Words you wish your language had.
 

This game is for anyone, anywhere, but perhaps has a special piquancy for the Amurricans and the Brits here. Who knows?
Anyway, I would like to claim dumpster from our friends stateside for use in Britain - what a great word, so much better than skip, doncherknow?

The alliterative qualities of "dumpster diving" make it the go to word of the month.

I've really liked manky ever since I'd seen it used here on teh cellar. It's like "monkey" and "skanky" had a baby!

I think ish should be a word on its own, meaning approximately.

"Drive ish three miles north and turn left."

"A new computer is ish $900."

Who am I? My name is Ish

On my hand I have a dish.

I have this dish to help me wish.

When I wish to make a wish

I wave my hand with a big swish swish.

Then I say, "I wish for fish!"

And I get fish right on my dish.

So...

If you wish to make a wish,

you may swish for fish with my Ish wish dish.

I've had the phrase "I wish I wish I wish for fish" coming into my head every once in a while for a long time, and was unable to track down the prase. It must be a corrupted version of Seuss!

I would like a word to describe the situation where food smells so much better than it tastes. It's a very specific kind of anticipation/ disappointment.

French and German have second person plural case and pronoun, but English is lacking, fortunately the southern US has filled this void with "y'all"

Very handy, probably sounds a bit funny when I say it, but then y'all can go whistle dixie.;)

I wish my work lingo included: JESUS FUCKING CHRIST ARE YOU A FUCKING MORON CAN YOU NOT READ OR WERE YOU TEMPORARILY BLINDED OR MAYBE YOU'RE STILL DRUNK?

edit: and that's for my cow orkers!

Sigh.

But really, when I want to say "that really throws a wrench in the works" I have to make myself say "wrench" because I so like the British (is that the right classification?) word spanner better...as in "Well, that really throws a spanner in the works."

To really bring it up to speed. :D

You need to do a circular motion with your hand (pointer finger), parallel to ground, to indicate "all of you in this immediate area up around here."

that's what I thought too :lol:

ur a tool

She totally hats you.

i like the way his brainbrainbrain works

I would go ahead and use 'spanner' if that's what you like.

I've used "Bob's your uncle" at work. I like it better than "there you go".

Youse guys should copy us!


FTR: Japanese:
Watashi: I / me
Anata: you
Watashi-tachi: We/us
Anata-tachi: Youse, y'awll

The Russians also have second person singular and plural, and so do the Scots. "You" and "Youse" - although the latter is considered déclassé.
Now there's a word the English language needs, déclassé!

I use 'youse'. Most of my lot do. Mainly because of my niece Amelia, who used to say it when she was little. We kind of adopted it.

It is used in various parts of the country actually, but as with the Scots, it's not really considered proper.

I have thought about this, and here are the Brit words that America needs to start using.


Bin - this can be a free exchange with "dumpster". It's far more elegant than "trashcan" or "garbage can". What I especially like about this one is its migration into a verb ("bin it"), something that only the best words get to do.

Torch - much more colorful than our "flashlight", especially since the light is almost never intended to flash.

Plaster - to avoid the proper noun Band-Aid.

But your flashlight isn't bursting into flames, either.

Although remember we use the brand name Hoover where you mean vacuum. In cleaning floor terms of course, not scientific.

Blimey, so complicated.
Where's Brian Cox when you need him?
(probably in bed with Captain Jack Harness. In my dreams)

We need a word to describe things which have no word to describe them

Hoover is now altogether wrong, since the best vacuums are Dyson and Dyson is a Brit.

The Germans beat both of us with "dust sucker."

Plaster goes on walls. Or in Paris.

Hoover is like our south calling all soft drinks "Coke."

I got made fun of by a moron from Minnesota years ago for saying that I was going to the grocery. He insisted it was incomplete, without store following it.

What do you guys say?

Grocery is a section in a supermarket, or is followed by the word store.
I'm sorry, Shaw, the moron was right.

I love that you guys call Polyfilla "Spackle". I've read Patrick Ness. I know what they really are.

Yeah, but he was still a moron. Must be a local thing.

Grandma asked my ex one year what he wanted for Christmas. He said a new butt 'cause his had a crack in it. Grandma gave him a jar of spackle and a putty knife. :lol:

A man goes to a supermarket and asks to buy half a head of lettuce. The very young produce assistant tells him that they sell only whole heads of lettuce.. The man persists and asks to see the manager. The boy says he’ll ask his manager about it.
Walking into the back room, the boy said to his manager,
“Some idiot wants to buy half a head of lettuce.”
Just as he finishes his sentence, he turns to find the man standing right behind him, So he added,”And this gentleman would like to buy the other half.”
The manager approves the deal, and the man goes on his way. Later the manager said to the boy, "I was really impressed with how you got yourself out of that situation earlier, where are you from?"
"Minnesota." the boy replied.
"Oh, why did you leave?"
'‘Sir, The only things from Minnesota are hookers and hockey players."
"I'll have you know that my wife is from Minnesota." Said the manager.
"No kidding?" replied the boy. "What team did she play for?"

Did you miss changing a city there? :eyebrow:

And that's when Shawnee chortled.

It's funnier that way

See, I'd have known that if you hadn't missed the post-punch line

And South Philadelphians say "yous", pronounced "yooze"

Olfactooooey!

Olfactooey! :lol:

you missed two hos

we need a word for those little whistle novelties that you blow on and they curl out. I suppose we call them something in English, but nothing can beat what they call them in Spanish: "tocasuegra" or, literally, "mother-in-law ticklers"

I don't recall there being a large number of Scotsmen in South Philly, but I don't get there much.

We have one. Sniglet.

From what I know, southerners say "y'all," northeasterners say "yous" or I've seen it written as "youse," and mid-westerners say "you guys." A few years after moving from Hawaii to Texas, I was still using "you guys" for the you plural form. A friend said, there are girls here too.

Sorry, I would use the word "store" with it too. But you know what would be interesting? To make a poll, asking southerners. It could be a regional or perhaps a usage in your area.

I see where you got your humor from. Your grandma is a funny woman. :)

Guys in the plural form can refer to people in general. Just as Muchachos refers to groups of mixed gender while muchachas refers to groups of women only.

Thank you, she was. We lost her the day Princess Diana died. We joked that St Peter was all aflutter about this amazing woman who had showed up at the gates, and LOOK, there's Princess Di too! I bet my grandma cracked a joke or two for her, and they got along famously (if you believe in that sort of thing.)

She was an amazing woman. Independent, strong, funny, loving. I miss her all the time. If I believed in guardian angel types, I would believe in her. When she divorced my grandpa she never remarried, and was perfectly happy living her life on her own terms.

I would like more words for snow. I am jealous of the Eskimos. They can have the seal blubber, but I want the words.

We need a word to describe the act of screen-spraying caused by the unfortunate interaction of reading humorful things on the interwebs and imbibing beverages both hot and cold

In the entertainment industry, that's called a "spit take."

Splaff

I wish had a word for what people really mean when they say ironic.

Monster .... COSMi? CSOMic. COSMing.

As in "That was a COSMic joke, Sheldon, I COSMed all over."

Since it means "made entirely of iron" I say a good word would be a form of wrought, like...rot.

I should acknowledge that "totally awesome" works much better with a Californian accent.