American terms

[Jahooli]

Political slogan paraphrased from something I heard on From Our Own Correspondent:

We must stop the (USA political party) TRENDING towards socialism.

 

[Acker79]

and i think the overriding concern is *we* arent changing and evolving our language, we are importing a modified dialect and have little input to that evolution.

But by importing them, aren't we changing and evolving our language? If we leave the Americanisms as things only uttered by Americans our language doesn't change.

 

[beorhthelm]

But by importing them, aren't we changing and evolving our language? If we leave the Americanisms as things only uttered by Americans our language doesn't change.

there should be emphasis on the "our", we are importing a different form of english rather than evolving native English. similiar to, in a very literal and relevent example, the grey squirrels taking over the red squirrels.

 

[looney]

No one has mentioned all the lefty quasi-academic jargon thats been imported wholesale by the left, ie "Gender neutral" english and other touchy feely bullshit.

This corrupts and weekens English when people use persons instead of people, and dont understand the distinctions between "man".

"Humankind" WTF? Why cant you just use humanity instead you pretencious prick? I may search that one and see whos been using it on here.

LB is right vis Mothering Sunday, if its a highly ritual romanticised tradition its probably of Catlick origin like Saints.

 

[Questions]

We Brits rant and rave against the European Union destroying our identity, traditions and way of life, yet we slavishly adopt every piece of cultural shit that plops out of Uncle Sam's fat arse!

Three 'Americansims' which I particularly hate are

1. As mentioned above, universities replacing 'terms' with semesters. Why?

2. The way that our schools now have a 'Prom night' at the end of the academic year, with silly screaming girls turning up in a stretch limo that their weak parents have agreed to fork out for to keep their 'little princess' happy.

3. The way that young British women now talk like ditsy American bimbos with likkle girlie voices: 'I'm like, kinda, y'now, sorta, ohmigod, like, err, ooh, Paris Hilton, ohmygod, she's just so, like, kinda, really kinda cool, y'know what I mean. I so admire her, like, really think she's, like, kinda fab.'

The sound of this whiny-voiced bimbo babble is everywhere these days.

having had two daughters who have gone through those teenage years I can identify with that. i do a lot of work in schools and the'' OMYGOD cry drives me f***ing mad

 

[looney]

Here is a list of the Americanised, malable clueless tosspots on this forum who have used humankind.

Easy10
Arsenal v Man U - North Stand Chat

The complete badger
January transfer window... - North Stand Chat

HustpierpointSeagulls
Can men get broody? - Page 2 - North Stand Chat


Also Pasty, Danny Seagull to name 2 more, 18 references all together but cant be bothered to trawl the rest just for the pleasure of catching simster at it.

 

[Acker79]

there should be emphasis on the "our", we are importing a different form of english rather than evolving native English. similiar to, in a very literal and relevent example, the grey squirrels taking over the red squirrels.

But it doesn't stop being our language just because we've imported someone else's to it. So much of the english language has it's origin in latin, in german etc. but it was amalgamated and became a part of our language, because we chose to use it and include it our dialect.

Why is it different if the origin of the language is american? Why does us choosing to bring in americanisms into our language make us lose claim to ownership over it?

 

[beorhthelm]

But it doesn't stop being our language just because we've imported someone else's to it. So much of the english language has it's origin in latin, in german etc. but it was amalgamated and became a part of our language, because we chose to use it and include it our dialect.

Why is it different if the origin of the language is american? Why does us choosing to bring in americanisms into our language make us lose claim to ownership over it?

we have imported words from other languages over the years, not idioms. it stops being our language because we dont cultrally own it, its becoming infused with the fashion of NewYork and LA. it would be like adopting the German trend to concatenate words, because a popular film is in german and uses lots of such words. Its that cultural impact which is beneth the changes thats the real problem. theres nothing wrong with adopting some words that are "american" in origin that enrich or fit better, we just seem to be drafting in everything without care to respect true history or meaning of words.

 

[Two Professors]

Wow.This thread is so awesome it's sick!Most people in the UK speak English,apart from Wolverhampton,where an obscure language called Dingle is spoken.USA,Canada,Australia,New Zealand etc all speak & teach "English".Only academics with nothing else to do,worry about the introduction of new words to the language.Mark you 'for sure' pisses me off too

 

[smudge]

You are only saying that because they give you larger tips.

That's very true actually. Although I'm not involved on the service side, (I'm the Safety Officer), the crew tell me they prefer American guests as they tip well, whereas us Brits have a reputation for being "koriput". (That's Tagalog for tight arse).

 

[skipper734]

That's very true actually. Although I'm not involved on the service side, (I'm the Safety Officer), the crew tell me they prefer American guests as they tip well, whereas us Brits have a reputation for being "koriput". (That's Tagalog for tight arse).

Awesome.

 

[The Wizard]

What a f***ing douche

 

[John Bumlick]

 

[The Large One]

And another one, something I've noticed NSCers doing a lot more recently - using the word 'loss' to describe a defeat.

e.g. Brighton suffered a 1-0 loss at home to Swindon.

f*** off. f***. Right. Off. It won't be long at this rate before we describe Saturday's match as a '3-goal ball game' to the Brighton Seagulls.

 

[CHAPPERS]

get bent asshole

 

[The Spanish]

people forget a lot of americanisms were originally common in English English in the colonial era, and have re-appeared since mass communication and American cultural dominance. So they are in fact paying us RESPECT by hanging on to them.

I like Awesome. A lot. Very American and full of positiveness.

Its the way any woman under 30 talks that is terrifying, deliberately infantile, very odd and surely anti feminist in intention.

 

[bhaexpress]

The one that gets me is the use of the word 'Shit'. Depending on context it can be just about anything. Some bad is (as it is here) 'Shit'. Something good however is 'The Shit'. Your possesions are 'Your shit' be they good or bad. You tend to have 'Good shit' far more than 'Bad shit'. Then of course if something is obvious it's 'No shit'. I could go on ....

 

[CHAPPERS]

what a load of shit

 

[The Large One]

people forget a lot of americanisms were originally common in English English in the colonial era, and have re-appeared since mass communication and American cultural dominance. So they are in fact paying us RESPECT by hanging on to them.

I like Awesome. A lot. Very American and full of positiveness.

Its the way any woman under 30 talks that is terrifying, deliberately infantile, very odd and surely anti feminist in intention.

Once upon a time 'awesome' and 'awful' meant largely the same thing.

I think that's awful.

 

[daveinprague]

This thread is totally, like....you know??