I use very few of those terms and thankfully, I'm not a "Yank" or "Yankee" 
Larry Send a noteboard - 24/10/2012 03:46:40 AM
Larry Send a noteboard - 24/10/2012 03:46:40 AM
Just read the linked article.
I know I'm pretty bad at this myself, often annoying some of my friends when I use some British phrase or word. The ones I think I use the most are "flat," "posh," and the use of "bloody" as a curse word. And I can't forget "Oi!"
I know why I do this, it is all the British telly I watch (and when I watch a show it tends to be me sitting there for 7 or 8 episodes at a time). I'd say that probably more than half the TV I've watched the past 2 years has been British made. I can't help that some word creep into my head.
So, do you think Americans are "stealing" too many British terms and slang?
Cheers
I know I'm pretty bad at this myself, often annoying some of my friends when I use some British phrase or word. The ones I think I use the most are "flat," "posh," and the use of "bloody" as a curse word. And I can't forget "Oi!"
I know why I do this, it is all the British telly I watch (and when I watch a show it tends to be me sitting there for 7 or 8 episodes at a time). I'd say that probably more than half the TV I've watched the past 2 years has been British made. I can't help that some word creep into my head.
So, do you think Americans are "stealing" too many British terms and slang?
Cheers
That being said, I do tend to use Southern expressions a bit (natural, considering it's my native region) or sometimes Spanglish or Caribbean Spanish terms. But I'm not an Anglophile and I tend to find such terms rather grating.
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Do us Yanks use too many British terms?
- 24/10/2012 03:28:53 AM
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I use very few of those terms and thankfully, I'm not a "Yank" or "Yankee"
- 24/10/2012 03:46:40 AM
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- 24/10/2012 03:46:40 AM
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Soccer terms and lack of subject-verb agreement are the worst that I notice.
- 24/10/2012 05:25:18 AM
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It' called football. You silly americans and your handegg! 
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- 24/10/2012 07:32:47 AM
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- 24/10/2012 07:32:47 AM
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There is no disputing that our use of the word football is total nonsense 
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- 24/10/2012 07:48:46 AM
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- 24/10/2012 07:48:46 AM
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I may be wrong, but I believe it's called a football because it's 12-inches long.
- 25/10/2012 07:15:28 PM
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Using a non-Metric system of measurement is total nonsense.
- 25/10/2012 07:51:27 PM
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I don't think so. Has to do with its historical origins in rugby football. *NM*
- 25/10/2012 09:17:20 PM
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Regulation balls are shorter than that, and "gridiron" is an unambiguous international term.
- 26/10/2012 11:41:18 PM
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Re: Soccer terms and lack of subject-verb agreement are the worst that I notice.
- 24/10/2012 08:22:37 AM
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Affectation almost inherently reflects trying too hard, and imitation is unoriginal.
- 27/10/2012 12:10:52 AM
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Re: Affectation almost inherently reflects trying too hard, and imitation is unoriginal.
- 27/10/2012 04:24:26 AM
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Try "apt."
- 27/10/2012 04:13:18 PM
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always hated the letters "pt" together in that order
- 28/10/2012 04:44:29 AM
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Having enough neuroses of my own, I will not be accountable for yours.
- 28/10/2012 01:55:44 PM
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- 28/10/2012 01:55:44 PM
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