Americanisms, which one makes you cringe when you hear it?

star.chaser · 2009-08-07 12:28:23

Anyone else notice the increasing amount of Americanisms and also Australian isms creeping into Irish peoples conversations? One that i find particularly irritating is "Frickin" :mad: If i met the person that coined that...

07-08-2009 01:28PM

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Anyone else notice the increasing amount of Americanisms and also Australian isms creeping into Irish peoples conversations? One that i find particularly irritating is "Frickin" :mad: If i met the person that coined that...

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#2 07-08-2009 01:30PM

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What would you do if you met the person that coined that?

I'm guessing very little.

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#3 07-08-2009 01:33PM

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055349097&highlight=americanisms

Anyone else notice the amount of repeated threads that crop up here?

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#4 07-08-2009 01:37PM

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Awesome !!!

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#5 07-08-2009 01:38PM

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fitz0 wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055349097&highlight=americanisms

Anyone else notice the amount of repeated threads that crop up here?

No, never.

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#6 07-08-2009 01:38PM

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"My bad" is probably the worst for Pighead. It's a ****ty phrase used by wiesels to wiesel out of proper apologies.

And it's also a pain in the hole for people who engage in 3rd person speak as it turns into "Pighead's bad" which makes it sound like Pighead's suffering from confidence issues and is beating himself up about something when in reality allhe's doing is trying to wiesel out of an apology.

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#7 07-08-2009 01:39PM

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Words that end with "-ism," including "jism."

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#8 07-08-2009 01:40PM

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Pighead wrote: »

"My bad" is probably the worst for Pighead. It's a ****ty phrase used by wiesels to wiesel out of proper apologies.

And it's also a pain in the hole for people who engage in 3rd person speak as it turns into "Pighead's bad" which makes it sound like Pighead's suffering from confidence issues and is beating himself up about something when in reality allhe's doing is trying to wiesel out of an apology.

Sounds bad.

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#9 07-08-2009 01:46PM

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Eh? "Frigging" is no Americanism - it's an ancient word!

Comes from the old Latin verb "Fricare" which means to rub, hence "Friction".

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#10 07-08-2009 01:46PM

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Pighead wrote: »

"My bad" is probably the worst for Pighead. It's a ****ty phrase used by wiesels to wiesel out of proper apologies.

And it's also a pain in the hole for people who engage in 3rd person speak as it turns into "Pighead's bad" which makes it sound like Pighead's suffering from confidence issues and is beating himself up about something when in reality allhe's doing is trying to wiesel out of an apology.

What's that, some sort of weird American animal?

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#11 07-08-2009 01:47PM

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I don't know if it's an Americanism but when people say "gotten" it really annoys me, and I tend to think of it as American usage.

"I could care less" also is typically American. And nonsensical. Grrrr :mad:

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#12 07-08-2009 01:49PM

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I dont know if its an Americanism, but the addition of the word 'much' to form a sentence / rhetorical question when combined with a feeling etc

i.e "Jealous much?"

Grrrr.............................

**Bloody hell, emeraldstar - we posted at nearly the same time, started our sentences with the same statement, and finished off with a 'grr'

How very odd..........

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#13 07-08-2009 01:50PM

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"I know, right?!"

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#14 07-08-2009 01:51PM

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Sidewalk.

Totally.

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#15 07-08-2009 01:53PM

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"You have a nice day now", pretty much means I am going to have a bad one.

Saying "cool" as a one word answer to everthing is also getting very boring.

As for Australian expressions, you gotta love:

"Piss off ya dickhead" and "**** right off mate"

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#16 07-08-2009 01:55PM

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emeraldstar wrote: »

What's that, some sort of weird American animal?

American? No he's a Romanian human ya big eejit! Elie Wiesel the writer, professor and political activist who was famous for worming out of situations. He was a sneaky and pathetic creature and over the years his name has come to represent anything relating to sneakiness and patheticness.

Anyway, as you were.

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#17 07-08-2009 01:56PM

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emeraldstar wrote: »

"I could care less" also is typically American. And nonsensical. Grrrr :mad:

That pisses me off as well. :mad:

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#18 07-08-2009 01:56PM

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Oh, and the use of the word 'like' to finish off or start nearly every sentence, like.

That really grinds my gears, like. Like, oh my gawd.

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#19 07-08-2009 01:57PM

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fitz0 wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055349097&highlight=americanisms

Anyone else notice the amount of repeated threads that crop up here?

Anyone else notice the amount of repeated threads that crop up here?

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#20 07-08-2009 02:00PM

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"..and all that jazz."

Wrecks my head so it does.

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#21 07-08-2009 02:00PM

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TBH, I find Irishisms more irritating.

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#22 07-08-2009 02:00PM

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Dublin_Gunner wrote: »

**Bloody hell, emeraldstar - we posted at nearly the same time, started our sentences with the same statement, and finished off with a 'grr'

How very odd..........

Or else someone's just a big fat copycat

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#23 07-08-2009 02:00PM

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Oh another:

"yada yada yada"

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#24 07-08-2009 02:03PM

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Pighead wrote: »

American? No he's a Romanian human ya big eejit! Elie Wiesel the writer, professor and political activist who was famous for worming out of situations. He was a sneaky and pathetic creature and over the years his name has come to represent anything relating to sneakiness and patheticness.

Anyway, as you were.

How very... odd.

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#25 07-08-2009 02:06PM

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A word which I am beginning to hear a lot more of, and dislike, on American t.v. shows lately is "Euro-trash". I heard it twice yesterday, once on Law & Order and also on either NCIS or CSI, I cant remember which.

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#26 07-08-2009 02:06PM

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Git R' Done
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Whassup
These all irritate me to death, and I'm an American

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#27 07-08-2009 02:08PM

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S0crates always points out the paradox when Americans say "I could care less", and enjoys seeing their crestfallen faces when they realise a phrase they have been using all their lives, is in fact, stupid.

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#28 07-08-2009 02:09PM

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The mantra of our low-life countrymen is also American. "They took ur jabs"

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#29 07-08-2009 02:10PM

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Actually the term Americanism in and of itself makes me slightly ill.

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#30 07-08-2009 02:10PM

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When Americans say math its maths ffs,(isnt it??) and also if there in uni or college they insist on saying school makes them sound like teenagers

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#31 07-08-2009 02:10PM

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emeraldstar wrote: »

How very... odd.

Wasn't particularly odd really. What is odd is the fact that a donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't. Have never been able to figure that one out.

Back on topic, mules are a bit like donkeys.

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