U.S. youth using British expressions

Does she eat up all the eggy weggs and the long ticks of toast?

 

Righty-right.

 

This person that I email at work signs his emails "Cheers" it is the second most annoying Email sign off of anyone in my address book, the winner: Because of Him.

 

Ah, maybe I'm just a starry old veck who can't kopat the nadsat slovos.

But fuck me, her breezy Britishness strikes me as a wee bit naff.

 

Huh?

 

Cheers seems to be gaining popularity in signatures. Not sure why.

 

Enter "Anthony Burgess" in Teh Googles.

 

What the bloody hell are you talking about?

 

The thing about "cheers"- in England it means "thank you" or "it is appreciated." In the United States, it means "breezy, hip email closure."

 

The fascination that many Americans have with all things European astounds me at times.

 

ETON RIFLES! ETON RIFLES!

 

I say "No worries" regularly, and I have no idea where I picked it up. My friend, who spent six months in Australia, regularly says "Cheers" instead of "Your Welcome" or "Thank you." That just bugs me because he only started saying it when got back from Oz and it always struck me like he was trying to let everyone know he went there by talking like he was from there. It was kind of like, "Dude, we get it ... you went to Australia. Get the fuck over it. I went to Thailand but I didn't come back saying 'sawadee krup' (sp?) all over the place."