Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley for July 03, 2020

As usual, waiting for those helpful souls who can translate.

It’ll take years, if ever, before good ol’ Satchel understands Cockney.

When we were in England, the only thing we couldn’t understand or figure out was the cockney.

Reminds me of the song in My Fair Lady – Why Cahn’t The English Learn To Speak… (He was referring to cockney).

Colloquialisms are one thing, but Cockney rhyming slang is quite another. It’s fun to listen to, but really like a foreign language to learn. We can’t arrange it for ourselves, but it takes a native to have it mastered and to be up on the changes. My brother lives in London. The first time I heard my brother’s friend say he was Brahms and Liszt the night before and then found out he meant he was “pissed” (drunk), I realized I’d be dead in the water trying to learn it.

Brassic, peppered, skint, pants, gotta love the urban dictionary.

Does Babbel offer this language?

It’s “boracic” meaning broke not ‘brassic.’ British slang for broke is “skint.” Skint rhymes with “boracic lint” (a sort of medicated bandage)—hence “boracic” (pronounced ‘boreassik’). Cheers.

Sometimes I wish I had one of those Babel fish to stick in my ear like they had in Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.

3 M me thinks you had to much of an adult beverage ;-)

I DON’T GET IT WHY MAC WHY

Satch is the perfect host. Great listener

What’d he say what’d he say??????

So Mac went to California. You know, L.A.

Oddly enough, in the UK “pants” refers to underwear. So, in reference to soiled underwear, something gone bad or disagreeable is “pants”. “Grafting” is working. “Graft” in the U.S. means nearly the opposite, getting something for nothing (usually illegally). La La Land is NOT Mancunian slang. “Brassic” means “skint” or dead broke or “Peppered” (not pepper-sprayed as might happen on a trip to La La Land recently). Mancunians have a lot of words for being out of money. Many people miss the point that the dialect is deliberately employed to make “outsiders” uncomfortable. I suspect they all speak like BBC news readers when they’re at home. :)

My husband loves to explain things to me. I do my Satchel impression.

Funny how ‘boracic’ has commonly become ‘brassic’ in common use.

Seen it in a few places now.

(Cockney rhyming backslang – ‘boracic lint’ = ‘skint.’)

I grew up in the environment and well knew such stuff. Getting to be far less common except among wold be Guy Ritchie gangster types.

Gotta go, time for a pony!

Darby, please add one panel with definitions for the words

The real mystery is why does a Cockney cat support Man City instead of West Ham?

I love MMM, even though I go crazy trying to understand him. Many cities have their own various dialects within them. A city in Germany where I worked had its own dialect – even a few billboards used it! I worked for a family business, and I couldn’t understand a thing the grandpa said. Fortunately, the kids understood and translated it into “high German” for me!