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And today's Get Fuzzy translation for 09/23

Category Everything Else
Here's the one from today...  http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20060923.html

Thanks to Stan and Ben for the last translation and insights...

I actually understood most of this one...  although the "china plate is a bit gormy" doesn't register...

Posted by Tom Duff On 09/23/2006 | | Bookmark and Share

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Gravatar Image1 - "China plate" is cockney rhyming slang, this time for "mate", i.e. friend.

"Gormy" I would have to guess: "weird" or somesuch. Not heard that term before!

Posted by Ben Poole At 00:12:02 On 24/09/2006 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image2 - But why is Darby (Get Fuzzy writer) using a Cockney accent for a character supposedly from either Manchester or Hartlepool. rthere are a lot of regional accents here in the UK. Cockney is NOT a place -to be cockney you had to be born within earshot of the Bow bells - within audible range of the church bells of the Church in Bow - East London. That limits it to to maybe 20,000 from a popultion of 65 million people.
It is the typical US take on Brits - the cliched "they all talk like Dick Van Dyke" attitude that is so ignorant and lets Hollywood down EVERY time.

Posted by JOHN At 15:29:05 On 10/10/2006 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image3 - Don't ask me... I'm just the dumb American who's being amused here... :)

Posted by Duffbert At 18:15:09 On 10/10/2006 | - Website - |


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