Azh, how does the US as you saw it recently, compare with Australia now, in regards to slang? anything surprising?
mark got-quite-a-laugh-from-my-Aussie-friends-when I described-myself-as-stuffed-following a-large-meal Bailey
During my stay in the Napa Valley, I heard very little slang that I was not already familiar with. This time around I also spent relatively fewer hours watching tv, and more time writing. I spent my days mostly waking up at 7am, writing for a few hours, taking a short break to bird watch, a little more writing, then catching the bus into town and walking about taking photos, followed by a short interlude drinking coffee and doing research upstairs in a bookshop, then going home with my daughter, making dinner, and spending the evening with her sort-of watching tv, chatting, and just generally hanging out, till her husband came home close to midnight and drove me back out to the RV park on the outer outer edge of town.
This, I have decided, is bliss for a writer. I added some 20,000 plus words to my novel in 4 weeks. I wish I was there now, still following the same routine.
My only regret is that my daughter wouldn't allow me to go to the local police station and see if I could arrange to speak with a LEO to tidy up a few procedural matters I was dealing with in the writing.
My stay in Florida was likewise devoid of local slang - though I realised it was time for me to come home, when it stopped looking *wrong* to see cars driving on the right side of the road, and when I found myself using words like "lobby", "soda", and the like.
As for "stuffed", it is used in the context of "full of", but more generally here it's used in the context of something being damaged, mixed up, messed up, or generally FUBAR.
Azh
(who always liked the quietly genteel maiden aunt who claimed that she was "full up to kitty's bow", whenever she'd had an elegant sufficiency at the dinner table.)