From: Doug Franklin
On 2010-03-13 8:13, Tanya Love wrote:
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. :-)
Ta means bye (as in good-bye); usually Ta-ta == bye-bye (or buh-bye if
you're responding to a luser)
See also TTFN - Ta-ta for now.
Not to be confused with tatas.
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.
Tea is ICED tea. If you want the other stuff ask for Hot Tea.
And in the south, tea means SWEET tea - almost half sugar. If you want
tea without sugar you have to ask for un-sweetened tea. That's what
Yankee tourists drink, so we've got it available, you just have to ask
for it.
If you go up north, you can't get sweet tea. If you ask for it, they'll
just bring you un-sweet tea and two packets of sugar. You can ask for
more packets of sugar, but IT'S STILL NOT THE SAME THING!
And if you really want to make 'em crazy up north, order bacon and eggs
and ask 'em to bring you grits instead of potatoes.
Now Mickey D's (Mickey like Mickey Mouse) is pushing McCafe coffee
flavored drinks - NO I don't want to try a McCafe today, I want a medium
coffee, and I don't want nothin' in it BUT coffee ...
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