Translation please: Buggard & Bullocks

mmm said:
Nattering is often used to describe women talking about nothing. :)
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Here in the states that's just refered to as conversation. :evil: I'll probably get slapped for that one.

anyway, I love the british "language" as you use much more interesting words then us yanks. While watching Coupling it took me a minute to realize that when they were talking about pants they were refering to underwear ...

Anyway, I'd better get back to work. Ah buggard!, (Or would that be bullocks?) :cheesy:
 
that's so funny! I am French and I would have never thought that some words could not be understood whether in British English or in American English. For non English speaking people it's just the same language with some differences as pronouciation. Even after four years of English in College I wouldn't have nevre thought this! :D
 
Taryllou, it's what several hundred years of independance (even if only geographically) will do to any language!
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hey you know that?! I used to live on the boarder between France and Switzerland next to the famous city of Evian, you know ... the water! lol
but that (as "huitante") isnt typically Swiss, in France we used to count like this, just as for Quebec. here in France we say that people from Quebec have a strange way to speak and have some strange words, but actually they don't because in the Middle Ages that's the way we used to speak in France!
Just as in English (between Brititsh and American English) we have same words which don't mean the same at all!!!! as for instace "gosse". in France "gosse" means "kids" but not in Quebec. in Quebec it means... "balls"... you know what men have and not girls... lol
 
Taryllou said:
"huitante" isnt typically Swiss, in France we used to count like this...
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Oh, my bad, I thought that was uniquely Swiss. Cool.
Nice about Evian too; hey isn't THAT Swiss? (Nestle?)
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Nestlé is Swiss, because the Swiss bought Evian just as they bought Perrier, yea now I live about 10 miles from Perrier lol. after Evian it's Perrier LMAO
 
LOL hey don't make fun of me! my parents were about to move to Vichy, another French water and famous city of WWII. and don't worry I don't need to move to Italy. First because I already know Italy since my family is Italian and then because I don"t like, hum..., damn I don"t know this English word for "eau pétillante"... hum it's when there's gas in the water just as Perrier and San Pellegrino. I don't even drink Perrier or only when there's a flavor in it.
so no need for me to go overthere LOL
 
Hehe.

eau pétillante = Sparkling water, or Seltzer Water, or simply carbonated water

Love the stuff.
 
"you speak French?!"

A little only.

But I am travelling to French Polynesia in a few weeks to film some video, so I really should be learning my French before I go!
 
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