I'll do that ASAP.
None British members - try and decipher this
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I'll do that ASAP.
On the otherhand I think it is interesting that people from New Zealand and Australia are more knowledgeable of English slangs than the average American. Does this have something to do with the relatively late independence of the two nations when compared with the U.S.? To be fair I always thought that the British accent is closer to the Australian accent than it is to the American accent.
Red___Sword
Junior Member
They are in this thing called "commonwealth", while America fight to get rid of.
Emotionally, the more the British style you speaks, the more "commonwealth" you are; and the less the British style you speaks, the more American you are. - patriotic-ly, this makes sense.
(Asian country trys the hardest to breaks off from Chinese culture, makes the same sense it appears.)
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Well I saw something on TV around the time of the royal wedding buildup and they basically explained how to decipher British slang which is much like American ebonics. It's just a game of pop culture word association and rhyming.
Of course the Chinese have their own coded language. It's called speaking Chinese. Pick any dialect. I saw a you tube video... it could've been posted here... of some Western intellectual discussing the charge China isn't transparent. He basically said a lot of China's supposed secrecy is published in Chinese journals available to anyone if one knew where to find them which he did. It's just the West can't find enough Chinese language speakers that pass through scrutiny to interpret everything. Then there's also the story several years of a woman's language in a remote region that was being recorded by authorities.
Of course the Chinese have their own coded language. It's called speaking Chinese. Pick any dialect. I saw a you tube video... it could've been posted here... of some Western intellectual discussing the charge China isn't transparent. He basically said a lot of China's supposed secrecy is published in Chinese journals available to anyone if one knew where to find them which he did. It's just the West can't find enough Chinese language speakers that pass through scrutiny to interpret everything. Then there's also the story several years of a woman's language in a remote region that was being recorded by authorities.
airsuperiority
Captain
sounds like something spoken by an inbred created by leprechuan and popeye(i dun mean the mod)
airsuperiority
Captain
maybe they can use hk slangs instead.
"red 1 to command, nicholas has departed from cecilia cheung", with nicholas representing the payload aircraft and cecilia as the payload
Not a bad effort, not a bad effort at all, but your only half way there!
YOu have Dirty Digger - Rupert Murdoch and Saucy Red Top Rebekah Brook. You didn't get screws the screws though. In English slang, Screws are Prison Warders not Police. So still about two thirds to go from the main sentence.
Tabloidese is a strange sort of language dreamed up by Tabloid newspaper editors and headline writers. It is strongly based on Cockney Rhyming Slang. but has become a something of its very own.
Keep going, although I daresay if the story is international, you will probably be able to work out the rest same as delft, who has been able to pick up the central theme.
bladerunner
Banned Idiot
Having been a avid fan of Ronnie Barker and his role in "Porridge" I had a feeling that "screws" was slang for prison warders. However I'm not up with the hacking story to tie in prison warders with Murdoch and so far as I know the only person interfacing with prison warders is the guy who did the actual hacking.
Therefore I decided to attach some symbolism (that is the justice/police system) to the use of screw the screws and that the writer of the headline was still attacking Murdoch.
I did fleetingly consider that the headline writer had moved on from Murdoch and was actually saying "F...K "(less acceptable than using screw) or "tighten up" on the prison warders but just couldn't think of any reason why....... unless Murdoch/ News International was getting information from them.
AS far as Rebekah Brook is concerned I think the VIP's will terminate the friendship and hang her out to dry or on the other hand they may be worried that she's got some embarrassing stories about them.
Oh I Forgot nipper= young person
and as for the second sentence They are just getting the readers anticipation up with promises of interesting revelations about Rupert Murdoch and his wife although at his age I can hardly see him painting the town red
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solarz
Brigadier
Canada is part of the Commonwealth, and I doubt the average Canadian would have a clue what this is saying.