Friday grumble - "Americanisms"

[Lyndhurst 14]

Working in the States it's interesting to see that some "Englishisms" are now creeping into their language. Quite a few people talk about their mobile instead of cell phones and some companies even talk of CVs instead of resumes. Have to admit I like some of their sayings as they just cut down the number of words - why say getting your car ready for winter when you can "winterize' it.

 

[The Large One]

Working in the States it's interesting to see that some "Englishisms" are now creeping into their language. Quite a few people talk about their mobile instead of cell phones and some companies even talk of CVs instead of resumes. Have to admit I like some of their sayings as they just cut down the number of words - why say getting your car ready for winter when you can "winterize' it.

:thud:

 

[The Large One]

AS I said earlier in this thread that's been around for years, very common up North.

Not so.

As you pointed out, it ends sentences (not just northern folk either - Cockernees did it), but every other word? Nah.

 

[Juan Albion]

When was the English language at it's finest?

Probably just before they invented the apostrophe.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

To the cunning linguists of NSC - I give you, like, the coffee house scenario:

Assistant: Hey, what can I get you today?

Me: A Mocha please.

Assistant: Is that like Regular, Large or Grande?

Me: Just a small one please.

Assistant: That'll be a regular then? (note the use of the question mark - thus turning a statement into a question)

Me: Is it? dunce

Assistant (looking less than amused): Is that TO GO??

Me: AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!

 

[The Large One]

To the cunning linguists of NSC - I give you, like, the coffee house scenario:

Assistant: Hey, what can I get you today?

Me: A Mocha please.

Assistant: Is that like Regular, Large or Grande?

Me: Just a small one please.

Assistant: That'll be a regular then? (note the use of the question mark - thus turning a statement into a question)

Me: Is it? dunce

Assistant (looking less than amused): Is that TO GO??

Me: AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!

Of course, if you really want to throw them, just ask 'could I have a cup of coffee, please?

Watch their confusion, despondency, panic and terror followed by them ultimately crumbling to dust.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Of course, if you really want to throw them, just ask 'could I have a cup of coffee, please?

Watch their confusion, despondency, panic and terror followed by them ultimately crumbling to dust.

Last time I did that, I was given the predictable & protracted shpeel concerning their bill o' beverage fare! Needless to say, I was within an ace of chinning the bugger

 

[footychick]

The main thing that annoys me? Is going up at the end of every sentence? Like it's a question?

My 6 yr old daughter sometimes does that. Really annoying.

 

[Dover]

Yes, like the rest of you grumpy old people, I have issues with the oftern heard mid seventies American dialect. The best I have heard was a young lad on the back of the 22, playing is I Pod and when I asked him to turn it down, the reply was. "Hey steady man. Does you knows I is a Hawka?"

"Oh. Really." I replied. "I presume that meansyou live in Whitehawk. Fine, but turn that row down please, because it's plain noise to an old git like me."

He now looks around, and sees that most of the top deck is looking at him. "Sorry mate," he now replies in Estuary English, "Fair cop."

I get off at the Junction, he stays on the bus to "The Hawk."




It's phone text speak that gets my goat though.

 

[footychick]

I've noticed that a lot of people on tv say 'congradulations'
It's 'congraTulations.

 

[1066gull]

I'm having a desire to live and work in America. I'm gonna see how the next 3 years for me goes.

 

[steward 433]

I'm having a desire to live and work in America. I'm gonna see how the next 3 years for me goes.

No chance!!!!!!!!

They will have almost totally closed the borders by then if Obama gets in

 

[steward 433]

I've noticed that a lot of people on tv say 'congradulations'
It's 'congraTulations.

That's just the CHAV youth of today whose parents really don't care!!

Working alongside Brighton council i sometimes have to go out to the social housing properties for one reason or another. The state of the properties and the way the children are just not looked after is beyond belief.

Remember the really bad house in the tele series "How clean is your house" Well seen 10 times worse than that! try £20,000 of taxpayers money just to clear the junk before the repairs could be done!!!!!!!!!! One i had to go to there was a child there who must have been 8 or 9 and he didn't even know his own name properly!!!

Some parents care and a lot don't, The ones that do their children will get a job and support the children of the ones that don't and will never be employable!!!!!!

 

[Superphil]

I've noticed that a lot of people on tv say 'congradulations'
It's 'congraTulations.

Hang on a minute, there are those who live in the west of the county who insist on calling their county city........

.....Chidester

Are we wrong, or are they?

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

I'm having a desire to live and work in America. I'm gonna see how the next 3 years for me goes.

I made the move to New York 6 months ago - and believe me mate, apart from friends, family and the Albion, there is bugger all I miss about the UK. If you are thinking about living / working in the States make the move - you will not regret it.

 

[acrossthepond]

What a bunch of whinging poms.

Get a grip, language develops all the time and moaning about different nations speaking duffrently (ha ha) is like trying to fight the tides

Find something worthwhile to moan about.

And for what it's worth, the English are welcomed with open arms to the US, shame the Brits feel the need to take the piss when Americans turn up in the uk.

 

[acrossthepond]

I made the move to New York 6 months ago - and believe me mate, apart from friends, family and the Albion, there is bugger all I miss about the UK. If you are thinking about living / working in the States make the move - you will not regret it.

UES where?

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

UES where?

77th and York

 

[Juan Albion]

All this moaning from people who drive 'people movers.'

(Trying hard to think of many vehicles that don't move people)

 

[alan partridge]

"Hey steady man. Does you knows I is a Hawka?"

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