It's goofy, quirky, entertaining, and interesting. For example:
You have to cut a tree down before you can cut it up.
You can slow down or you can slow up.
You can speed up but nobody speeds down.
A tree may blow down but bombs don't. They blow up.
What can you add?
RRUGG
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I've been involved in a project with a Japanese group. The written communications are in English translated with (I assume) Google Translate. It is often of the difficulty for the understanding of the words used to the conversation of the meaning.
For my part, I try to use English WITHOUT any colloquialisms (to ease their translations into Japanese). That is much more difficult than I thought it would be, even in a "scientific" or "engineering" conversion. I didn't realize how much of our day-to-day conversions are colloquialisms. Such simple things as, "You need to back up the data". I can easily see that phrase get translated as "put the data into reverse". My daughter tells me that when foreigners learn English, they get two books. The first is the regular "How to learn English" book while the second one is simply on English slang or colloquialisms.
RRUGG wrote: It's goofy, quirky, entertaining, and interesting. For example:
You have to cut a tree down before you can cut it up.
You can slow down or you can slow up.
You can speed up but nobody speeds down.
A tree may blow down but bombs don't. They blow up.
What can you add?
Humm.. I had a tree taken down in my back lot, They cut it up BEFORE they cut it down.
I can't tell you how many times I've heard someone holler "Slow up".
Speed down I agree.
And if you are sitting on top of the bomb when it goes BOOM, you will indeed be blown UPwards.
That said I think there ate Two To's Too many and can never remember which whitch is which.
Nothin adds excitment like something that is none of your business
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If you own a business you often open up in the morning and close up at night, no? OK, maybe some folks would close down....or shut down. But if you shut up you stop talking.........
Old-Biscuit wrote: Why is it every time you enter a town the sign says 'Speed Zone Ahead'
There is town near me that I travel through often. On the highway into town the speed limit is 55mph. Just as you approach the town, there is a sign, 35mph, and about 300 yards further a "speed zone ahead" sign. Go figure.
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Old-Biscuit wrote: Why is it every time you enter a town the sign says 'Speed Zone Ahead' but actually you have to slow down?
I love the signs at construction zones that say, "REDUCE SPEED 50 mph". What they mean is "Reduce speed TO 50 mph". If they meant what they wrote, at least on the local construction zone I've been dealing with, our speed should be 20 mph, not 50.
Old-Biscuit wrote: Why is it every time you enter a town the sign says 'Speed Zone Ahead' but actually you have to slow down?
I love the signs at construction zones that say, "REDUCE SPEED 50 mph". What they mean is "Reduce speed TO 50 mph". If they meant what they wrote, at least on the local construction zone I've been dealing with, our speed should be 20 mph, not 50.
The addition of the word "TO" might have required a larger sign OR a higher cost to add 2 letters.
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