kangarunner wrote: ↑November 1st, 2023, 8:44 pm
For all the Americans on here so we know what @yick , @Pixel--Dude , and @Lucas88 are saying sometimes
To be fair, I always deliberately write in a way that is easy for the North American members here to understand. My limited experience in dealing with people from the US has shown me that those of us who grew up in the UK tend to have far greater knowledge of American terms and slang than what they have of British terms. That is to be expected given the dominance of the US in the Anglophone media. This is the reason why here on the forum you might sometimes see me using words like "vacation" instead of the British word "holiday", for example. I want to limit the possibility of confusion.
Moreover, I don't like the sound of most forms of British English whether it be the standard language of the educated middle class which sounds completely soulless to me or the various substandard dialects of the British Isles. Honestly, I find most forms of British English unpleasant and much of its slang somewhat goofy and dumb. You'll never hear me using words like "geezer", which sounds markedly southern or cockney to my northern ears and therefore irritating; or "bum" for butt/ass/arse/booty, which sounds childish to me.
Instead, I tend to only use slang from my own particular South Yorkshire dialect. I find my own particular South Yorkshire dialect far more palatable than most other forms of British English. It has a hearty and folksy quality, has many unique dialectal words of Norse origin, and sounds decent (obviously not supremely beautiful like the Romance languages but decent by English standards). In contrast, most other forms of British English sound very alien to me. When I'm in my native part of South Yorkshire or with other people from there I pepper my speech with regional slang and even intentionally speak as "broad" as possible. However, I have no enthusiasm for most other forms of British English or their slang and even feel aversion towards them. I'm quite xenophobic when it comes to other regions of the UK.
@kangarunner, here is a video of two old-timers speaking my own particular South Yorkshire dialect:
The guy with the guitar speaks with an especially broad accent. Lol!
Another video of a girl explaining slang terms and expressions:
Some of these sound hilarious. And she's just a millennial. The way older people pronounce these slang terms and expressions is even funnier!
Here is an article on Yorkshire slang:
https://the-yorkshireman.com/yorkshire-slang/
The first word that comes up in the list is
laik (alternatively pronounced as
leck). It means "to play", is of Norse origin and is related to the modern Swedish word
leka with the same meaning. Hilariously, when
@Pixel--Dude and I were kids, we used to refer to the Sony PlayStation as the "leckstation".
But yes, the South Yorkshire dialect sounds way better to me than standard British English or any of the southern or midlands dialects. All of the latter sound like dogshit.
