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Sherli Bakerst wrote:
Having just watched the Pilot for the first time a couple days ago, I was struck by the sign on what became Speedy's. In the pilot, it's Mrs. Hudson's Snax (or is it spelled snacks?) and Sarnies. I had absolutely no idea what sarnies meant until I googled it. I don't think that word for sandwich is used anywhere in the US.
Also, we don't use whilst at all; it's always while.
And Aussies call sandwiches "Sangas"
"I'll have a Vegemite Sanga thanks mum".
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Hey Kaz, that's just what I was gunna say, mate!
Something that intrigues me is the different way we write the date, e.g. today's date is 19.06.12, the day, month, year, which seems the logical way. I believe our Yank cousins write it month, day, year. Why is this so?
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Yeah, the date thing has always puzzled me too. Go to USA and Canada and you have to think REALLY hard when filling in forms, especially those immigration entry things.
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Vegemite: Ugh.
And in China, the date is written: year/month/day. Which is actually the most logical if you think about it.
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hepzibah wrote:
Something that intrigues me is the different way we write the date, e.g. today's date is 19.06.12, the day, month, year, which seems the logical way. I believe our Yank cousins write it month, day, year. Why is this so?
It's no more logical to day "it's the 19th of June, 2012" than it is to say "it's June 19, 2012."
And why do Americans use hyphens or slash marks when they write the date in numbers, ie, 6-19-12 or 6/19/12, while the UK (not sure about other countries) abbreviate it 19.6.12, with periods/decimal points?
In both of those cases, it's just tradition, and I don't think "logic" has anything to do with it.
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Ahh see Down Under we just do any old symbol between the numbers.
We have more important things to think of, lol
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I must admit there's (at least) one thing where the americans have it more logically than us Finns. And that is the notes/chords in music. It's logical that you have them alphabetically A, B, C, C, E, F, G, right? Well, here B means Bb and we've added an H so it's A, H, C, D, E, F, G. I believe this is also in some other European countries but it just makes no sense. Rant over.
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Yeah, that is a bit weird...
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ancientsgate wrote:
hepzibah wrote:
Something that intrigues me is the different way we write the date, e.g. today's date is 19.06.12, the day, month, year, which seems the logical way. I believe our Yank cousins write it month, day, year. Why is this so?
It's no more logical to day "it's the 19th of June, 2012" than it is to say "it's June 19, 2012."
And why do Americans use hyphens or slash marks when they write the date in numbers, ie, 6-19-12 or 6/19/12, while the UK (not sure about other countries) abbreviate it 19.6.12, with periods/decimal points?
In both of those cases, it's just tradition, and I don't think "logic" has anything to do with it.
In some cases in the US, it has become stylish to use dots (periods). I think it is a marketing attempt to look more modern and edgy in a techie sort of way.
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kazza474 wrote:
Davina wrote:
We used to call fizzy drinks 'pop' but you don't often hear it in the UK now, well not in the areas I have visited, except for older people. They use 'pop' in Canada too. People here will generally always call colas 'Coke' regardless of the brand. 'Soda' is only used for soda water.
Oh we call coke, lemonade, etc etc all the same thing :
Soft Drink.
OK, anyone here would understand that, too. Not sure if we would expect it to be carbonated or not, but at least we'd know it wasn't hard (alcoholic).
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This is exactly what I am talking about earlier!
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So in the Free Rants thread we have just had the American word 'suspenders' which we Brits call 'braces'. Suspenders are what ladies use to hold up stockings. Oo la la!
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Davina wrote:
So in the Free Rants thread we have just had the American word 'suspenders' which we Brits call 'braces'. Suspenders are what ladies use to hold up stockings. Oo la la!
Aha - what we call garters. Garters can also be the elastic kind that you roll the top of the stocking over.
So, my fellow Americans, if you do meet Benny, don't say you'd like to see him in suspenders (unless that is what you want).
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We do have garters as well but they ae just around a single leg, right. They are rarely worn at all nowadays except when ladies get married when traditionally they wear a garter, often blue in colour. There is a tradition here to wear: something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue. Do you have any particular traditions in your countries folks?