American Slang Compared To English Slang

[Centurion1]

^ hey i looked it up it is an accepted pronunciation just like some people say Caribbean differently.

[Cyclops]

Strewth you galahs bang on like sheilas on the turps.

We Aussies also affect rhyming slang in generous emulation of our cockney forbears (of which I have none). It propagates a miasma of egalitarian vernacular bonhomie.

I like SW american slang, combined with that incomprehensible accent. There were extended stretches of "No Country For Old Men" that I needed fully subtitled, especially when our hero and his girlfriend are squabbling.

Also Billy from Predator (he's also Billy in every other film I saw him in, must be his name in real life too). "I wouldn't wish that on a broke- (something) dawg"

Sarf London slang grates on the ear like it is meant to. "Av you got the minerals?" Ugly ugly stuff.

[Owen Glyndwr]

NorCal most generally refers to the Bay Area (San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Contra Costa, Alameda, Marin, Solano, Sonoma and Napa counties. It can also refer to California north of Monterey and Fresno counties (inclusive). There is a definitive split culturally between NorCal and SoCal. The most noticeable way to tell if someone is from Northern California is to listen to them for about 5-10 minutes. If they use the word hella, then they are from NorCal. Conversely, the way to tell is someone is from SoCal, use the word hella judiciously, and gauge their reactions. If they react aggressively, or with scorn, they are probably from Southern California.

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[pevergreen]

Strewth you galahs bang on like sheilas on the turps.

Couldn't have put it better myself.

[Centurion1]

i hate the word hella soooooooooo much its so dumb my cousin went to ucsf and now she says it all the time and i want to shoot myself. and now i don't even live their even more but this girl who just moved to my town (navy town lots of california people) says it too and everyone at my school thinks its the coolest thing but i want to shoot myself whenever i hear it.

[miotas]

^ hey i looked it up it is an accepted pronunciation just like some people say Caribbean differently.

Yes but both ways of pronouncing Caribbean still have the letters in the correct order, nucular rearranges the letters.

[Cyclops]

Both versions of Carribean are OK by me, but if you can't say "Nuc-le-ar" you shouldn't be allowed to fire one.

I tend to call 'em newks, as opposed to the Yank way of saying nooks. Of course officially we don't have any so its a mewt point.

Australian slang is mostly just adding the colloquial term for vagina into every sentence. I think our slang is heavily based on the English and Irish who started the joint, although there's a lot more seppo creeping in thanks to the idiot box.

NZ slang has some choice tidbits, especially when ennuciated in their cute accents.

[ajaxfetish]

Oh, and make sure you use like, every other word.
The word is like, a filler or something. It like, doesn't like, mean anything y'know?

It's a discourse marker, much like 'dude.'

Ajax

[A Very Super Market]

I think "Like" is an urban thing. At least, because of the media being based in California.

[bobbin]

Where I come from (Glasgow) we have a tendency to add "but" to the end of sentences, it causes no end of confusion to people not used to it.

"He's an idiot"
"Aye I know but"
".....but what ?"
"eh ?"

There also the habit of using the word c**t as a term of endearment.

[Cyclops]

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There also the habit of using the word c**t as a term of endearment.

We use it as a gender-neutral marker like "person", it gets turned into an adjective, general greeting, marker of negative attribiutes, marker of positive attributes. Gets a fair workout, deserves its own holiday, but what would they call it?

[Vuk]

I HATE Brit slang! :P I got a Brit friend who uses the 'word' 'dosh' as a catch-all. He has to use the word in at least every other sentence to mean a whole score of things. What does it really mean? I got no idea. I know that in Killing Floor your char uses it to mean money (as has my friend), but he has used it to mean a great deal of things.

[pevergreen]

One australian got really confused by english slang.

Don't be taking the lego.

(One bad word in the last few seconds, otherwise should be SFW.)

Its hot lego.

[Cyclops]

...'dosh'...

Its only ever meant money AFAIK.

Maybe your pal is a try-hard, or just misunderstood its meaning, or knows that it annoys you?

Niot having a go at your mate of course, just suggesting explanations.

[Vuk]

Its only ever meant money AFAIK.

Maybe your pal is a try-hard, or just misunderstood its meaning, or knows that it annoys you?

Niot having a go at your mate of course, just suggesting explanations.

lol, he is a genuine Brit, so I doubt that he is faking it. And before he knew it annoyed me he used it for care and ciggy.

[bobbin]

I HATE Brit slang! :P I got a Brit friend who uses the 'word' 'dosh' as a catch-all.

God that sounds irritating, he isn't Danny Dyer by any chance ? (probably the most annoying person in britain)

[Subotan]

I HATE Brit slang! :P I got a Brit friend who uses the 'word' 'dosh' as a catch-all. He has to use the word in at least every other sentence to mean a whole score of things

That isn't British slang. Sounds South African or something./

One australian got really confused by english slang.

Don't be taking the lego.

(One bad word in the last few seconds, otherwise should be SFW.)

Its hot lego.

I've seen Jason Byrne live, twice

[The Stranger]

i vote for australian slang.

[AlexanderSextus]

See if you can decipher this, Euros and Aussies:


"Yo money, we 'bout to hop in the whip, go cop some lye, and then roll thru to my homie crib and bump some ill tracks."

[miotas]

Hello friend, we are going to get in a nice car, (do something) and then drive around my neighbourhood playing some nice music.

I presume that you aren't talking about caustic soda when you mention lye, so my guess would be some drug.

[AlexanderSextus]

close enough. I actually said "go to a friends house and listen to some nice music" though

[Mikeus Caesar]

Ey up lad, ya reet? Got some peng weed, fancy goin on a mish with it?

[Centurion1]

whats up man, got some awesome pot wanna go smoke it

try this.

Whassup dude. Me and some other dudes were going to go hit a curl, we were wondering if you'd wanna hit that it would be right gnarly bro. This is the hip man you arent gonna get more wicked than that.

[Mikeus Caesar]

whats up man, got some awesome pot wanna go smoke it

try this.

Whassup dude. Me and some other dudes were going to go hit a curl, we were wondering if you'd wanna hit that it would be right gnarly bro. This is the hip man you arent gonna get more wicked than that.

With my quote, close but no cigar. "Going on a mish", mish = mission, being slang for a very long walk. Was a habit of ours back home to go on a mish with large quantities of not entirely legal substances. The whole sentence is quite unintelligible when spoken with thuh propeh Yorksherh aksuhnt.

As for yours...

"Greetings close friend. Me and some other close friends were going to go smoke cannabis out of our smoking implements, we were wondering if you would be interested as it would be very good, brethren. This is the very best my friend, you will not get much better than it"

Either that or replace all references to cannabis and replace with surfing references.

[Centurion1]

surfing actually...... good catch.

[Louis VI the Fat]

See if you can decipher this, Euros and Aussies:


"Yo money, we 'bout to hop in the whip, go cop some lye, and then roll thru to my homie crib and bump some ill tracks."

Well I recognised that full stop as being English.

[bobbin]

"Ho! ya bam! geez a swatch o'yur buckie o'am gonnae pure chib ya"

Have fun with that one.

[AlexanderSextus]

Yo G money wats good wit tha skee-o's and where mah endz at bré?