Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: OBSCURE LANGUAGE

I was watching THE BILL this morning and I  came across these extraordinary
chunks of obscure language.
I'm not sure they are in English and I'm asking for an opinion.
Here they are :
1 he's geeing up his mate.
 2 yucca
3 The camera you use for the obbos.
Was the heck is this ,police jargon ?
Please help me understand !
Puzzled
Sal

 3 The camera you use for the obbos.
N. 1 seems quite simple: "gee up" means "go ahead" (usually as a command for
horses). Vorrà dire qualcosa come spronare, incitare;
N. 2 is a plant (agave) or its flower, but maybe the context does not allow
this meaning... tell us more please;
N. 3... Well, OB usually stands for Obstetrician. Does this make any sense?
Take care
Anna

 "gee up" means "go ahead"
gii o ghii?

gii o ghii?
gii
Bye Asoka xx'82
<< However fast you may run, you will never overreach the ball >>

 Anna
Since 1) contains "mate" which is not often used in US English, I expect the
words were uttered
by an Australian, so what police drama is this?  The Bill?  Never heard of it.
Anyway, my guess,
since "getting his mate ready to go" or "commanding his mate to go" doesn't make
any sense to me,
is that "geeing up" might be a pronunciation of "gearing up", meaning to supply
with gear.  A second
more hazardous guess, while I'm hazarding guesses, is that it's slang meaning
"to razz" or "get all
worked up".
2) Yep, a yucca is a desert plant.
3) The camera for the obbos... hmmm, my guess would be obbos is short for
Obituaries.  But since
when do the police take pictures for the obituaries?  Normally obituaries print
a nice picture, not one
the police would take (I assume the body is in some non-normal death posture).
What is the time
period of the setting of this TV show?  Maybe that would help.
Rick

 the police would take (I assume the body is in some non-normal death posture).
No, this is British police slang; IIRC, "on obbos" means on observation duty. I
think it'd be "appostamento" in Italian.
Mary
--
Copper nitrate: Policemen's overtime salary.

by an Australian
<Mate is used with the frequency of bullets out of a machine gun in England.
   I'm not a native speaker but I think I'm not mistaken here.
Sal

think it'd be "appostamento" in Italian.
<Allora avevo ragione !
  E' un piacere riaverti tra noi !
Mi associo a Frank :le tue taglines sono impagabili.
Una domanda :
Andava bene il mio STAKEOUT per appostamento '
Un 'altra privata anche se formulata in pubblico :
Quel libro ti è mai arrivato ?
Yours
Sal

 >gii o ghii?
Hmmmm, io avrei detto "ghii" -- penso che sia come "giddyup!" (una parola
della Old West) -- "ghii - dii - yapp".
-p

You're right... it's definitely "ghi", hard not soft "g".
            Ciao,
               Harriet

 You're right... it's definitely "ghi", hard not soft "g".
What?
In the UK, giddy-up has a hard "g", but gee-up has a soft "g".
You means it's different in the States?
Mary
--
"America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up."
-- Oscar Wilde

Dear Mary,
Yes, here across the pond gee-up has a hard "g". However gee as in gee whiz has
a soft "g".
Oh well...
             Harriet

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Amazing! Do you also call a horse a ghee-ghee?
Raymot
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