I remember when Bob Hoskyns's "Long Good Friday" was first aired in the US - we were told that you had to have sub-titles. I can understand that, as they were all cockneys, but why when a guy speaks "perfect English"? I mean, you don't need them for Hugh Grant.


>Quite a few years back, I worked on an 8-month project (on the 62nd floor of World Trade Center I) developing a project management critical path resource scheduling app (using Artemis... from a UK firm) for the Port Authority, and we had a UK bloke on the team. He spoke perfect english but we still needed a translator.
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>>No, no, noooo!
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>>That's "the beast with 2 backs".
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>>>Shag?
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>>>>>Over the brush?
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>>>>Once upon a time one would have said "in sin", a Liverpool expression "tally", you guys might have said "shacked up", i.e. "together as common law man and wife" or just "living together".
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