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Winbert Hutahaean
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- posted April 06, 2007 10:25 PM      Profile for Winbert Hutahaean     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Hi all,

As you may have know that English is not my mother language. So I have to carefully understand if someone using slank in his email.

Yesterday I received an email from someone who lives nearby my brother in Sunderland, UK. Regarding some 8mm films he has, he tells me this:

quote:
...you can have it 4 a tenna, if you come in and see me i will tell you what i have on 8mm ...
So what does he want to say when he weites "have it 4 a tenna".

Thank you guys,

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Dan Lail
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- posted April 06, 2007 11:47 PM      Profile for Dan Lail   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Hi, Winbert. I am in the US. British "slang" can be quite different than US slang. This person is refering to the cost. The cost is for(4) ten(tenna or tenner) what ever the currency is(pounds? Maybe). Possible translation is; "You can buy it for ten pounds" or "the price is ten pounds".

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David Pannell
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- posted April 07, 2007 01:36 AM      Profile for David Pannell   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Absolutely correct, Dan! ('Tenner' is the correct spelling).

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Mike Peckham
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- posted April 07, 2007 01:37 AM      Profile for Mike Peckham   Email Mike Peckham   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Dan

Spot on, consider yourself an honory Brit! [Big Grin]

Mike

(edit) looks like David and I chose the same moment to reply [Smile] .

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John Clancy
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- posted April 07, 2007 03:04 AM      Profile for John Clancy   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Don't you refer to us as 'Brits' Mr. Peckham, that's racist! Not that I care at all really but you have to be careful nowadays.

I wonder what this chap was offering for a tenner. A GS1200 perhaps?

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Kevin Faulkner
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- posted April 07, 2007 07:06 PM      Profile for Kevin Faulkner         Edit/Delete Post 
No the GS1200 was going for ten quid...sorry I meant 10 notes [Big Grin]

Kev

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Keith Ashfield
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- posted April 08, 2007 02:54 AM      Profile for Keith Ashfield     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
He could have offered it "4 a Mario Lanza" - shouldn't be that confusing - he was a tenor! [Big Grin] [Big Grin]
Or the GS1200 went "4 a poorly octopus" - "sick squid" with four pounds change [Big Grin] [Big Grin] [Big Grin]

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Dan Lail
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- posted April 08, 2007 08:34 PM      Profile for Dan Lail   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
An honerary Brit eh! Garsh, Sir Dan! [Big Grin] My roots are showing. [Big Grin]

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Paul Spinks
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- posted April 08, 2007 11:04 PM      Profile for Paul Spinks   Email Paul Spinks   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
"Gawd bless ya Guvnor!"

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Michael De Angelis
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- posted April 09, 2007 12:21 AM      Profile for Michael De Angelis   Email Michael De Angelis   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
John,

Please explain to this one "Yank,"
why the term "Brit" is racist?

I just don't get it. [Confused]
If it is too much trouble or
if it crosses the line of
politics on the Forum, please
just then post to me off line.

Number One Son wants to know.

Michael

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Graham Ritchie
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- posted April 09, 2007 04:44 AM      Profile for Graham Ritchie   Email Graham Ritchie   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Brit, [Roll Eyes] I would assume is short for being a British subject, "Britain" being the proper name, not UK, or is it now known that you are a UK subject not British, now I am [Confused] of course I am Scottish [Big Grin] not British, or is everyone who is English, Welsh, Scottish, or Irish are also known as British or Brit [Wink]

Graham. [Smile]

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Mike Peckham
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- posted April 09, 2007 04:48 AM      Profile for Mike Peckham   Email Mike Peckham   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
John,

now look what you've started [Roll Eyes] .

Mike [Wink]

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Keith Ashfield
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- posted April 09, 2007 05:30 AM      Profile for Keith Ashfield     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
So what nationality is Brit Ekland? [Confused] [Confused]

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Barry Johnson
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- posted April 09, 2007 08:45 AM      Profile for Barry Johnson   Author's Homepage   Email Barry Johnson   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
............or even Ten Sheets as we say here. [Confused]

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Alan Paterson
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- posted April 09, 2007 08:51 AM      Profile for Alan Paterson   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Just continuing from Graham's post, I too am a Scot living in a foreign land - an ethnic minority if you like.
Our American friends should be able to understand cockney slang - after all, it was their very own Dick Van Dyke who tortured the Queen's Engish e.g. , "Caw Blimey Mary Poppins - on da rooftaps av Landan, yool see a soight!"
If we Scots were to slip into the vernacular e.g "Erraperrapersoanacherovererr", we'd get blank looks.
So we slow down our speech and talk posh so people can understand us.
Just thought I'd confuse the issue even more.
I'll get me coat.
Alan

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Michael De Angelis
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- posted April 09, 2007 12:33 PM      Profile for Michael De Angelis   Email Michael De Angelis   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Thanks for the insight.

Alan, when I was in
London nine years ago
the tour bus brought
us around to the district
that inspired Mr. Bank's home
used on the Hollywood set
of Mary Poppins.

The tour guides gripe was
how Dick Van Dyke
slaughtered her name:
Maare-reeee Pop'inz.
[Eek!]

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Keith Ashfield
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This is all getting very ambiguous. How did we get from "tenners" to "Mary Poppins" via "Mario Lanza","Brit Ekland thru Scotland? What next? [Confused]

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Alan Paterson
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- posted April 09, 2007 06:07 PM      Profile for Alan Paterson   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Chim Chiminee, chim chiminee, chim chim cheree.....

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Alan Paterson
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- posted April 22, 2007 10:52 AM      Profile for Alan Paterson   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
The creativity's gone from this conversation.

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Stewart McSporran
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- posted April 24, 2007 11:22 AM      Profile for Stewart McSporran   Email Stewart McSporran   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Just to be pedantic - Britain, or more properly, Great Britain, refers to Scotland, Wales and England. The UK is used because it is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

If that doesn't qualify us for the longest named country in the world I don't know what does!

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