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Re: Assimilating... it's the little things
« Reply #15 on: January 21, 2019, 05:07:57 PM »
You're nearly there... if only you'd said pavement instead of sidewalk!  ;)

I know, huh?

To me pavement is the road where cars go. Not the sidewalk where people belong. But I imagine that will morph over time....


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Re: Assimilating... it's the little things
« Reply #16 on: January 21, 2019, 05:30:39 PM »
I’m still translating depending on who I am talking to. I talk to loads of UKC and equally a large number of tourists. I don’t mess up tooo often lol, although I have said dollars instead of pounds a few times.


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Re: Assimilating... it's the little things
« Reply #17 on: January 21, 2019, 07:31:42 PM »
I’m totally English now in my language. However I once told a customer my pants were wet yep!

The one thing I cannot get right though is bins. I always tell my daughter to put her toys away in her plastic bins and she looks horrified!! I mean plastic storage boxes


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Re: Assimilating... it's the little things
« Reply #18 on: January 21, 2019, 07:37:35 PM »
I’m totally English now in my language. However I once told a customer my pants were wet yep!

The one thing I cannot get right though is bins. I always tell my daughter to put her toys away in her plastic bins and she looks horrified!! I mean plastic storage boxes
If I had children, they would be THOROUGHLY confused! Garbage can, sidewalk, parking lot, shopping cart, candy, chips, juice, oh the list is sooooo long.


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Re: Assimilating... it's the little things
« Reply #19 on: January 21, 2019, 07:41:03 PM »
I’m still translating depending on who I am talking to. I talk to loads of UKC and equally a large number of tourists. I don’t mess up tooo often lol, although I have said dollars instead of pounds a few times.


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I say dollars or bucks to the Daughter when we are talking about prices all the time. We both understand it now means "pounds".  :D


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Re: Assimilating... it's the little things
« Reply #20 on: January 21, 2019, 07:47:56 PM »
If I had children, they would be THOROUGHLY confused! Garbage can, sidewalk, parking lot, shopping cart, candy, chips, juice, oh the list is sooooo long.


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LUCKILY my child also had a Canadian teacher last year, and most of my little quirks she just rolls with. Some days she asks for an American accent which is always cute. But for some reason that bin one always freaks her out lol


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Re: Assimilating... it's the little things
« Reply #21 on: January 21, 2019, 07:51:04 PM »
Not the toys! Don’t bin the toys!


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Re: Assimilating... it's the little things
« Reply #22 on: January 21, 2019, 09:22:55 PM »
The one thing I cannot get right though is bins. I always tell my daughter to put her toys away in her plastic bins and she looks horrified!! I mean plastic storage boxes

That's hilarious! hahah
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Re: Assimilating... it's the little things
« Reply #23 on: January 21, 2019, 10:32:30 PM »
I’m totally English now in my language. However I once told a customer my pants were wet yep!

The one thing I cannot get right though is bins. I always tell my daughter to put her toys away in her plastic bins and she looks horrified!! I mean plastic storage boxes


That's too funny with your daughter. What are storage bins supposed to be called here?

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Re: Assimilating... it's the little things
« Reply #24 on: January 22, 2019, 06:47:49 AM »


That's too funny with your daughter. What are storage bins supposed to be called here?

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Good question! Plastic boxes?

On another note this is just a funny Scottish/English language thing, we always shorten business account managers to BAMs at work. Everybody does. Well we had some of our Scottish office down and they finally said why do you keep calling them bams? Do you not like them? Turns out calling someone a bam in Scotland apparently means they are stupid. Whoopsies it’s no wonder why the Scottish account managers don’t like us ;)


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Re: Assimilating... it's the little things
« Reply #25 on: January 22, 2019, 08:30:10 AM »
Good question! Plastic boxes?

On another note this is just a funny Scottish/English language thing, we always shorten business account managers to BAMs at work. Everybody does. Well we had some of our Scottish office down and they finally said why do you keep calling them bams? Do you not like them? Turns out calling someone a bam in Scotland apparently means they are stupid. Whoopsies it’s no wonder why the Scottish account managers don’t like us ;)

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Re: Assimilating... it's the little things
« Reply #26 on: January 22, 2019, 10:28:03 AM »
You're nearly there... if only you'd said pavement instead of sidewalk!  ;)

I grew up with "pavement" meaning any kind of concrete or tarmac surface... sidewalks, bicycle paths, roadways, carparks, etc.  If they were paved, that surface was pavement.  So when I moved here and my husband referred to driving on the pavement like it was a bad thing, I found it very confusing!
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Re: Assimilating... it's the little things
« Reply #27 on: January 22, 2019, 01:22:58 PM »
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haha that's f*cking brilliant.
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Re: Assimilating... it's the little things
« Reply #28 on: January 23, 2019, 09:20:55 AM »
But for some reason that bin one always freaks her out lol

It's all fun and games 'til you threaten to bin her toys!
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Re: Assimilating... it's the little things
« Reply #29 on: January 23, 2019, 10:57:06 AM »
I've heard of Business Unit Managers referred to as BUM's.   ;D

We call the toy storage things boxes or tubs.  But my kid is good at knowing both the American and British terms for things.  For the most part. 


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