"Can I Get A...?" English people Talking and Behaving Like Yanks

[Titanic]

FFS get a life. If language did not evolve then we would all go around asking 'How art thou' etc. Haven't you anything more important to get annoyed with? I'm sure you will find something in this post to complain about.

Woohoo! You da man

 

[The Large One]

FFS get a life. If language did not evolve then we would all go around asking 'How art thou' etc. Haven't you anything more important to get annoyed with? I'm sure you will find something in this post to complain about.

Of course language should evolve.

But evolve into a spotty 13-year old trying not to flunk their grades this semester?

 

[User removed 4]

FFS get a life. If language did not evolve then we would all go around asking 'How art thou' etc. Haven't you anything more important to get annoyed with? I'm sure you will find something in this post to complain about.

no hes 1000% right , its a f***ing annoying affectation that pisses me off.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

FFS get a life. If language did not evolve then we would all go around asking 'How art thou' etc. Haven't you anything more important to get annoyed with? I'm sure you will find something in this post to complain about.

Even more annoying than Yank expressions are the Get A Life police that tell you off every time you talk about something they aren't interested in - but they're interested enough to post on a thread telling you what a crap human you are. Feck off if you don't like it.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Hey Spanish, how are you today ??

 

[The Large One]

Sadly, you get plenty of this 'Can I GET' bollocks from the kids at Lewes Old Grammar School when they queue in front of you at the sandwich shop.

I think someone should write to the parents who send their kids to that school and inform them that their English language lessons are completely ineffective, and that they ought to be able to demand a refund.

Oh, and the students who get off the train at Falmer are no better. f*** me, and these people are supposedly the intellectual cream of our future generation...

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Chillax and Get with the Program ! The UK is already the 51st state with trick or treat, muffins, Chrysler PT Cruiser Limited Edition etc – July 4 and Thanksgiving cant be far behind.

 

[Titanic]

Go Dre-ew... Go Dre-ew!

 

[The Spanish]

FFS get a life. .

not being funny mate but telling people to get a life, whilst swearing in internet abbreviations, does detract a little from your otherwise admirable stance.

 

[The Spanish]

Hey Spanish, how are you today ??

Its all good.

 

[SeagullRic]

It irritates me when people say 'Hey guys' on meeting one another.

 

[the wanderbus]

go figure & do the math, surely two phrases which supposedley mean the same, both grammatical bollocks.
Go and figure it out there is an s at the end of maths .....f***ing yanks they want shooting.

 

[Whitterz]

It is all down to changing times

PERIOD.

(now that is one word that gets right on my raving titties!!!)

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

One word that makes my skin crawl..... "dude"...

 

[Wozza]

Yeah, but it's, like, whatever.

 

[Easy 10]

Why do yanks call their trousers / jeans PANTS ?
Why is it when an american is PISSED he's not drunk, just annoyed ?
Why does everyone on the west coast end every sentence in an upward tone, making everthing sound like a question ? Or australian ?

No wonder they all get shot in schools. Annoying twunts.

 

[Marlton & Hove Albion]

As a limey stuck here for over 20 years, it strikes me as a very strange rant. The "English" language isn't a stable and monolithic set of agreed conventions. Regional nuances effectively create multiple forms of the language and your annoyance is clearly more an anti-American outburst, than a argument that Americans are ruining the "English" language. After three hundred years of colonization and enforcing our language on those colonies, there are dozens of "English" languages, South African, Nigerian, Indian, Canadian, Australian etc etc.

 

[Icy Gull]

I think the reasoning behind "can I get" is that "can I have" is interpreted by Yanks as wanting whatever it is you are asking for, for free.

 

[Marlton & Hove Albion]

And by the way, English isn't "our" language. The English language that is used in England today is derived from Latin, Germanic and various Nordic influences. It has changed since people started using it, read The Canterbury Tales, and it will change as cultures converge in the future. If you want to start an anti-septic rant, then bring it on, or reuse the dozens that have been started over the years of NSC. Trust me, the yanks could care less if you think they are stupid wankers.

 

[the wanderbus]

thats because the stupid wankers are too thick to realise