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I'm finna grab that phrase with glee, and stow it in my tucker bag.
I think more Aussie way to say that would be: 'I'm heaps keen to chuck that saying into the old tucker bag'...
That's heaps more Aussie, eh
The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US
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Re: The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It was early in April in the year ’83 that I woke one morning to find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my bed. “Very sorry to knock you up, Watson,” said he, “but it’s the common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she retorted upon me, and I on you.”
See also: "ejaculation" used to be synonymous with "exclamation" and it's used heavily all across the Sherlock stories eg "The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had framed himself in the aperture." For a list see https://thetaleofsirbob.blogspot.com/2013/07/watson-and-othe... If you mentally insert some commas some of them are rea…
> "The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had framed himself in the aperture."
Makes the "romance" books my grandmother would read sound like they were lifted from the Sherlock stories
Re: The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US
#63Having grown up in the US with what I would consider a higher than average exposure to the early 2000s internet, at least compared to other peers my age, much of my ability to read and write actually came directly from social media, instant messengers and online games rather than books. This meant I often found myself struggling with spelling errors in English class which sadly resulted in deducted points from my ess…
> I eventually came to realize ...
At least you use the "ize" suffix, so all else should have been forgiven!
I prefer the "u" in colour/behaviour as I find it more aesthetically pleasing. But I absolutely despise the "ise" spelling of realize (realise) and am not entirely sure why. Though, I vaguely remember spelling all words with "ise" and getting some wrong some right and not understanding why (I'd learn later I'm dyslexic so I chalked it up to that and called it a day)
Re: The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US
#64Yeah I don’t think UK lingo has conquered anything here in the US. I find most UK lingo rather dorky and quaint. To me it’s like talking to cousins you like from a quaint town that’s woefully behind the times. It’s not their fault though and it’s kind of endearing.
However, Americans who use British lingo are the absolute worst; they remind me of a Will Farrell character except they are not funny.
Re: The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US
#65Nothing sounds as unnatural to my British-attuned ear than North Americans saying "mate" or "mates".
Re: The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US
#66Am I going insane? I've seen this posted before in the last week and some of the comments here are identical to the comments from last time.
In fact algolia search shows this was first posted 3 days ago: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Re: The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US
#67Nothing sounds as unnatural to my British-attuned ear than North Americans saying "mate" or "mates".
"Twat" is worse, it comes out sounding like "twot" for some reason.
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#68Brit living in the US here. Despite being here 7 years now i'll every so often have an American point out how odd something I say is. Recently it was me saying "I'll need to head home and get my swimming costume before heading to the pool". To which the response was "wow wow wow, "swimming costume"? Really? A costume. Not a uniform but a costume; something you wear for halloween? OMG that's adorable" Turns out Americ…
I was disappointed that your friend wasn't assuming skinny dipping to be honest
Personally I hate swimming wearing clothes, feels so unnatural, and then you're dripping wet when you get out
Re: The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
> just because you understand something that doesn't mean it can't slow you down, distract you, or be detrimental some other way Sure. I'm just sceptical that errant signal isn't lost in the background of the American dialect's regional heterogeneity. If I ask someone in San Francisco "what colour pop" they want, the friction won't come from the "u."
A better example for why regionality matters: what does "pants" refer to?
Guy from jerkcity.
Re: The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US
#70Am I going insane? I've seen this posted before in the last week and some of the comments here are identical to the comments from last time. In fact algolia search shows this was first posted 3 days ago: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Yeah, the reply about the garbage lorry is word for word, isn't it? Did this get a second chance and it moved all the other comments with it, or...?