One of the greatest strengths of the English language is any noun can be an insult if delivered in the right tone.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@sodslawyer/116056688380387248
One of the greatest strengths of the English language is any noun can be an insult if delivered in the right tone.
@afewbugs
Timing and tone.Now wondering how far back and how wide they go.
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@CarstenBoll @afewbugs similarly anything can be smut if you emphasise it right. He'll bake *her* beans, innit.
@Flisty @CarstenBoll Oh _he'll_ emphasis it right, ifyouknowwhatImean
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@CarstenBoll @afewbugs similarly anything can be smut if you emphasise it right. He'll bake *her* beans, innit.
@Flisty @CarstenBoll @afewbugs And if verbed can be used to indicate being drunk "He's completely beansed!" or failure "He beansed that one right up!"
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@Flisty @CarstenBoll @afewbugs And if verbed can be used to indicate being drunk "He's completely beansed!" or failure "He beansed that one right up!"
I still remember the first time a UK friend asked me if I wanted to get trolleyed, had no idea what he meant.
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@CarstenBoll @DamonHD @Flisty "Would you like to steal some wheeled metal carts from outside the supermarket and race them?"
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@CarstenBoll @DamonHD @afewbugs trolleyed hammered smashed wankered pissed are the universal ones (pissed *off* is angry - gets confusing translating between US and UK sometimes). But you can verb any noun to do the same...
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@sodslawyer/116056688380387248
One of the greatest strengths of the English language is any noun can be an insult if delivered in the right tone.
@afewbugs New grammar module:
British english insultative vocative: “You (insert random creatively applicable noun).
Emphatic insultative vocative: “you absolute …”
This one is of course related and regularly combined with the common exclamatory vocative: "Oy!", e.g., "oy, you absolute disco light!" -
@CarstenBoll @DamonHD @Flisty "Would you like to steal some wheeled metal carts from outside the supermarket and race them?"
But then it occured to me, he wanted to get verbed! Ah, good ol' Timmy, what an absolute noun!
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@CarstenBoll @DamonHD @Flisty "Would you like to steal some wheeled metal carts from outside the supermarket and race them?"
@afewbugs @CarstenBoll @DamonHD I mean they are often related activities...
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@afewbugs New grammar module:
British english insultative vocative: “You (insert random creatively applicable noun).
Emphatic insultative vocative: “you absolute …”
This one is of course related and regularly combined with the common exclamatory vocative: "Oy!", e.g., "oy, you absolute disco light!" -
@CarstenBoll @DamonHD @afewbugs trolleyed hammered smashed wankered pissed are the universal ones (pissed *off* is angry - gets confusing translating between US and UK sometimes). But you can verb any noun to do the same...
@Flisty @CarstenBoll @DamonHD @afewbugs ah! Trolleyed (or troll-eyed even for that matter) could have some logic behind it for drunk. “Want to rely on public transit to get home because we won’t be fit to walk any real distance let alone bike or drive?”
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@Flisty @CarstenBoll @DamonHD @afewbugs ah! Trolleyed (or troll-eyed even for that matter) could have some logic behind it for drunk. “Want to rely on public transit to get home because we won’t be fit to walk any real distance let alone bike or drive?”
@c0dec0dec0de @Flisty @DamonHD @afewbugs I figured it's because you'll end up moving about like one of those shopping trolleys with a wonky wheel.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@sodslawyer/116056688380387248
One of the greatest strengths of the English language is any noun can be an insult if delivered in the right tone.
@afewbugs hahaha our kids used to do this as a way of ending a conversation they were bored with.
"You're a <last noun used in the preceding sentence>."
It made no sense whatsoever and eventually I called them out on it when I could stop laughing.
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@afewbugs hahaha our kids used to do this as a way of ending a conversation they were bored with.
"You're a <last noun used in the preceding sentence>."
It made no sense whatsoever and eventually I called them out on it when I could stop laughing.
@FourT4 "Your Mom is a last noun used!"
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@CarstenBoll @Flisty @afewbugs
Steady on old thing, you don't feed them to the object of your affection, you persuade them to bathe in beans. In public.
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@c0dec0dec0de @Flisty @DamonHD @afewbugs I figured it's because you'll end up moving about like one of those shopping trolleys with a wonky wheel.
@CarstenBoll @c0dec0dec0de @DamonHD @afewbugs yeah what the US calls trolleys we call trams. This is a shopping trolley/cart situation
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@CarstenBoll @Flisty @afewbugs
Steady on old thing, you don't feed them to the object of your affection, you persuade them to bathe in beans. In public.
Or so I'm told ...@Fragarach @CarstenBoll @afewbugs red nose day is coming up ...
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@CarstenBoll @c0dec0dec0de @DamonHD @afewbugs yeah what the US calls trolleys we call trams. This is a shopping trolley/cart situation
@CarstenBoll @c0dec0dec0de @DamonHD @afewbugs I once raced in a shopping trolley down a street in Brisbane when on a trip there as a student. Classic international activity apparently
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@quixoticgeek @cassana @afewbugs or mix and match!
"You're totally tabled, you utter biro!" -
@quixoticgeek @cassana @afewbugs or mix and match!
"You're totally tabled, you utter biro!"@jetlagjen @quixoticgeek @afewbugs The funny thing is that it only works with a solid British accent. I used to get mistaken for Canadian when talking English for a long time, but then I moved to the UK, and all that shifted to modern RP with hints of Essex and London. And suddenly this magical world of creative vocabulary and wordplay opened up to me.
