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SultanOfSwing Feb 20th 2012 2:43 pm
Re: Dear America... | David Mitchell's SoapBox
 
What the hell has happened to my fellow Brits? 'Gotten' is a ****ing ghastly word. If this was 1702 I'd say the exact same thing ...

njmackem Feb 20th 2012 2:45 pm
Re: Dear America... | David Mitchell's SoapBox
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hJQsvoY6VU

I love this one as well..

GeoffM Feb 20th 2012 2:48 pm
Re: Dear America... | David Mitchell's SoapBox
 
I must admit I didn't even know that "gotten" was not a current British word. I guess I've gotten used to it over the years and it's become a bit of a de facto standard.

Oops.

Hiro11 Feb 20th 2012 2:49 pm
Re: Dear America... | David Mitchell's SoapBox
 
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 9911314)
What the hell has happened to my fellow Brits? 'Gotten' is a ****ing ghastly word. If this was 1702 I'd say the exact same thing ...
It's so "ghastly" that I was forced to clutch my perfumed kerchief to my nose to ward off the vapors. Dear me.

SultanOfSwing Feb 20th 2012 2:51 pm
Re: Dear America... | David Mitchell's SoapBox
 
Originally Posted by Hiro11 (Post 9911325)
It's so "ghastly" that I was forced to clutch my perfumed kerchief to my nose to ward off the vapors. Dear me.
That's right, you're the one who thinks anyone who doesn't like something American is directing it at you personally. Do carry on. Or grow up, whichever one you wish to choose.

Hiro11 Feb 20th 2012 2:56 pm
Re: Dear America... | David Mitchell's SoapBox
 
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 9911330)
That's right, you're the one who thinks anyone who doesn't like something American is directing it at you personally. Do carry on. Or grow up, whichever one you wish to choose.
??? It was a joke. You think gotten is silly, I think ghastly is silly. Lighten up a little.

SultanOfSwing Feb 20th 2012 3:00 pm
Re: Dear America... | David Mitchell's SoapBox
 
Originally Posted by Hiro11 (Post 9911337)
??? It was a joke. You think gotten is silly, I think ghastly is silly. Lighten up a little.
Meh. You're spoiling my entertainment now by giving up too easily.

fatbrit Feb 20th 2012 3:06 pm
Re: Dear America... | David Mitchell's SoapBox
 
Originally Posted by Hiro11 (Post 9911313)
and the like.
The like that irritates me with the US population is the seeming inability to form a conditional sentence and--grammatically related--the failure to shift one tense backwards when expressing a wish.

Uncle Ebenezer Feb 20th 2012 3:13 pm
Re: Dear America... | David Mitchell's SoapBox
 
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 9911314)
What the hell has happened to my fellow Brits? 'Gotten' is a ****ing ghastly word. If this was 1702 I'd say the exact same thing ...
That is one of the American English words I vehemently refuse to embrace.

Originally Posted by Hiro11 (Post 9911325)
It's so "ghastly" that I was forced to clutch my perfumed kerchief to my nose to ward off the vapors. Dear me.
We Brits spell it "vapours", thank you so much. Anyway, what the heck is wrong with ghastly?

SultanOfSwing Feb 20th 2012 3:15 pm
Re: Dear America... | David Mitchell's SoapBox
 
Originally Posted by Uncle Ebenezer (Post 9911373)
That is one of the American English words I vehemently refuse to embrace.



We Brits spell it "vapours", thank you so much. Anyway, what the heck is wrong with ghastly?
Perhaps I should have gone all Belfast and said "****in' mingin'" instead :lol:

Hiro11 Feb 20th 2012 6:10 pm
Re: Dear America... | David Mitchell's SoapBox
 
Originally Posted by Uncle Ebenezer (Post 9911373)
Anyway, what the heck is wrong with ghastly?
Nothings wrong with it, I just thought that finding Americans strange for using "gotten" while at the same time using the word "ghastly" was a bit ironic. If "gotten" makes you sound like a moron in the UK, "ghastly" (in my opinion) makes you sound like a bit of a foppish dandy in the States. "Ghastly" is what the Jeeves says when confronted with a white dinner jacket with bright brass buttons. :p

Not that Jeeves is a foppish dandy... it's more that... I mean... ah **** it.

Hiro11 Feb 20th 2012 6:13 pm
Re: Dear America... | David Mitchell's SoapBox
 
Originally Posted by fatbrit (Post 9911356)
The like that irritates me with the US population is the seeming inability to form a conditional sentence and--grammatically related--the failure to shift one tense backwards when expressing a wish.
Que?

SultanOfSwing Feb 20th 2012 6:19 pm
Re: Dear America... | David Mitchell's SoapBox
 
Originally Posted by Hiro11 (Post 9911626)
Nothings wrong with it, I just thought that finding Americans strange for using "gotten" while at the same time using the word "ghastly" was a bit ironic. If "gotten" makes you sound like a moron in the UK, "ghastly" (in my opinion) makes you sound like a bit of a foppish dandy in the States. "Ghastly" is what the Jeeves says when confronted with a white dinner jacket with bright brass buttons. :p
Geography is not part of the equation - one sounds like a twat for saying "gotten" anywhere in the world. Furthermore, there are worse people to sound like than Stephen Fry, to be perfectly honest. He, for example, knows how to use an apostrophe for a start ... :whistle:

Hiro11 Feb 20th 2012 6:29 pm
Re: Dear America... | David Mitchell's SoapBox
 
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 9911637)
Geography is not part of the equation - one sounds like a twat for saying "gotten" anywhere in the world.
I may sound like a ghastly, beastly brute for saying so but... "says you"!

Furthermore, there are worse people to sound like than Stephen Fry, to be perfectly honest. He, for example, knows how to use an apostrophe for a start ... :whistle:
Yeah but then you sound like Stephen Fry shooting a magnum in that special he did: "My word!"

SultanOfSwing Feb 20th 2012 6:35 pm
Re: Dear America... | David Mitchell's SoapBox
 
Originally Posted by Hiro11 (Post 9911647)
I may sound like a ghastly, beastly brute for saying so but... "says you"!
No, you sound like a big girl.

Originally Posted by Hiro11 (Post 9911647)
Yeah but then you sound like Stephen Fry shooting a magnum in that special he did: "My word!"
Being that I own a penis, I don't place much significance on the shooting of guns, magnums or otherwise.

Originally Posted by Hiro11 (Post 9911647)
Also, we don' need no steenkin' high commas round these parts.
*sigh*

You should hook up with willmore, the two of you'd get on like a house on fire ...


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