Friday grumble - "Americanisms"

[Peteinblack]

Girls/women under the age of 25 seem to be particularly badly affected by the 'Rachel from Friends' way of talking , and are really annoying:

"And I'm. like, kind of, y'know, this is really cool"

"Oh my God [shrieked at Volume 11], I so thought that too, that is so weird"

"Yeah, it was so, like, really cool, and I'm like, whatever"

Bimbo Babble.

 

[Nibble]

I got like a whole bunch of clothes.

 

[bhaexpress]

I got like a whole bunch of clothes.

Well that is so not a good way to save cash.

 

[Nibble]

Well that is so not a good way to save cash.

But it's like okay 'cos my Mom gave me like a whole bunch of money for allowance this vacation

 

[Scotty Mac]

But EVERYONE in this thread uses Americanisms, such as:

everyday
blackmail
hijacking
(go on a) bender
cool
weed [tobacco]
back out
come clean
boost
the thick of it
no odds
disc jockey
bulldoze
get the hang of
under the weather

shhhhh - you are not supposed to ADMIT that

 

[The Large One]

But it's like okay 'cos my Mom gave me like a whole bunch of money for allowance this vacation

Is that, like, after you flunked your grades this semester?

 

[Nibble]

Is that, like, after you flunked your grades this semester?

No, It was right after a got like Cornholed raw by like the college dean.

 

[Barrow Boy]

Why do Yanks pronounce the silent 'h' in Vehicle
and buoy as boowee.
How does it go "Two nations seperated by a common language"

:thud:

 

[The Large One]

No, It was right after a got like Cornholed raw by like the college dean.

Awesome!

 

[Titanic]

No, It was right after a got like Cornholed raw by like the college dean.

Yeah, like I so thought I saw you two like making out at the prom.

 

[The Large One]

Why do Yanks pronounce the silent 'h' in Vehicle
and buoy as boowee.
How does it go "Two nations seperated by a common language..."

:thud:

...and a mountain of intellect.

 

[bhaexpress]

...and a mountain of intellect.

God damned M'fucka's y'all, I mean like this is shit is the shit, for real man, don you know what's goin' down ? This blows.

 

[Perry Milkins]

but i've known all this for, like, the longest time...

 

[Market Porter]

Going forward, anglophile Bill Bryson's book Mother Tongue would like kinda interest you guys when not posting on NSC. Lets touch base when you've read it.

 

[alan partridge]

Jeez guys, the language evolves, get with the program. Dickens (who traveled extensively in the US) enraged his fellow Victorians by coming back home and using Americanisms such as 'lengthy' and 'influential'. All your Luddite opposition to change is just as parochial and futile ... although it will be a cold day in Hell before I use the word 'upcoming' instead of 'forthcoming'.

finally!

f*** me. I used to get annoyed by some americanisms and indeed still do but the way some Brits go on about it is f***ing embarrassing!

As Brovion says, Languages evolve (sometimes revolve). They take their influences from many quarters and are fascinating things. How many of the posters on here's parents shudder at expressions they use/used?

Like, so, get a life dudes, yeah?

P.S. I love it in Peep Show how Mark sometimes uses phrases like 'I don't roll like that'

P.P.S. I do hate business speak though

 

[bhaexpress]

Going forward, anglophile Bill Bryson's book Mother Tongue would like kinda interest you guys when not posting on NSC. Lets touch base when you've read it.

Have done

 

[Nibble]

But the language isn't evolving is it. It is getting corrupted.

 

[Wozza]

But the language isn't evolving is it. It is getting corrupted.

Shakespeare would consider Queen Elizabeth II's version of English to be incorrect - or 'corrupted'. *shrugs*

 

[CHAPPERS]

P.S. I love it in Peep Show how Mark sometimes uses phrases like 'I don't roll like that'

I'm just nice like that. It's just how I roll.

 

[Nibble]

Shakespeare would consider Queen Elizabeth II's version of English to be incorrect - or 'corrupted'. *shrugs*

Fair point.