Out Of Sorts

In the madness of making life coherent these past few weeks, a delightful word has been coming to your correspondent's ears more often than usual: "sorted".  To sort is generally meant by Britons in loosely the same sense as Americans use to solve --- as in, "I'm glad I finally have this international wire transfer sorted because for a while my entire life savings disappeared into the ether."

Britons use sorted in a much stronger sense, as well.  Americans sort their mail (which usually means they haven't even opened it yet).  Britons sort global warming.

The result is almost a mistranslation, which to this American looks like it could be an insult. ("'Get sorted!' he screamed at his cheating ex-girlfriend.  'Sort this!' she howled in reply.")  Airing this confusion would probably do no good, however, though it's up for debate whether I could then be told to Sort Off.