Question on HP books. I was discussing the books with with someone at work. He mentioned the British terms that are now (finally) appearing in the US versions. He thought "snogging" meant something more that just "kissing". I thought it meant kissing and did not imply sex.
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Narrator - Aug 01, 2005 5:37:36 am PDT #8819 of 10002
The evil is this way?
Fay - Aug 01, 2005 5:37:41 am PDT #8820 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
the idea of vampires isn't that much more far fetched than the idea of electing a couple to (as I understand it) wear tiaras and ritually copulate once a term
YES. This. So much of BtVS must seem kind of normal to USAians, but every single minute of the show is strange and fantastical from where I'm sitting. Including IHoP.
I always summed it up by comparing the US teen films everyone knows:Pretty In Pink, Ferris, Say Anything, Clueless with the british ones: Kes, Scum & Poor Cow.
Tea. On. Monitor. Re: Kes - I'm sitting in Barnsley right now AIFGrim.
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Snogging means proper kissing - not a peck on the cheek. Kissing with tongues.
Shagging means fucking.
The terms 'bloody' and 'bugger' are nearly as hard as the term 'fuck' (not quite the same magnitude, but a damn sight closer to that than, 'damn it'), so you can imagine how taken aback we were when 11 year old Ron said "That's bloody brilliant" to his new teacher in the first movie. He'd have been STRAIGHT in detention if he said that to me.
tommyrot - Aug 01, 2005 5:39:25 am PDT #8821 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
He thought "snogging" meant something more that just "kissing". I thought it meant kissing and did not imply sex.
I thought "snogging" meant "making out" or "sucking face" i.e. a little more than just kissing.
But really, I have no idea.
Volans - Aug 01, 2005 5:43:49 am PDT #8822 of 10002
move out and draw fire
how taken aback we were when 11 year old Ron said "That's bloody brilliant"
My DH did a head-jerk at this too. I know "bloody" is a pretty hardcore curse word, but I don't know it, if you take my meaning. Curse words really lose their oomph when culture-shifted.
"Snogging" is kind of an unpleasant word...sounds onomaetopoetic.
billytea - Aug 01, 2005 5:45:20 am PDT #8823 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
The terms 'bloody' and 'bugger' are nearly as hard as the term 'fuck' (not quite the same magnitude, but a damn sight closer to that than, 'damn it'), so you can imagine how taken aback we were when 11 year old Ron said "That's bloody brilliant" to his new teacher in the first movie. He'd have been STRAIGHT in detention if he said that to me.
Surely not. Here in Oz we had a commercial on at prime time that featured every member of the family, including the dog, taking turns at saying 'bugger'. Hell, I have a hat with 'BUGGER' written on it in large gold capital letters.
Jim - Aug 01, 2005 5:47:43 am PDT #8824 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
I think you should add the caveat "for kids". Bloody and bugger are about as rude as Shit, I'd say.
Fred Pete - Aug 01, 2005 5:49:48 am PDT #8825 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Snogging means proper kissing - not a peck on the cheek. Kissing with tongues.
Ah. More "necking" than "kissing."
Trudy Booth - Aug 01, 2005 5:49:57 am PDT #8826 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I've always thought "snogging" sounded dirtier than "shagging".
Connie Neil - Aug 01, 2005 5:54:27 am PDT #8827 of 10002
brillig
I say bugger and bloody all the time, and folks just think I'm quaint. Then I had a boss who'd grown up in England, and she just about had a heart attack when I let off a riff of "bloody, buggering heck." (You have to say 'Heck' in Utah, otherwise the earth will open and we'll fall straight into the Pit. And, no, I'm not sacrificing myself for that good cause.)
billytea - Aug 01, 2005 5:56:19 am PDT #8828 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I say bugger and bloody all the time, and folks just think I'm quaint. Then I had a boss who'd grown up in England, and she just about had a heart attack when I let off a riff of "bloody, buggering heck."
Hee. Interestingly, the only people who've ever given me grief about saying 'bugger' were Mormons. Naturally, I mocked them for it.