i like when Australians say reckon i reckon.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 02:28 (eleven months ago) link
The accepted usage is “fuck all y’all.”
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:30 (eleven months ago) link
(it used to just feel like a south thing to me for most of my life. i reckon.)
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 02:30 (eleven months ago) link
so weird seeing that word in isolation. It’s either whadayareckon? Or yareckon? Never a clearly enunciated “reckon”
― #1 García Fan (H.P), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:31 (eleven months ago) link
(i watched a lot of mcleod's daughters during the pandemic...we all had our ways of coping i reckon.)
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 02:36 (eleven months ago) link
It’s definitely still in use in the more countrified parts of the American south.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:36 (eleven months ago) link
I reckon the bloody south’s stealing our bit
― #1 García Fan (H.P), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:40 (eleven months ago) link
I reckon the usage stems from a common source.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:42 (eleven months ago) link
hillbillies without borders.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 02:46 (eleven months ago) link
Bogan/hillbillie solidarity
― #1 García Fan (H.P), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:55 (eleven months ago) link
hate to do it, but y'all are gonna make me insist on yinz
― mookieproof, Friday, 27 October 2023 05:45 (eleven months ago) link
yinz're gonna make me say yuns.
― Look closely, that is all. (doo dah), Friday, 27 October 2023 13:41 (eleven months ago) link
i used to love the way my mom said honk in her long island by way of queens accent. she would say "hunk". her accent wasn't strong - or she hid it - but it would come out in little ways like that.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 13:48 (eleven months ago) link
I have socks that say yinz.
"Yous guys" was big where I grew up. I hate it.
Yeah there are definitely American word usages that are cringey when used by non-Americans and expressions that originated from the UK that sound cringey to me when Americans use them …
Yep. I pretty much never use British slang or terms. It feels too weird.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 27 October 2023 13:50 (eleven months ago) link
I don't have a long island accent at all but can turn it on it if want to. I can't think of how she would have said honk!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 27 October 2023 13:51 (eleven months ago) link
I fought against y'all forever in favor of you guys and then at some point I started saying it because I needed to seem friendlier and folksier for work and then it just stuck. "You guys" is pretty ugly so I'm okay with losing that one.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 27 October 2023 13:53 (eleven months ago) link
she would say to my dad if my brother wouldn't get out of the house when we were going somewhere: "Ashley, hunk the hooowrn."
it stuck with me. i dunno. she left queens for L.I. when she was 8 or 9. so maybe its a jackson heights in the 40s kinda thing.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 13:58 (eleven months ago) link
Youse is West of Scotland, though it comes out more as "yiz" usually.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 27 October 2023 13:59 (eleven months ago) link
... or "yeez", the plural of "ye" basically.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 27 October 2023 14:00 (eleven months ago) link
my great regret is not taping my grandmother (my dad's mom) speaking. a completely different lost world of a voice. cold spring harbor via henry james. i loved listening to her.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 14:00 (eleven months ago) link
All of these are good for anyone to say, & just saying you works well too
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Friday, 27 October 2023 14:02 (eleven months ago) link
i miss having great aunts who would call me "ducks". who calls you ducks anymore?
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 14:02 (eleven months ago) link
Try watching Coronation Street
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 27 October 2023 14:05 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1BOBK8iBQU
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 27 October 2023 14:06 (eleven months ago) link
Yeah anywhere in Derbyshire gives you a solid chance of being called duck
― Tim, Friday, 27 October 2023 14:21 (eleven months ago) link
Not “ducks” though, tbf
― Tim, Friday, 27 October 2023 14:22 (eleven months ago) link
it might have been duck. i just remember it as ducks.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 14:28 (eleven months ago) link
it must have been duck, but it's over now
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Friday, 27 October 2023 14:29 (eleven months ago) link
The only person who ever called me ducks was a former/erstwhile ilxor and I had no idea what she was talking about at the time and wondered why she was calling me ducks. It did not annoy me I just didn’t get it.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 27 October 2023 14:31 (eleven months ago) link
I have definitely come across old English ladies calling people "ducks" in books or movies.
― read-only (unperson), Friday, 27 October 2023 14:31 (eleven months ago) link
i had an aunt with a shanghai china british private school accent from the early 20th century. she looked like douglas macarthur. she was friggin' awesome.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 14:31 (eleven months ago) link
dougs
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 27 October 2023 14:42 (eleven months ago) link
I don't know if there's a thread for "words that people don't use much any more" but the proliferation of the word "foodie" seems to have died considerably since the pandemic
― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Friday, 27 October 2023 15:06 (eleven months ago) link
RIP
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 15:12 (eleven months ago) link
bullshit word. everyone likes food. we don't need a word for people who claim to enjoy it on a higher level because they have (or pretend to have) enough disposable income to throw at every new food fad
― Left, Friday, 27 October 2023 15:14 (eleven months ago) link
i kinda hated when every american on social media got gutted when there fave rock star died. nobody here ever got gutted before the internet. i blame ilx. also it just makes me think of fish. and freddie kreuger.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 15:32 (eleven months ago) link
I just call food, fuel. I’m a fuelie.
― Jeff, Friday, 27 October 2023 15:33 (eleven months ago) link
"Cringe" is not a goddamn adjective! It's a verb! Use it right!
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 27 October 2023 15:36 (eleven months ago) link
I hate when people say "there are no words." Of course there are! You just said them!
― henry s, Friday, 27 October 2023 15:37 (eleven months ago) link
yeah "gutted" is annoying and I associate it with the british and hyperbole, personally; it's akin to calling everything "brilliant". why go to these extremes.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 27 October 2023 15:39 (eleven months ago) link
"Incredible" is also incredibly overused, to the point of meaninglessness.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 15:47 (eleven months ago) link
gutted is fucking brilliant in the right context nothing else works
the more recent use cringe as adjective or noun is fascist and I hate it so much. it's based on a contempt for "weakness" and any hint of nonconformity and all the usual right wingntargets. leftists adopting it is a total capitalulation to fascism
― Left, Friday, 27 October 2023 15:49 (eleven months ago) link
*right wing targets
― Left, Friday, 27 October 2023 15:50 (eleven months ago) link
cringe
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 27 October 2023 15:51 (eleven months ago) link
i had no idea that "sketch" went back to the 70s! i thought it was a millennial invention.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/magazine/31FOB-onlanguage-t.html
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 15:55 (eleven months ago) link
right wing people don't own "cringe" it's just a term that is commonly used to bully and lots of bullies are right wing, simple as that
― Evan, Friday, 27 October 2023 15:57 (eleven months ago) link
― sarahell, Friday, 27 October 2023 16:35 (eleven months ago) link
It’s more about a lack of self-awareness, which I can see being weaponized by assholes but I also see in a “punching up” context
― sarahell, Friday, 27 October 2023 16:38 (eleven months ago) link
I' m familiar with any modern usage. When I was younger people said "What's the sketch" to mean "What's going on".
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 27 October 2023 16:55 (eleven months ago) link
.. unfamiliar, that is.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 27 October 2023 16:56 (eleven months ago) link