I want to be English. Like from England. I don't necessarily want to LIVE in England, I love America and all it stands for and I can't hear the Star Spangled Banner without tearing up, but I just want the English dialect.
I was watching some show with Marty (that I will never admit to watching) yesterday, and there were a ton of English children, (and what is the difference in English and British? Is there one? I am HORRID at geography.) and they were all talking and laughing and joking in their little English schoolchildren outfits and Marty looks over and said "Don't say it." I started laughing and said "Don't say what?" and He said "Don't say you bloody wish you were a bloody Englishwoman."
I also found this site of London Slang today, and I have laughed my butt off. I intend on using some of the more "G Rated" phrases in my day-to-day speech. BE FOREWARNED, this site is not for the faint of eye. Some of it is pretty darn nasty. But, I have a wicked sense of humor.
(Just in case anyone is interested, not that anyone would be, Panty Hamster is actually slang in London for the vagina...hmm)
And while we are on the subject of dialect and such, I have a complaint. WHY do people, in typing, abbreviate words that do not need to be abbreviated?? I HATE the cutesy spelling that people use. DO NOT use cutesy spelling after you turn 12 years old. It is no longer cute.
For instance, I hit a post today where the woman (a mother for heavens sake) said that she "...has had a few bad dayz. Some dayz are better than other dayz, but..." (I am actually paraphrasing... or... well lying I guess. I don't know what she said because her cutesy dayz made me have a ministroke.
IS it THAT much harder to type it correctly? In fact, to me, it seems HARDER to add that "Z" at the end than it would be to just type the damn "S"... The "S" is a homerow key. Your finger is already resting on it. TYPE THE "S"... You can do it....
My dear husband is one of the worst typers in the world. I accept his bad typing ability, but wish he would try harder to improve it. He has never in his life, ever, typed "the"... it is always and forever "Teh". He also belongs to a bulletin board based out of Louisiana. (No disrespect to Louisianaians) and they all talk "cajun" on that board. This makes me insane. He will email me and try to talk cajun in his emails and I refuse to reply. I generally send him a message that says "If my husband Marty - from Arkansas, not from Louisiana, and who does not eat gumbo, nor has ever seen an alligator outside of the zoo, much less wrestled one - has a question, please have him email me."
He will type "Dayum" instead of "Damn". WHY??? DAMN is shorter!! And "Shore" instead of "Sure". AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!! That makes me crazy!!
O Well. Tlk 2 u l8r. Got 2 rn.
5 comments:
AHHHHHHHHHHHH!HAHAHAHAHA! I totally know where you are coming from Nat.
My dh has AOL IM and he and those guys type all kinds of crazy stuff. Sometimes I will be on the computer and he will dictate messages to me. They always know it is me because I type fast and I know how to spell correctly.
Laughing as always.
:)
OMG...were you watching Gene Simmons School of Rock?
Have you ever dabbled with northern Irish slang? I have a friend from Belfast who drives me crazy with her slang. It's totally a different language. She'll tell me she's feeling 'chuffed' or that I'm a 'cheeky sod' and I always find myself staring blankly like an idiot...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA I hate dayz. Although, I have been known to use thx, just because it's so much shorter when typing one-handed.
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