A cry for help!

[hellzabeth]

Hey, majority of watchers!

You're American, right? /obvious

I'm doing a project at college (what, Pidge, are you actually working? Yes, yes I am) about the differences between British English and American English. I need some stereotypically American phrases and amusing miscommunications. (Unfortunately I can't use the usual "rubber vs rubber" that first came to mind.) Any random help would be appreciated.

Additionally, anyone Australian, similar to the above request?

/feels kind of stupid

/wishes she was at home instead of in this stupid class

orz

Edit: I'm not allowed to include anything naughty in my essay guys, the examiners are stuck up. :| So stuff like the difference between "wank" in American and "wank" in British are not applicable. <3 You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

Comments

[vehira.livejournal.com]

XD *thumbs up!*

Pfft, it's not common to hear 'hizzle' or anything anymore, that's so 21st century, just fun to bring up. It's funnier hearing the 40-50 year old teachers say any kind of slang, they're ridiculously awkward about it. Ah, in Texas we have every major minority ever. It's weird going up north, sans-NYC, and seeing all-white people. So strange, so very, very strange.

We do that over here, too! I hear 'adios' more, though. And 'sayonara,' but I've met people who didn't know that it was Japanese.

Eh heh, yeah, good point. Awesome that you can quote Monty Python, though.

Oh, that's funny, I own a MacBook XD here: This ought to help some. Granted, it's for Leopard and I haven't tried for myself to see if it works, but you can basically download new dictionaries for the Dictionary application and ta-da~ none of that American-English :D

[windy-lea.livejournal.com]

Yep, I use "adios". It slips out of my mouth without even trying ^_^

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

You mean 20th century? XD My god, my dad tried to say "lol" the other day and my sister and I just looked at him until he got all uncomfortable and asked if it was in the wrong context.

I tried out "do svidanya" once. It failed. >> Nobody understands or recognises Russian.

And Blackadder. Blackadder and everything Stephen Fry has been in ever. But that might just be because I'm obsessed.

Fellow Mac user! *pets her MacBook* omg YAY! *rugby tackles you* THANK YOU THANK YOUUUUUU!