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Please don't take this the wrong way. I mean no disrespect to ANYONE. It's just a funny and interesting example of the different uses of language in different countries. In the now closed thread MB said that the mods "are equal opportunity tossers". In New Zealand the word "tosser" means masturbator. It's a derogatory and (obviously) vulgar term. i.e. Bill is such a tosser, showing off with that new car." When I first read it I went  and then  I thought surely MB can't mean that - then the penny dropped!
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![[Linked Image from pic4ever.com]](http://www.pic4ever.com/images/25r30wi.gif) That is hysterical....
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OMG. That is HILARIOUS. Isn't it funny that although we are all speaking ENGLISH, we are not all saying the same things. HAHAHAHAHAHA
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Isn't a "fag" a cigarette in the UK? In the USA it's a derogatory word for a homosexual man.
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I was thinking about that same one OH. HAHAHAHA. There are a lot of them. I can't think of any right now though. 
BW(Me)aka Scotty:37 DSx2: 10,12 DDAY2(PA)Nov27/09 Plan B Dec18/09 Personal R in works Scotty's THING Newly Betrayed click herePraying for walls and doors. Thanx MM “Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.” ? Maya Angelou PROGRESS NOT PERFECTION THANK YOU
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Fag is a cigarette here but we also use "fag" as a derogatory term for a homosexual man. Although "poof" would be used here for a homosexual man as well. Gay is the acceptable usage. Fanny is the one that trips up a lot of Americans abroad. Here it means the same and has the same shock value as a word beginning with c to describe genitalia. Very unacceptable to use in polite company. Americans only need to go once through the deathly hush that follows the use of that word in English, Australian or New Zealand company, to never use it again.
Root is another one. (I feel so guilty using these words but know that to you they are just words). It's a vulgar expression for sexual intercourse. When we hear Americans are "rooting" for their teams we do a double take.
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Yes...lil, i think it was her....said never say fanny or bring your fanny pack...She said to call it a Bum pack...Hahahahahaha
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Have you ever read the book "Eats, Shoots and Leaves"? It's a very funny book about punctuation foibles that completely change the meaning of phrases and words. (The title was from an incorrectly punctuated sentence about Pandas and what they eat. Commas can be so vital for clarity... or a lack thereof) 
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ha! My English professor said that she had an English room mate and that she said one night, "Let's go upstairs and knock Katie up." My professor gave her the strangest look and busted out laughing asking her how she was going to do that as they were both women. Apparently that means to go knock on a door according to our friends across the pond. Speaking of this subject. Many Asian phrases do not translate well directly into English. Here's an entire site that displays just that... http://www.engrish.com/
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Oh yeah....like the gas station sign that says "Eat and get gas" Hahahahahaha. My DS loved that one.
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It's funny you mention that JT. There is a (terribly coarse) joke here that the kiwi male is just like the kiwi bird. It eats roots shoots and leaves.
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I have plenty more where that came from but in the interests of gentility will not post them. 
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We have a gas station down the road and the name of the store is "D&C". For those of you that don't know...google miscarriage and D&C Hey, KiwiJ...If you guys are so good at rugby, how come y'all are terrible at football?
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Um, I wouldn't say we were terrible. We've only played one game so far and it was a draw. We were amused to see that when the US drew with England the NY Times had the headline "US win 1-1".
The answer of course is that rugby is our national sport and football is not an overly popular sport here. We are all very happy that our team made it to the World Cup.
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This OP wafter threw my head when I made myself finish the last bite of carrot cake. I felt like I was going to toss my cookies....then I snickered, which didn't do too much for my tummy. I tried to toss aside the thought.
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This OP wafter threw my head when I made myself finish the last bite of carrot cake. I felt like I was going to toss my cookies....then I snickered, which didn't do too much for my tummy. I tried to toss aside the thought. ![[Linked Image from pic4ever.com]](http://www.pic4ever.com/images/297.gif)
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Ah, now we have something very interesting. Luri is a self confessed "southern gal". Southern state English is probably the nearest thing linguistically to "English" English that there is in the States and Bostonian is probably the nearest to our (NZ) pronunciation of words.
BTW all that made perfect sense to me lol. Even "wafter", except my British husband says "Willy Wafter".
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In Boston we speak the propa English...TEEHEEHEE
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lol Stillhere, didn't know you were a Bostonian.
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