October 24, 201411 yr Perhaps if they talked more' date=' texted less, they'd be better linguists.[/quote'] Would they be cunning linguists??? :bunny:
October 24, 201411 yr Would they be cunning linguists??? :bunny: That has to one of the most impressive word puns I have seen or heard in a long time.
October 24, 201411 yr That has to one of the most impressive word puns I have seen or heard in a long time.It would be outstanding if it were original.
October 24, 201411 yr "Know what I mean" or "Know what I sayin'" drive me nuts I've not heard this one myself, but a friend of mine has been noticing from urban types while he rides the bus "gnome sayin'?" where the response to the question is sayin' sayin'
October 24, 201411 yr You know? That one drives me nuts when listening to a lot of professional athletes speak.
October 24, 201411 yr I was recently buying some shoes when a couple of brothers in earshot were discussing a certain pair, and one dude when describing how nice they were said "Deez are tight bro". I thought that was a funny and ironic way to describe shoes that you dug.
October 24, 201411 yr That one drives me nuts when listening to a lot of professional athletes speak.
October 24, 201411 yr Author A friend of mine from England says that it drives him nuts when he constantly hears the youth around him start every sentence with "Basically". He says he might be sitting at McDonalds and they'll be a table of teens or college aged kids nearby who will say it over and over to the point that he wants to scream. It probably drives him bats when he comes over here. We've been murdering the English language for decades.
October 24, 201411 yr It probably drives him bats when he comes over here. We've been murdering the English language for decades. We're forever pointing out our different pronunciations for words. My biggest problem is trying to say "schedule" the way they do. "Scenario" is different. Others off the top of my head... "Banana"... Of course there's always "Tomato" and "Potato". "Aluminum" is quite different. "Garage" is another good example. "Orange" for me has pretty much always been a one syllable word, and two for him. Perhaps I've been saying it wrong my whole life... not sure. We fill our tanks with "gas", they fill theirs with "petrol". We use "cell phones" they say "mobile". We say "sweater", they say "jumper" We say "pants", they say "trousers" however my dad would say "trousers" too but I don't normally hear it used much anymore. I thought that "fortnight" for "two weeks" was just used in old literature, but they do very much use it still today. They don't say "Bathroom" and that room is always referred to as "The Toilet". A "couch" would be "the settee". A "pickle" would be a "gherkin". A "beet" would be "beetroot". A "sandwich on toast" would be a "toastee". An "egg salad sandwich" would be "An egg mayo toastee". What we think of bacon for breakfast, to them is a hunk of fatty greasy ham. The also have "Black Pudding" for breakfast with is "fried blood" that looks like a black sausage patty when ready to eat. Baked Beans is a breakfast staple. That's all I can think of at the moment, but there's many more for sure.
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