Affectation almost inherently reflects trying too hard, and imitation is unoriginal.
Joel Send a noteboard - 27/10/2012 12:10:52 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
"Or maybe it’s just pretension, an instance of long-simmering Anglophilia among the American striver classes bubbling over into full-fledged imitation — or in the view of British observers, parody." Too right, mate.
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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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