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07-20-2006, 05:02 PM
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#31 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | Gas, how the hell can it be gas. I can not get it. We call it fuel or petrol. Well we make fuel from gas and coal. SASOL and MOSGAS or PETRO SA as it is called now. MOSGAS is about 80 km away from my town. they were started in the Apartheid era to get fuel after we were sanctioned.
Well you guys sure as hell love that prize pic. 
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07-20-2006, 06:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Tiger Only the Americans could refer to a liquid as gas  |
I heard somewhere that Gasoline is actually a german word, is it true Adler?
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07-21-2006, 01:45 AM
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#33 | | Der Crewchief
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Country:  | Not sure on that. If that is the case it is not used over here in Germany anymore.
The Germans call fuel, Benzin. Nobody calls it Gas or anything like that.
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07-21-2006, 09:09 AM
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Country:  | Benzin. Hmmmmm.....
Ah well, I like calling it gas.
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07-21-2006, 11:13 AM
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#35 | | Master of Ewes
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Country:  | even worse is that you don't have the intellectual capacity to come up with another word for the accelerator, you just say "hit the gas" or call it the Gas pedal, no, it's a throttle or accelerator, one day some of you might even meet a 3rd pedal called a clutch, which you use in a "stick shift" car, good Lord you guys are clueless........
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07-21-2006, 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks *** even worse is that you don't have the intellectual capacity to come up with another word for the accelerator, you just say "hit the gas" or call it the Gas pedal, no, it's a throttle or accelerator, one day some of you might even meet a 3rd pedal called a clutch, which you use in a "stick shift" car, good Lord you guys are clueless........ |
I think it's just P38 who is clueless.
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07-21-2006, 11:48 AM
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#37 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | Gib Gas! Thats how the Germans say that too, litterally translates to Give Gas!
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07-21-2006, 01:51 PM
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07-21-2006, 02:02 PM
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07-21-2006, 09:09 PM
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Country: | we call it gas also but this is the land where men are men and the sheep aren't scared
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07-21-2006, 09:17 PM
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Country: | Gasoline is also used in French... But you replace the "s" with a "z". Same thing with "gas". I really wonder where that name comes from. | |
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07-21-2006, 09:27 PM
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Originally Posted by pbfoot we call it gas also but this is the land where men are men and the sheep aren't scared |
We call it petrol and clutch. If you want to say here drive faster you say; "sit voet in die hoek", translated, put your foot in the corner or give some more petrol. Petrol stands for petroleum.
You Americans are weird, you call stuff strange names, but why should everything be just like I do it. You say horn we say hooter. I will give that to you guys but why F and not C and why feet and not meters and km?
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07-22-2006, 02:37 AM
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Country:  | English here is American English so most of the people here call it gas, with a mispronunciation.. they say ga-as
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07-22-2006, 02:52 AM
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#44 | | Master of Ewes
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07-22-2006, 03:28 AM
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Country: | Gnomey, u need to let off on stealing my thunder with the prize giving.... Thats my bag....
And from one American to all u fu*ked up furry foreigners, kiss my red white and blue @ss.... We rule the world, so u should be copying US, not the other way around....
And why the fu*k would u call a cigarette a fag is beyond me...
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