Britticisms for Us Americanos

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DavidRoss

#60
July 27, 2010, 08:35:05 AM
Quote from: MDL on July 27, 2010, 08:27:59 AM
She was all, like, whatever.

Frightening:  I know what that means!   :o
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

knight66

#61
July 27, 2010, 10:01:31 AM
Mission creep

and

Collateral damage



Obviously we are grateful.

Mike
DavidW: Yeah Mike doesn't get angry, he gets even.
I wasted time: and time wasted me.

CD

#62
July 28, 2010, 06:07:30 PM
Quote from: knight on July 26, 2010, 10:25:07 PM
I think you will find that a lot of them don't like to be called 'Brits'.

Mike

Sorry! Does this mean my cosmopolite license will be revoked?

karlhenning

#63
July 29, 2010, 03:35:41 AM
I hope that my neologism (though maybe it belongs to someone else?) "Britticism" doth not rankle? . . .

Cato

#64
July 29, 2010, 05:37:11 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on July 29, 2010, 03:35:41 AM
I hope that my neologism (though maybe it belongs to someone else?) "Britticism" doth not rankle? . . .

Cato gives you a blessing!   0:)

To turn things the other way, and concerning neologisms, I recently heard a local (central Ohio) fireman use an interesting term: his accent, however, betrayed him as one born south of the Ohio River.  In either case:

"I thought he was bein' prankful toward me."  (i.e. he was playing a joke on me)
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

DavidRoss

#65
July 29, 2010, 06:35:53 AM
Quote from: Cato on July 29, 2010, 05:37:11 AM
"I thought he was bein' prankful toward me."  (i.e. he was playing a joke on me)
Nice!  (But British...?)
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

Ten thumbs

#66
July 30, 2010, 12:37:31 PM
Quote from: False_Dmitry on July 26, 2010, 02:37:44 PM
"cock a snook" is certainly archaic - no-one really says this now.  But you can find it in things like "BBC costume dramas" attempting to depict a bygone age.

Oh yes we do! Where have you been hiding? but not 'cock a snoot', never heard that anywhere.
A day may be a destiny; for life
Lives in but little—but that little teems
With some one chance, the balance of all time:
A look—a word—and we are wholly changed.

karlhenning

#67
July 30, 2010, 03:52:57 PM
David Nice employs it (snook with a k) in his biography of Prokofiev, on p.76

Cato

#68
July 31, 2010, 03:41:01 PM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on July 30, 2010, 03:52:57 PM
David Nice employs it (snook with a k) in his biography of Prokofiev, on p.76

How is snook related to....



Olive Snook of Pushing Daisies?

Or to this suddenly ubiquitous and completely talentless character?



Well, she might have some talent...   0:)

"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

karlhenning

#69
July 31, 2010, 03:42:24 PM
Cato! How are you doing, lad?

Cato

#70
July 31, 2010, 05:45:30 PM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on July 31, 2010, 03:42:24 PM
Cato! How are you doing, lad?

I will be sending you an update!   8)
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

CD

#71
July 31, 2010, 07:32:33 PM
Quote from: Cato on July 31, 2010, 03:41:01 PM
Or to this suddenly ubiquitous and completely talentless character?



Well, she might have some talent...   0:)

The talented one is whoever airbrushed her tits.

Cato

#72
August 01, 2010, 04:57:14 PM
Quote from: Corey on July 31, 2010, 07:32:33 PM
"The talented one is whoever airbrushed..."



A spray-on tan!  Beats spending on all that time lollygagging on the beach!!!

Of course, lollygagging on the beach has advantages for those wishing to admire God's handiwork in female form!   0:) 
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)
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