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Irritating American names for things

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  • #572
    SineadSpears
    Registered Users Posts: 2,645 ✭✭✭SineadSpears


    An Ri rua wrote: »
    Ah here, leave it out!

    That language is too posh for me, gerrup outta dat you


  • #573
    Gaoth Laidir
    Registered Users Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    What I can't stand is the increasing proliferation of American accents in not just our kids but also in highflying corporate wannabes who've just completed an MBA. Someone from the middle of Kerry or Kilkenny shows a noticeable change in accent and increase in corporate bull**** terms by the day, all in the mistaken believe that it will improve their appearance. Isation changes to ...ization, and of course, at this time of the year they're all using up their annual leave...vacation days.

    There's nothing wrong with Americans themselves speaking their dialect. Everywhere has a dialect, and Ireland is no exception. It's when the thick Irish wafflers feel the need to change their whole way of communicating to give them a mistaken sense of superiority that I have a problem. Dumbass a-holes, man.


  • #574
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,342 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    ShatterAlan wrote: »
    There's a popular bar-food (pub grub) dish in the US (at least in NY when I used to live there called "Steak Tidbits". It's basically small pieces of steak on a garlic bread baguette and has maybe onions and melted cheese on top. It's pretty good.


    I went into one place and, like you mentioned, not only was the word "tit" too risque.....it seems so to was the word "tid" (Heavens forbid it might sound like "tit") so they called this dish "Steak Thumbits"


    What a bunch of effing prudes.


    I wonder what they call blue tits, coal tits, etc (the birds, I mean). :/


  • #575
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    baloney sandwich instead of ham sandwich


  • #576
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,182 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    baloney sandwich instead of ham sandwich

    So what a load of ham then?

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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  • #577
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Deleted User wrote: »
    "Math" seems to be gaining traction this side of the pond.

    With more than a little help from Pat Kenny on his Newstalk radio show, where he never misses an opportunity to drop the s and do the math :mad:

    Media plays a massive part in how our language changes & evolves, so we could do without people like Mr Kenny and his "ever so cool" use of math!

    More people should text or phone-in to complain.


  • #578
    Stateofyou
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,431 ✭✭✭Stateofyou


    ShatterAlan wrote: »
    Like what?

    Why the fuck would you call a quilt a "comforter"?

    Why would you call an exhaust pipe a "muffler" ...... high-tech term that..."muffler"?

    A "cookie" for a biscuit? WTF?

    A "pinky" for one's little finger?

    "Hey, would you guys like some barbecue?" (Do you mean FOOD?)

    They call indicators (you know, those lights on a vehicle that indicate if you are turning left or right) ...they call them "directionals" GIVE ME PEACE!

    They call them turn signals, actually.

    One of the amusing things about this whole topic is the amount of hate or annoyance on certain words or phrases that aren't even said by them. :pac:

    Another amusing thing is that some of you don't seem to allow for any respect whatsoever for their own culture. Biscuits and gravy is a very popular breakfast dish there, and chicken and dumplings (the dumplings are more like biscuits) is a popular dinner meal. They're both traditional meals. Biscuits there are almost always savoury or plain. Cookies aren't even close to what a biscuit is anyway, which to us are scones.

    Barbecue is a reference to cooking food specifically on such a piece of equipment called a barbeque. I found that most American homes had a bbq. It's a cooking method or specific style of food there which is popular because they actually have decent summers and spend a majority of it outside and/or camping. They bring their bbq's when camping and in fact many sites around the country actually have them built into their grounds in each space. It's just their culture, get over it. I suppose you really hate it when Australians refer to it as a barbie. lol.
    Some of you really haven't a clue and it shows.


  • #579
    Stateofyou
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,431 ✭✭✭Stateofyou


    ShatterAlan wrote: »
    "Hey, would you guys like some barbecue?" (Do you mean FOOD?)

    "Would you like to stay for tea?"

    (Do you mean FOOD?)

    Yea, we do it too. :rolleyes:


  • #580
    Purgative
    Registered Users Posts: 2,509 ✭✭✭Purgative


    My one major bugbear is Math, as in "You do the Math".


    FFS its Maths short for Mathematics and even the feckin snidey spellchecker picks it up as wrong. Pretty sure they should be saying Arithmetic in any case.


  • #581
    Westernworld.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Westernworld.


    Purgative wrote: »
    My one major bugbear is Math, as in "You do the Math".


    FFS its Maths short for Mathematics and even the feckin snidey spellchecker picks it up as wrong. Pretty sure they should be saying Arithmetic in any case.

    And Math is short for Maths

    Like what's the big deal


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  • #582
    Purgative
    Registered Users Posts: 2,509 ✭✭✭Purgative


    Westernworld. wrote: »
    And Math is short for Maths

    Like what's the big deal


    Big deal? What's the big deal with the rest of the thread?



    We're all just pi55ing into the wind, instead going out into the real world..


  • #583
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,182 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Purgative wrote: »
    Big deal? What's the big deal with the rest of the thread?



    We're all just pi55ing into the wind, instead going out into the real world..

    Getting to that point where we should be giving it a quick shake and putting it away till the next time.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • #584
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Windshield windscreen ✓


  • #585
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,478 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Purgative wrote: »
    My one major bugbear is Math, as in "You do the Math".


    FFS its Maths short for Mathematics and even the feckin snidey spellchecker picks it up as wrong. Pretty sure they should be saying Arithmetic in any case.

    Arithmetics.


  • #586
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users Posts: 3,491 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    baloney sandwich instead of ham sandwich

    Baloney isnt ham its a type of sausage meat. The real is issue is the use of the word baloney instead of bologna.

    🙈🙉🙊



  • #587
    vriesmays
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    Ball ta moir instead of Bal tee more.


  • #588
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    Golf.

    Birdie is one under par for a hole.
    Eagle is two under par for a hole.
    Albatross is three under par for a hole.
    Continuing the ornothology theme, a Condor is four under par for the hole.

    In America? An albatross (3 under par) is called a Double Eagle. It makes no sense. Mathematically, a double eagle is 4 under i.e. a Condor but that's what they call it.


  • #589
    Westernworld.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Westernworld.


    I don't mind the new use of the word takeaway

    It's when they extend it and start asking what's your " key takeaways"

    I get this urge to start replying about curry chips and burgers


  • #590
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,478 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Westernworld. wrote: »
    I don't mind the new use of the word takeaway

    It's when they extend it and start asking what's your " key takeaways"

    I get this urge to start replying about curry chips and burgers

    You have adapted OK to the oddity that is "curry chips".


  • #591
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,729 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Westernworld. wrote: »
    I don't mind the new use of the word takeaway

    It's when they extend it and start asking what's your " key takeaways"

    I get this urge to start replying about curry chips and burgers

    Like most of these words, it made an easy transition to business bullshít bingo here.


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  • #592
    Kaybaykwah
    Registered Users Posts: 3,083 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    Montage of Feck wrote: »
    Baloney isnt ham its a type of sausage meat. The real is issue is the use of the word baloney instead of bologna.



    If you dhink abboud id tho, them eyetalians fresh from the docks would prolly have pernounced it data way.

    The last syllable is a sloppy pronunciation that does away with the "a."


  • #593
    Kaybaykwah
    Registered Users Posts: 3,083 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    I get a bug kick outta this thread. I am on the receiving end of it, and it makes me think back to the shock of dealing with another vernacular when living in Ireland.

    Quebec French differs quite a bit from that in France, but that is the fun of it, and it is valid unless you think the "mother country" has the last word on words. We need a world that isn't totally standardized.


  • #594
    Gaoth Laidir
    Registered Users Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    Why do most Irish radio stations use American accents in their jingles? Do they outsource the recording to a third party in the US or is there another reason?


  • #595
    TheUnderfaker
    Registered Users Posts: 275 ✭✭TheUnderfaker


    Probably covered already but need to get these off my chest:

    - Winningest
    - Burglarized

    Bonus one Irish people say even though it's not a word:

    - Irregardless


  • #596
    Hyperbollix
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Hyperbollix


    Gaoth Laidir wrote: »
    Why do most Irish radio stations use American accents in their jingles? Do they outsource the recording to a third party in the US or is there another reason?


    They think it sounds more authentic and/or the person doing the jingle actually has one those dreadful mid atlantic acCENTS? You what the ones that go up at the end of every senTENCE? Like everything is a quesTION?


  • #597
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,182 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    TheUnderfaker wrote: »
    Probably covered already but need to get these off my chest:

    - Winningest
    - Burglarized

    Bonus one Irish people say even though it's not a word:

    - Irregardless

    Really bugs me that one and its use has become quite common.

    I notice that Irregardless gets the red squiggly line under it as a spelling mistake but googles spell checker is happy with the other two :mad:

    Aren't people just mixing up irrespective and regardless to get irregardless?

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • #598
    towger
    Registered Users Posts: 440 ✭✭towger


    Cupcakes


  • #599
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Regardless is already a negative meaning without regard. So irregardless makes no sense at all. Without without regard?


  • #600
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,478 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Gaoth Laidir wrote: »
    Why do most Irish radio stations use American accents in their jingles? Do they outsource the recording to a third party in the US or is there another reason?

    How can you listen to so many stations?


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  • #601
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,478 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    TheUnderfaker wrote: »
    Probably covered already but need to get these off my chest:

    - Winningest
    - Burglarized

    Bonus one Irish people say even though it's not a word:

    - Irregardless

    You know better than the people who compile dictionaries?

    https://www.onelook.com/?w=irregardless&ls=a&loc=home_ac_irre


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