I Don't Get It (translation thread)

Sundae · 03-01-2011, 04:17 PM

A thread I expect to resurrect from time to time, when I don't understand a cultural reference from outside the Cellar.
Inside I am quite happy to check with the person posting.

This one is from the quote at the bottom of the page, so it's a bit disembowelled - half-in half-out.

Quote:

My son says to me (the 8-year-old), "Daddy, they misspelled Arctic on that beer." And so they did. Pete Coors, dumber than an 8-year-old.
- bartz (Bart Zantzinger)

What?
Please.

Shawnee123 · 03-01-2011, 04:25 PM

Apparently, the Coors brewing company had a beer they called Artic Ice. Here's a linky, which includes a photo of the misspelled beer sign. Too funny.

http://www.minyanville.com/businessm.../2007/id/12667

Quote:

“It was an intentional spelling of the word arctic. It’s distinctive. It’s memorable,” said Judy Hartley, a Coors spokesperson. “We don't think of it as a misspelling. We think of it as alternative spelling.”

jimhelm · 03-01-2011, 04:41 PM

YEAH. it's juss differnt

Shawnee123 · 03-01-2011, 04:43 PM

It's that there poyetic lisen.

Sundae · 03-01-2011, 04:45 PM

Cheers. Raise an Artic to me.
Here, an artic is an articulated lorry, ie a fuck-off long truck.

I'll be back.

DanaC · 03-01-2011, 06:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Cheers. Raise an Artic to me.
Here, an artic is an articulated lorry, ie a fuck-off long truck.

I'll be back.

Talking of culturally specific idioms: is that usage of 'fuck-off' a Britism, or do you guys use it too?

Pico and ME · 03-01-2011, 06:59 PM

We're more direct and personal - 'fuck you'. Or more wordy - 'go fuck yourself'.

DanaC · 03-01-2011, 07:08 PM

No, I don't mean do you use it as in telling someone to fuck off. I mean the way Sundae used it : 'a fuck-off long truck'.

Pico and ME · 03-01-2011, 07:10 PM

'splain that one then, please. Like a 'fucking long truck'?

monster · 03-01-2011, 08:39 PM

yes. like that.

Pete Zicato · 03-01-2011, 09:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster

yes. like that.

Then no. Mostly we say 'fucking long truck'.

Clodfobble · 03-02-2011, 12:36 AM

Sometimes we might say "longer than fuck-all," though.

limey · 03-02-2011, 03:03 AM

"Longer than fuck-all" to me would imply not very long, as fuck-all is not very much. (i.e. "There's fuck all to eat in the house and I'm starrrrrrrrvin'!").
Then again, I am from a nation which says "Not half" to mean "Lots" ....

Clodfobble · 03-02-2011, 08:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by limey

"There's fuck all to eat in the house and I'm starrrrrrrrvin'!"

I'd say this one too, just without the deep Scots brogue.

No one ever said the slang usage of fuck made any sense.

Clodfobble · 03-08-2011, 06:42 PM

Not a translation question, so much as a cultural one.

I was browsing a fluff article online which contained some data from a British phone survey on relationships, as part of a PR campaign for some new movie (a romantic comedy, I'm assuming.) The study claimed that

Quote:

58 percent of the same sample group [those in relationships longer than three years] enjoy regular holidays without their partners.

Is this really true? It stunned me. I realize that "holiday" to a Brit might mean a much less involved thing than a "vacation" to an American, but it does at least include an overnight stay, right? The survey included both married and unmarried couples, no mention of whether they had children, but still... that's a common thing? To routinely spend a weekend somewhere without your significant other?

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03-02-2011, 03:03 AM	#13
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	"Longer than fuck-all" to me would imply not very long, as fuck-all is not very much. (i.e. "There's fuck all to eat in the house and I'm starrrrrrrrvin'!"). Then again, I am from a nation which says "Not half" to mean "Lots" .... __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

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Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Cheers. Raise an Artic to me. Here, an artic is an articulated lorry, ie a fuck-off long truck. I'll be back.

03-01-2011, 06:59 PM	#7
Pico and ME Are you knock-kneed? Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Middle Hoosierland Posts: 3,549	We're more direct and personal - 'fuck you'. Or more wordy - 'go fuck yourself'.

03-01-2011, 07:10 PM	#9
Pico and ME Are you knock-kneed? Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Middle Hoosierland Posts: 3,549	'splain that one then, please. Like a 'fucking long truck'?

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