No Shit? :trolleyes:

...the was supposed to be :rolleyes: but I think the typo was Freudian so I'm leaving it.

lol

So basically, the Separated by a Common Language blogger says the same thing I said :P

American English is my first, and only, fluent language. I would like to think I have a regionally ambiguous dialect, although informally I do use some Texas colloquialism, slang, Spanish, and Japaneses peppered into my speech.

I think i see the Japanese sometimes, although i'm no expert. Sometimes your structures remind me of my friend's husband -who is Ameican-born Japanese. But then sometimes they remind me of my own drunk typing.... so i could just be full of the usual bull. Your vocab is great though -often makes me smile (in a good way). Vernacular was the word that made me ask here.

yebbut common language blogger is merkin so it miraculously makes sense when s/he says it....

sorry for posting this in the wrong thread. I didn't collect at first that it was a geographical difference, y'see.

I am sure I'm filled to the brim with the usual bull. Much of my sentence structures , expeshaly the less than common ones, comes from literal Spanish translations, British literature( The tragedy of Dr. Faust, John Milton, ect) , and American blank verse poetry.

But I am most influenced by the speech of those around me and the media I consume. For instances if I read a lot of poetry I will speak in verse; After I watched the movie Brick I picked up their speech patterns for about six hours.


I am glad for that.

I am curious here. Is vernacular a British idiom or an Americanism?

I blame this post one Monster

neither, it's just a damn good word :)

...but only tends to be used by language-lovers.

I must confess to being a linguaphile.

Have you tried talcum powder for that? :haha:

Sounds like a painful rash.

I prefer fettucine, but I'll take linguaphile w/o clam sauce.

Do you have to let it lingua, do you have to, do you have to, do you have to let it lingua?

My wife is reading a book called Birdman by Mo Hayder, I had to send her to this:

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/