Anyway, for my first post-England post, I thought I’d supply you loyal readers with an introductory course in British slang. Thanks to Ammon, Adam, and Lee at Fresh Egg, I now have a mastery of British terms that sound suspiciously like Fraggle Rock characters.
1. muppet [mup-pet]
As Ammon put it, a muppet is someone who “commits web design atrocities.”Ex. “Not only does that muppet’s site only work with IE, it has a splash page and requires frames.”
2. numpty [nump-tee] Someone who, even after being shown all the evidence to fix something, still insists on doing it the wrong way.
Ex. “Michael Martinez is such a numpty.” (Haha, just joking MM)
3. plonker [plonk-er] A more socially accepted version of “d–k head”
Ex. “Those plonkers at Yahoo! wouldn’t let me into their party!”
4. gobshite [gob-shy-tuh] Someone who talks too much
Ex. “Rand, you gobshite! Stop sharing link building tactics on your blog!”
5. codswallop [cod-swall-up] A load of bull
Ex. “Google’s Page Rank is a load of codswallop.”
6. naff [nah-f] Dodgy, sketchy
Ex. “That was pretty naff of Matt Cutts to bring up politics at PubCon.”
7. chav [chav] Trailer trash
Ex. “Did you see that chav’s MySpace profile?”
Thanks again to Fresh Egg for being my home away from home. I’ll write up an in-depth article of my internship abroad and will hopefully have it up after Thanksgiving. Until then, look out for Jeff and Jane’s coverage of PubCon coming soon.
