Reply to: Really?

[suityou01]

What about using the word "folks"?

I'm pretty sure "Really?" would be found in many of the classics... "'Really?' He cocked a sardonic eyebrow"... etc

Well even the writers of today don't use modern language except in dialog. And that's always the case... people in books speak in the language of their time but the prose generally doesn't.

SAS, another cretin for you ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[d000hg]

What about folks saying " you what?" if they want me to repeat what I just said ?

What about using the word "folks"?

I think 'really' as an expression of mild surprise, in context, is ok, such as "really? well i never would have guessed......." but to replace the whole sentence with the one word is such a shame.

I'm pretty sure "Really?" would be found in many of the classics... "'Really?' He cocked a sardonic eyebrow"... etc

Imagine if the writers of the great literary works had used todays modern language

Well even the writers of today don't use modern language except in dialog. And that's always the case... people in books speak in the language of their time but the prose generally doesn't.

[oracleslave]

I think 'really' as an expression of mild surprise, in context, is ok, such as "really? well i never would have guessed......." but to replace the whole sentence with the one word is such a shame. Imagine if the writers of the great literary works had used todays modern language

tru dat

[suityou01]

I think 'really' as an expression of mild surprise, in context, is ok, such as "really? well i never would have guessed......." but to replace the whole sentence with the one word is such a shame. Imagine if the writers of the great literary works had used todays modern language

Hats off.

[Sue B]

I think 'really' as an expression of mild surprise, in context, is ok, such as "really? well i never would have guessed......." but to replace the whole sentence with the one word is such a shame. Imagine if the writers of the great literary works had used todays modern language

[cailin maith]

What about folks saying " you what?" if they want me to repeat what I just said ?

Quite.

What is wrong with Pardon?

Although small child is now getting past Hiya and Ta - he's been saying "Wha?" for what.... not sure he can get his head around pardon just yet!

[fullyautomatix]

What about folks saying " you what?" if they want me to repeat what I just said ?

[cailin maith]

You potato crunchers are exempt from this. Beyond help

Fair point

Actually, I've googled it and found a thread on another forum which kind of explains it. Also indicates it's a "Culchie" thing. And unfortunatly despite spending my early years in D4, moving to the country did turn me into somewhat of a culchie

[wobbegong]

Now, you listen to me, .... sonny. I'm pressing the right keys, .... not necessarily in the right order.

gap

[doodab]

Ok, I'll bite ...... injerjection????

Check the time of my post. I was brushing my teeth

[tractor]

We used to speak in regional dialects until invention of the "Queens English" when courtiers were forced to change their speak for the Queen ERI, Except for Walter Raleigh that is who was allowed to speak in his native West country accent. In the late 1700s came the London centric fashion for adding redundant 'Rs' to words. Both of these fashions have somehow become amalgamated and are now by many seen as the correct way to speak, when they are just modern bastardisation of the spoken English language. The Americanisms you loathe are the latest fashion and no less culturally valid than QE and fake rs.

Sir Wally was allowed to do what he wanted cos he always had taters and fags!!!

And to the OP are we bovvered?

[suityou01]

People at home keep saying "Happy Out" .....

What the feck is that?? It doesn't even make sense? Haven't come across it here but I keep seeing it on FB etc from the Irish contingent.

You potato crunchers are exempt from this. Beyond help

[cailin maith]

People at home keep saying "Happy Out" .....

What the feck is that?? It doesn't even make sense? Haven't come across it here but I keep seeing it on FB etc from the Irish contingent.

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[suityou01]

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