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iunno, the last time I asked if I could bum a fag, it was made very clear to me that UK lingo has NOT conquered the US
by Scoundreller 2y ago
iunno, the last time I asked if I could bum a fag, it was made very clear to me that UK lingo has NOT conquered the US
- throwup238 2y agoSame when I asked my neighbor to “knock me up in the morning.” That was a very weird morning…
- dekhn 2y ago(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocker-up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocker-up)
- OJFord 2y agoWord of warning then - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LDsfzJXGAo8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LDsfzJXGAo8
- card_zero 2y ago> It was early in April in the year ’83 that I woke one morning to find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my bed. “Very sorry to knock you up, Watson,” said he, “but it’s the common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she retorted upon me, and I on you.”
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- ccppurcell 2y agoSee also: "ejaculation" used to be synonymous with "exclamation" and it's used heavily all across the Sherlock stories eg "The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had framed himself in the aperture." For a list see https://thetaleofsirbob.blogspot.com/2013/07/watson-and-other-excitable-characters.html?m=1 https://thetaleofsirbob.blogspot.com/2013/07/watson-and-othe... If you mentally insert some commas some of them are really funny.
- 1659447091 2y ago> "The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had framed himself in the aperture." Makes the "romance" books my grandmother would read sound like they were lifted from the Sherlock stories
- nprateem 2y agoWhenever I read Dickens or whatever and there's a sentence like: "Stop!" he ejaculated I can't help adding a mental full stop to make 2 sentences. Childish I know :D Makes for some strange additions to the story