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Can confirm, this is basically how it goes in Texas. Almost a decade ago, my best friend and I were browsing this little hole in the wall shop in central TX run by an elderly Japanese couple. They got to chatting with us and at one point, said we were “forever friends”. I’ve been using that phrase to describe us ever since.
Asahi Imports?
In Japan, if you use a word wrong, people will almost certainly not tell you so as not to embarrass you unless your mistake is sufficiently more embarrassing or insulting.
One phrase I have eaten from Joe Abercrombie for anything eloquenty put is simply “those were good words”. Even simple words hit hard when meant sincerely.
Would recommend the book series (First Law trilogy)!
You’ve got to be realistic.
Say one thing for Logen Ninefingers, say he’s a linguist.
One nice thing about English, it will lexical borrow from you in an instant.
We just love new ways to say old boring stuff.
I love the silly things we say!
They mean a slightly different way
but still connect to things I know
and make the silly language grow.I have been saying it for years, English is a very informal and open language, have fun with it. Sky water is not technically a wrong way to refer to rain, liquid laundry soup is absolutely a sauce for your laundry, dish bricks, day star, the list goes on
I remember an interview with Lisa Kudrow in which she described her French boyfriend’s failure to remember the English word for toes, and said they were foot fingers.
English: if the people you’re talking to understand what you’re saying, you’re ok. Even if the people you’re talking to don’t understand what you’re saying, you’re still ok. Just be fancy with your words, and everyone will like it.
I knew someone who used the term “bird leaves” which I find hilarious.
kennings are great
I think this is one of the reasons why English (or it’s descendants) will forever be the international language of trade. If it’s not your first language, it’s damn difficult to make yourself sound like a native speaker, but it’s damn easy to make yourself understood.
On the flip side, a lot of other languages have retained structures which require a detailed knowing of grammar in part because they haven’t needed to be learned by amateurs.
Whereas English has adopted so many idioms from other languages with different grammar that we’re entirely comfortable with the exotic phrasing, or if it’s ambiguous we make puns and/or poetry from it.
Mate we’re all amateurs here. Unless you are being paid to learn languages
True, though I would personally count that as a bad thing. Purity of language, to me is irrelevant. That opinion may be coloured by the fact that I’m a native English speaker, and there hasn’t been anything resembling purity in this language for thousands of years. To me, the point of language is open communication. Any impediment to that is a negative.
I lik your way of doyng byzness
They’re talking about English, not Welsh
Here he is, fuckin get em
Laundry soup, yumm
Not sure what a dish brick is, but yeah, the others make sense 👍
Edit: just figured it out: it’s a Lego piece shaped like a dish
I was assuming one of these things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Detergent_tablet.jpg
I’d say it’s a plate
My kid calls them “nose holes”.
I love how wholesome this is.
Just don’t dig into the history of the account.
And thus how many English words were created.
I’ve been talking like that for years. So instead of saying, “Dallas’ blue bonnets”, you could say, “The blue bonnets of Dallas”.
