Planetfurry BBS

[GriffinX]

now the reason i desided to ... partake of this topic, is that resintly i came across a japenese anime, and in it one of the main people said when asked a question. "i plead the fith." now this struck me as odd as i would consider this particuler phrase to be somewhat solely an american consept. (well atleast that exact wording)

that got me wondering,( and this is manly for all of you that arn't from america.) if confronted with this saying and you knew nothing of its origens would you still get the consept? is it that well known of a phrase that it can be heard (and understood) in diffrent parts of the world?

i would also like to make the point that i know that there are diffrent sayings in every culter that can mean the samething as one from another culture. i use the example of "i plead the fith" becase i highly dought that the japenese have the same consept of the american fith ammendment in the same exact order as ameria's.

please feel free to post a phrase that you think might have the same significance in your own part of the world as it would somewhere else.