Annoying Americanisms

[SasaS]

What about moved on for died? Is that an Americanism too?
 

 

[Champ]

2 hours ago, Tony Moanero said:

Is that an Americanism?

You don’t, do you, Tony?

[TheHowieLama]

E's wiv da angels.

[Tony Moanero]

31 minutes ago, Champ said:

You don’t, do you, Tony?

Say “passed” or “passed away”?

Depends on the situation. Ordinarily I’d say someone had died but if I was speaking to a person who said a loved one had passed away I’d reply with the same so as not to appear insensitive.

[Remmie]

The unnecessary s in Lego's 

[SasaS]

34 minutes ago, Remmie said:

The unnecessary s in Lego's 

Just Lego' ?

[VladimirIlyich]

1 hour ago, Remmie said:

The unnecessary s in Lego's 

Never heard of Legos other than as a plural of Lego. Lego sets is how I usually refer to Lego.

[Evelyn Tentions]

Weaponised. Fucking horrible.

Gotten. It really grates but its actually English as spoken a few hundred years ago - it's English English that's dropped the ten. Like orange used to be norange. It went from a norange to an orange.

[sir roger]

Gotten sounds like a stop on a Rhine river cruise where you cant be bothered to get off the boat.

[Bjornebye]

19 hours ago, Tony Moanero said:

Say “passed” or “passed away”?

Depends on the situation. Ordinarily I’d say someone had died but if I was speaking to a person who said a loved one had passed away I’d reply with the same so as not to appear insensitive.

Then ask them if they have got a battery for an ericsson 

[Tony Moanero]

20 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Then ask them if they have got a battery for an ericsson 

Ericcson?

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

Ericcson?

 

 

[Tony Moanero]

13 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

 

 

Ha ha. Had totally forgotten about that.

[Remmie]

'I got your back' has crept in over here significantly. Young folk don't even seem annoyed when I admonish them for being massive Americans.

 

This country.

[Anubis]

On 29/02/2020 at 11:52, Champ said:

‘Passed’ for died. Just say it, it won’t kill you

 

On 29/02/2020 at 13:01, Paul said:

How did I miss that one? I fucking despise that phrase. Sanitised, anodyne shite.  

I couldn’t care about your dislike of the word, I just want to pay tribute to Jimmy, who passed earlier this morning.

 

I knew him all too briefly, yet in the time we had together he clung on tenaciously, before finally succumbing to what was the inevitable. He passed at 7.12am.

 

RIP Jimmy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jairzinho]

35 minutes ago, Anubis said:

 

I couldn’t care about your dislike of the word, I just want to pay tribute to Jimmy, who passed earlier this morning.

 

I knew him all too briefly, yet in the time we had together he clung on tenaciously, before finally succumbing to what was the inevitable. He passed at 7.12am.

 

RIP Jimmy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think you mean "I could care less", you douche.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Passed is a little softer for casual conversation. In the year after my Mum died I got sick of using the word "died" so fucking often and it always felt harsh in a conversation, as if it changed the tone ever so slightly. I don't "like" it, because it means you're referring to someone dying which is shite. But its a damn sight better then saying "died" a million times over and putting everyone you speak to about it on edge a little bit.

[easytoslip]

1 hour ago, Aw Geez said:

Passed is a little softer for casual conversation. In the year after my Mum died I got sick of using the word "died" so fucking often and it always felt harsh in a conversation, as if it changed the tone ever so slightly. I don't "like" it, because it means you're referring to someone dying which is shite. But its a damn sight better then saying "died" a million times over and putting everyone you speak to about it on edge a little bit.

In that old film, This Happy Breed, the old lady snuffs it, Robert Newton says, she didn't pass she wasn't taken she just died. 

[easytoslip]

On 29/02/2020 at 16:01, TheHowieLama said:

E's wiv da angels.

The other one was ee sleeps wid de fishes, I used to hear people saying that all the all the time on site after, why would you want to say that? Soft cunts. 

[thegreatelephant]

i think it's a modern Americanism because it's repetitive, annoying and pathetic- but when someone asks a question on the Radio etc, the person being asked will respond by starting a sentence with 'So..........'  generally followed by some complete inane drivel.

 

but as long as they start with that 'So', they are happy to have joined this recent fucking stupid clique to feel smug about themselves.

 

i need a drink. and a joint. 

[TheHowieLama]

"So, there's that piece."

[TheHowieLama]

I have come to hate "gamechanger".

[A Red]

"Would you like a cup of coffee?"

 

"I'm good."

 

"No youre not, you've got no fucking manners!"

[Remmie]

It won't be long until we hear co-worker more regularly than colleague here, if not already.

 

Go figure, dogg.

[easytoslip]

7 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

I have come to hate "gamechanger".

About the Coronavirus and how things will be different for a long time after, I think, I nearly put its a gamechanger but I quickly reacted.