After spending 4 weeks working in OZ, cant stop saying 'for sure' and 'she be right' ....
Oh, a Scottish one - "ye ken?", as in "you know", or "do you know what I mean".
"Ah wiz jist goin tae the shops, ken, and ah never thought it'd rain, ken..."
I keep wanting to remonstrate that my name isn't ken...
My boss doesn't know how to say "Innit" properly and ends half his sentences with a rather polite "Isn't it"..
Somehow looses something. I'm not sure if it's more or less annoying.
It's all good.
Since I've been pinning my DH rig wit the fast boys life's bin sweet. I am, like, so way more chilled about stuff like this; innit.
Though, one thing does get my goat - big time;
Turtle when Americans actually mean Tortoise. WTF?
In seriousness - Isn't all this stuff just the progression of our culture? My Ex's dad is a well respected linguistics professor and he is really chilled about the 'mutation of the english language' because he says it has been changing since it has been known as english. Are we all expected to speak and read old english?
Isn't all this stuff just the progression of our culture?
On "Fry's English Delight" (Radio 4) ze ozzer day zey were suggesting zat "future English" may dropp some of ze sounds zat foreign speakers find difficult. Zey zought zat ze "th" sound will be replaced wiz a Germanic-sounding "z".
'In the ball park' and 'step up to the plate' annoy me....US cultural imperialism. Do people who use these terms even know they come from baseball? If you're going to make sporting allusions, at least refer to something played here like cricket.
Yes, Anthony Burgess had so much right in Clockwork Orange, must drag that down off the shelf again and see what else he was right about.
I just used the phrase "keep me in the loop" when talking to my manager 😳 Should I go jump off the roof?
US cultural imperialism
Yes, just look at all those people being forced to use Americanisms at gunpoint, forbidden to speak their own language and artificial borders being drawn to split up the English from their brethren. It's, like, total imperialism.
My Ex's dad is a well respected linguistics professor and he is really chilled about the 'mutation of the english language' because
...it's what keeps him in a job..?
Those whose solution to any problem is to "own him/her with a pair of Bombers".
at least refer to something played here like cricket.
"Inside the boundary", and "come out to bat"?
That sounds more like an admission of sexual deviancy to me.
...it's what keeps him in a job..?
Computers actually; linguistics=Natural language programming=AI
The great thing is that American cultural language is being taken over by Spanish. They hate it.
Therefore; learn Spanish 😛
In seriousness - Isn't all this stuff just the progression of our culture? My Ex's dad is a well respected linguistics professor and he is really chilled about the 'mutation of the english language' because he says it has been changing since it has been known as english. Are we all expected to speak and read old english?
I recall listening to a Reeth lecture (I think) some years ago by another linguistics professor, and she said much the same, there is nothing you can do about it - people will inevitably adopt forms that appeal to them, and moaning about it is just pissing into the wind :o) It's pretending you don't understand new idiom that is the true knobbishness!
can I just point out we've strayed from the original topic, which was "clichés and sayings", which are not the same thing as idiom?
Sorry Kona, I used that instead of 'hegemony' to make it make accessible. Hope you got it.
