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Why do European football fans sing songs in English? Basel fans were singing "Sing when you're winning, you only sing when you're winning" and yet I could never imagine an English fan singing a song in Swedish, German, Italian or French.
My Spanish is passable at best but I couldn't imagine visiting a stadium in Madrid and singing songs taunting opposing fans in Spanish. I feel enough enough of a **** ordering a coffee and a baguette, especially when the waiter or waitress usually responds in English.
It does come in handy knowing enough of a foreign language to get by especially in more rural areas but truth is if you think you are showing your cultural awareness by speaking in Spanish in a restaurant or bar I'll let you in on a little something.
The Spanish abhor it despite the protestations. If they can speak good English let them get on with it is the way I see it. I hate the sound of my faux-Spanish accent anyway.
1. Cute.
2. Mate - oh my god I could slap people who say that. You are not someones friend so stop saying mate. Especially not in an argument. GRR.
3. You guys - oh please.
4. Legit - no it is legible. Not Legit, you are not 'cool'. So shut your mouth.
Another annoying one that has crossed the Atlantic: 'New Years'. New Year's Eve, or New Year's Day, sure, but they refer to 'New Year' in the singular. When people say "I'll see you at New Years", how many new years are they referring to if they put an S on the end of it?
Well it sounds daft to me to sit and say 'ill see you at New Year' erm LOL.
1. Cute.
2. Mate - oh my god I could slap people who say that. You are not someones friend so stop saying mate. Especially not in an argument. GRR.
3. You guys - oh please.
4. Legit - no it is legible. Not Legit, you are not 'cool'. So shut your mouth.
Are we talking only about words that irritate in the U.K.?
Well, anyway, I'll assume this can be a problem there too. It CERTAINLY is in the U.S. and personally has an effect on me about the same as fingernails dragged across a blackboard - like a screech.
It's the fact that the English language has apparently unofficially completely dropped all use of the simple word -
"an"
Everything is "a".
Have you noticed that??
And it sounds awful when nobody has the simplest of educational skills to know what to put before a noun. I really don't get that...do you?
Oh, and don't forget these little gems - "yo" and "right on"...
Hun and Babe, in any UK accent. enough to set any ones teeth on edge real or otherwise.
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