Comments on: Flashes, Football and Fools

By: dazza

dazza — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:48:26 +0000

I got very confused in an american restaurant the other day.
The conversation went something like this:
‘what can I get you sir?’
‘I’ll have the beef please’
‘Excellent entree sir’
‘oh, is it an appetiser? I’m sorry’
‘no no, that’s fine sir’
‘Can have it as a main course?’
‘It’s an entree sir’
‘Yes, that’s what I mean. Did you say I could have it as a main course’
‘It is an entree sir.’
At this point Phil decides to help me out
‘I think entree must mean main course in America’

He’s right
Entree [Europe] = Appetiser
Entree {america] = Main

How did that happen?

Dza
x
PS America is fucking cool by the way.

By: giagia

giagia — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:06:18 +0000

Why thank you, Nick!

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:15:48 +0000

Subject aside I’d just like to complement you on the way you use video. Simple setting, non fussy visual aides, an argument, conviction and talking to us rather than at us. Thank you.

By: Mena

Mena — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:43:52 +0000

Gia, I’m married to a Canadian and they do it too. A good friend of mine is a Brit and we have had a discussion like this. I ended up telling him that I speak American, he speaks Old American. It worked.

By: regularjen

regularjen — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:14:17 +0000

Excellent video. As an American in England, I too get the language discussions. Most are amusing and I enjoy the playful banter, but there is always the odd twat who believes his way is superior. * sigh * I do my best to use the pronunciations that are appropriate for the person I’m speaking to, but I default to British spelling. It’s a middle ground that takes some work, but it usually saves me from being * cough * ‘corrected.’

By: Ermiyas

Ermiyas — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:00:24 +0000

Thank you for the education especially the “Soccer” I never knew it was called soccer here in the UK.

By: John Pedant.

John Pedant. — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:44:18 +0000

And that proves your point.

By: giagia

giagia — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:11:48 +0000

Bah! Pedant! ;) See, if I talk about living in England all the Scottish and Welsh people get all upset about it being the UK (I’m going to just *avoid* Northern Ireland here). If I try to be ‘all inclusive’ and use the word Britain inappropriately they get all shirty about that.

Stop yer beefing, ya bawbag. Oh and: twll dîn pob Sais!

By: Joe Strummer

Joe Strummer — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:20:54 +0000

“I’ve lived in the UK for 20 years so I know the British language”>

What British language would that be then, Welsh?

By: John Pedant.

John Pedant. — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:18:30 +0000

I’m a pedant ergo equity escapes me and having just spent two idyllic weeks in california I was on the end of a fair bit of abuse for my usage. But I enjoyed it.