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<[email protected]>  wrote:

From: Lea Rush<[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Thought for the day
To: [email protected]
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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Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:03 AM
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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 ([email protected])
<[email protected]>
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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