3 Responses to “Anglo vs EU”

1. Catherine Fisher Says:
   
   June 9th, 2011 at 3:10 pm   edit

   As a Brit this is so true it made me howl laughing. I only recently nearly fell out with a canadian colleague when he described something I had done as “quite good” which had me wondering what I had done wrong.

   
   
   
   
2. Robert Cornford Says:
   
   June 9th, 2011 at 6:42 pm   edit

   Very good, must have been a lot of fun creating it. And moving on to ‘two nations divided by a common language’ on UK/US miscomprehensions, I nearly lost a friend when I was asked, when working in New York, to come and spend some time with a problem that was ‘quite important’. I shrugged my shoulders and said I was really busy but could spare some time after lunch. My colleague was a model of froideur for the rest of the day, and I asked her what the problem was. Turned out “quite important” in American English is using an intensifier (“quite”) that is second only to “the world is about to end”, while in British English “quite important” is pretty low down the scale of world-shattering events – certainly less important than “important”.After that I treated American English as a foreign language.

   
   
   
   
3. scritch Says:
   
   June 24th, 2011 at 5:15 pm   edit

   this cracked me up.

   they should hand these out at heathrow immigration desk.

   (I’m a foreigner. it took me a while to works these out )

   
   
   
   

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