Re: English Vocabulary Update


Sun, 24 Sep 95 16:54:19 GMT

I just stumbled on an example that I think is relevant to this thread.

I was speaking to a friend of mine who's just gone from London to
Manchester (for university), and has found that the word
'Bollocks' (as well as meaning the testicular protruberances) has
the opposite meaning from London. Here it means rubbish (awful/crap/pants)
and there it means good (From an abbreviation of 'the dog's bollocks').

So the same word can have wildly different meanings even within the
same country. And this is more important to implement in a work
of IF, as you at least want your country to understand, if not
others!

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