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Old 03-01-2011, 03:17 PM   #1
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I Don't Get It (translation thread)

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.
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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.
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Old 03-01-2011, 03:25 PM   #2
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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

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“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.”
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Old 03-01-2011, 03:41 PM   #3
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YEAH. it's juss differnt
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Old 03-01-2011, 03:43 PM   #4
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It's that there poyetic lisen.
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Old 03-01-2011, 03:45 PM   #5
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Cheers. Raise an Artic to me.
Here, an artic is an articulated lorry, ie a fuck-off long truck.

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Old 03-01-2011, 05:53 PM   #6
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Cheers. Raise an Artic to me.
Here, an artic is an articulated lorry, ie a fuck-off long truck.

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Talking of culturally specific idioms: is that usage of 'fuck-off' a Britism, or do you guys use it too?
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Old 03-01-2011, 05:59 PM   #7
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We're more direct and personal - 'fuck you'. Or more wordy - 'go fuck yourself'.
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Old 03-01-2011, 06:08 PM   #8
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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'.
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Old 03-01-2011, 06:10 PM   #9
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'splain that one then, please. Like a 'fucking long truck'?
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Old 03-01-2011, 07:39 PM   #10
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yes. like that.
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Old 03-01-2011, 08:09 PM   #11
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yes. like that.
Then no. Mostly we say 'fucking long truck'.
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Old 03-01-2011, 11:36 PM   #12
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Sometimes we might say "longer than fuck-all," though.
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Old 03-02-2011, 02:03 AM   #13
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"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" ....
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Old 03-02-2011, 07:20 AM   #14
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"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.
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Old 03-08-2011, 05:42 PM   #15
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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

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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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