Wordage, Verbage, and Burbage

[WellYeah]

Anyway care to chat about the oddities in variance of the English language?  I'm American, and with Aussies, Brits, Scandanavians, and Singaporeans, there is right ready mix of many different, dare I say...dialects of English floating about.  

Please add on your own two cents as well!

Whilst away - what?  Whilst...is the Queen nearby..

Fantastic!!  - Brits over use this word as much as American teens overused "Awesome!" in the 1980s.  Did you see that girl's body...FANtastic.  These egss are simply fanTAStic.  Roti prata...fantaszzkit (late at night, drunk...)

Can.  Can Can.  - The most efficient word ever created.  An American.."I will be there at around 10 or 11 or so, depending on when I get out of the movie, and traffic, and getting a cab is tough on Fridays.."  Singaporean, "Can."  Perfect word.

****er.  I suppose this is a bad word, but if a girl ever calls me this, I will tell everyone I know.  It is the funniest word out there...****er.  What is a ****er?

Shag.  Overused, but less harsh than Fu**, kind of a nice catch all.  

Biting.  I suppose this means critical, but the only thing that bites in America are bugs, animals, and mean women.

Cheers.  I must say, to all the Nigels out there, hearing someone, all Commonwealthers, Brits, and Singaporeans say "cheers"...to an American, I feel like I have been magically transported into "My Fair Lady" or a Sherlock Holmes novel.  Again, hard to keep a straight face, I keep picturing Higgins from Magnum, PI...

Ya'll.  That this southern Yanks best addition to this list.  It, like can, is a great and efficient word.  

To all ya'll ****ers out there that may take offense to this fantastic display of biting linguistic comparison, go shag yourself whilst I run along, cheers!  -WellYeah

[Mo3]

As the Brits would say, "Brilliant!"

[with both hands]

Do you mean ****er that starts with a 'W'?

[WellYeah]

yeah, the W word.  Hilarious.

[T2K]

It's gets even better after a few years of hearing it.  I'm also from Dixie, and I find myself using phrases like:

"Cheers ya'll"     or

"Damn ya'll, I'm really pissed after those 6 vodbulls" (what am I angry at?  what the hell is a vodbull?)

Other good ones:
"Take a slash" (Where's Zorro?) - to urinate
"Snog" - heavy kiss in Aussie English
"Chunder" - to vomit in Aussie English
"Skall" - don't know how to spell this one, it's orignally Danish I think, but it means down your drink.
Notice the party related theme of the Australian ones - cool country.
"Robot" - Traffic light in South African English, maybe they look like R2D2 or something there, I don't know
"Fancy Dress" - Americans call this a costume party, to us 'fancy dress' sounds like a lot of very gay men getting all camped up in frilly clothes for a night out

[richardr]

Have just e-mailed my nephiew as to what are the coolest phrases in the Uk at the moment - I am slightly behind the times

However, for wahat it is worth::

Mean (as in good)

and errr.... thats it!

.... and even that is probably out of date!

[Texan]

Fix.  Fixin'.  "Can I fix you a drink?"  Brits would think you are asking them if they want to be poisoned, in fact a Carey Grant movie makes the same point.  
Fixin.  I'm fixin to leave, I'm fixin to finish up, I'm fixin to fix it.  Great word.

I reckon, only reckon, is a good colloquialism that has good cross-colony usage.  

Cheers, ya'll - oh, people look at me funny when I say "mozie" - ie lets mozie on over to the club after we have a few drinks.  Great word.  I don't think anyone knows what it means...does he mean dance, walk, fly??

[Bored Russkie]

Um, like, cool, man, like, I mean, ya know? Like, cool, and all that, um. Yea. And dig this, bro, the Brits, they like, um, they like do this crazy $h*t, um, and they say "how aaaaaaah you, daaahlin" all the time, and like, "no worries" and stuff. Like, I think, I think that's um, cool, and all that. Like. Um.

And in Paris? In Paris they like, eat Royale wid cheeze, and like, they drown their fries in mayonaise, and stuff. Like, ewww, man. That's like, gross, and stuff.

And the Russians? Man, those red commie bastards, they like, when they speak, they have this barbaric accent, like, like they got rocks in their mouths and such. Like, after a night out in town they'd greet each other, Ivan, hau arr yoo tuhdey? And like, Ivan would say, Oh Vladimir, mai hed, it hertz, it hertz laik mahsonzadabeaches! Doo yoo bring mee sum wotah? No? Yoo sux, Vladimir, Aye seyz yoo juss sux!

And like...

Ok, ok, I can see yer rotten tomatoes on the ready... geez, calm down.   I never said I was good at stand-up comedy :0

[suggestion]

'absolutely!'
a millenium solution ... to replace awesome/fantastic?

i was bored, tuned into a newscast and counted the times the newscaster, the people on the street being interviewed, etc ..... used 'absolutely' to answer ..... at least 10 people used it in 1/2 hour - no kidding!

[with both hands]

wellyeah: Are you serious when you say that you don't know what W***er means?

Bimble. Not sure where that comes from, or where I first heard it. Similar to 'mozie', meaning to walk somewhere causually. As in, 'Shall we take a bimble down-town and go to another bar'.

[Gal]

I know what the W***er means. I am just curious.. is this word found in the dictionary? And anyone know how this word come about? I am just curious.

[Mo3]

I'm lost as to  w***er  Could someone kindly fill in the three missing letters.  I am capable of a bit of elementary math, so *xxx** would suffice.  Ever so grateful to whoever expands my vocabulary of vugarities, I remain, truly yours, Mo3.

[CatLady]

Mo3, just add the letters 'a', 'n' and 'k' in between the 'w' and the 'er'. *grins* We hear that often in Australia.

Cheers Mate! haa haa

[superficial]

and how about this oft-used exaggerated description - "fabulous"  ... (dahlin')

[Rob]

It's all bollocks mate