On 2010-03-13 8:13, Tanya Love wrote:
Apparently, you should only ever say that food is "good", because people are "nice".
Hmmm, that one must be regional. Or maybe it's regional to be OK with calling food "nice". Anyway, it wouldn't really raise my eyebrows, it would just be a little different.
Oh, and you don't say "heaps" because you should say "a lot" as apparently, you only manure in "heaps" and you don't say "thanks heaps!" (another thing I say ALL the time!), but you CAN say "thanks A LOT".
That's more recent. When I was a kid in the 60s and 70s, we definitely used "heaps" for "a lot", including "thanks heaps". I still used it occasionally, just for a change. But it's fallen out of vogue over the years and you rarely hear it anymore.
You also don't seem to understand it if a person says a really simple thing like "ta muchly", which of course translates to "thanks very much".
Well, considering how the English pronounce Chalmondley, we Americans are a little gun shy on "English-like" pronunciations. To our ears, "ta muchly" could actually be a pronunciation of a much longer word. :-)
Oh, and here's yet another straaaaaange American fact - you lot drink your tea COLD!! AND, like, with EVERY meal!! See, we tend to drink WATER cold, and with every meal, and save the "tea" for when we are needing a nice hot cuppa at the end of long day -
Well, in the US, usually coffee, sometimes hot chocolate (cocoa), are the hot drinks, most any other drink is served cold. Cold coffee products have been coming out here the last few years, though. I don't care much for them, myself.
Wangka...! Ooooh, I can hear the giggles now!
Founded by a bunch of prudes so uptight the English ran them off, the US still has quite a bit of the schoolboy view of sex and related matters. :-)
You could have knocked me over with a featha (bit more Aussie twang there!)
That one was more common here in the past, too. Now Americans mostly encounter it in books or from nomadic Aussies, if anywhere.
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