Board 8 > This article really annoys me [BRITISH PEOPLE HATE THE WAY WE TALK]

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14201796

A lot of the people seem to think we use terms like "Eaterie" and "leverage" all the time, which is silly to me. And, good, sir, what else would we call a train station? We hardly travel on trains as is, so why come up with a new term for it?

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Also, the complaint about having to use the term "regular" instead of "medium" when ordering a coffee isn't an American thing, it's an invention of the coffee companies.

"Maths" still seems like a really silly term to me.

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Man, I had this rocking sandwich from the local eaterie last night and it really helped to leverage out the bad grub from the train stat -- oh hey fetus

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Oh my, I love the brits and I too find this article hilariously annoying.

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29. I'm a Brit living in New York. The one that always gets me is the American need to use the word bi-weekly when fortnightly would suffice just fine. Ami Grewal, New York

hahaha this is the britishest thing ever

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Oh hai Jeff.

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I caught myself saying "shopping cart" instead of shopping trolley today and was thoroughly disgusted with myself. I've never lived nor been to the US either. Graham Nicholson, Glasgow

my god

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Wow.

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shopping trolley augh

I do use "fortnightly" on rare occasion though but mostly just when I'm drunk and let's be honest here, that shouldn't count.

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I didn't think this list would be all that bad, but yeah, it is annoying just like we annoy them. I can't fathom saying somebody is a double award winner as opposed to two-time award winner.

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British people: we can talk when you stop calling cookies biscuits.

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I liked this comment:

"Hwæt! Wé Gárdena in géardagum
þéodcyninga þrym gefrúnon
hú ðá æþelingas ellen fremedon.

I trust everyone who has complained about Americanisms creeping in to the English language will have no trouble understanding the above. That's what English looked like around 1,300 years ago.

Language evolves."

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A lot of Brits tend to ignore the history of the English language in favor of self-righteously slamming Americans; we were actually praised as having kept the language relatively 'pure' for a very long time due to American settlers communicating with one-another mostly through English (except the French, etc. obviously) while various other European nations 'tainted' British English.

I'm not saying anyone deserves a pat on the back here, I mean that was a long time ago and all. But to get disgusted with oneself for saying shopping cart seems a tad excessive given our language's history of back-and-forth.

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I mean, some words I can see why they would be annoyed, like gotten, because that is a rather annoying word, but some of these seem quite petty.

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Biweekly always confuses me, because I can't remember if it means twice a week or once every two weeks.

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red sox 777 posted...
Biweekly always confuses me, because I can't remember if it means twice a week or once every two weeks.

True, when talking about pay frequency we say biweekly and bimonthly, which are used in the opposite way.

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SovietOmega posted...
I liked this comment:

"Hwæt! Wé Gárdena in géardagum
þéodcyninga þrym gefrúnon
hú ðá æþelingas ellen fremedon.

I trust everyone who has complained about Americanisms creeping in to the English language will have no trouble understanding the above. That's what English looked like around 1,300 years ago.

Language evolves."

xfd

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Yeah that was really good actually. GG, Brit!

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Theon_Greyjoy posted...
British people: we can talk when you stop calling cookies biscuits.

Both biscuits and cookies exist here. Generally chocolate chip cookies are...well, cookies, but these are biscuits:




Anyway there are some Americanisms that piss me off a little, but a lot of them just make more sense.

I imagine some people exaggerated their own annoyance to get their names published. That guy wasn't really "disgusted with himself" for saying shopping cart or whatever.

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Well then, I expected much worse from that article.

Like 'y'all'

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I like British spelling and words more than the American way

but I do love general American speech a lot more than most British accents. Sounds like they got something in their ass all the way up to their throat most of the time.

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"I got it for free" is a pet hate. You got it "free" not "for free". You don't get something cheap and say you got it "for cheap" do you?
uh, yes

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red sox 777 posted...
Biweekly always confuses me, because I can't remember if it means twice a week or once every two weeks.

THIS too.

I didn't think Biweekly was an americanism, I thought biweekly was the phrase for "twice a week" while fortnightly was the phrase for "once every two weeks". Weird.

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From: WazzupGenius00 | #022
"I got it for free" is a pet hate. You got it "free" not "for free". You don't get something cheap and say you got it "for cheap" do you?
uh, yes

wait what

no way does someone really say 'for cheap'

I don't care either way about 'free' or 'for free'

but for cheap is just awful

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Why is it maths? That's one of the biggest things I don't get when it comes to the UK.

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I've never heard anybody say "for cheap" before, Vince. I think WazzupG is just playing us like a violin.

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I always thought British dialect was a publicity stunt

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I've heard people say "for cheap" many times and it irks me to no end.

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whenever i see maths, i think of this



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SovietOmega posted...
whenever i see maths, i think of this



HAHA YES, same here. That video is the only time I like hearing the word "maths".

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The one that really got me was the guy complaining abd "one and a half million" and "one million and a half"

neither of them are truly descriptive. One and a half million, by his standard, means 500,001.

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48. "I got it for free" is a pet hate. You got it "free" not "for free". You don't get something cheap and say you got it "for cheap" do you? Mark Jones, Plymouth

Actually a solid point.

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beavis666x2 posted...
Why is it maths? That's one of the biggest things I don't get when it comes to the UK.

Short for "mathematics", like "math", only we pluralise it because the word that's being shortened was a plural, so. I think both "math" and "maths" make sense, personally, I don't mind either way.

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Gwindor posted...
The one that really got me was the guy complaining abd "one and a half million" and "one million and a half"

neither of them are truly descriptive. One and a half million, by his standard, means 500,001.

Nah, because in the UK when you say x "and a half", that ALWAYS means it's x.5.

"Two and a half," for example, always means 2.5, right?

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Okay, we need to talk about the "Scotch-Irish" thing too.

Once upon a time, England thought it would be cool if they moved people from Scotland into Ireland, against the will of everyone.

A lot of those people decided that, instead of living in a foreign land where everyone hated them (being living representatives of England flipping-off Ireland) They would just be done with it and move to America.

In America, I guess it wasn't common knowledge that people from Scotland were called "Scots," or maybe "Scotch" was just easier to say. Whatever the case, the people from Ireland by way of Scotland became known as "Scotch-Irish"

It is accurate to call them Scotch-Irish, because that is a word that refers to, and contains the history of, a unique group of American people. They are not "Scots-Irish" for the same reason I'm not "Irish." We're American now.

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i usually say "on the cheap" for what its worth

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You wouldn't say "I got it for cheap." But you also wouldn't say "I got it $5.00"

I've never heard anyone say "One million and a half".

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Yeah, I've really only ever heard a number like that described as "1.5 Million" or something.

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One and a half million, here.

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Americanisms only annoy me when British people use them.

With the exception of saying "I could care less", which should be punishable by death.

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BlackMageJawa posted...
With the exception of saying "I could care less", which should be punishable by death.

Indeed.

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From: red sox 777 | #015
Biweekly always confuses me, because I can't remember if it means twice a week or once every two weeks.

bi- means every two.
semi- means twice in the span of.


So bi-weekly would be every two weeks, while semi-weekly would be twice a week.

That said... wtf is a fortnight?

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Fortnight is two weeks, iirc

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They do realize that we could do the same thing in reverse here, right? What's the point of getting worked up about it.

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If Sprite/7 Up/Sierra Mist is called lemonade in the U.K., what do they call actual lemonade? I've always wondered this.

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LOLContests posted...
If Sprite/7 Up/Sierra Mist is called lemonade in the U.K., what do they call actual lemonade? I've always wondered this.

Wait what

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From: LOLContests | #045
If Sprite/7 Up/Sierra Mist is called lemonade in the U.K., what do they call actual lemonade? I've always wondered this.

Old fashioned lemonade or cloudy lemonade.




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Okay cloudy lemonade is a completely adorable turn of phrase.

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