As someone who has spent large numbers of years in both the US and the UK, I have nothing inherently against apps / sites that offer to ‘translate’ between British and American. I think the idea is sound, it just bugs me that so often the execution is, to use a favorite British phrase, a load of bollocks.
The British to American Slang Dictionary iPhone app is a good example of this. It gets some things right, but also gets a lot wrong and offers up a lot of entries that are way out in WTF-land. For instance, in the screencap above the app has translated ‘how are you’ in British to ‘how do you do’ in American. What???? Here’s the ‘translation’ I know for when someone in the UK says how are you: ‘how are you’.
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