American way
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Hi all, Sometime back there was a post which had how american people speak out certain english statements. For ex In plain english we will say..."He is gaining momentum". American people may say "He is stepping on the gas"... If anyone can give a pointer to this, it will be great for me Cheers, Venkatraman Kalyanam Bangalore - India Why the US can't win the outsourcing war against India Our advice to US CEOs, governors and senators: come out of denial and switch to curd-rice for dessert; it’s both cheaper and healthier - for bottomlines of the physical kind – than ice-cream http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-334938,Curpg-1.cms
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Hi all, Sometime back there was a post which had how american people speak out certain english statements. For ex In plain english we will say..."He is gaining momentum". American people may say "He is stepping on the gas"... If anyone can give a pointer to this, it will be great for me Cheers, Venkatraman Kalyanam Bangalore - India Why the US can't win the outsourcing war against India Our advice to US CEOs, governors and senators: come out of denial and switch to curd-rice for dessert; it’s both cheaper and healthier - for bottomlines of the physical kind – than ice-cream http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-334938,Curpg-1.cms
Venkatraman wrote: switch to curd-rice for dessert Curd rice is not really dessert :-) It's a main course. And in some families the entire meal :-) Nish
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Request - Could everyone who have in the past, posted on my personal forum on CP, be kind enough to delete all your posts please? I intend to start a personal non-technical blog there, now that it is RSSd and would very much like to empty the forum before I do so - because the posts that are there as of now are mostly test posts and posts that were made before we all knew it was a blog :-)
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Hi all, Sometime back there was a post which had how american people speak out certain english statements. For ex In plain english we will say..."He is gaining momentum". American people may say "He is stepping on the gas"... If anyone can give a pointer to this, it will be great for me Cheers, Venkatraman Kalyanam Bangalore - India Why the US can't win the outsourcing war against India Our advice to US CEOs, governors and senators: come out of denial and switch to curd-rice for dessert; it’s both cheaper and healthier - for bottomlines of the physical kind – than ice-cream http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-334938,Curpg-1.cms
I don't recall this conversation here, but I'm sure it has been discussed. You could google for "American Idiomatic Expressions"... One of the links I found (http://www.linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/archive-1997.10/msg01565.html[^]) did start of by saying that there probably isn't more of these expressions in American English as other dialects.
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar The Second EuroCPian Event will be in Brussels on the 4th of September
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Venkatraman wrote: switch to curd-rice for dessert Curd rice is not really dessert :-) It's a main course. And in some families the entire meal :-) Nish
Now with my own blog - void Nish(char* szBlog); My MVP tips, tricks and essays web site - www.voidnish.com
Request - Could everyone who have in the past, posted on my personal forum on CP, be kind enough to delete all your posts please? I intend to start a personal non-technical blog there, now that it is RSSd and would very much like to empty the forum before I do so - because the posts that are there as of now are mostly test posts and posts that were made before we all knew it was a blog :-)
I guess the signature of mine is obsolete. I left it there when there were some outsourcing related forums were running... Cheers, Venkatraman Kalyanam Bangalore - India Why the US can't win the outsourcing war against India Our advice to US CEOs, governors and senators: come out of denial and switch to curd-rice for dessert; it’s both cheaper and healthier - for bottomlines of the physical kind – than ice-cream http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-334938,Curpg-1.cms
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I don't recall this conversation here, but I'm sure it has been discussed. You could google for "American Idiomatic Expressions"... One of the links I found (http://www.linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/archive-1997.10/msg01565.html[^]) did start of by saying that there probably isn't more of these expressions in American English as other dialects.
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar The Second EuroCPian Event will be in Brussels on the 4th of September
Thanks mate. This seems to be very good and formal dialects sample. But the one which i read sometime back had contained frequently used sentences. Cheers, Venkatraman Kalyanam Bangalore - India Reality bites: I am reality
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Thanks mate. This seems to be very good and formal dialects sample. But the one which i read sometime back had contained frequently used sentences. Cheers, Venkatraman Kalyanam Bangalore - India Reality bites: I am reality
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Hi all, Sometime back there was a post which had how american people speak out certain english statements. For ex In plain english we will say..."He is gaining momentum". American people may say "He is stepping on the gas"... If anyone can give a pointer to this, it will be great for me Cheers, Venkatraman Kalyanam Bangalore - India Why the US can't win the outsourcing war against India Our advice to US CEOs, governors and senators: come out of denial and switch to curd-rice for dessert; it’s both cheaper and healthier - for bottomlines of the physical kind – than ice-cream http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-334938,Curpg-1.cms
alot of phrases change depending on what part of the country you are in and the context of usage. Also, many phrases and words fall out of use over time. I'd suggest googling on american slang phrases, colloquialismS, ETC. For current pop-culture slizzang check out http://www.urbandictionary.com/[^], my nizzle. BW The Biggest Loser
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