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: > > >> 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 ... >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com >>> >> [mailto:framers- >> >>> bounces at lists.frameusers.com] >>> >> On Behalf Of Nancy Allison >> >>> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:03 AM >>> To: Syed.Hosain at aeris.net >>> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com >>> Subject: Re: Thought for the day >>> >>> 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 >>> >> _________________________________ >> Lea Rush >> Software and Documentation Specialist >> Astoria-Pacific International >> www.astoria-pacific.com >> ph: 800-536-3111 >> fax: 503-655-7367 >> lea at astoria-pacific.com >> >> Please consider the environment before printing this >> email. >> `?.??.???`?.?.???`?...? >> >>> <((((?>`?.??.???`?.?.???`?...?><((((?> >>> >> >> NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY >> >> This communication is from Astoria-Pacific International >> and is intended to >> be confidential and solely for the use of the persons or >> entities addressed >> above. If you are not an intended recipient, be aware >> that the information >> contained herein may be protected from unauthorized use by >> privilege or law, >> and any copying, distribution, disclosure, or other use of >> this information >> is prohibited. If you have received this >> communication in error, please >> contact the sender by return email or telephone (503) >> 657-3010 immediately, >> and delete or destroy all copies. Thank you for your >> cooperation. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> >> You are currently subscribed to framers as generic668 at yahoo.ca. >> >> Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. >> >> To unsubscribe send a blank email to >> framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com >> or visit >> http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/generic668%40yahoo.ca >> >> Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. >> Visit >> http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and >> info. >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as tmuir at spot-on-creative.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/tmuir%40spot-on-creative.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
