Americanisms, which one makes you cringe when you hear it?

star.chaser

Anyone else notice the increasing amount of Americanisms and also Australian isms creeping into Irish peoples conversations? One that i find particularly irritating is "Frickin" :mad: If i met the person that coined that...

Jesus Wept

What would you do if you met the person that coined that?

I'm guessing very little.

fitz0

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055349097&highlight=americanisms

Anyone else notice the amount of repeated threads that crop up here?

Scrambled egg

Awesome !!!

herbieflowers

fitz0 wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055349097&highlight=americanisms

Anyone else notice the amount of repeated threads that crop up here?

No, never.

Pighead

"My bad" is probably the worst for Pighead. It's a ****ty phrase used by wiesels to wiesel out of proper apologies.

And it's also a pain in the hole for people who engage in 3rd person speak as it turns into "Pighead's bad" which makes it sound like Pighead's suffering from confidence issues and is beating himself up about something when in reality allhe's doing is trying to wiesel out of an apology.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Words that end with "-ism," including "jism."

4zn76tysfajdxp

Pighead wrote: »

"My bad" is probably the worst for Pighead. It's a ****ty phrase used by wiesels to wiesel out of proper apologies.

And it's also a pain in the hole for people who engage in 3rd person speak as it turns into "Pighead's bad" which makes it sound like Pighead's suffering from confidence issues and is beating himself up about something when in reality allhe's doing is trying to wiesel out of an apology.

Sounds bad.

Executive Steve

Eh? "Frigging" is no Americanism - it's an ancient word!

Comes from the old Latin verb "Fricare" which means to rub, hence "Friction".

emeraldstar

Pighead wrote: »

"My bad" is probably the worst for Pighead. It's a ****ty phrase used by wiesels to wiesel out of proper apologies.

And it's also a pain in the hole for people who engage in 3rd person speak as it turns into "Pighead's bad" which makes it sound like Pighead's suffering from confidence issues and is beating himself up about something when in reality allhe's doing is trying to wiesel out of an apology.

What's that, some sort of weird American animal?

emeraldstar

I don't know if it's an Americanism but when people say "gotten" it really annoys me, and I tend to think of it as American usage.

"I could care less" also is typically American. And nonsensical. Grrrr :mad:

Dublin_Gunner

I dont know if its an Americanism, but the addition of the word 'much' to form a sentence / rhetorical question when combined with a feeling etc

i.e "Jealous much?"

Grrrr.............................

**Bloody hell, emeraldstar - we posted at nearly the same time, started our sentences with the same statement, and finished off with a 'grr'

How very odd..........

Ste.phen

"I know, right?!"

Schism

Sidewalk.

Totally.

Clinical Waste

"You have a nice day now", pretty much means I am going to have a bad one.

Saying "cool" as a one word answer to everthing is also getting very boring.

As for Australian expressions, you gotta love:

"Piss off ya dickhead" and "**** right off mate"

Pighead

emeraldstar wrote: »

What's that, some sort of weird American animal?

American? No he's a Romanian human ya big eejit! Elie Wiesel the writer, professor and political activist who was famous for worming out of situations. He was a sneaky and pathetic creature and over the years his name has come to represent anything relating to sneakiness and patheticness.

Anyway, as you were.

4zn76tysfajdxp

emeraldstar wrote: »

"I could care less" also is typically American. And nonsensical. Grrrr :mad:

That pisses me off as well. :mad:

Dublin_Gunner

Oh, and the use of the word 'like' to finish off or start nearly every sentence, like.

That really grinds my gears, like. Like, oh my gawd.

ejmaztec

fitz0 wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055349097&highlight=americanisms

Anyone else notice the amount of repeated threads that crop up here?

Anyone else notice the amount of repeated threads that crop up here?

fillmore jive

"..and all that jazz."

Wrecks my head so it does.

tolosenc

TBH, I find Irishisms more irritating.

emeraldstar

Dublin_Gunner wrote: »

**Bloody hell, emeraldstar - we posted at nearly the same time, started our sentences with the same statement, and finished off with a 'grr'

How very odd..........

Or else someone's just a big fat copycat

Dublin_Gunner

Oh another:

"yada yada yada"

emeraldstar

Pighead wrote: »

American? No he's a Romanian human ya big eejit! Elie Wiesel the writer, professor and political activist who was famous for worming out of situations. He was a sneaky and pathetic creature and over the years his name has come to represent anything relating to sneakiness and patheticness.

Anyway, as you were.

How very... odd.

Thrill

A word which I am beginning to hear a lot more of, and dislike, on American t.v. shows lately is "Euro-trash". I heard it twice yesterday, once on Law & Order and also on either NCIS or CSI, I cant remember which.

cyberwolf77

Git R' Done
Y'all
Whassup
These all irritate me to death, and I'm an American

15Pete

S0crates always points out the paradox when Americans say "I could care less", and enjoys seeing their crestfallen faces when they realise a phrase they have been using all their lives, is in fact, stupid.

15Pete

The mantra of our low-life countrymen is also American. "They took ur jabs"

cyberwolf77

Actually the term Americanism in and of itself makes me slightly ill.

sidneykidney

When Americans say math its maths ffs,(isnt it??) and also if there in uni or college they insist on saying school makes them sound like teenagers

Pighead

emeraldstar wrote: »

How very... odd.

Wasn't particularly odd really. What is odd is the fact that a donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't. Have never been able to figure that one out.

Back on topic, mules are a bit like donkeys.

Dublin_Gunner

sidneykidney wrote: »

When Americans say math its maths ffs,(isnt it??) and also if there in uni or college they insist on saying school makes them sound like teenagers

Actually, I'm pretty sure they say maths is math.

cyberwolf77

sidneykidney wrote: »

When Americans say math its maths ffs,(isnt it??) and also if there in uni or college they insist on saying school makes them sound like teenagers

Math, it's short for mathematics. We say school because here college and university are interchangeable terms for some reason. Don't ask me why.

emeraldstar

cyberwolf77 wrote: »

Math, it's short for mathematics. We say school because here college and university are interchangeable terms for some reason. Don't ask me why.

Yeah and "kids" applies to teenagers. Quite silly really.

latenia

Normalcy

A Neurotic

People who say "mom".

She's your mammy, you plank.

cyberwolf77

emeraldstar wrote: »

Yeah and "kids" applies to teenagers. Quite silly really.

Next person who says tweenager to me is getting punched. You are right though, I'm not sure why we call teenagers kids. Although I'm 32 and my mother still calls me and my siblings her kids.

cyberwolf77

A Neurotic wrote: »

People who say "mom".

She's your mammy, you plank.

She's my mother, you poster.

Bandit12

"Bro".....i just want to hurt someone when i hear it. :mad:

Magenta

I'm not sure if it's American or not but saying "I heart" something really annoys me. "I heart my new handbag"- it makes no sense.

Oh yeah, and ''awesome".

Salvelinus

Girls calling each other lads. Agree with whoever said Bro, also knocked it out of the park.

joulter

winningest

Quint

Dublin_Gunner wrote: »

Oh, and the use of the word 'like' to finish off or start nearly every sentence, like.

That really grinds my gears, like. Like, oh my gawd.

Don't go to cork! They even type it on cork messageboards.

A Neurotic wrote: »

People who say "mom".

She's your mammy, you plank.

Mammy?:D Sorry, but it's mam or ma.

Pighead

Salvelinus wrote: »

Girls calling each other lads.

That's not American! That got Galway written all over it. It's usually good looking fat ginger Galway girls who use it.

Ruu_Old

Quint wrote: »

Don't go to cork! They even type it on cork messageboards.



Mammy?:D Sorry, but it's mam or ma.

Mumsie, you ruffian! :mad:

Acacia

star.chaser wrote: »

Anyone else notice the increasing amount of Americanisms and also Australian isms creeping into Irish peoples conversations? One that i find particularly irritating is "Frigging" :mad: If i met the person that coined that...

Do you mean ''frickin'" as in ''frickin' sweet!" Because ''frigging'' is an old word from this side of the Atlantic, been used for ages.

I hate ''frickin'", "awesome" and ''it really bugs me''. And they way they pronounce ''schedule'' as ''shedule''.

lala stone

"It is what it is"

"sweet deal"
Also pronouncing route like "row-tet"
grrrr

eightyfish

I hate when they make words longer for no reason. The most annoying one I heard was in a documentary featuring some Christians, one said

"I hope you don't think I'm taking the Bible literalistically".

Dublin_Gunner

I hate ''frickin'", "awesome" and ''it really bugs me''. And they way they pronounce ''schedule'' as ''shedule''.

Yeah, it really bugs me when someone messes up my frickin' awesome shedule. Like.

eightyfish

Oh, yeah, and I really hate "My bad!"

Especially when my younger brother started using it.

Acacia

Dublin_Gunner wrote: »

Yeah, it really bugs me when someone messes up my frickin' awesome shedule. Like.

:mad: