▲ 517 ▼ Crazy Brits rule (thelemmy.club) submitted 1 month ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 120 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Soulg@ani.social 44 points 1 month ago (2 children) Terrible example and it's just demonstrating that you can't put yourself in someone else's shoes for even a moment. You understand that usage of tea because you used it your entire life, someone who hasn't would rightfully be confused. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 11 points 1 month ago (2 children) Ok it was a deliberately silly example for emphasis. Here's a real example. I went to Australia once and in the airport somebody referred to my Mentos as "lolly". To me, lollies are on a stick. Apparently not to aussies. It threw me off for half a second, but that's it. Confused is an overstatement. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] theneverfox@pawb.social 11 points 1 month ago Yeah but the context clues are a hell of a lot easier there. You're holding an object, and if someone called it a chupa-chupa or a sucker most people would be able to put that together pretty easily Now imagine you're going through stretches and someone walks in and is like "oh, playing football are you". You could be preparing to go outside and play football... But you're just stretching I think most people would be confused by that unexpected second meaning of a familiar word permalink fedilink source parent [–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago Imagine you are cooking a chicken. Your flatmate walks in, sees what you're doing, and says, oh, are you making coffee? You wouldn't be just a little bit confused at first? permalink fedilink source parent [–] J92@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago Not OP, but out of interest, if you are from the UK, what did you call the (primarily) women who served food in school at around noon? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 11 points 1 month ago (2 children) Ok it was a deliberately silly example for emphasis. Here's a real example. I went to Australia once and in the airport somebody referred to my Mentos as "lolly". To me, lollies are on a stick. Apparently not to aussies. It threw me off for half a second, but that's it. Confused is an overstatement. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] theneverfox@pawb.social 11 points 1 month ago Yeah but the context clues are a hell of a lot easier there. You're holding an object, and if someone called it a chupa-chupa or a sucker most people would be able to put that together pretty easily Now imagine you're going through stretches and someone walks in and is like "oh, playing football are you". You could be preparing to go outside and play football... But you're just stretching I think most people would be confused by that unexpected second meaning of a familiar word permalink fedilink source parent [–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago Imagine you are cooking a chicken. Your flatmate walks in, sees what you're doing, and says, oh, are you making coffee? You wouldn't be just a little bit confused at first? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 11 points 1 month ago Yeah but the context clues are a hell of a lot easier there. You're holding an object, and if someone called it a chupa-chupa or a sucker most people would be able to put that together pretty easily Now imagine you're going through stretches and someone walks in and is like "oh, playing football are you". You could be preparing to go outside and play football... But you're just stretching I think most people would be confused by that unexpected second meaning of a familiar word permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago Imagine you are cooking a chicken. Your flatmate walks in, sees what you're doing, and says, oh, are you making coffee? You wouldn't be just a little bit confused at first? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] J92@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago Not OP, but out of interest, if you are from the UK, what did you call the (primarily) women who served food in school at around noon? permalink fedilink source parent
