Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: English to American

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Mette a confronto le parole usate in parte o del tutto diversamente in
UK e US
Qualche esempio dei tanti...
agony aunt n. The newspaper employee who responds publically to
readers' empassioned pleas for help on a wide range of issues, but
generally sex. Best known in the US as an advice columnist.
aubergine n. The large purple pear-shaped vegetables that we on this
side of the Atlantic know as aubergines what North Americans will
recognise as eggplants.
tea c Ah, yes, you thought you knew what this meant too, didn't you.
Well, throughout the UK, your evening meal is known as your tea (at
the risk of sounding terrible, it's just a little "working class").
bugger n. adj. v. Another superb multi-purpose Brit word. Buggery is
sodomy but the word has far more uses than this. Calling someone a
bugger is an inoffensive insult (in a similar way to git) and telling
someone to bugger off is a friendlier alternative to the f-word. It
can also be used as a stand-alone expletive in a similar way to
bollocks - "Oh, bugger!"
fit adj. To describe someone as fit is very similar to describing them
as tidy. A fit bird is a fine specimen of the fairer sex.
bloke n. pron. "blowk" (English); "bloke" (the rest of us). The
closest American equivalent is guy, and it is pretty close. A bloke is
a joe public, a random punter - any old guy off the street. Where it
differs from guy is that it can't apply to your friends. You can't
walk up to a group of your mates and say "Hi blokes, what's up?", as
they'd all peer at you as if you'd been reading some strange
cross-channel dictionary. The most common usage of the word bloke is
almost definitely in the phrase "some bloke in the pub".
-- 
Enrico C
"He got pickled on vodka"
pickled: drunk (c) Dave's ESL Cafe Slang

UK e US
Wow!   This is a really good one.  I passed it on to our English teachers.
bye
gfc

 bloke n. pron. "blowk" (English); "bloke" (the rest of us). 
What??
-- 
Mary

 What??
I think "blowk" stands for /bl&uk/.
Bye-bye, FB

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If the & is supposed to be a schwa, that's the normal English
pronunciation.
I assumed that "blowk" used the vowel sound of "cow", which sounds like
the Dick Van Dyke school of English pronunciation.
But if you're right, and he means the vowel sound of "blow", how does he
mean that "the rest of us" pronounce it?
-- 
Mary

 What??
Credo che sia la stessa differenza che c'è tra "go" UK e "go" US  ;)
-- 
Enrico C    (yes, it's always me!)

 pronunciation.
Mi rendo conto adesso che ho forse capito male; infatti non so niente di
fonetica.
Intendevi con "&u" il suono del vocale di "lurk"?
Se č cosě, quello č una pronuncia di "bloke" che si usa normalmente nel
nord dell'Inghilterra, e anche altrove quando si parla scherzosamente.
-- 
Mary

 nord dell'Inghilterra, e anche altrove quando si parla scherzosamente.
Ah, questo č interessante! Quindi la pronuncia /bl&uk/ ("&" č una schwa) č
quella normale, e quella con /&u/ strettissimo (come la Regina, per dire, e
forse anche gli australiani?) č una pronuncia un po' strana? Se questo
intendevi dire con la vocale di "lurk".
Ciao, FB

 Credo che sia la stessa differenza che c'è tra "go" UK e "go" US  ;)
E' quello che ho capito anch'io. Non capisco perché sia specificato proprio
per questa parola...
Ciao, FB