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Pet Hate - Unfiltered Americanisms

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  • #152
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    rich.d.berry wrote: »
    In fairness to the OP, this thread has gone off the original, very well defined, topic of unfiltered Americanisms.

    A lot of people have ignored the unfiltered bit, and just ranted about Americanisms and Britishisms in general.

    I agree that language evolves and that other cultures will impact on ours. It is both a good and bad thing. Finding the proper balance is important and that is what the filter is needed for.

    Well, you get unfiltered everything-isms used inappropriately in normal speech!
    Also, a large % of people are just not very intelligent and just misuse cliched phrases (Irish, British, American etc) all the time.
    You even get pretentious types, like Del Boy from Only Fools and Horses, who pepper their speech with misused French and other borrowed phrases!


  • #153
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    Sindri wrote: »


    'True that' :mad:


    .

    To be fair, that's more a Baltimore/Maryland saying than an America at large one. I take it you're not a fan of The Wire then?


  • #154
    freddiek
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭freddiek


    to my horror i have used some of the terms referenced in this thread

    now that i ve seen them in print in front of my eyes it brings home how ridiculous irish people sound when using them

    i make an exception for restroom/bathroom over toilet though. The first two sound quite comforting, "toilet" just congures up an image of an auld fella sitting on a bowl, or a skanger going into McDonalds to shoot up


  • #155
    Hazys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    MickySticks wrote: »
    "Cops" It's the Guards ya fooking tool!

    I think you'll find it's PoliceCops ;)


  • #156
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    I always think "The Guards" sounds very scarily militaristic.
    It always just reminds me of some monarch shouting "Guards!"


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  • #157
    freddiek
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭freddiek


    i never use Guards or Gardai

    prefer Police, as that is what they are. And occasionally "cops"


  • #158
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,063 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    jack presley wrote: »
    To be fair, that's more a Baltimore/Maryland saying than an America at large one. I take it you're not a fan of The Wire then?

    Just because you are a fan of the Wire doesn't make that remotely true.


  • #159
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    freddiek wrote: »
    i never use Guards or Gardai

    prefer Police, as that is what they are. And occasionally "cops"

    Although, you could always shout "Guards! Seize him" next time you've a burglar at your house and the Gardai arrive :D


  • #160
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    pickarooney wrote: »
    jack presley wrote: »
    To be fair, that's more a Baltimore/Maryland saying than an America at large one. I take it you're not a fan of The Wire then?

    Just because you are a fan of the Wire doesn't make that remotely true.

    Maybe I just don't watch enough American telly and haven't been brainwashed enough as I've never heard that one anywhere else


  • #161
    cofy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,972 ✭✭✭cofy


    The term 24/7.


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  • #162
    Agus
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭Agus


    kraggy wrote: »
    That's not the point. You're implying that I'm saying that the term wanker shouldn't be used by us because it's from the English language. I'm not saying that at all.

    I'm saying that it should be afforded the same treatment as an Americanism as it is an "Englishism" i.e. it's origin is as a slang word/colloquialism in a different country. Not because it's from the English language in general.

    Maybe his point is that if you object to common words and phrases just because they are of foreign origin it's not entirely consistent to be using the English language in the first place. :D


  • #163
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,832 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    When people say "ass" instead of "arse". I don't know why but that annoys me a lot.


  • #164
    whitewave
    Registered Users Posts: 397 ✭✭whitewave


    when people say "i'll give you a call/ i'll call you later"

    no, you'll ring me. sound.


  • #165
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    whitewave wrote: »
    when people say "i'll give you a call/ i'll call you later"

    no, you'll ring me. sound.

    "I'll give you a shout"


  • #166
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    whitewave wrote: »
    when people say "i'll give you a call/ i'll call you later"

    no, you'll ring me. sound.
    No, they'll phone you :P


  • #167
    Bad Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Bad Panda


    jack presley wrote: »
    To be fair, that's more a Baltimore/Maryland saying than an America at large one. I take it you're not a fan of The Wire then?

    Boll0cks.


  • #168
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    Yeah, people who say "pet hate" really grind my gears already! :pac:

    Could people using Americanisms be any more annoying?

    An ironic one, given that most Americans can't actually drive manual cars and tend to grind the gears horribly while desperately trying to find "D" on an Opel Corsa (Manual) they hired at Shannon Airport.


  • #169
    DubCul
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭DubCul


    Irish are not only ones guilty of Americanisms, English cricket captain spoke of the players "stepping up to the plate":eek:

    Not only an Americanism but taken from a different sport:(


  • #170
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users Posts: 5,152 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    DubCul wrote: »
    Irish are not only ones guilty of Americanisms, English cricket captain spoke of the players "stepping up to the plate":eek:

    Not only an Americanism but taken from a different sport:(


    Would you not also say that baseball was taken from a different sport i.e cricket ?


  • #171
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    We just need to market our own phrases a bit better :D

    I notice "craic" has now been adopted quite widely in England.
    I've heard a few English friends of mine who've never really been in Ireland describing thing as "good craic".

    I think we need to get a few more into the repertoire :

    Suggestion:

    1) "Get your arse in gear!"
    2) "I'm grand"
    3) "Eegit"

    Americans also OCCASIONALLY adopt non-American phrases.

    For example, "Cellphone" is gradually being replaced by "mobile".
    "Automobile" dropped out of common usage in favour of "car".


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  • #172
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    I'm good!!!

    I hate that expression!!!!


  • #173
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    efb wrote: »
    I'm good!!!

    I hate that expression!!!!

    Yeah, the correct expression is "I'm grand!"

    tut tut!


  • #174
    rich.d.berry
    Registered Users Posts: 517 ✭✭✭rich.d.berry


    Solair wrote: »
    I think we need to get a few more into the repertoire :

    Suggestion:

    1) "Get your arse in gear!"

    You may have to fight the Aussies for that one, even though you left off the obligatory "mate".


  • #175
    the_syco
    Registered Users Posts: 37,295 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    AngryBollix wrote: »
    I'm like whatever
    From the United States of... Whatever?
    Immaculate Pasta wrote: »
    "Can I get a" - usually said in Coffee Shops. You don't say Can I get a when you ask for something anywhere else. You're also not on the cast of Friends.
    How do you ask for a pint? Do you just shout "CARLSBERG" at the bartender?


  • #176
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    rich.d.berry wrote: »
    You may have to fight the Aussies for that one, even though you left off the obligatory "mate".

    Yeah, that coming from a country that insists on playing Gaelic Football in a weird outfit with a rugby ball on a funny shaped field....


  • #177
    Scanlas The 2nd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Scanlas The 2nd


    We need to assess "where we are at".

    The presenters on newsralk always say it. Hate it.


  • #178
    JoeGil
    Registered Users Posts: 143 ✭✭JoeGil


    I'm all done = I'm finished
    reach out to = talk to
    bagel = sandwich
    cookie = biscuit
    spot = advertisement
    movie = film
    downsize = to fire people


  • #179
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    "Can I get a bagel". Please stop saying "Can I get", as a poster said previously, this is not "Friends".

    "Could I have?". What's wrong with that?

    I like using the word 'horse' in this context.
    Horse us one of them, would ya?
    Horse us over a bagel please.


  • #180
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    Solair wrote: »
    We just need to market our own phrases a bit better :D

    I notice "craic" has now been adopted quite widely in England.
    I've heard a few English friends of mine who've never really been in Ireland describing thing as "good craic".

    I think we need to get a few more into the repertoire :

    Suggestion:

    1) "Get your arse in gear!"
    2) "I'm grand"
    3) "Eegit"

    Americans also OCCASIONALLY adopt non-American phrases.

    For example, "Cellphone" is gradually being replaced by "mobile".
    "Automobile" dropped out of common usage in favour of "car".

    I think craic, written 'crack' originally was english and we just sort of made it our own over time. The gaelicisation into 'craic' helped too.
    I like hearing all the different ways people speak the same language. Sure there are some of them that annoy me but overall i think it adds colour to the world.
    Sure we even have it hear, word like 'munya' and 'rulya' or 'feen' 'feek' outside of south Armagh or cork tend to baffle people


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  • #181
    full_irish
    Registered Users Posts: 515 ✭✭✭full_irish


    I absolutely despise when people (usually women) who watch that Gossip Girl tripe...
    use abbreviations while talking; e.g. "totes awks" instead of 'Hmm, we seem to be in a rather awkward predicament here'

    What is wrong with the world!??... and mini-rant over. Please continue.


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