U.S. youth using British expressions

[writing irish]

I just recently became the supervisor of a young woman just out of college. She went to a large state university in the Mid-South and comes from a fairly typical upper-middle-class background.

So far so good, but if she uses the expressions "no worries" or "cheers" one more time, I might scream. Anyone have any insight into how young people got so trans-Atlantic? What's next, "knackered" or "take the ****?"

 

[Dickens Cider]

Get proper ****ed, you ******.

 

[sportschick]

I use some here and there that I've picked up from movies.

 

[writing irish]

Get proper ****ed, you ******.

Bollocks to you, tosser.

 

[zeke12]

This post is tragically lacking in two separate respects:

1. Is she hot? And, if so:
2. Are you putting the wood to her?

Please update at your earliest possible convienence.

 

[writing irish]

I use some here and there that I've picked up from movies.

Really, occasional use of Brit slang isn't all that pretentious or annoying. I like using "bollocks" or "knickers" and a few other Brit expressions once in a while for fun. But used in rampant excess, it can be annoying. Just curious as to the origins of this phenomenon.

And Zeke, no comment and no. So it goes.

 

[Trey Beamon]

You are all mental.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Get proper ****ed, you ******.

Bollocks to you, tosser.

Both of you choobs can sodd right off.

 

[writing irish]

Is sodd the Welsh spelling?

 

[Dickens Cider]

Get proper ****ed, you ******.

Bollocks to you, tosser.

Both of you choobs can sodd right off.

I'll box your ears, jockie.

 

[writing irish]

It'd be more interesting if the recent college graduate in question spoke in Clockwork Orange slang instead. That'd be a tolchock in the ole gulliver.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Get proper ****ed, you ******.

Bollocks to you, tosser.

Both of you choobs can sodd right off.

I'll box your ears, jockie.

Fancy a go? I'm feeling aggro, ready to give a Glasgow kiss.

 

[zeke12]

It'd be more interesting if the recent college graduate in question spoke in Clockwork Orange slang instead. That'd be a tolchock in the ole gulliver.

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

 

[Dickens Cider]

It'd be more interesting if the recent college graduate in question spoke in Clockwork Orange slang instead. That'd be a tolchock in the ole gulliver.

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

Righty-right.

 

[RossLT]

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.

 

[writing irish]

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

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

 

[RossLT]

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

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

Huh?

 

[Diabeetus]

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

 

[Dickens Cider]

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

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

Huh?

Enter "Anthony Burgess" in Teh Googles.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

What the bloody hell are you talking about?