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Thread poster: Charlotte Blank
Charlotte Blank
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Jul 18, 2006

Not so much a "ressource" for translators but an informative Australian website about the English language: http://abcasiapacific.com/englishbites/library.htm
with "Common expressions", irregular and phrasal verbs etc.

English is not my mother-tongue so I can't judge whether the language used and explained here is British or American or even Australian English!
 
Sherey Gould
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definitely not US-Eng Jul 18, 2006

Can definitely state right off the bat it is NOT US-English... when the page first opened, I saw this gem:

cark it
Cark it is slang. It means to die.
Example: My goldfish carked it.

... and laughed out loud, so will now try to spread that up-to-now unknown gem around California!

Now back to the site to see what else I can discover - Thanks!
 
mediamatrix (X)
mediamatrix (X)
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What's more, it's wrong! Jul 18, 2006

http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/cark

cark

Pronunciation: (kärk), [key] Archaic.

—n.
care or worry.

—v.t., v.i.
to worry.

Unless the goldfish was worried to death, of course...

MediaMatrix
 
annienr
annienr
English to Spanish
It's not 'wrong'. it's slang Jul 18, 2006

It's a commonly used slang term in the UK and Australia.
Used to refer to inanimate objects as well as living things, just as a battery can be 'dead'.
Can also be used as a warning - "don't fall off the ladder or you'll cark it"
Annie
 
Daniel García
Daniel García
English to Spanish
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Is it really wrong? Jul 19, 2006

mediamatrix wrote:

What's more, it's wrong!

http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/cark

cark

Pronunciation: (kärk), [key] Archaic.

—n.
care or worry.

—v.t., v.i.
to worry.

Unless the goldfish was worried to death, of course...

MediaMatrix



Oh, dear... You have to be careful when choosing your reference material.

I don't think it's wrong, it seems to be perfectly correct slang Australian English.

→ verb
[no obj.] (Austral. informal) die: he's always bragged about carking it before he hit twenty.
- ORIGIN 1970s: probably imitative of the caw of a carrion crow.

The Oxford Dictionary of English (revised edition). Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson. Oxford University Press, 2005.

Daniel
 
Charlotte Blank
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Answer from ABC Asia Pacific :-) Jul 26, 2006

mediamatrix wrote:
—n.
care or worry.

—v.t., v.i.
to worry.

Unless the goldfish was worried to death, of course...



Hi,

I wrote to them about their website and here is what they answered:

Unfortunately the goldfish is dead not worried!

Best Regards
Nicola
ABC Asia Pacific
 


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