You Got To Be Kidding!

[JaBek1]

Geez! It's no wonder there is so much confusion in the world. Even those of us with a common language have issues, imagine those of us that are accustomed to using other languages.

[madelaine]

Geez! It's no wonder there is so much confusion in the world. Even those of us with a common language have issues, imagine those of us that are accustomed to using other languages.

There was a thread suggesting that eBid could auto translate from English to American and back and it took me only a couple of sentences to point out that it was impossible.

Vest? How do you tell whether the ad is in English (in which case you would call it a singlet) or in American (in which case we call it a waistcoat).

When my family were in the US in the fifties, my father was taken on an explanatory tour of the car so he knew what to call each part... Bumper/ Fender, Hood/Bonnet etc