1 posted on
02/07/2011 5:08:48 AM PST by
NCjim
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To: NCjim
Read Shakespeare.
It won´t be long before someone really starts messing with their language...and it won´t be Americans.
34 posted on
02/07/2011 5:47:37 AM PST by
onedoug
To: NCjim
I’ll never forget when the cute British girl in the apartment across the hall told me, “Just come over and knock me up whenever you’re ready to leave.”
38 posted on
02/07/2011 5:52:55 AM PST by
Hawthorn
To: NCjim
What’s wrong with “bits”?
It takes “bits’’ to make “bytes”...................
39 posted on
02/07/2011 5:53:58 AM PST by
Red Badger
(Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing something right.)
To: NCjim
Americans are angry with us for polluting their language Some Americans just look for a reason to be po'd.
Bloody wankers.
Maybe if they got snogged, their outlook would improve.
43 posted on
02/07/2011 5:56:17 AM PST by
MamaTexan
(I am a Person as created by the Law of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man)
To: NCjim
While we are losing our regional accents, we are not losing our national idioms, we are adding others.
The reason for both is mass instant worldwide communications.
At the current rate of change, a 100 years from now English will be the official language of the entire world. Just as it is now in aircraft communication and business.
By then American English with it's addition of words from every language on earth including American Indian Tribal dialects will be part of every language on earth.
So instead of complaining, I am just going to sit back and watch. or listen. As one who hated English and other languages in school, I now find it fascinating.
49 posted on
02/07/2011 6:00:12 AM PST by
Tupelo
To: NCjim
I figure any American calling something “over the top” is getting a little too pretentious.
51 posted on
02/07/2011 6:02:03 AM PST by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: NCjim
Wankers.
55 posted on
02/07/2011 6:05:04 AM PST by
E. Pluribus Unum
("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
To: NCjim
Over the last 10 years or so, I’ve noticed Americans using the British phrase “spot on” to mean “exactly right,” “accurate.”
I’ve also heard the word “bum” in place of “posterior” or “fanny.” (The other day at the doctor’s office, the assistant told me to move my bum down the chair.) Here it used to mean just a hobo.
56 posted on
02/07/2011 6:05:33 AM PST by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Forcing one person to pay for the irresponsibility of another is NOT social justice.)
To: NCjim
Americans who use Britishisms tend to want people to think they are sophisticated. Reporters,Actors,Liberals,Democrat politicians.
62 posted on
02/07/2011 6:11:15 AM PST by
normy
(Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
To: NCjim
My favo[u]rite:
Room Service:
“Morny. Ruin sorbees”
Guest:
“Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service”
Room Service:
“Rye..Ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor sunteen??”
Guest:
“Uh..yes..I’d like some bacon and eggs”
Room Service:
“Ow July den?”
Guest:
“What??”
Room Service:
“Ow July den?...pry,boy, pooch?”
Guest:
“Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please.”
Room Service:
“Ow July dee bayhcem...crease?”
Guest:
“Crisp will be fine.”
Room Service:
“Hokay. An San toes?”
Guest:
“What???”
Room Service:
“San toes. July San toes?”
Guest:
“Uhh... I don’t think so”
Room Service:
“No? Judo one toes??”
Guest:
“I feel really bad about this, but I don’t know what ‘judo one toes’ means.”
Room Service:
“Toes! toes!...why djew Don Juan toes? Ow bow singlish mopping we bother?”
Guest:
“Oh, English muffin!! I’ve got it! You were saying ‘Toast.’ Fine.” Yes, an English muffin will be fine.”
Room Service:
“We bother?”
Guest:
“No. Just put the bother on the side.”
Room Service:
“Wad?”
Guest:
“I mean butter...just put it on the side.”
Room Service:
“Copy?”
Guest:
“Sorry???”
Room Service:
“Copy...tea...mill?”
Guest:
“Yes. Coffee please, and that’s all.”
Room Service:
“One Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem, tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh, and copy....rye??”
Guest:
“Whatever you say.”
Room Service:
“Tendjewberrymud.”
Guest:
“You’re welcome.”
63 posted on
02/07/2011 6:12:15 AM PST by
MrB
(Tagline suspended for important announcement on my about page. Click my handle.)
To: NCjim
I think it’s cute when Brits try to speak American...
70 posted on
02/07/2011 6:19:06 AM PST by
Tailback
To: NCjim
I seen the accident, is not Brit. The infusion of the misuse of verbs comes from Americans. And the worst part of it is, some Americans do not know what the verb fault is in the first sentence.
73 posted on
02/07/2011 6:25:09 AM PST by
righttackle44
(I may not be much, but I raised a U.S. Marine.)
To: NCjim
I personally don’t know any Americans who are angry about this.
To: NCjim
Only concerned with you people polluting our politics with your Islamophilia, Hoplophobia and general socialist one world globalism.
78 posted on
02/07/2011 6:26:46 AM PST by
ZULU
(No nation which ever attempted to tolerate Islam, escaped total Islamization.)
To: NCjim
82 posted on
02/07/2011 6:29:33 AM PST by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
To: NCjim
Oh bosh, I have used some of those Britishisms for years but then my parents lived in England for a number of years and I have an English auntie, my mother’s best friend who, came to visit, married my uncle and stayed.
83 posted on
02/07/2011 6:35:01 AM PST by
kalee
(The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
To: NCjim
I vaguely remember native-born Americans talking about “going to university,” or something like that. It was odd. I had always thought Americans went to college...
85 posted on
02/07/2011 6:39:33 AM PST by
PghBaldy
(Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
To: NCjim
Rush Limbaugh and I will put this on our shedule to read later.
86 posted on
02/07/2011 6:42:30 AM PST by
Responsibility2nd
(Yes, as a matter of fact, what you do in your bedroom IS my business.)
To: NCjim
"Judas Priest! There's an accident on the roundabout again. Bloody 'ell! Now I'll be late getting to 'ospital."
Definitely not the bee's knees...
87 posted on
02/07/2011 6:46:53 AM PST by
CygnusTheSwan
("Me fail English? That's unpossible" - Ralph Wiggum)
To: NCjim
92 posted on
02/07/2011 6:53:01 AM PST by
Lazamataz
(If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, then Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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