Dissonance

Troubleshooter · 07-13-2004, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by jaguar

I could be wrong here but it seems to me there is a fair percentage of the US population who barrak for political parties like football teams, very strange, quite destructive.

Huh?

glatt · 07-13-2004, 02:02 PM

I had to break out the dictionary. "Barrack" is an Australian saying which means "to shout support for a team."

Interesting that it is also a British saying "to jeer or shout at a player, speaker or team."

So the Brits and Ozzies us the word to mean exactly the opposite of the other.

Never heard that one before.

07-13-2004, 02:02 PM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I had to break out the dictionary. "Barrack" is an Australian saying which means "to shout support for a team." Interesting that it is also a British saying "to jeer or shout at a player, speaker or team." So the Brits and Ozzies us the word to mean exactly the opposite of the other. Never heard that one before.

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