ss_blog_claim=b82d7beaeabe01531e5e6c38ae709e1a Mom Knows Everything: Instant Messaging Translating

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Instant Messaging Translating

I was chatting with my friend Tina on instant messenger earlier. Tina is from the UK and I'm from Canada so sometimes it's hard to understand what exactly we are saying to each other because we have different words for different things. She calls her evening meal "tea" and I call it "supper". She also calls her friends "hun" and that it is something here you would call your spouse/boyfriend. She also explained to me what "posh" meant because the way she used it I had no idea what she was talking about. Amazingly though some things like online car insurance are said the same way here in Canada and the UK.

6 comments:

silverneurotic said...

Funnily enough, I tend to understand Brit and Australian slang better than some American!

Anna said...

Well, explain what posh means. Now I need to know.

Tammy said...

Hi Anna,
Posh means the chic upper class. I thought posh meant expensive or one of the Spice Girls. LOL! Yeah I know, I'm lame. LOL

Tina said...

Looks like ill have to start some classes of my own Tam teaching you and your American friends the English slang lol

P.s im back on, managed to cellotape my wire!!

Tina said...

p.s thanks for linking me on here 'bud' x

Misty Dawn said...

Hehehehe - you make me giggle. You ROCK and I luv u!