Americanizms

IvaBigWun

As a nation I find 70% of them to be as thick as dogsh*te but America is also giving us some phrases that are slowly creeping into Irish vernacular more and more.

"Season" being one - in reference to a television "series"

"Mom" instead of the good old Irish "Ma"

"Shag" instead of our lovely "ride" phrase.

"Fired" instead of "sacked" (ok thats been around awhile)

"Dude" (ditto)


So what Americanism gets on your tits?

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Shag isn't american tbh.

A_M101

I think this is an Americanism....

I'm noticing that loads of people nowadays are saying "real" instead of "really", as in "she's real good at that".

Irritates me a bit.

togster

Awesome thread tbh

Captain Darling

I think the sit com 'Friends' has alot to answer for.....

Like....whatever!

:pac:

patmac

IvaBigWun wrote: »

As a nation I find 70& of them to be as thick as dogsh*te but America is also giving us some phrases that are slowly creeping into Irish vernacular more and more.

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I'd say over 70% of them would be able to use % instead of &.

They are doing something about it like.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055348151

DonkeyStyle \o/

People saying things are totally tubular, bodaciously awesome, and like totally radical, dude.
And we don't even call our pennies 'pee' anymore, we're calling them cent!... what's up with that yo? fo shizzle

Joseph Kuhr

IvaBigWun wrote: »

As a nation I find 70& of them to be as thick as dogsh*te but America is also giving us some phrases that are slowly creeping into Irish vernacular more and more.

"Season" being one - in reference to a television "series"

"Mom" instead of the good old Irish "Ma"

"Shag" instead of our lovely "ride" phrase.

"Fired" instead of "sacked" (ok thats been around awhile)

"Dude" (ditto)


So what Americanism gets on your tits?

You've met 70% of Americans? Anti American ignorant twats get on my tits.

ellenmelon

A_M101 wrote: »

I think this is an Americanism....

I'm noticing that loads of people nowadays are saying "real" instead of "really", as in "she's real good at that".

Irritates me a bit.

i just think that's bad grammar.not as bad as the eejits that say "un-pc" instead of "politically incorrect" though.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Joseph Kuhr wrote: »

Anti American ignorant twats get on my tits.

No, you have to put it in an Americanism.... (hint: replace 'twats' with 'jerks')

Winters

Like at the end of every other sentance, like.

"Mom" I wouldnt reguard as being an americanism either. And for the tv Season/Series thing. The smaller once off shows are called "mini-series" (Generation Kill for example is called a 'mini-series' as are some others). Im sure there is a reason for the season thing, maybe as UK/Ireland only ever has about 6 or 8 episodes in a series yet in the US they have usually about 20 episodes which span over a longer period and coencide with, for example, the network broadcasters "Fall Season" of programming etc.

Lord Muck

... poeple who use the word 'pants' when they talk about trousers , hate that

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Lord Muck wrote: »

... poeple who use the word 'pants' when they talk about trousers , hate that

That's a culchie thing aswell though.

Saruman

IvaBigWun wrote: »

As a nation I find 70& of them to be as thick as dogsh*te

The irony Can not tell the difference between & and % Just kidding.

Well there is nothing wrong with Americanisms, just like there is nothing wrong with Arishisms. In fact some Americanisms come from Irish! Like "You dig it?" which means Do you understand... now then.. whats the Irish for Do you Understand?

r3nu4l

Joseph Kuhr wrote: »

Anti American ignorant twats get on my tits.

Do you have any pictures of these twats on your tits?

Just wondering...fap!

hussey

IvaBigWun wrote: »

"Shag" instead of our lovely "ride" phrase.

"Fired" instead of "sacked" (ok thats been around awhile)

Fired isn't American either ?

A_M101 wrote:

"she's real good at that".

Real
–adverb
Informal. very or extremely: You did a real nice job painting the house.
—Usage note The intensifying adverb real, meaning “very,” is informal and limited to speech or to written representations of speech: He drives a real beat-up old car.

Loopy

Enough already...:rolleyes:

That drives me insane..

r3nu4l

Well with all those Americans TV shows over here, there's huge potential for their phrases to creep in.

How many shows on IRish TV are American and how many are Irish...you do the math. *






*D'ya see wha' I did dere? Wha? G'wan ya good ting! :pac:

IvaBigWun

patmac wrote: »

I'd say over 70% of them would be able to use % instead of &.

Saruman wrote: »

The irony Can not tell the difference between & and % Just kidding.

Eh?

Archeron

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »

People saying things are totally tubular, bodaciously awesome, and like totally radical, dude.
And we don't even call our pennies 'pee' anymore, we're calling them cent!... what's up with that yo? fo shizzle

If anyone said any of those to me in conversation, I dont think I'd be able to stop laughing long enough to respond.
I'm going to make a point of saying "bodaciously awesome" to someone today.

PurpleBerry

Wincest is best! wrote: »

Like at the end of every other sentance, like.

Is that not like a Cork thing though aswell like? Like maybe not just Cork, like, you know, maybe it's like a culchie thing like.


Donkeystyle, I'm going to err on the side of sarcasm with your post

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Neesa wrote: »

Is that not like a Cork thing though aswell like? Like maybe not just Cork, like, you know, maybe it's like a culchie thing like.

And D4, loike.

connundrum

Theres a shop in my local 'mall' with a sign in the window saying something about 'Fall Fashion'. Wtf?

Tis Autumn right, and twill always be Autumn!

DonkeyStyle \o/

Archeron wrote: »

I'm going to make a point of saying "bodaciously awesome" to someone today.

Ya go for it dude, work it in to your powerpoint presentation... you'll be a big man on campus then!

Neesa wrote: »

Donkeystyle, I'm going to err on the side of sarcasm with your post

As a general rule, if there are any glaring inaccuracies in any of my posts; I was being sarcastic or somehow witty in a way people aren't clever enough to understand.

javaboy

r3nu4l wrote: »

Well with all those Americans TV shows over here, there's huge potential for their phrases to creep in.

How many shows on IRish TV are American and how many are Irish...you do the math. *






*D'ya see wha' I did dere? Wha? G'wan ya good ting! :pac:

Resist urge..... fails at resisting. It's MATHS! Maths. Maths. :mad::mad:

I mean jeez how hard can it be to stick an s on the end?

professorpete

Using the word "quasi" instead of "semi", e.g. I was like, only quasi- drunk last night...quasi doesn't mean the same thing as semi!!!! (in fairness it's more of a UCD thing but it's pretty annoying, so I'll put it down to the Americans!!)

mom can I have my allowance? etc etc...

Oh yeah and pronouncing the I at the end of a word wrong, like mult-eye millionaire, quas-eye drunk, etc etc....ggrrrrRRRR!!!!

Jesus I shouldn't have started on this.... Spelling things wrong, can that be accepted as an americanism? sympathiZe instead of sympathiSe.. Airplane instead of aeroplane....the list is literally endless...Jee-aysus they're thick!!!

It really grinds my gears hehe!!

professorpete

javaboy wrote: »

Resist urge..... fails at resisting. It's MATHS! Maths. Maths. :mad::mad:

I mean jeez how hard can it be to stick an s on the end?

Yeah man WTF is math? short for mathematiC? no such thing...!!

ok rant over, americans are nice.

javaboy

professorpete wrote: »

Using the word "quasi" instead of "semi", e.g. I was like, only quasi- drunk last night...quasi doesn't mean the same thing as semi!!!! (in fairness it's more of a UCD thing but it's pretty annoying, so I'll put it down to the Americans!!)

Yes that quasi- irritates me a lot. I throw it in the same category as the misuse of exponentially and quantum.

CtrlSource

i like totally hate the term "going forward" when used in work. Don't like "closing out" either and not a fan of "rolling out" when it's used in conjunction with "across the business"

Earthhorse

patmac wrote: »

I'd say over 70% of them would be able to use % instead of &.

I'm sure it was just a ballpark figure.

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »

People saying things are totally tubular, bodaciously awesome, and like totally radical, dude.

Far out.

Joliegood

Twats that say 'I'm good' instead of 'I'm fine' or 'I'm grand' when offered something really do my head in.

And I swear that the first Irish person to say cell-phone instead of mobile is going to get a punch from me :eek:

Rant over !!

LadyE

My son calls me "mommmy"..I thinks its cute!

Seachmall

IvaBigWun wrote: »

"Dude" (ditto)

Dude is an Irish word anyway.
How the Irish invented the Dude.

IvaBigWun

Joliegood wrote: »

And I swear that the first Irish person to say cell-phone instead of mobile is going to get a punch from me

Its just "cell" dude!

*high five*

Wetbench4

Supersize me!

PurpleBerry

Oops, I'd say I have a lot of them. I picked up a lot of my English from American TV shows . After watchng a lot of English shows I'll catch myself saying "pounds" instead of "euros". Which, I admit, is stupid.

javaboy

Neesa wrote: »

Oops, I'd say I have a lot of them. I picked up a lot of my English from American TV shows . After watchng a lot of English shows I'll catch myself saying "pounds" instead of "euros". Which, I admit, is stupid.

Grand so you'll fit right in with most of the older Irish crowd who still say pounds and miles.

Vic Vinegar

It may seem petty to some but it really annoys me the way yankee-doodles say numbers. eg, "138" they say "one hundred, thirty eight" lazy asses! it's one hundred AND thirty eight. the other way doesn't make sense!

Don't get me started on A-L-U-M-I-N-I-U-M!

IvaBigWun

mountain lips wrote: »

Don't get me started on A-L-U-M-I-N-I-U-M!

they say "alooominium" dont they?

Oh and its "cenTRE" not "cenTER"

r3nu4l

Well it's not an Americanism but I can't stand hearing Irish people say 'mate' all the time. At best it's an Oz thing, at worst it's a British thing. Same with Irish people using the words Chav and Pikey :mad: :mad:

What ever happened to honest to goodness degrading terms like scumbag and knacker? Honestly!

:pac:

On topic:

I like America, I really do and I like Americans but I hate Irish people who've lived there for "like, 3 months on a J1" and come home talking about 'going to the mall' or 'stepping off the sidewalk onto the freeway...'.

We get it, you had a big adventure in going to America for a few months, whoop de do, your otherwise boring and sheltered horizons were made broader, great. There's no need to use Americanisms to let us know you were there, we're sure you will bore us with details aplenty every chance you get.

/Wow, where did that come from??? *removes chip from shoulder*

javaboy

mountain lips wrote: »

It may seem petty to some but it really annoys me the way yankee-doodles say numbers. eg, "138" they say "one hundred, thirty eight" lazy asses! it's one hundred AND thirty eight. the other way doesn't make sense!

Don't get me started on A-L-U-M-I-N-I-U-M!

138 was my old address before I moved house. I always said 1-3-8 when giving my address. One hundred and thirty eight would have sounded ridiculous. I now live in a double digit house and use the full fifty six style (not my real house number stalkers! ). Sometimes it makes sense to say it one way, sometimes another.

If it bothers you that much ring one billion, eight hundred and fifty million, six hundred and nine thousand and ninety. They'll be glad to help

Cookie_Monster

garbage instead of rubbish
tomAtoe instead of tomato
aloooooomin-um really annoys me, but thats been said already:)

Call Me Jimmy

"Dude" is the worst. I see it so often on here as well. I know exactly the type of people who say it. They try so hard to make it sound natural but it never does.

thelordofcheese

IvaBigWun wrote: »

"Season" being one - in reference to a television "series"

I've always used them in slightly different ways, american shows have season (and to be fair the majority of what i'd bother to watch would be american in origin) and british shows have series.

So it'd be series four of 'red dwarf' and season five of 'Stargate: Atlantis'.

Sherifu

I've heard of a Limerick saying "How's your body" /shudder

Earthhorse

r3nu4l wrote: »

/Wow, where did that come from??? *removes chip from shoulder*

You mean the government put a chip in your shoulder too?

There's a group. We meet on Wednesdays. Can't say more. The boards have ears.

If I'm on the phone, I always say the numbers out seperately - "One Three Eight Lemon Street". It just minimises the chances of them mishearing me.

I say Dude and Awesome a lot. Actually a friend of mine speaks like an American, uses American words (he even says "candy") and has an American accent. He lives in Athlone and has barely ever been out of the country.

metaoblivia

Hey y'all, what's up :pac:

Overheal

This thread is funny.

javaboy

Earthhorse wrote: »

You mean the government put a chip in your shoulder too?

There's a group. We meet on Wednesdays. Can't say more. The boards have ears.

Jeez louise! Sheesh. Do you really think those jerks in the government are dumb enough to put the chips in our shoulders? They know we're a nation of dog lovers so they encourage us to put them in our dogs, knowing that we won't go anywhere without our beloved animals. It means we can still be tracked but we won't get suspicious.

Sorry but that's conspiracy theory 101.

Blisterman

Personally I don't have a problem with Americanisms. It's the Persianisms that annoy me.


Caravan - It's called a Mobile Home, people!!!
Balcony - Projecting Terrace
Caviar - Fish Eggs
Typhoon - Hurricane

Our kids have obviously been reading too many Persian manuscripts. The mere idea of the English Language evolving over time, it's ridiculous.