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Re: Differences between English and English (UK vs. US)
« Reply #200 on: April 08, 2018, 12:08:28 AM »
Airplane instead of Aeroplane.



Why?

After all you dont say (or maybe you do?)

airnautics instead of aeronautics

airdynamics instead of aerodynamics

airfoil instead of aerofoil

airnomic instead of aeronomic

airsol instead of aerosol


or my personal favourite Air instead of Aero ;)




airspace instead of aerospace

Wait, we use both...
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Re: Differences between English and English (UK vs. US)
« Reply #201 on: April 08, 2018, 01:22:48 AM »
airspace instead of aerospace

Wait, we use both...

but in a different context


Aircraft fly in an airspace whilst they are built by an aerospace company ;)
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Re: Differences between English and English (UK vs. US)
« Reply #202 on: April 08, 2018, 01:49:56 AM »
Gratuitous diagram

Ok the granularity could be improved by forking the owered branch into types such as piston, jet,rocket, electric, human etc but I couldn't be bothered lol


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Re: Differences between English and English (UK vs. US)
« Reply #203 on: April 20, 2018, 12:02:46 PM »
Ran into a new one: apparently in the UK, you call ear muffs 'ear defenders'. Makes sense, just not something that anyone in the US would understand without explanation.

Watched a documentary produced in the UK and actually caught quite a few individual words used in a way that would not be understood in the US also but cannot remember them right now. Almost all of them made sense in the context when they were used except a couple, and those might as well have been in Portuguese. :-)

One area that I find both countries are somewhat odd about is Post or Mail. I believe it would be more normal to use the word 'post' instead of mail in casual conversation in the UK but both countries use both words in different places. We have a US Postal System, with a Post Master that oversees the..... mail. You apparently have 'post' and a post office and so forth but the materials handled by the post offices are sometimes  transferred to a ship designated RMS for Royal Mail Service. I also think it is an age thing, at least here in the US too; in the olden days, I believe it was more common for the mailman to be called the postman. Even today everyone would know who a person was talking about using that term but no one really uses that term anymore. And the thing that the mail man (or mail carrier) puts the mail in is the mail box.

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Re: Differences between English and English (UK vs. US)
« Reply #204 on: April 20, 2018, 12:25:05 PM »
Most of what you put in that list is correct for normal US usage except we do say 'airfoil'.

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Airplane instead of Aeroplane.



Why?

After all you dont say (or maybe you do?)

airnautics instead of aeronautics

airdynamics instead of aerodynamics

airfoil instead of aerofoil

airnomic instead of aeronomic

airsol instead of aerosol


or my personal favourite Air instead of Aero ;)


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Re: Differences between English and English (UK vs. US)
« Reply #205 on: April 20, 2018, 01:24:57 PM »
these are ear muffs :)



Ay yes, we have the mail (generic) or post (used completely interchnageably)  delivered either by a postman working for the Royal Mail or , which is becoming more commonplace especially in the business world, by a third party courier, even for letters.

Definitely Postman otherwise it would be Mailman Mike instead of Postman Pat :)










Ran into a new one: apparently in the UK, you call ear muffs 'ear defenders'. Makes sense, just not something that anyone in the US would understand without explanation.

Watched a documentary produced in the UK and actually caught quite a few individual words used in a way that would not be understood in the US also but cannot remember them right now. Almost all of them made sense in the context when they were used except a couple, and those might as well have been in Portuguese. :-)

One area that I find both countries are somewhat odd about is Post or Mail. I believe it would be more normal to use the word 'post' instead of mail in casual conversation in the UK but both countries use both words in different places. We have a US Postal System, with a Post Master that oversees the..... mail. You apparently have 'post' and a post office and so forth but the materials handled by the post offices are sometimes  transferred to a ship designated RMS for Royal Mail Service. I also think it is an age thing, at least here in the US too; in the olden days, I believe it was more common for the mailman to be called the postman. Even today everyone would know who a person was talking about using that term but no one really uses that term anymore. And the thing that the mail man (or mail carrier) puts the mail in is the mail box.

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Re: Differences between English and English (UK vs. US)
« Reply #206 on: April 20, 2018, 01:52:19 PM »
Ah yes, Postman Pat, standing in front of his mail truck.  :-)

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Definitely Postman otherwise it would be Mailman Mike instead of Postman Pat :)



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Re: Differences between English and English (UK vs. US)
« Reply #207 on: April 20, 2018, 08:21:09 PM »
I've joined a multistrada forum that has predominantly UK members, some europers but few Americans. I am starting to talk like a Brit. Kit instead of gear. Sat Nav for GPS. Faf I believe means "pain in the a$$" (which would be ar$e) and then the're mate. That's def. different.
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Re: Differences between English and English (UK vs. US)
« Reply #208 on: April 21, 2018, 09:35:07 AM »
And now a few moments of silence; it seems we have lost Bob folks.....

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Re: Differences between English and English (UK vs. US)
« Reply #209 on: April 21, 2018, 07:25:37 PM »
you can't get rid of me that easy ;) still love the C14for two up touring.
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Re: Differences between English and English (UK vs. US)
« Reply #210 on: April 21, 2018, 11:56:37 PM »
Faf I believe means "pain in the a$$" (which would be ar$e)

Close? : https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/faff

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Re: Differences between English and English (UK vs. US)
« Reply #211 on: April 22, 2018, 05:49:13 AM »
Definitely Postman otherwise it would be Mailman Mike instead of Postman Pat :)

Except here we can no longer officially use the word "man" in anything (even when the person is male), because it is not politically correct.  So it would be "postal carrier", "letter carrier", or "mail carrier".

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sports person

Since I don't like PC, I will continue to put "man" and "woman" at the end when referring to specific people :)  Although I do often use the neuter version when referring to the generic/collective.  Some really sound beyond strange though-

fisherwoman?  fisher person??  Maybe just "fisher"

Where I work, when we had a female in charge of the Board, people kept calling her the "chairman" and I refused to do that.  I called her the "chairwoman" since it seemed really odd to say just "chair", like I was calling a person a piece of furniture  :)
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Re: Differences between English and English (UK vs. US)
« Reply #212 on: April 22, 2018, 09:42:39 AM »
In fairness most people tend to refer to them as "the postie" which is gender neutral ;)


 
Except here we can no longer officially use the word "man" in anything (even when the person is male), because it is not politically correct.  So it would be "postal carrier", "letter carrier", or "mail carrier".

police officer
fire fighter
chair person
sports person

Since I don't like PC, I will continue to put "man" and "woman" at the end when referring to specific people :)  Although I do often use the neuter version when referring to the generic/collective.  Some really sound beyond strange though-

fisherwoman?  fisher person??  Maybe just "fisher"

Where I work, when we had a female in charge of the Board, people kept calling her the "chairman" and I refused to do that.  I called her the "chairwoman" since it seemed really odd to say just "chair", like I was calling a person a piece of furniture  :)
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Re: Differences between English and English (UK vs. US)
« Reply #213 on: April 22, 2018, 12:35:46 PM »
I've joined a multistrada forum that has predominantly UK members, some europers but few Americans. I am starting to talk like a Brit. Kit instead of gear. Sat Nav for GPS. Faf I believe means "pain in the a$$" (which would be ar$e) and then the're mate. That's def. different.

"FAF about"........ to take a extra long time to complete a simple task
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Re: Differences between English and English (UK vs. US)
« Reply #214 on: April 22, 2018, 01:26:04 PM »
"FAF about"........ to take a extra long time to complete a simple task

as welll as being a PITA , eg that was a real faf(f)
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Re: Differences between English and English (UK vs. US)
« Reply #215 on: April 23, 2018, 09:08:20 AM »
In fairness most people tend to refer to them as "the postie" which is gender neutral ;)

I must say, "postie" doesn't sound gender neutral.

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Re: Differences between English and English (UK vs. US)
« Reply #216 on: April 23, 2018, 09:15:37 AM »
I must say, "postie" doesn't sound gender neutral.
Why?  Too close to pastie?   :yikes:
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Re: Differences between English and English (UK vs. US)
« Reply #217 on: April 25, 2018, 06:26:09 AM »


South Africans are just generally rude & obnoxious ;)



Well Mikey, seeing that us SA'ns are rude and obnoxious, let me live up to it.....  :stirpot:

Do you know what us Afrikaans speaking people call you okes from GB........?

"Souties"..... Short for "Sout Pielle"....excuse my language please....?

Sout=salt and pielle=penis', so roughly translated, it means salt-d*cks..... Reason being that with the Anglo-Boer war, the okes were one foot in  GB, the other in SA, with the their d*cks hanging in the ocean.... :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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Re: Differences between English and English (UK vs. US)
« Reply #218 on: April 25, 2018, 07:42:32 AM »
Well Mikey, seeing that us SA'ns are rude and obnoxious, let me live up to it.....  :stirpot:

Do you know what us Afrikaans speaking people call you okes from GB........?

"Souties"..... Short for "Sout Pielle"....excuse my language please....?

Sout=salt and pielle=penis', so roughly translated, it means salt-d*cks..... Reason being that with the Anglo-Boer war, the okes were one foot in  GB, the other in SA, with the their d*cks hanging in the ocean.... :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

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Re: Differences between English and English (UK vs. US)
« Reply #219 on: April 25, 2018, 11:42:27 PM »
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