Fair point about interesting, I will say the variety of different American slangs and vernaculars are bordering on being classed as distinct dialects which is fascinating. Not to mention niche culture terms like “based” becoming mainstream amongst the Anglosphere.
Which is one of the things, biased as I am about my native language, I like about English: it will accept any commonly spoken enough words into the dictionary.
So in that respect, I propose an exchange of terms that I think Americans might enjoy using:
“Naff” - lacking in style or good taste: vulgar and unfashionable. I think this would be great due to the distinct difference in the ‘AA’ vowl that would be delightful in a southern drawl. It originally came from Polari and Carnival Speak and has fallen out of fashion (ironically) but I think could see a new lease of life on your continent.
“Mithering” - To make an unnecessary fuss or moan. Since I’ve seen a lot of clips from Game Of Thrones around Americans liking the use of “Whinging” over “Whining” I think y’all would like an alternative to “Bothering”.
“Bodge / Bodged” - to do something clumsily or quickly as a temporary measure. I think this one would be excellent as an alternative to “Jerry-rig / Jerry-rigged”. Especially as an enjoyer of high-quality “Redneck-engineering” which I occasionally come across on my feeds. Because there’s an art to throwing something together with what you have around you based on experience and guesswork that somehow just works beautifully right when you need it to.
Especially with America’s history of large and successful inventions spawning from garages much like in the UK coming from small garden sheds all starting from barely-working prototypes.
This quote has got to be up there with
“The secret ingredient is crime.”
And
“That crack is very moreish.”
I’d also like an explanation.
MATLAB: And I took that personally.
Bro, do you need a hug?
Correct, we’re all dying and we’ll all continue to die. Now, why don’t you start living, and enjoy the neon sign?
Same reason here, my 3rd party app was BaconReader and now using Connect. I didn’t know Connect had an auto hide feature, I’ll have to check that out.
How the fuck are you spending 10 quid on spices?! You can get a good few for 5 at Lidl or Aldi.
Also, having been someone that poor, people in that position should understand spices and at least have a few of them because it was one of the few things that kept me going that at least my toast and tinned veg & hotdog pasta both had some flavour.
If he doesn’t turn up I really hope at the end of the ‘debate’ she looks straight down the lens of the camera, points and says “Convict Trump… Pussy!”
You know what, fuck it I’ll say it, the bullet missed because it knew it was too good for him.
Oh ducking hell, not again!
No flag, no country, those are the rules I just made up!
(looks at arms)
Now listen here you little shit!
It’s ok, not every social event is going to go well and most of the time it’s nothing personal, we’re all just kind of bumbling along through the confusing and absurd reality that is life.
May I join this group hug?
Thanks for spotting the typo, even I as an engineer and technical writer runs afoul of autocorrect 😂
It’s a real shame that Putin’s stupid and failed road trip is impeding a country with a long and decorated history in partical particle physics from contributing to the scientific community.
Russians please don’t lie down and accept this, get that twat thrown out of the top floor of the Kremlin.
Sad trombone noises.