Should I be a lazy sod and malinger with you lot or get back to work and has BBC!
Question: Turnabout's fair play.
English is a wigglesome thing; everyone who has a tongue is somehow Shagspere-myriad. Words and phrases are built in Bristol, and unpacked in Boise; or shipped from Philadelphia for consumption in Alice Springs. We swap or steal each other's wind. I like the exchanges and thefts that make my speech; it's a good deal; everyone wins who does not have a wooden ear.
Of course BBC has some influence--therefore boys from Nebraska tread the boards at the Old Globe, and weird little Scotsmen tell jokes about LA, and I can't buy a suit in San Diego without having to listen to an ancient New Zealander quoting prices through his nose. The Old Country Sound still has some cachet. Pretentiousness in America often wears toffee-nose clothing.
Of the lot of influences on my speech, I'd have to say that BBC is a weak one. I listen only occasionally, tuning out when I feel that recurring urge to ship a barge-load of R to the U. K. The Nebraska influence is strong, and, noting the large Canadian presence in U. S. television comedy, Ottawa is not an unimportant city.
Answers: Turnabout's fair play.
English is a wigglesome thing; everyone who has a tongue is somehow Shagspere-myriad. Words and phrases are built in Bristol, and unpacked in Boise; or shipped from Philadelphia for consumption in Alice Springs. We swap or steal each other's wind. I like the exchanges and thefts that make my speech; it's a good deal; everyone wins who does not have a wooden ear.
Of course BBC has some influence--therefore boys from Nebraska tread the boards at the Old Globe, and weird little Scotsmen tell jokes about LA, and I can't buy a suit in San Diego without having to listen to an ancient New Zealander quoting prices through his nose. The Old Country Sound still has some cachet. Pretentiousness in America often wears toffee-nose clothing.
Of the lot of influences on my speech, I'd have to say that BBC is a weak one. I listen only occasionally, tuning out when I feel that recurring urge to ship a barge-load of R to the U. K. The Nebraska influence is strong, and, noting the large Canadian presence in U. S. television comedy, Ottawa is not an unimportant city.
Get back to work with you mate!
NO! I don't see any change whatsoever in me vocabulary as a result of BBC America!
I don't watch it..
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the word for today is "meriticious". do they use that on BBC America?
Yes, quite. that it has, old bean. Be a good sport and off you go now. Don't play in the hedgerow and be sure to bring mummy back with you in time for tea. I'm off to the loo.
The pants! Not a tad, ya bloody wanker!
Yea, it has my 8 yr old. I really like the disclaimers. "Warning...this program contains accents you would have heard a lot more often had you not thrown our tea into the Boston Harbor" This just tickles my funny bone.
Feel free to be a lazy sod and malinger about all you want.
What's a sod? Sodding? etc. I get the gist of it, I'd just like a definition.
You can be lazy until it's time to fire up the grill....
I'm very envious of your warm weather! Hope it holds!
Thank goodness I don't watch BBC very often. I'm quite happy with my lingo and wouldn't want any foreign words slipping in unannounced!
BBC America toret's??
Not at all. So go back to work, mate.