The 'addicting' instead of 'addictive' thing bugs the shit out of me.
It sounds wrong and borderline retarded.
It sounds wrong and borderline retarded.
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spudsbuckley 3,808 posts
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mowgli 31,816 posts
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Registered 7 years agonickthegun wrote:
In town last week and overhear a girl with her friends actually say "hashtag yolo".
Ok:
Americanisms that deserve to die with fire
And, while I'm on the subject, people who say lol in real life.
There is never a passing bus when you need it.Pissy pants.
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Toonster 6,694 posts
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Registered 8 years agoTwo things that bother me in general:
1) Calling university 'school'. School is where I went before university.
2) 'Wanna come with?' With what?
Living in the US for a little more than 7 years, though, most of these don't bother me anymore, and I'm unfortunately starting to adopt some of them. I seem to go back and forth between 'fall' and 'autumn'. -
nickthegun 44,333 posts
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Registered 7 years agodarkmorgado wrote:
As an aside, im sure you are aware that this isnt an americanism any longer.
17) Oh no someone has done something I don't like! OBLIGATORY CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT.---------------------------------------------------------
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BritishBlue1 82 posts
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Many of the items in your list are fucking idiotic, untrue, nonsensical, irrelevant or a by-product of your apparent OCD.
Here's a question: why are so many people on this board, and British people in particular, so obsessed with the United States? And why does that obsession frequently manifest itself in an anti-American bias?
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Deckard1 17,942 posts
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Registered 4 years agonickthegun wrote:
darkmorgado wrote:
As an aside, im sure you are aware that this isnt an americanism any longer.
17) Oh no someone has done something I don't like! OBLIGATORY CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT.
As his 15 grand worth of action figures proves.
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LeoliansBro 35,019 posts
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Registered 7 years agoHOW DARE THEIR CULTURE DEVELOP INDEPENDENTLY OF OURS.LB, you really are a massive geek.
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MadCaddy13 1,268 posts
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Registered 4 years agoYou know why I tawk like this? Coz I'm a cap. My dad was a cap. My mom was a cap. My dawg was a cap. I dress like this coz I'm a cap. Are you a cap? Didn't think so. I know caps. -
sport 10,903 posts
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Registered 7 years agoHas Fruit popped in yet with a random "I'll die for this island" post? -
superdelphinus 6,162 posts
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Registered 8 years agospudsbuckley wrote:
It's thread is funny
bugs the shit out of me.
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cubbymoore 35,387 posts
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Registered 9 years agoShooting the shit.
Such an American thing to do. Is there anything they won't shoot?
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LeoliansBro 35,019 posts
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Registered 7 years agosport wrote:
Has Fruit popped in yet with a random "I'll die for this island" post?
If you say his name five times in the mirror he joins the Armed Forces.LB, you really are a massive geek.
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mowgli 31,816 posts
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Registered 7 years agosport wrote:
Sober enough to still be ashamed of his RAF windup I think/hope.
Has Fruit popped in yet with a random "I'll die for this island" post?Pissy pants.
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heyyo 14,306 posts
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Registered 7 years agomowgli wrote:
Not knowing what the hell "hastag yolo" actually means - I think i'd laugh if I heard someone say that!nickthegun wrote:
In town last week and overhear a girl with her friends actually say "hashtag yolo".
Ok:
Americanisms that deserve to die with fire
And, while I'm on the subject, people who say lol in real life.
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Registered 7 years agoBritishBlue1 wrote:
Probably because a) so much popular media comes from them so we are exposed to a lot of it and b) they speak the same language as us so differences stand out more (despite the fact we have a large range of accents and dialects of our own). Not liking the way they use the language isn't quite the same as hating them
@darkmorgado
Many of the items in your list are fucking idiotic, untrue, nonsensical, irrelevant or a by-product of your apparent OCD.
Here's a question: why are so many people on this board, and British people in particular, so obsessed with the United States? And why does that obsession frequently manifest itself in an anti-American bias?
I can't help but think that certain people on this board have some serious "issues" (my favourite American word).
In my own situation I have to teach English to foreign language students in a country which tends to use American English as a default so I encounter a lot of the minor differences (I teach low level, so none of the inticracies, more things like pronunciation of vowels and spelling), although to be fair to them (the students), I do try my best to make my students aware of both versions/methods of most things. -
Razz 57,905 posts
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Registered 11 years agodarkmorgado wrote:
Interesting fact for you. In Spain and Portugal. "America" is Central and South America, and "Americans" are people from those countries. They refer to the USA and Canada as "Norte Americano" (iirc), i.e. North AmericaLeoliansBro wrote:
Hello captain pedantry! Merry, erm, day after boxing day.
'Americans don't speak Spanish' squeaks in at the death for the 2012 Culturally Insensitive Award for Ignorance.
I was talking in general as the official language of the country, I'm not so stupid that I am unaware of the huge latino population.
But by the same yardstick, a similar "things that piss me off about UK slang" would ignore the fact we have a massive muslim population.
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Kosmoz 7,099 posts
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Registered 6 years agoI like how Dale complains about them calling us European and yet is fine to continue calling them American, which of course is two continents rather than one, so making a much bigger generalisation than they do.Every girl I ever kissed I was thinking of a pro footballer.
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lucky_jim 4,896 posts
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Registered 11 years agoSome of those are plain wrong, dark. If you want to while away an afternoon in a etymologically geeky way, have a look at the origins of the s/z spellings of words like recognise/recognize. It's not that long ago people would have told you the "z" spelling was British and the "s" form American: they would have been just as wrong as the people/ MS Word spell checks who tell you the opposite. And their more routine use of the Oxford comma makes a lot of sense, as does their firmer rule on when to use "that" or "which".
That said, having over the last couple of years moved from an English language-based job with the UK government to a similar one with an American multinational, it causes me actual pain to have to "fix" the Britishisms that creep into a lot of our writing (particularly our writers from Africa and the Middle East). -
Razz 57,905 posts
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Registered 11 years agoKosmoz wrote:
Haha! Try telling your average USA citizen that Mexicans are Americans too! I speak from experience, I was told, "it's not the same thing", pretty the same response when I went around referring to whites "European-American"
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Registered 10 months agoI remember a time on EG when there was no dale mongo. And for a time, it was good. -
sport 10,903 posts
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Registered 7 years agoRazz wrote:
I'm more African than you!!!!!!Kosmoz wrote:
Haha! Try telling your average USA citizen that Mexicans are Americans too! I speak from experience, I was told, "it's not the same thing", pretty the same response when I went around referring to whites "European-American"
I like how Dale complains about them calling us European and yet is fine to continue calling them American, which of course is two continents rather than one, so making a much bigger generalisation than they do.
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jonsaan 24,197 posts
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Registered 7 years agoThe only one that bugs me is calling Lego bricks Legos.
Most American pronunciations make more sense if you calm down and think about it.
Router for instance. It should be written Rooter to fall in line with how we say it. We don't say 'let's go Ootside', so it really makes no sense to say rooter.FCUTA!
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skuzzbag 5,180 posts
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Registered 9 years agoIt's not "Rowt" though it is.
SO EVERYONE IS SHIT AREN'T THEY!?
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Razz 57,905 posts
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My fiancee and i joke about this all the time, what if we went to the USA and became US citizens. By all rights, she'd be African American and I'd be European American! Totally screws their systemRazz wrote:
I'm more African than you!!!!!!Kosmoz wrote:
Haha! Try telling your average USA citizen that Mexicans are Americans too! I speak from experience, I was told, "it's not the same thing", pretty the same response when I went around referring to whites "European-American"
I like how Dale complains about them calling us European and yet is fine to continue calling them American, which of course is two continents rather than one, so making a much bigger generalisation than they do.
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sport 10,903 posts
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Registered 7 years agoRazz wrote:
Haha, brilliant.sport wrote:
My fiancee and i joke about this all the time, what if we went to the USA and became US citizens. By all rights, she'd be African American and I'd be European American! Totally screws their systemRazz wrote:
I'm more African than you!!!!!!Kosmoz wrote:
Haha! Try telling your average USA citizen that Mexicans are Americans too! I speak from experience, I was told, "it's not the same thing", pretty the same response when I went around referring to whites "European-American"
I like how Dale complains about them calling us European and yet is fine to continue calling them American, which of course is two continents rather than one, so making a much bigger generalisation than they do.
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skuzzbag wrote:
/waits for punchline
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