English phrases? Or are they.................? Now with translation.

Oui

I was on a cruise once in the Caribbean and we went to Dominique (I think)...anyways before we left, they give you a little info on each island....the guy told us we only needed to know three french words.

Bon Jour
Wee Wee
rrrhaha (I dont know how i would spell that.... )

did it help once you got on the island?

alcazar wrote:

Vault wrote:We, at least here, tend to slur things together sometimes, too, and just create a ton of slang and use words the way they're not normally used.

What? Americans do those things? Surely not?

Not to mention mispronounce stuff like lever, tomato, nuclear and aluminium:D

LOL

Hey, I say lever right. And it's tow-mate-o. None of that tom-ah-tow crap. Jk. And I do say nuclear right. It bugs me when people pronounce it nucular. and aluminum is easy. I just can't say anemone.

I once had a whole group of 16 year olds going for an hour or more, because someone mentioned the word, "barracuda".

I said, "I hate that word, barracuda, I can never say it right, it comes out "baccaruda" ".

Of course one picked up that I HAD said it right, and challenged me, and on and on it went. You can get kids of that age to believe almost anything if you keep a straight face.

OH, and it's LEEVER, TOMAHTO, NEW-CLEAR and look, you even SPELLED aluminIum wrong LOL

i always wondered how someone from the UK felt about this. How do you feel when someone, say someone from the US, pronounces the Jaguar (car) Jag-wire instead of Jag-u-are???

I think a few years ago I would of been like its Jag-u-are!! but now since it's owned by an Indian firm (via Ford) I don't mind as much. I would still prefer it is was pronounced the proper way though

dallascowboy76 wrote:i always wondered how someone from the UK felt about this. How do you feel when someone, say someone from the US, pronounces the Jaguar (car) Jag-wire instead of Jag-u-are???

I say Jag-wire. And sometimes Jag-waar.

Hmmm....well everyone around the world thinks us Chicago people all talk like gangsters.....

White Knight wrote:Hmmm....well everyone around the world thinks us Chicago people all talk like gangsters.....

They don't?!