how do u feel about north americans using british slang

[nousd]

Septic tank is london rhyming slang, been around since the 70's.

surfing & the use of septic started well before the 70s
but then i'm no etymologist.

[hellfire machina]

Surfers have reffered to americans as septics since before the 70's? Or septic as an adjective?

[rekordah]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BV8KfpE3BA

[Blue Patterns]

the jamaican/west indian influence is strong out there in London town....so I can see London slang overlapping with slang from cities like Toronto, NYC, Miami, etc.

Anywhere you got those people, you're also gonna have a fair share of "JaFAKEins" as we call them.


"safe" isn't necessarily british slang though. we've been using that out in canada (ontario at least...and even then only toronto and ottawa). it was only after reading dsf this year that I noticed people using that term. never woulda imagined.

*waits for someone to be like "british brought that to canada"

[dom]

here is an interesting documentary by Asher D from So Solid about the use of the word N.igger
http://testtubetelly.channel4.com/progr ... s/14107550

[dhaywood]

seckle makes me laugh

[jsills]

i actually had a conversation in a bar with brit on different terms for getting wasted, pissed, trashed etc. then he tells me "lets get rat assed!" now thats a term that americans cant pull off no matter how hard they try.

[abZ]

I could care less but I have crossed paths with a dude who developed a fake British accent b/c he said he was spending some time in England getting his record label going. That was a trip.

"Bounce if you wanna bounce, ball if you wanna ball ...Play if you wanna play, floss if you wanna floss ...Get ill if you wanna ill, smoke if you wanna smoke ...Kill if you wanna kill, loc if you wanna loc".

You can't post this graphic up enough. I hear I could care less all the time. In a way tho it is ok because we all know what is meant when it is said either way.

Allow that or llow that, that makes no sense to me though. I was confused as shit when I started seeing that.

I use brit slang all the time on the internets for jokes. Never IRL tho.

[Dubbydoogs]

Most UK slang (well, english cities) is just jamaican slang now anyways.

'Yo wagwarn famalam mandem just cotchin in me yard with a zoot an ting you get me blud, irie.'

[rastatronics]

FUNNY THREAD!!!

I have def chuckled a bit when I have a chat with someone over the pond and I start the convo by saying "how are you bruv?" and I get "hey dude!" in response. I look at it as a compliment!

[corpsey]

I hate the way they use british words, like 'the', 'hello' and 'diameter'.

Thieving stnuc.

And they nicked our sport of American Football and called it Soccer.

[Diddley]

bruvstep innit

[knox]

it's funny

[Brave Sir Robin]

i have big problem with people taking it lightly as if its nothing. you use that here in NYC in certain situations, and you can get yourself killed.

that kinda shows that only retards care about that word any more
I'm sorry but it's almost 2010 and n word or not if you kill somebody for using it... well what can i say pathetic really

I never used that word but it still shocks me how people react to it and let's be honest those people have no clue about the whole thing just a reason to bang their chest about something they heared stories about

have you ever said that to a black person in america to his face? i think a lot of europeans watch too many rap videos and movies, and then have some notion that its become acceptable language.

sure, some might think nothing of it, and shrug it off, but others might send you to the hospital. just depends on the situation. i've seen here in NYC with my own eyes, a whole bar explode into a massive fight that went into the street, cops etc...... because one black guy called another black guy a "n" over a billiards game, and he wasn't having any of it. it was a situation that went from a discussion to violence in about 30 secs. there's black people that want nothing to do with that word at all, and then there's black people that want ownership of that word, as a way of turning its negativity around. jay-z, nas and biggie we're about the latter. two very different perspectives all over one word. which is right, and which is wrong?

so, if you're willing to navigate all of that with a shrug of the shoulder, i suggest you think about the consequences in saying it here in america face to face with someone. maybe read up about the civil rights struggle a bit. its real easy to say on the internet and take lightly, safely behind your screen.

wtf did you actually read what i wrote at all ?

I'm not saying people don't use it. I'm saying that the people who kill someone for saying a word or "make a bar explode" are just as retarded as the people who say it.

Looks like you actually look up on the people who would send someone to hospital for saying that shitty word.. lol why do i even bother

[pledge]

The way yanks say aluminium jars me summin rotten.

[chrish]

My employees pick up British accents and slang, and I have to coach them out of it. I manage a team of [Americans] that provide telephone sales & service to the UK, so after several weeks of working in the middle of the night spending 8+ hours a day dealing with UK accents & slang they eventually start using it without realizing.

For me, I inadvertently spell things with an 's' as opposed to the American 'z', and I write cheque instead of check, etc. It takes a conscious effort (see realizing above ) on my part to spell things correctly for the cultural audience since I deal with a split of UK & US all day long.

[wormcode]

Mate is still in the American vocabulary but not nearly as much, mostly combined with other words like housemate, or in referring to your husband/wife. I've heard "innit" all over the states as well as just a quick way of saying "isn't it" innit.. though obviously it's not used as much, and probably typed even less. It seems like a very common "word" in the more southern states where they have a way of their words almost melting into eachother. "Reckon" as well is still used, though not as much as it was a few decades ago, mostly in the south now. How about Brits using "dude/bro" a lot more these days? Personally i'm not a fan of those 2 words.. but I don't really care.

Slangs not real anyway.. as long as no one is making up fake Madonna accents who cares what words people use IMO.

[kidshuffle]

i really couldn't care less,just like i couldn't care less about other countries using north american slang

[d'brickashaw ferguson]

My employees pick up British accents and slang, and I have to coach them out of it. I manage a team of [Americans] that provide telephone sales & service to the UK, so after several weeks of working in the middle of the night spending 8+ hours a day dealing with UK accents & slang they eventually start using it without realizing.

For me, I inadvertently spell things with an 's' as opposed to the American 'z', and I write cheque instead of check, etc. It takes a conscious effort (see realizing above ) on my part to spell things correctly for the cultural audience since I deal with a split of UK & US all day long.

I think you'll find that we're correct.

[ahier]

i have big problem with people taking it lightly as if its nothing. you use that here in NYC in certain situations, and you can get yourself killed.

that kinda shows that only retards care about that word any more
I'm sorry but it's almost 2010 and n word or not if you kill somebody for using it... well what can i say pathetic really

I never used that word but it still shocks me how people react to it and let's be honest those people have no clue about the whole thing just a reason to bang their chest about something they heared stories about

have you ever said that to a black person in america to his face? i think a lot of europeans watch too many rap videos and movies, and then have some notion that its become acceptable language.

sure, some might think nothing of it, and shrug it off, but others might send you to the hospital. just depends on the situation. i've seen here in NYC with my own eyes, a whole bar explode into a massive fight that went into the street, cops etc...... because one black guy called another black guy a "n" over a billiards game, and he wasn't having any of it. it was a situation that went from a discussion to violence in about 30 secs. there's black people that want nothing to do with that word at all, and then there's black people that want ownership of that word, as a way of turning its negativity around. jay-z, nas and biggie we're about the latter. two very different perspectives all over one word. which is right, and which is wrong?

so, if you're willing to navigate all of that with a shrug of the shoulder, i suggest you think about the consequences in saying it here in america face to face with someone. maybe read up about the civil rights struggle a bit. its real easy to say on the internet and take lightly, safely behind your screen.

wtf did you actually read what i wrote at all ?

I'm not saying people don't use it. I'm saying that the people who kill someone for saying a word or "make a bar explode" are just as retarded as the people who say it.

Looks like you actually look up on the people who would send someone to hospital for saying that shitty word.. lol why do i even bother

yeah i agree with you, in some ways by giving the word that much wide a berth and 'respecting' its use like it legitimizes people reacting so violently to it. I am aware that it is a word with lots of history, but in this day the word has been used so much in popular culture by black people (and obviously i know this doesnt represent all black people, but it definitely gets noticed alot more) that it has confused the appropriate use of it. Its hard to know how to deal with it because you cant get rid of the tension that the word will cause because of its history, but at the same time that is also something that needs to be moved away from.
i cant tell if im making sense or not, i lost the trail of my argument in my head.
also, in regards to people using slang that is not from their region, if it matters to you then you are taking it too seriously, it sounds funny sometimes but at the end of the day who gives a shit, as long as you understand what they are saying then its all good