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Swiss 29-10-07 05:13 PM
Re: Americanisms
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by licoricepizza (Post 1325900)
Swiss, while you're helping gettin2dizzy with his spelling, I'll help you with your grammar.
Excellent, a threesome.

Welcome to the org BTW. Perhaps not the most gracious of virginal post but it's all banter ;-)

redbouy 29-10-07 05:24 PM
Re: Americanisms
 
Trying to work out homophone means, the other one. ;)

One i don't like is the yes/no yea/nah answer. common in Nz and Aussie but working it's way up here. make up your mind.
P

Bluepete 29-10-07 05:36 PM
Re: Americanisms
 
People who want to ax a question.

The inflection rise at the end of every sentence? As if everything was a question? Really winds me up?

Anything Bush says.

Pedrosa 29-10-07 06:01 PM
Re: Americanisms
 
Starting every statement or entence by using the word "like".

e.g. Like, Im going to work tomorrow.

To any normal English speaker To start or To begin would suffice. But our cousins over the water prefer.....From the get go.

Super Americanism as spokemn by one of the Miami Dolphins players before their game in the UK at the weekend....

They speak English in London?" Absolutely fooking true he asked that. A fine product of the U.S.college system if ever I saw one.:p

Bluepete 29-10-07 06:55 PM
Re: Americanisms
 
Speaking of American Football (tenuous link alert) I remember seeing a clip of a tout around the factory that makes the helmets used in the NFL. The bloke giving the tour arrived at the section where the holes were made in the shell for the straps and other attachments to fit.

"This is where we drill the holes. They are all drilled simultaneously, at the same time. Erm, that's all at once"

No **** Sherlock!

Spiderman 29-10-07 08:36 PM
Re: Americanisms
 
We'll bomb the crap out of you till you agree to our vision of the world.

Americanism enough?

philipMac 30-10-07 01:45 AM
Re: Americanisms
 
I was at a conference in Harvard all last week, and one of the abstracts for
one of the papers from a big shot post doc in a big shot lab was talking about
something "he presently has", and had sent it for publication.

This guy was a native speaker too.
Presently does not mean in the present. Presently means soon, in the near
future. Currently means at the moment.

The funny thing was the guy pulled rank on me because I didn't know who he
was when he came over to talk to me in a bar, and then blanked me because
I didn't know his lab was a Harvard lab. When he told me, he was horrified.

Oh... you're the guy with the errors in the abstract he published for the
conference. How funny :)

I might not know who you are and what you do, but I can speak English.
Douchebag.

gettin2dizzy 30-10-07 08:01 AM
Re: Americanisms
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by philipMac (Post 1326358)
I was at a conference in Harvard all last week, and one of the abstracts for
one of the papers from a big shot post doc in a big shot lab was talking about
something "he presently has", and had sent it for publication.

This guy was a native speaker too.
Presently does not mean in the present. Presently means soon, in the near
future. Currently means at the moment.

The funny thing was the guy pulled rank on me because I didn't know who he
was when he came over to talk to me in a bar, and then blanked me because
I didn't know his lab was a Harvard lab. When he told me, he was horrified.

Oh... you're the guy with the errors in the abstract he published for the
conference. How funny :)

I might not know who you are and what you do, but I can speak English.
Douchebag.
I'm not convinced by this. The present time in 7.59; at present I am sitting at a computer, I think you're right however that currently would have been more suitable. It's an odd one!

rigor 30-10-07 09:19 AM
Re: Americanisms
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by www.dictionary.com
pres·ent·ly http://cache.lexico.com/g/d/premium.gif http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/g...una/thinsp.pnghttp://cache.lexico.com/g/d/speaker.gif /ˈprɛzhttp://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/g...una/thinsp.pngənthttp://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/g...una/thinsp.pngli/
Pronunciation Key - [prez-uhhttp://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/g...una/thinsp.pngnt-lee] –adverb

1.in a little while; soon: They will be here presently.
2.at the present time; now: He is presently out of the country.
3.Archaic. immediately.
Looks OK to me :-$

Pedrosa 30-10-07 09:26 AM
Re: Americanisms
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by philipMac (Post 1326358)
I was at a conference in Harvard all last week, and one of the abstracts for
one of the papers from a big shot post doc in a big shot lab was talking about
something "he presently has", and had sent it for publication.

This guy was a native speaker too.
Presently does not mean in the present. Presently means soon, in the near
future. Currently means at the moment.

The funny thing was the guy pulled rank on me because I didn't know who he
was when he came over to talk to me in a bar, and then blanked me because
I didn't know his lab was a Harvard lab. When he told me, he was horrified.

Oh... you're the guy with the errors in the abstract he published for the
conference. How funny :)

I might not know who you are and what you do, but I can speak English.
Douchebag.
I keep hearing that one and wondered what the hell it was. Often used as an insult,(not too sure on a scale of 1 to 10 how it would rate in the insult charts?) Me being curious I looked it up yesterday. In truth I am sorry I did.:rolleyes:


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