*scratches his head*

its amazing how very differently everyone can speak the same language, hehe

http://www.nz.com/NZ/Culture/NZDic.html

my favorite has to be candyfloss! Do you really call a condom a french letter?

 

Candfloss, whats wrong with that.

and no we don't call a condom a french letter, although it may be an old saying that was once used.

Doug

 

nothing wrong with it, just different lol...i never really thought of them as floss like structures, just as big delicious sugar poof balls..but i guess they are little thin strands piled together


and thats good on french letter lol, i think i'd crack up laughing if a gf told me to get a french letter

 

yeah, what is wrong with candy floss? what do you guys call it?
(i've never heard anyone actually use french letter, but i have heard that people used to call it that)

 

we call it cotton candy...and theres nothing wrong with candy floss, just weird how they came to mean the same thing, hehe

 

i was curious so i looked up the history of it...


Cotton candy is a soft confection that is made from sugar that is heated and spun into slim threads that look like a mass of cotton. It was invented in 1897 by William Morrison and John C. Wharton, candymakers from Nashville, Tennessee. They invented a device that heated sugar in a spinning bowl that had tiny holes in it. It formed a treat that they originally called "Fairy Floss." As the bowl spun around, the caramelized sugar was forced through the tiny holes, making feathery candy that melts in the mouth.
They introduced it to the world at the St. Louis World's Fair (1904) and sold huge amounts of it for 25 cents a box (that was lot of money back then). They sold about 68,655 boxes at that fair. The term "cotton candy" began to be used for this treat in about 1920. In the United Kingdom, it is called "candy floss."



i guess it had the floss name first hehe

 

theyre missing some

fag-cigarette
got the painters in-someone having their period

 

lol, that reminds me....i had a british guy come up to me the other day and ask 'got a fag?'....i wanted to laugh so hard, even thuogh i knew what he meant

 

oh and Megara, NZers speak (New Zealand English) americans speak a rather funny type o english called (American english)

things like
Mom = Mum
Cookie = Buscuit
Gas = Petrol (we have a gas too but its not petrol)
color = Colour
....
....

lots of differences. the major one for me that the US uses a lot of Z's like empathize = empathise....


US english is one of the biggest offshoots from the international english which is closely based around proper english.

Alltaken

 

ah... one can have much fun throwing the word "root" around in the united states

the thing that shits me is when i hear a kid say "x, y, zeee" because they grew up watching sesame street. it's zed! say it with me....... zzzzzzeddddddddd

 

haha,


i got laughed at big time for using root in australia, not knowing what it meant.....so i went and stayed with a gf who lived in australia and one night i was at her parents house with her WHOLE family and she was going to play tennis the next night, so i say "i'm going to root her on tomorrow"...now little did i know that root meant fuck until i had about 15 people laughing at me instead of it meaning "cheer on"

and yeah, alltaken, i know we have bastardized "proper english." Its one of the things i like best though hehe. Whenever i see something like colour i get the urge to say "colouuuuuuuuuuuuuuur" or "centre" to say it with a frenchy accent. But the Athenians bastardized "Greek," and thats whats considered standard greek today.

What i meant though, was that we all have our own idioms and phrases, not that the spelling is quite different between the queens english, american english, and the mix of canadian english. You can recognize color if its written without the u or empathize if its written with the z instead of the s..but a lot of phrases we wouldnt understand


btw, zedddd?!?!

alright, i looked up american slang and i found a page at Otago that had US to Oz speak for some reason..
http://psy.otago.ac.nz/r_oshea/slang.html

i dont even understand half these entries, which is scary

this is the best..

American cheese n. Processed foodstuff resembling cheese, dyed orange (s.a. foods).

 

the whole concept of cheese in America is bizarre. You all seem to think it's normal to eat a food that is the same colour as the urine of the animal from which it came!

and yes..... zed..... the "proper" pronunciation of the letter Z

 

lol, its dyed that color....what about cheddar do you guys not eat cheddar? Thats yellow too

Z? that blows my mind zeeee........ "X Y ZED....now i know my a b c's!" that doesnt rhyme unacceptable! lol

 

our cheese here is yellow.... but lighter. it's not filled with dye! although the cheese in mcdonalds burgers is orange.... maybe it's imported?

another thing about american food that shits me (hehe, cos there are lots of things about american food that shits me!) is the mayonnaise..... it has no taste!!! it's like its dumbed down or something.. and it sticks to the roof of ur mouth! how do you people live in such horrendous conditions???

and what's with the putting whipped cream in a tub? it's not butter for chrissakes!!

but at least ya'll dont put ur milk in plastic bags!! damn canadians....

 

lol, the whipped cream i buy comes in a co2 pressured cannister ...unelss you mean cool whip, i guess that comes in a tub, but i'm not sure if thats the same as whipped cream...not sure though, never had it.


Mayo is nasty anyways unless its just a thin layer to remove the dryness from a sandwhich

and yeah, our cheese is more orangey than yellowish..though we do call it yellow cheese...i love american cheese though ...but i love most cheese hehe

 

lol, can't say I ever ever ever heard the last one used, and i've only ever heard the british use 'fag' in that sense

NZ, while a colony does have its own language and slang.
like (i dont kno if these are just NZ)

sifter - one who blends in with others OR someone who is talking to another with the intention of scoring (having sexual relations with) them
which leads to - sifty bastard, sifting in etc..

spade/spading - like the second defintion of sifting, chatting someone up. eg look out mate, bob's got the spade out. he's hard out spading that chick.

piker - a drop nuts. One who leaves the party early. usually with a crap excuse

the lunchbox kid - a guy with package pants....

 

what are package pants? Pants with lots of pockets?

 

not quite - it's more when the pants are really tight, so that the package is really...bulbous

 

haha, always get more than i ask for

 

OMG and ketchup.....Ewwwwww grose, it goes ok with McDonalds fries which are covered in fat, but with Chips (NO WAY HOZAY)

watties...i mean heinz, is now bottling ketchup and advertising it as tomato sauce, well needless to say i have not bought watties for a LONG time now, i buy fountain AKA cerebis or somthing similar. and its fantastic, comes in cardboard boxes. WOW that is good tomato sauce, i had watties again for the first time in a long time.

and yuck i would rather not have anything than ketchup thanks.

sorry that was a dig at grose ketchup, coz thats what it is, its all vinergary and yuck.

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