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Accents!
TheQuirk:
--- Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H ---Accents ... bahhh ... as long as I can understand what you are saying you don't have an accent to me ... the only English speaking accent I cannot understand is an Irish accent ... or it takes me asking them 20 or so times before I figure it out
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Ireland isn't, uh, England.
I was once told that "faggot" is now an offensive word in England (not sure about the rest of the UK). Confirm/deny.
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Like this.
piratePenguin:
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I was once told that "faggot" is now an offensive word in England (not sure about the rest of the UK). Confirm/deny.
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It is in Ireland anyhow.
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: Dark_Me ---Interesting. We have the same slang in Australia.
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That's because Austrailia was under British control far more recently than the US.
Faggot in the UK was originally a meat ball (and still is for the most part) but the homosexual meaning has been imported from the US very recently (I was about 14 when I learnt it meant queer) and isn't used thad much apart from on the Internet.
Fag means a mundane chore/favour for someone or most commonly cigarrette, it's also an imported from the US as an abbreviation for faggot/homosexual.
Another slang word I've never heared on a US film is wicked, if used in the right context it means cool although it's isn't as fashionable as it used to be.
TheQuirk:
"Wicked" used to be popular, especially in New England. Some people still use the term.
Aloone_Jonez:
Perhaps it's an Americanism too.
--- Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H ---the only English speaking accent I cannot understand is an Irish accent ... or it takes me asking them 20 or so times before I figure it out
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I think it depends on how strong the accent is some Irish accents are harder to understand than others, I like Terry Wogan's accent for example (although no one has probably heard of him outside of the UK and Ireland).
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