Do you ever use this English word?

[BigNick]

In the UK, to "slate" a TV show means to criticise it heavily, not to schedule it.

 

[Meadbh]

Here's a word I never used/seen before working for the current megacorp - bifurcate. It showed up in a slide and I had to do a quick dictionary check. I don't think the use of "bifurcate" was very needful in the context.

If you were an anatomy professor or vascular surgeon you would be using "bifurcate" on a daily basis.

"The aorta bifurcates into the right and left femoral arteries."
"The aortic aneurysm's distal edge is 3 cm proximal to the bifurcation of the aorta."
Etc.

 

[Meadbh]

In Ireland, if something is described as "deadly" it means it is what in the US is called "awesome".

Emigrating was an adventure in colloquialisms!

 

[FUEGO]

In Ireland, if something is described as "deadly" it means it is what in the US is called "awesome".

Emigrating was an adventure in colloquialisms!

"Sick" is also used to mean awesome. Sick = precursor to deadly?

 

[athena53]

Has anyone heard the expressions "this day morning" and "today morning" to convey "this morning"? I heard this a lot from Middle Eastern and Indian colleagues. I thought it was charming.

The Germans use an expression that would translate that way- maybe other languages do, too. I used to get confused because I worked for a company headquartered in the German-speaking section of Switzerland and in German, "halb neun" meant 8:30, ("literally half nine"). When my British boss said "half nine" he meant 9:30.

And then there were my Indian colleagues, who coined the charming back-formation "pre-pone", which meant that an event had been moved to an earlier time.

 

[travelover]

...............A while back I heard that in Canada when something at a meeting is 'tabled' that means it's brought to the fore front for discussion. The exact opposite of what 'tabled' means in the USA. Right or wrong?

I w*rked with a Brit that kept wanting to discuss a topic at a regular meeting and couldn't understand why every time he got agreement to table the topic, everyone got up and left.

 

[MBAustin]

DS got in trouble his first day in US school (3rd grade) after 4 years in an international school with curriculum in the King's English. He asked the teacher for a "rubber".

 

[Nemo2]

DS got in trouble his first day in US school (3rd grade) after 4 years in an international school with curriculum in the King's English. He asked the teacher for a "rubber".

In Australia 'Durex' is/was a brand of Scotch Tape, whereas in England it is/was a/the brand of contraceptives.

Back in the 1960s a girl, (tall, blond, good looking), who traveled on the same ship I was on from OZ to England, apparently (I heard from a third party) landed a job with an advertising agency......prepping a pork-based product for a photo-shoot, she apparently asked, in a loud voice, "Does anyone have any Durex I can put on these sausages?".

Brought the house down.

 

[ronin]

Around here it is doing a needle full. In the ghetto...

 

[Throwdownmyaceinthehole]

Gobsmacked, shattered, pissed, spit a dummy

 

[shortstop14]

Has anyone heard the expressions "this day morning" and "today morning" to convey "this morning"? I heard this a lot from Middle Eastern and Indian colleagues. I thought it was charming.

I heard this pretty frequently from my Indian co-workers - 'too-day morning', accent on the 'too'. Always kind of liked it, too.

 

[pb4uski]

Here's a word I never used/seen before working for the current megacorp - bifurcate. It showed up in a slide and I had to do a quick dictionary check. I don't think the use of "bifurcate" was very needful in the context.

I use bifurcate frequently - in fact I used it in an article I wrote the a couple days ago.

 

[Meadbh]

In fact, "today morning" makes perfect sense, because we say "yesterday morning" and "tomorrow morning". Maybe we should change!

 

[Walt34]

Guess I live a sheltered life. First time I'd ever heard of it was this thread.

 

[redduck]

I use bifurcate frequently - in fact I used it in an article I wrote the a couple days ago.

In graduate school, "bifurcate" was a favourite word. "Trifurcate" only caught on with a few of us (most of whom sat in the back row).

 

[Amethyst]

I came to a bifurcation in the road. I took it.

Amethyst

In graduate school, "bifurcate" was a favourite word. "Trifurcate" only caught on with a few of us (most of whom sat in the back row).

 

[redduck]

I came to a bifurcation in the road. I took it.

Amethyst

You took the bifurcation?

 

[jon-nyc]

I would answer this question but doing so wouldn't be wantful to me.

 

[Amethyst]

Yogi Berra would have!

You took the bifurcation?