Hey, Brits! Explain this to me.
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wrote on 23 May 2021, 21:08 last edited by
Explain to me, so I can explain to Mrs. George.
She's watching the Oprah Prince Harry interview on Apple TV called "Say It Out Loud."
I told her that the Brits don't use the word "asshole" too much, am I right @Doctor-Phibes ? Instead they use the word "twat," which has a different meaning from what we use that word for in the US.
What's a simple definition that I can give to Mrs. George, so when I say "He's a twat!", she'll understand?
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wrote on 23 May 2021, 21:14 last edited by
Aren't you a bit old for this kind of naivete?
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wrote on 23 May 2021, 21:16 last edited by
@mik said in Hey, Brits! Explain this to me.:
Aren't you a bit old
Of course.
for this kind of naivete?
But I detect a subtle difference between the usage of "twat" in the Brit sense and the US sense.
I've seen at least one Brit mystery show that used the word. That would never pass muster here in the US.
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wrote on 23 May 2021, 21:44 last edited by Loki
In the UK they pronounce it tw at.
And it can denote any of the body parts below the waist, but generally ass.
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wrote on 23 May 2021, 21:54 last edited by LuFins Dad
Think Twit with an A.
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wrote on 23 May 2021, 23:02 last edited by
'Twat' has the same meaning in the UK as the US, but when it's used as an insult, it's kind of a step-down from calling somebody the c-word. It's a fairly common insult.
We also call people arseholes, rather than assholes. It sounds so much more sophisticated.
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wrote on 23 May 2021, 23:04 last edited by
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wrote on 23 May 2021, 23:14 last edited by
@doctor-phibes that was probably most informative.
Now, is there one in which I can actually understand what the actual hell they're saying without subtitles?
I only understood "shithouse" "favor" "scabies" "sumo wrestler," and a couple of other words.
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wrote on 23 May 2021, 23:16 last edited by
Thanks for the link though. It redirected me to this:
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wrote on 23 May 2021, 23:43 last edited by
That, my friend, is John Cooper Clarke. He has a very strong Salford accent. Salford is Manchester's rather rough step-brother. And it has to be said, Manchester's not exactly hoity-toity.
I'd completely forgotten about it being used as verb. There was a kid at our school who was always threatening to twat people, as in beat them up.