Candy, elevator, windshield, hood, cookies, cell phone, movie theatre!

LordSutch

Too many Americanisms creeping in for my liking . . . . . .

What do you say?

kneemos

Windshield ain't one of them.

Martial9

First people start speaking that bastardised American "English" with an east coast American twang and now it's October 17th and cooonts are uploading pictures of themselves enjoying "fall" and spiced pumpkin mocha living la vida loca or whatever the f*ck. F*cking disaster altogether. When you tell them to cop on to themselves and it was a long way from "fall" they were reared they will fire back with a "whatever" or "I could care less."

Did the men of '98 die for this? I think not!

corner of hells

Martial9 wrote: »

First people start speaking that bastardised American "English" with an east coast American twang and now it's October 17th and cooonts are uploading pictures of themselves enjoying "fall" and spiced pumpkin mocha living la vida loca or whatever the f*ck. F*cking disaster altogether. When you tell them to cop on to themselves and it was a long way from "fall" they were reared they will fire back with a "whatever" or "I could care less."

Did the men of '98 die for this? I think not!

Wha ?

kneemos

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Did the men of '98 die for this? I think not![/quote]




They died so we could dance at crossroads for ever and ever and ever.

Conor Bourke

Sidewalk, mom, butt, and my absolute least favourite... Poop. YOU WERE BORN AND RAISED IN ROSCOMMON FFS, IT'S POO!

Harry Palmr

Facking Americanisms do my head in. There is new film sorry movie called The Programme, sorry the Program and its just going to add to the common misspelling.

SEPT 23 1989

Goal tender instead of keeper

wil

Martial9 wrote: »

Did the men of '98 die for this? I think not!

Frank Sinatra? Sonny Bono? Carl Perkins?

Martial9

Alaskimo-cake wrote: »

Sidewalk, mom, butt, and my absolute least favourite... Poop. YOU WERE BORN AND RAISED IN ROSCOMMON FFS, IT'S POO!

It's shyte!

Mickey H

Alaskimo-cake wrote: »

Sidewalk, mom, butt, and my absolute least favourite... Poop. YOU WERE BORN AND RAISED IN ROSCOMMON FFS, IT'S POOSHYTE!

The Backwards Man

Movie theater

LordSutch

kneemos wrote: »

Windshield ain't one of them.

In a car context it was always Windscreen on this side of the pond, and windshield in the States (as seen on many us cop shows), now I notice more and more people here on this side of the pond dropping windscreen in favour of windshield.

Same with bonnet for hood, and boot for trunk.

Is this not a case of more americanisms creeping in?

The Backwards Man

LordSutch wrote: »

In a car context it was always Windscreen on this side of the pond, and windshield in the States (as seen on many us cop shows), now I notice more and more people here on his side of the pond dropping windscreen in favour of windshield.

Same with bonnet for hood, and boot for trunk.

Is this not a case of another americanism creeping in?

I wouldn't fancy putting my shopping in any trunks in Ireland tbh.

Chijj

Homer: Hmm. I wonder why he's so eager to go to the garage?

Moe Szyslak: The "garage"? Hey fellas, the "garage"! Well, ooh la di da, Mr. French Man.

Homer: Well what do you call it?

Moe Szyslak: A car hole!

wil

Alaskimo-cake wrote: »

Sidewalk, mom, butt, and my absolute least favourite... Poop. YOU WERE BORN AND RAISED IN ROSCOMMON FFS, IT'S POO!

Too right. Its feckin everywhere, all over the sidewalk. If you had a sidewalk.

namloc1980

Asked my daughter to get her shoes out of the wardrobe. She said "don't you mean the closet?"

Pherekydes

It's 3rd and long and the bases are loaded and your opponent has a full court press.

What's your call?

Robsweezie

You're a jerk

LordSutch

X Y Zee . . .

Its Zed for goodness sake, not bloody Zee!

Harry Palmr

Zed Zed Top yeah! :pac: Okay that does sound odd.

Your Face

Makes me madder than a hornets nest.

kneemos

LordSutch wrote: »

In a car context it was always Windscreen on this side of the pond, and windshield in the States (as seen on many us cop shows), now I notice more and more people here on this side of the pond dropping windscreen in favour of windshield.

Same with bonnet for hood, and boot for trunk.

Is this not a case of more americanisms creeping in?

You may be right there true enough,it's a subtle one.



Heard a few politicians use the term "stepping up to the plate" recently.

FallSilently

I do try to keep the auld tongue pure but I am kind of giving in to "candy." We don't have a direct equivalent over here and it's handy.

Though personally I think the greatest threat our society faces right now is "bae"

wil

FallSilently wrote: »

I do try to keep the auld tongue pure but I am kind of giving in to "candy." We don't have a direct equivalent over here and it's handy.

Though personally I think the greatest threat our society faces right now is "bae"

Sweets FFS

FallSilently

wil wrote: »

Sweets FFS

It's not quite the same! "Sweets" doesn't include crisps and Mars Bars would be borderline.

rolliepoley

Never been over there do they have chippers? and if they do, please tell me they don't call them fryers.

ThisRegard

LordSutch wrote: »

Too many Americanisms creeping in for my liking . . . . . .

What say you?

Windshield? That's not an Americanism.

Nib

ThisRegard wrote: »

Windshield? That's not an Americanism.

Eh, windscreen..

_Tombstone_

Yea, windshield had me aswell reading it there even though I wouldn't say it, windscreen wasn't popping into my head for some reason.

Weird one.

biko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnGPgCVJUsI

animaal

The only acceptable uses of the word "candy" in this country should be:

-A manufacturer of overpriced fridges
-A dead actor
-A candy cane (unless "sugar shillelagh" might be the local term?)

Omackeral

Elevator's not so bad. It has it's ups and downs.

Barry Badrinath

Id like to stick a pin in this and spit ball it out in the PM.

NintendoGirl

Movie...its film! (pronounced fillum!)

Sneakers...its runners.

Kids...nope, children!

Truck...Lorry!

Conor Bourke

Omackeral wrote: »

Elevator's not so bad. It has it's ups and downs.

Wolf Hanssen wrote: »

Id like to stick a pin in this and spit ball it out in the PM.

OMG you two are, like, the WORST!

:mad:

Skylinehead

NintendoGirl wrote: »

Kids...nope, children!

Childer

Badly Drunk Boy

LordSutch wrote: »

X Y Zee . . .

Its Zed for goodness sake, not bloody Zee!

I work for one of those dreaded multinationals and when we were getting training in the computer system SAP, our instructor (an Englishman based in America) would pronounce transactions like ZMAP as Zee-map. My manager was, predictably, brainwashed into using this pronunciation but I reckoned it should be a Zed-map, and have trained other people this too, and it's sticking.

On Stargate Atlantis, when the characters were referring to a piece of alien technology called a Zero Point Module, they abbreviated it. Most referred to it as a Zee-Pee-Em but the Canadians always seemed to use Zed-Pee-Em.




It's the little things...

herbieflowers

Take out

Douche

Awesome

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Alaskimo-cake wrote: »

Sidewalk, mom, butt, and my absolute least favourite... Poop. YOU WERE BORN AND RAISED IN ROSCOMMON FFS, IT'S POO!

Poop.

Paramite Pie

Is cellphone actually catching on? Please tell me it's not. And surely Cinema is easier to say than Movie Theatre.

namloc1980 wrote: »

Asked my daughter to get her shoes out of the wardrobe. She said "don't you mean the closet?"

Oh Christ...

justchecked

LordSutch wrote: »

Too many Americanisms creeping in for my liking . . . . . .

What say you?

I say its American now.

Speak American.

TerrorFirmer

FallSilently wrote: »

It's not quite the same! "Sweets" doesn't include crisps and Mars Bars would be borderline.

So...you're saying crisps fall under the remit of 'candy'? I don't think so.

silverharp

junior asked me to pull into the "gas station" a while back , I blame youtube

Wibbs

"Mom". Fcuk off. Now.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Truck has practically replaced lorry at this stage.

rolliepoley

Paramite Pie wrote: »

And surely Cinema is easier to say than Movie Theatre.

The Flicks is much better.

Badly Drunk Boy

silverharp wrote: »

junior asked me to pull into the "gas station" a while back , I blame youtube

namloc1980 wrote: »

Asked my daughter to get her shoes out of the wardrobe. She said "don't you mean the closet?"

Did you immediately disown your offspring or did you explain and give them a chance to save themselves?


(Or maybe it's all because of dodgy parenting...)

PTH2009

I find American tourists to be annoying there amazed by everything

Pherekydes

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

So...you're saying crisps fall under the remit of 'candy'? I don't think so.

Em, potato chips!

Now, who's for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?

Badly Drunk Boy

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

On Stargate Atlantis, when the characters were referring to a piece of alien technology called a Zero Point Module, they abbreviated it. Most referred to it as a Zee-Pee-Em but the Canadians always seemed to use Zed-Pee-Em.




It's the little things...

I remember that!!