Thats all i have to say really. I'm not even sorry. I just wanted you to know!
Me and Luke are preparing for a week of Youth events starting on Monday, based around teaching English conversation and building friendships. I will be leading an English slang workshop... could do with a spot of help! So far I have got:
'cor blimey!
'aas ya father?
'aas it going ol' pal?
Don't get ya' knickers in a twist
Not half mate, not half!
Well blow me down!
Hang about!
Any other suggestions?....
Much love, Jonny
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Up the apples and pears,
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On your bike son
Your brown bread
Heckey Thump
'Reet pucka
I won't bombard you with any more, as the rest of mine all come from the dicionri' of t' North.
Jonny it quite amazes me that I decide to take a holiday, and you decide to pop into the same country as me lol. I'm going to be in Krakow between the 29th and the 3rd of June. Small world eh.
Are they not looking for current slang - the kind you get on gritty crime dramas?
ReplyDeleteWWCS- What Would a Chav Say?
WWDSS- What would a drunk student say?
I'll ask Deb, she is far more street wise than me :-)
Ethiopians are struggling quite a bit - alititude, culture shock, and minor illnesses....
Bern
Deb Dictating:
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Wicked, cool
Whateverrrr
geezer
Am a bovvered
Chav
Townee
money slang - fiver, tenner, pony etc
relational slang - dumped, dis
Music slang -
Pub slang - on a bender; getting hammered;
Football slang - we woz robbed;
Posh Slang - fine and dandy,
idioms/phrases - pop (Colin says this has multiple meanings); I'm gonna; get my head round something; need to crash; things are looking up
Try reading any article in NME magazine, or Rolling Stone - idiom central!
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/
tie onto
daily dozen
open eyes to
yank chain
give static
put on airs
suck hind tit
batter up
fling in
center around
lay into
get off ass
a straw in the wind
can't help it
a stroke of luck
be broad in the beam
bee in bonnet
belt up
on the edge
be too close for comfort
blow the whistle
What are you driving at?
fresh out
be beyond ken
up the creek
What do you say?
pay into
by heart
far gone
be out of the wood
see life
culturally deprived
hungry as a bear
in the interest of
champ at the bit
bring a charge against
life in the fast lane
absent without leave
wide open
Hi Jonny - theGodFather (and Annie) here.
ReplyDeleteSo you go to Poland to teach english - is there anyone there, arent they all over here doing plumin' and stuff??!! wots the matter with skegness, there's polish people there too. hav a good one and n' keep the news coming. P&A
Thanks for the comments, some more constructive than others (Im looking at you Mr&Mrs Godfather!!) My fave slang suggestions... macca's "reet pucka" and Deb's "am I bovverred?"
ReplyDeleteThanks! Laterz gezerz
Jonny
We like the banana and tights game, will introduce it at our next housegroup to sort the men from the boys, as it were. Hope you survived the week with Americans (for goodness sake, they speak worse English than wot us scousers do). I've survived nearly 5 years with an American so if you need any help with translation .... Very conscious about the fragility and shortness of this life - no wonder the big book says 'the days are evil' - take every chance as though its the last. Lots of love and our prayers ... Mr and Mrs GodFather
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