


On 5/27/10 11:53 AM, Writer wrote:
> ...or trousers as pants.
>
> Nadine
>
> --- On Thu, 5/27/10, Lea Rush<lea at astoria-pacific.com>  wrote:
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>> From: Lea Rush<lea at astoria-pacific.com>
>> Subject: RE: Thought for the day
>> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>> Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 2:33 PM
>> And don't refer to your waist pouch
>> as a fanny pack. More offended looks ...
>>
>>      
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>> On Behalf Of Nancy Allison
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>>> As does rooting for your team, in Australia. Expect a
>>>        
>> few startled looks,
>> then
>>      
>>> grins . . .
>>>
>>> In case anyone wonders about the tech-writing aspect
>>>        
>> of this discussion,
>> it's the
>>      
>>> many tricky highways and byways of localization even
>>>        
>> within the English
>>      
>>> language.
>>>
>>> --Nancy
>>>
>>> On May 27, 2010, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net)
>>> <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net>
>>>        
>> wrote:
>>      
>>> And ... offering to give someone a ride in your car in
>>>        
>> the UK has quite a
>> different
>>      
>>> connotation from the use in the US. :)
>>>
>>> Z
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