The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #94868 Message #1839934
Posted By: Jerry Rasmussen
21-Sep-06 - 09:18 AM
Thread Name: English To English Translation Needed
Subject: English To English Translation Needed
My current favorite comic strip is Get Fuzzy. (You can check out it out on your computer.) One of the main characters is a dumb, obnoxious cat named Bucky. Starting in today's strip, a cat has appeared at the door to Bucky's "owner's" apartment (as if anyone "owns" a cat, who speaks in semi-indicipherable Brit-speak.
I can see that I'm going to need my Catter friends to translate a lot of the dialogue into Amurican English.
Here's today's dialgoue:
"Ah, brilliant! Been having a Butcher's for your flats all day, Mate. Thought I'd cooked summat up. I'm well knackered. I can tell you! I could do with a bevvy and a kip!
Plus, some bloke diddled me brolly in the queue for the khazi in blighty.
Come again?
I know what knackered is, and a bevvy seems clear. Not sure what a kip is (a cracker or biscuit, maybe?) I know what a queue is, having stood in plenty, but have no idea why I would wait in a queue for the Khazi. And what in the world is a brolly? And where is blighty?