I don't think you Brits have anything to worry about. Until you find yourself going to the local fish shoppe, and ordering like this.

"Cun I git some of that thar haddock and taters!"

Until then, try and relax.

Randy

I'm gonna go ahead and say, ya know what, I figger that this forum is turning Jonbouy is American.



edit: ya know what? mcourter beat me to it!

What's wrong with either?

I hear a lot of Americans say (check out any of the gearwire yuotube videos) these 2:

"...you know what..."
"...I'm gonna go ahead and..."

I never heard "Bob's your/yer Uncle" until several years ago, and now it seems perfectly normal to both say and hear it over here. I think that's kinda cool (if that's not too "American" of me)!

-Susan

I hope so.

Rappin' sucka'ally, ah' cannot fo' one minute recon' dat mah' 'sellent use uh de English language has, fo' one moment, been adversely affected by mah' ongoin' online 'esposho' man t'dose uh ya' fum de American colonies.

I appreciate fully dat Jonbouy may be 'espuh'iencin' some few problems but den again de souderners in dis particular Kin'dom kin't rap de Queen's English fo' toffee anyway.

Slap mah fro! Well, baaaad day t'ya' all...

Toodle-pip. Jes hang loose, brud.







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Randy , you sure you didn't move to Bristol or the west country? thats what it reminded me of when I read that.
(hopefully Bristol Jonesy don't see this..hehe)

space, the film "24 hour party people" might be worth a watch for you if you liked the whole "madchester" thing.. has a lot of the people on factory records featured , Joy Division / New Order etc.. and of course the Mondays .. I used to stay near the hacienda (a famous club there) when I was dating someone from Manchester.. hhmm 8 years ago, but It'd closed a fair few years before.

cryo.. it only skimmed the surface of the whole thing... It's like someone wrote an auto biography that featured a few friends know... lets just say some of it was fictional.. and truth and things they forgot to say.. well was far different.

the many character Anthony "Tony" Wilson that it was based on died a while ago, not sure if you knew.. but they very bad with money.. the prime example was new order... they released blue monday picture disk.. 12" EP... It happened to be the biggest selling EP of all time, but the catch was they were loosing 10p ..errm 20 cent on every copy they sold.. and it cost them a fortune..

ORIGINAL: Beagle
I thought that "I reckon" was probably more indigenous to Texas and "I figger" is more of a Tennessee or GAW-GA (Georgia) saying?

ugh, don't get me started on the ESL "folks" in tennessee...

Maybe the crucial test is:
Would you drive your car a block to the store or walk over there to grab a six pack of beer?

Answer drive your car and you are in serious trouble buddyroe!

Ed, sure you don't want a cereal bar from the UK?

(and yep thats a brand here.hehe)

no side walk..errm pavement involved Jon ? hehe

jeez I've got a 2 minute walk to a massive...walmart... errmm I mean tesco.. darn it.. I guess being here is rubbing off

ORIGINAL: Fog

ORIGINAL: tarsier
I still don't know what 'bespoke' means.

custom made for you specifically, thats all

Ahhh. All those Sound on Sound articles suddenly make sense now.

ORIGINAL: Fog

Randy , you sure you didn't move to Bristol or the west country? thats what it reminded me of when I read that.
(hopefully Bristol Jonesy don't see this..hehe)

space, the film "24 hour party people" might be worth a watch for you if you liked the whole "madchester" thing.. has a lot of the people on factory records featured , Joy Division / New Order etc.. and of course the Mondays .. I used to stay near the hacienda (a famous club there) when I was dating someone from Manchester.. hhmm 8 years ago, but It'd closed a fair few years before.

That is now on my to do list. Sounds great. Joy division was so emotionally uplifting. And I loved the Happy Mondays. I still listen to Pills Thrills and Bellyaches a couple times a year. Kinky Afro and God's Cop are great songs, though Bob's yer Uncle is a close 3rd.

ORIGINAL: Mod Bod

After associating with Brits for the last 35 years, I find myself using Brit flavored phrases all the time, which blended with my southern American accent and dialect can be quite funny sounding.

I ask the lovely Mrs. Mod Bod if she's seen my "proper" trousers.

That's not very American, is it? See. There I go again. It's maddening, it is.

LOL, Yeah, that's the very issue, it sounds kinda dumb...er I mean a bit silly...with my local yokel southern english accent... Maybe it would be OK if I was picking up a good accent at the same time. That would be real swell...

Edit: to remove 7 redundant instances of 'is'

Dave.. here's 2 more for ya.. (been to Liverpool.. yet to go Oz though)

keks (Liverpool version)

Daks / Strides (Aussie version)