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Re: "My Bad" and American slang phrases ( was Re: Humane practices...)

Subject: Re: "My Bad" and American slang phrases was Re: Humane practices...
From: "Farm1"
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:59:32 +1000
Newsgroups: sci.agriculture.poultry
"janerene" <jane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> I love the culture interchange on this website.  I thought "my bad"
was a
> world wide slang term now, too.  The one term that the British use
that
> still shocks me is "knock you up".  Perfectly harmless in England.
Means
> something COMPLETELY different over here!  (to get someone pregnant!
> aughh!)

In Australia it means both to get tired and to get pregnant.  Having
been both pregnant and tired at the same and differing itmes, I think
there is a lot of logic in that :-))



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