I'm comin' to England, ain't I?

by Ben Reilly Wed Mar 28, 2018 11:02 pm

First topic message reminder :

So yeah, I've deigned to class up your soggy little island with my brilliance, and I want some advice from our right-wing members:

* Where do I go to take photos and prove that no-go zones are a myth?

* Where will I get stabbed by a black person? Because I definitely want to go there.

* Do you want to fight me? Or at least get drunk?

Twisted Evil

by Vintage Mon Apr 02, 2018 8:40 pm

Our local resort apparently has at least three good outlets for fish and chips, there's Beale's and Finnagan's and a small local one in the fair, tried that one last year the chips were good, as was apparently the fish. I'll have to go back before it gets too full and give the others a try. Maybe I'll take a newspaper as well.

by Ben Reilly Tue Apr 03, 2018 4:10 pm

So, I've got two questions for yous all about yalls's money:

* How in the world can the 5p coin be worth more than the 2p when it's not even half the size? That's just dumb!

* Why's yousall's money made of plastic? So you can clean it off if you drop it in dog shit or ting?

Sincerely,

Ben Mothafuckin' Reilly

by Original Quill Tue Apr 03, 2018 4:24 pm

There is no such word as 'yousall's". Informal English has no second-person plural (formal English has 'thee' and 'thou'), so the Scots invented y'all, transporting it to the American south. In northeast America (primarily New York and Philadelphia), Italian immigrants came up with youse.

They are two different expressions of the same thing and there is no need to combine them. Laughing

by Tommy Monk Tue Apr 03, 2018 4:49 pm

1. Traditionally the value of a coin was the value of the metal it was made from. Old 5ps and 10ps used to be bigger.and made out of 75% copper 25% nickel. Old 5ps and 10ps are worth more than 5p or 10p – like copper coins before them, the value of the metal in 10p and 5p coins increased until they were being made at a loss. In 2012 the Royal Mint started making 5ps and 10ps out of nickel-plated steel instead, but they were made smaller a few years before that. 2ps and 1ps don't have as much copper in them as they used to either.

2. Ask Mark Carney... it was his idea...

by Ben Reilly Tue Apr 03, 2018 4:57 pm

Original Quill wrote:There is no such word as 'yousall's". Informal English has no second-person plural (formal English has 'thee' and 'thou'), so the Scots invented y'all, transporting it to the American south. In northeast America (primarily New York and Philadelphia), Italian immigrants came up with youse.

They are two different expressions of the same thing and there is no need to combine them.

Are yallse fookin' serious!!!!

by Original Quill Tue Apr 03, 2018 5:11 pm

Ben Mothafuckin' Reilly wrote:
Original Quill wrote:There is no such word as 'yousall's". Informal English has no second-person plural (formal English has 'thee' and 'thou'), so the Scots invented y'all, transporting it to the American south. In northeast America (primarily New York and Philadelphia), Italian immigrants came up with youse.

They are two different expressions of the same thing and there is no need to combine them.

Are yallse fookin' serious!!!!

No. I'seaone serious dude.

In Philly they say, Hey yo...youse guys gotta problem? In Mississippi they say, Y'all hurry 'long home nah, heah?

by Syl Tue Apr 03, 2018 5:31 pm

My son has an American girlfriend....she thinks my faux American accent is very good. I'm comin' to England, ain't I? - Page 2 2385359624

by Original Quill Tue Apr 03, 2018 6:29 pm

Syl wrote:My son has an American girlfriend....she thinks my faux American accent is very good.

It probably is. It's not hard. You just flatten the vowels. Also, ya gotta lose the aspirated consonant, unless you intend to speak Ebonics (they also have an aspirated consonant). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirated_consonant

If you're Scot or Welsh (Gaelg), you have to lose the q-celtic accent ('Q'ware r'ya goun? Q'hat a ya doin?'). They harden the silent English 'w' with either a Q or a P...called q-celtic or p-celtic accents.

https://www.scotslanguage.com/Q-Celtic_Languages

https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=P-Celtic%20and%20Q-Celtic%20languages&item_type=topic

by Syl Tue Apr 03, 2018 6:37 pm

Original Quill wrote:
Syl wrote:My son has an American girlfriend....she thinks my faux American accent is very good.

It probably is. It's not hard. You just flatten the vowels. Also, ya gotta lose the aspirated consonant, unless you intend to speak Ebonics (they also have an aspirated consonant). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirated_consonant

If you're Scot or Welsh (Gaelg), you have to lose the q-celtic accent ('Q'ware r'ya goun? Q'hat a ya doin?'). They harden the silent English 'w' with either a Q or a P...called q-celtic or p-celtic accents.

https://www.scotslanguage.com/Q-Celtic_Languages

https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=P-Celtic%20and%20Q-Celtic%20languages&item_type=topic

It was hard for me to completely lose my aspirated consonants at first, but in the interest of authenticity I eventually managed to relax them considerably. Razz

by eddie Tue Apr 03, 2018 6:43 pm

Fookin’ hilarious . I'm comin' to England, ain't I? - Page 2 3489511464

by HoratioTarr Tue Apr 03, 2018 8:34 pm

The Appalachian accent is derived from Tudor English.

by Tommy Monk Tue Apr 03, 2018 8:45 pm

HT... I seem to remember that I may have asked you this before... but, who is it in your avi pic...?

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