"oh its right here in my fanny..."
Awesome.
― ENBB, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link
"hoss" ?!
Before I bother reading this, is this thread the abortion I imagine it's going to be?
It was fine until you showed up
― Tom D., Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
no fighting in the US vs UK room
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
"Buddy" instead of "mate"!
I kind of hate "buddy," tbh.
― jaymc, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean no IN-fighting
It's from Bonanza (which I actually never watched). It's the same as "buddy" or something.
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
where america has a 'rostrum', we have a 'podium' or a 'lectern'
What the fuck is a rostrum?
― jaymc, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Exactly.
― ENBB, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
No perma-grumpy sub-Charlie Brookerisms either
― Tom D., Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
in nova scotia they have an excellent usage for buddy = any guy
as in: so im on the bus and buddy just walks over and pukes on my feet right!
― jhøshea, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Sounds like a cross between a nostril and a rectum.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Ugh. Sorry. If I could undo that I would.
how common is 'grumpy' in the States as opposed to cranky's reign of terror?
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
"Grouchy"!
― Tom D., Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
crabby
― Laurel, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
And the verb "to crab".
crabby is more feminine.
American Heritage sez "rostrum" is: 1. The curved, beaklike prow of an ancient Roman ship, especially a war galley. 2. The speaker's platform in an ancient Roman forum, which was decorated with the prows of captured enemy ships. 3. A beaklike or snoutlike projection.
― sexyDancer, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
The Scottish word is "crabbit"
― Tom D., Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
ticked off
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think I've ever used "crab" as a verb, but I say "grumpy" a lot. "Cranky" seems more befitting of a baby crying over a full diaper.
― jaymc, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
NB: When I use "grumpy" it's almost always in a cute way, like "Awww, why are you so grumpy?"
― jaymc, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
"snippy"
― sexyDancer, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I like that being "crabby" makes you "snippy" in your dialogue. It's a nice evocative progression.
Awww xp!
― Laurel, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
grumpypantsed
― nabisco, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
the use and difference of cranky as opposed to crank (as in joke) is interesting.
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
No one outside the US says "check" to mean "bill," right?
― Sundar, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
The speaker's platform in an ancient Roman forum, which was decorated with the prows of captured enemy ships.
I like this. What would Bush's podium be decorated with.
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
American tourists.
― nabisco, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Only time i've ever heard "rostrum" was in The Who's "Sally Simpson"
xp
crabby => http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/thumb/a/a6/Lucyvanpelt.jpg/200px-Lucyvanpelt.jpg
― kingfish, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
has anyone mentioned "dude" yet? or do they say that in the UK?
― Will M., Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Or even cheque!
― Tom D., Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
i say dude a lot. i blame/credit certain american ilxors for this tho.
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
"Guess" for suppose - that prob'ly will cross over
― Tom D., Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link
surely it did long ago.
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Did "tube" for television make it over?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Give me an example (xp)
Years ago
― Tom D., Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
saying "momentarily" instead of "in a short while" when it means "FOR a short while" already. OH WAIT.
― Alan, Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
"Tube" for television is vestigal in the US and shows only in expressions like "boobtube", as far as I can tell!
― Laurel, Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i guess that's why they all it the blues - elton john
inevitable xpost
― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
It's a rock song! They don't count!
― Tom D., Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
ok
i say it all the time and have done for at least a decade.
― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i see dentistry has been mentioned already...
regarding an interest in guns as a patriotic duty
― Alan, Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i say 'guess' for suppose. i say 'douchebag'. i say 'psyched'. "write me" is the dative tense and entirely acceptable english. i have taken to saying 'season' where britishes say 'series'.
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:05 (sixteen years ago) link
trunk or is it still called a boot?
― carne asada, Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i probably write quite a few (American) words on ILX i almost never say in REAL LIFE. because i feel like i'm writing to a fairly sophistimacated American audience on here a lot of the time and there's this urge to be accepted by them or at least thought of as not ignorant of/opposed to the differences in "their" language (i don't get annoyed by American spelling of certain words for example) esp. slang, daft as this may be. also when i say some words to people i'll say them in certain accents because it sounds lamer in my natural voice. i be weird.
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Traitor!
― Tom D., Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
"Asian" to mean Chinese/Japanese
... or Korean, or whatever
― Tom D., Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
ok, i never got this. in north america we call one year's worth of TV a "season" and the entire body of work a "series" (ie. lost season 1, season 2, but the SERIES is called Lost.)
What word do britishonians use for our word "series"?
― Will M., Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link