I love British slang too. It's enormously difficult to explain to American friends though as while they have quite a bit of very inventive slang here they don't have the same sort of... grammar, if you will, of slang that we do, like things "modified by context" and how very similar sounding things can have completely different meanings like dog's breakfast, dog's dinner and dog's bollocks.
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Date: 2010-04-22 01:02 pm (UTC)I love British slang too. It's enormously difficult to explain to American friends though as while they have quite a bit of very inventive slang here they don't have the same sort of... grammar, if you will, of slang that we do, like things "modified by context" and how very similar sounding things can have completely different meanings like dog's breakfast, dog's dinner and dog's bollocks.