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Comments
trainers/sneakers
Jumper/sweater
i say film for all movies and i'm american. most movies are still shot on film so i mean, i don't know why we wouldn't say film.
cute story about English people. i went to see the Fratellis last night and The Switches were opening up for them. anyway when they were signing autographs and chatting with people at the end a girl came up and asked them to sign her set list 'or rather, your setlist' and she had an english accent. Matt, the lead singer said ' are you english?' and she said ' yeah! i'm from just down the road of you!' and Matt turned to Ollie (adorable guitarist) and goes, 'she's english!' and then all four guys stopped what they were doing at the same time, threw their hands up and said, 'she's English!' and it was pretty much the cutest thing ever.
Yeah, I call them films, too. I mean, there are Film Festivals and such.
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Like, "What's that new Robbin Williams film?" or "What's that film with Robbin Williams?" would be really weird.
Or, "Wanna go see a film?" that would make me go "huh?"
We do say "Film Festival" and stuff like that, but it's unusual to hear it conversationally. I may just be weird though.
lol! Well, that explains it- NJ is ten times cooler than MA. So don't say "pretentious." Say "awesome."
Jam has seeds in it...
Jelly doesn't.
Like, "What's that new Robbin Williams film?" or "What's that film with Robbin Williams?" would be really weird.
Or, "Wanna go see a film?" that would make me go "huh?"
We do say "Film Festival" and stuff like that, but it's unusual to hear it conversationally. I may just be weird though.
I've heard it, but not that often. I mean, to me movie and film are pretty much interchangeable... but you're right, 'movie' is used more conversationally. It wouldn't phase me if I heard/read 'film', either, though.
oh, and no one's put torch / flashlight yet.
btw, if flashlights are torches, then what are torches? (like, wood stick on fire) are they just torches too?
Putting in my 2 cents, they're called Jam Drops here in Australia!
We call torches torches. And flashlights torches. But no one ever uses original torches anymore so that's not so confusing.
Otherwise I guess we refer to them as "fire on sticks". We're simple people
Courgette / zucchini
But I can never remember it.
(as in describing someone)
trolley/shopping cart
I know someone did jam/jelly, but did anyone do jelly/Jell-O?
piss/shove off/fuck off
Anybody want to explain to me what "get in" means?
I have two rather more vulgar ones....
I did the pants vs. trousers thing at Jen's place one time. I said that I hadn't been wearing pants the night before, and she looked at me and said, "I hope you were wearing pants last night, that was a really short skirt!" Or something like that.
Or is that inappropriate to discuss?
(P.S. I always thought that jam and jelly are two seperate things entirely, with jam being less processed than jelly [since jelly is usually devoid of all the seed-y pulp-y goodness that makes jam so loved])
That's what I'm wondering about my other two translations, haha.