Stoopid American-isms

[d w124]

I use them quite a lot but that's because I joined Benzworld few years prior to MBClub. I hope MOCAŠ and renault12ts can fix me!

This picture should be in Performance Lounge

 

[markjay]

This thread has reminded me just how much I hate dumb, slang American-isms creeping into the English language...Especially on car forums.

http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/general-discussion/132073-aggressive-poor-mb-sales-person.html

Speed Zones instead of speed limits,
Part out instead of changed,
Parted out instead of swapped/exchanged
What's your Ride, instead of what car do you have,
Headers instead of manifold,
Rims instead of wheels,
Fender instead of wing,
Spun out instead of spun.

The list goes on.


We have enough poor English terms, such as calling children/kids, "Little ones/Little Man", so don't need any Amurricaan ones as well...

Panic Stop vs Emergency Braking

Yield vs Give Way



Gas Pedal vs Accelerator

 

[MOCAŠ]

Panic Stop vs Emergency Braking

Yield vs Give Way

Gas Pedal vs Accelerator

I trust your use of "vs" rather than "v" is deliberate...

 

[markjay]

It might have been.... ahmm.

 

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[WDB124066]

Would you like fries with that.......

 

[ringway]

Enjoy..

 

[Pitts Pilot]

From the Iraq war (II):

He was "Over-wounded", meaning "Killed".

I done talking about it now.

 

[golden1245]

I'm posting from America...I wonder if I've used any "americanisms" in my posts. I try to be as proper as I can, but I didn't think they were that unpopular =X

 

[janner]

If you're ever in an American bar, never ask someone if you can bum a fag...

 

[Bosco]

Yield vs Give Way

Yield is actually the perfect word, short and concise, and is also used on road signs in Ireland.

 

[trapperjohn]

I'm posting from America...I wonder if I've used any "americanisms" in my posts. I try to be as proper as I can, but I didn't think they were that unpopular =X

Hey, you are very welcome here.

There is probably the reverse of this thread on Benz-World.

 

[GordonTarling]

What is it about calling a mixed sex group of people 'guys'?

 

[grober]

Its probably a measure of the popularity of the many American TV shows that crowd our TV channels that we are all now so familiar with these words and phrases that they creep into everyday parlance. We are all sufficiently aware of their meaning and syntax that people are confident enough to include them in conversation or in internet forum posts. While I would not like to see them displacing English phrases altogether they just extend the vocabulary available to people to express themselves. A little foreign influence isn't a bad thing where the rather pretentious " das beste oder nichts" is nicely balanced with the pithy yet succinct and equally applicable "FUBAR " from across the pond. "Vive la differential n,est ce pas?" as Arfur Daley might have put it.

 

[renault12ts]

It might have been.... ahmm.

Is that an American ellipsis?

 

[renault12ts]

Hey, you are very welcome here.

There is probably the reverse of this thread on Benz-World.

There's certainly a "trapperjohn" on Benzworld!!

 

[golden1245]

I have a cousin who lives in the UK, in Birmingham specifically and I love whenever he does a "American" accent, it's always either a western/cowboy type of accent or "California" surfer dude accent. It's quite funny actually!

 

[Dieselman]

I have a cousin who lives in the UK, in Birmingham specifically and I love whenever he does a "American" accent, it's always either a western/cowboy type of accent or "California" surfer dude accent. It's quite funny actually!

Could be worse, He could do George Dubya.

 

[MOCAŠ]

Is that an American ellipsis?

Must be. Everything's bigger over there...

 

[poormansporsche]

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