Hateful creeping Americanisms part 2944

[Gwylan]

My wife's aunt from Wiltshire calls them daps.

Always been daps to me.

 

[Parson Henry]

Always been daps to me.

No keds.

 

[Parson Henry]

I'll have a pastrami on rye, heavy on the mayo, but hold the pickles.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

I once had a conversation with an American about that phrase. Supposedly, if you say "can I have..." rather than "can I get..." then it indicates that you don't intend to pay for whatever it is you just asked for.

Which is totally whacked, if you ask me.

very sensible of them to avoid the inevitable confusion caused by our sticking with "Can I have...?" to cover all situations...

what next? with the advent of some toll roads will we soon be driving on freeways?

 

[bhaexpress]

I once had a conversation with an American about that phrase. Supposedly, if you say "can I have..." rather than "can I get..." then it indicates that you don't intend to pay for whatever it is you just asked for.

Which is totally whacked, if you ask me.

I tended to hear 'I need' rather that 'Please could I have'. Please and thank you are not heard that often there I reckon.

Mind you when somebody says 'Thank you' to me I now automatically respond with 'You're welcome'.

 

[Brovion]

Like MoH I'm all for the language evolving, however I'm still trying to accept:

'Upcoming' instead of 'forthcoming'

'After' rather than 'past' when telling the time, e.g. 'ten after eight'

Using 'who is this?' instead of 'who are you?' on the phone. If somebody says 'who is this', then surely they're asking the other person to work out who THEY are?

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Using 'who is this?' instead of 'who are you?' on the phone. If somebody says 'who is this', then surely they're asking the other person to work out who THEY are?

I'd resist rather than try to accept that one...

 

[Trufflehound]

Just get with the program you lot!

 

[Parson Henry]

Just get with the program you lot!

Post at your leeeeshure

 

[Richard Whiteley]

I say MOVIE instead of film 90% of the time now.

f***! me too


elevator makes an appearance atleast 50% of the time


still say **** though. Yanks don't like that : proud :

 

[bhaexpress]

f***! me too


elevator makes an appearance atleast 50% of the time


still say **** though. Yanks don't like that : proud :

The 'C' word is pretty taboo I agree.

 

[Trufflehound]

The 'C' word is pretty taboo I agree.

What? Canada?

 

[Richard Whiteley]

I once had a conversation with an American about that phrase. Supposedly, if you say "can I have..." rather than "can I get..." then it indicates that you don't intend to pay for whatever it is you just asked for.

Which is totally whacked, if you ask me.

so why doesn't he say 'Can I buy' then? Stupid twat

 

[bhaexpress]

What? Canada?

That too

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

so why doesn't he say 'Can I buy' then? Stupid twat

Simply because it should be "MAY I have/buy/purchase?"

 

[goldstone]

I'm NOT anti-American at all - very far from it - nor do I think that languages shouldn't evolve, but this blithe one way drift of lazily using an American term instead of a British one gets right on my tits.

So imagine my revulsion when some rather grand doctor on the BBC this morning used the term "drinking soda" when the silly cow meant to say "fizzy drink". I'm still sore about the displacement of the word "lorry" by the word "truck", which is just no better, by saddos who wish they'd been born American.

Stand firm! Repel these invaders!

Nothing wrong with the word "soda". "Fizzy drink" sounds like something a three year old would ask for.

Similarly the word "lorry" conjures up a dinky toy. "Truck" much better describes an effing great vehicle with eighteen wheels.

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

The one that seems to have gained universal acceptance and use over here is 'tuxedo', which is an abomination. IT'S A f***ing DINNER JACKET.

I don't care that our name for it is factually incomplete, and could even confuse some stupid people. That's what it's called.

I also hate the pronunciation of the 'c' in 'schedule'. FFS, it's pronounced 'shedule' and that's the end of it.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Soccer

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

The next time Patrick Kielty says when he introduces someone " give it up for " I am going to drive to the studio and ram a large Aubergine up his arse

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Re: Re: Hateful creeping Americanisms part 2944

Nothing wrong with the word "soda". "Fizzy drink" sounds like something a three year old would ask for.

Similarly the word "lorry" conjures up a dinky toy. "Truck" much better describes an effing great vehicle with eighteen wheels.

"soda" is an abbreviation for "soda water"

e.g. "a pint of lime and soda please"

there is no need for us to start calling all fizzy drinks "soda" just because the yanks do



a "truck" is something used on railway lines - the large road vehicle to which you refer is called a lorry