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Re: how do u feel about north americans using british slang

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:04 pm
by Hibbie
Shouldn't this thread be in the ninja hideout? Any way I can't stand it when people say "Innit" it's also a million times more annoying when it is being typed on here

Re: how do u feel about north americans using british slang

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:05 pm
by maximus
i think it is fucking hilarious and i tease any of my friends who use it ruthlessly.

Re: how do u feel about north americans using british slang

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:24 pm
by hellfire machina
When you think about it, much of UK culture stems from american culture, from tv to music etc and thus has influenced the way youth cultures speak. So my point is that any one taking the piss out of a septic (tank = yank) for using uk slang is in mild danger of being extremly hipoctritical.

Re: how do u feel about north americans using british slang

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:28 pm
by shambandito
executive steve wrote:Try going to a DnB night in Germany - you'll hear all the German kru dropping UK slang in the middle of German sentences, sounds hilarious!

"Ja blud, die rewind war sick bruv, dat war safe!

hahaha so true :D i haven't heard blud yet but the german youth culture is practically based on anglicisms nowadays.
you hear all kind of english shit :D especially in music scenes originating in the uk. it's even got its own name Denglisch

Re: how do u feel about north americans using british slang

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:48 pm
by MUT3
Fuckin LOL. After spending 3 or 4 years on UK bass music forums you just pick that slang up and use it for fun.

Then people who dont listen to DNB or Dubstep in america are like wtf. :)

Re: how do u feel about north americans using british slang

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:58 pm
by tminus
hellfire machina wrote:When you think about it, much of UK culture stems from american culture, from tv to music etc and thus has influenced the way youth cultures speak. So my point is that any one taking the piss out of a septic (tank = yank) for using uk slang is in mild danger of being extremly hipoctritical.
quoted for truth

Re: how do u feel about north americans using british slang

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 10:24 pm
by Pistonsbeneath
whighzeguy wrote: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".
:lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: how do u feel about north americans using british slang

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:08 pm
by kingldub
It's like white middle class kids using Jamaican slang. Doesn't bother me but it can be kinda funny at times.

Re: how do u feel about north americans using british slang

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 3:54 am
by _boring
seckle.......... :lol:

Re: how do u feel about north americans using british slang

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 4:22 am
by Pallms
I like cheers... it's a lot more fresh than just saying "thanks" or "thank you."

Re: how do u feel about north americans using british slang

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 5:19 am
by ruckus49
UK slang i love

cheers
mate
wanker
tosser

as a few have said before. slang gets passed around in different ways. i like it, its more of a colorful way to talk.

Re: how do u feel about north americans using british slang

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 5:26 am
by goonstock
how do u feel about the british using jamaican slang?

Re: how do u feel about north americans using british slang

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 5:44 am
by pete
shambandito wrote:it's even got its own name Denglisch
:N:

Re: how do u feel about north americans using british slang

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 9:40 am
by _boring
i like the terms "safe" and "ez" a lot :t:

Re: how do u feel about north americans using british slang

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 10:30 am
by nousd
i'm claiming septic as oz rhyming slang
from surfing community
nice that Hellfire Machina is urbane enuff to have heard it.

Americans that haven't lived in Old Dart or Antipodes should avoid using mate imo
cos they doan appreciate the nuances.

e.g Ow ya goin mates? :)

Re: how do u feel about north americans using british slang

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 10:44 am
by nousd
:a:
edit: Hibbie: read the protocols mate................it's a fuckin secret man...doan wan any passersby.

Re: how do u feel about north americans using british slang

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 11:44 am
by *grand*
It is, but it does sound funny to hear an american use english slang, it can make you go aye?!! when you hear some one with an american dialect say something typically british. Some terms can cross over and some can't just need to distinguish between those so that we don't laugh at you and you don't laugh at us. The piss my cousins in the states used take out of me whilst I lived there for some of the terms I used, and hell when they did imitate it sure as hell sounded funny the way how they said it.

Moral is... just watch what you using, not every one can pull of poker dots.

Grand

Re: how do u feel about north americans using british slang

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:39 pm
by hellfire machina
sd5 wrote:i'm claiming septic as oz rhyming slang
from surfing community
nice that Hellfire Machina is urbane enuff to have heard it.

Americans that haven't lived in Old Dart or Antipodes should avoid using mate imo
cos they doan appreciate the nuances.

e.g Ow ya goin mates? :)
Septic tank is london rhyming slang, been around since the 70's. I first heard it as a kid watching Only Fools and Horses.

Re: how do u feel about north americans using british slang

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:47 pm
by schema
i like going well over the top when takin the piss with my mates, but then things stick and i end up using it for real and get absolutely slated for it :lol:

Re: how do u feel about north americans using british slang

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:53 pm
by mars
ooooooooi, bloody hell, m8, they've blown my cover. they must surely think i'm a wanker now!
kinda funny, blud, innit...

safe!