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minus-squareladicius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down1·1 year agoThanks for translating. As a non native English speaker I nearly got a stroke trying to understand these… words.
minus-squareZagorath@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up61·1 year agoTo assist: Lesbo: short for lesbian Pish: an expression of frustration Bangin’: hot nd: and ye: you am no: I’m not tae: to yer: your pal: friend shag: have sex with
minus-squarePunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·edit-21 year agoI got all of that except “shag ye x,” because it sounds like “shag (fuck) you x,” where “x” is the subject that is a bit vague. Like, “I’m trying to shag you, love?” or “Fuck your ex,” as in, the last person you broke up with?
minus-squarefunkless_eck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up44·1 year ago“x” is a kiss, used as an informal “yours truly” in British English digital correspondence
minus-squareLemminary@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoWait, I thought ‘x’ was hug and ‘o’ was kiss. Have I been wrong all these years??
minus-squareSjmarf@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up15·edit-21 year agoX is kiss, O is hug (at least, in the UK it is)
minus-squareteuast@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agothat is also how it’s always been explained to me
minus-squareZagorath@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 year agoI could be wrong, but I thought the x at the end was just a cutesy sign-off. Like “xoxo” type of thing.
minus-squareZeroTHM@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·1 year agoPretty sure it’s the x in “xoxo”, the old convention for hugs and kisses.
minus-squareTSG_Asmodeus (he, him)@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·1 year ago xoxo… the old convention for hugs and kisses.
minus-squaretrafficnab@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up17·edit-21 year agoThe release of Shrek is closer to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the invention of the Sony Walkman than it is to today
minus-squareramenshaman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down1·1 year agoAs a native English speaker, me too.
minus-squareu/unhappy_grapefruit_2@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down2·edit-21 year agoShould watch still game. You’ll end up with a brain aneurysm trying understand the Scottish pensioner’s
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down5·1 year agoThe Scottish pensioner is what?
minus-squarelseif@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down2·1 year agoit’s not a contraction, it’s possession. the Scottish pensioner’s [dialogue] where the last word is omitted for brevity
minus-squarehoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoI never knew you can just omit such key words.
minus-squareHandles@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoAnd if the sentence feels sparse you can drop “which” in there wherever, because apparently it’s just filler now.
minus-squareu/unhappy_grapefruit_2@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoPersonally father ted takes the cake in my books I’ve still got father Jack Hacketts wise words ingrained into my head drink feck arse girls .such words of poetry such words of expression these words are moving pieces of poetry
minus-squarex4740N@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoAs a native English speaker I nearly got a stroke trying to figure out what it said
minus-squarecmbabul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 year agoI had to imagine Karen Gillan saying it
Thanks for translating. As a non native English speaker I nearly got a stroke trying to understand these… words.
To assist:
I got all of that except “shag ye x,” because it sounds like “shag (fuck) you x,” where “x” is the subject that is a bit vague. Like, “I’m trying to shag you, love?” or “Fuck your ex,” as in, the last person you broke up with?
“x” is a kiss, used as an informal “yours truly” in British English digital correspondence
Wait, I thought ‘x’ was hug and ‘o’ was kiss. Have I been wrong all these years??
X is kiss, O is hug (at least, in the UK it is)
that is also how it’s always been explained to me
I could be wrong, but I thought the x at the end was just a cutesy sign-off. Like “xoxo” type of thing.
Pretty sure it’s the x in “xoxo”, the old convention for hugs and kisses.
The release of Shrek is closer to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the invention of the Sony Walkman than it is to today
Now I want to cry.
As a native English speaker, me too.
Should watch still game. You’ll end up with a brain aneurysm trying understand the Scottish pensioner’s
The Scottish pensioner is what?
it’s not a contraction, it’s possession.
where the last word is omitted for brevity
I never knew you can just omit such key words.
well you can!
And if the sentence feels sparse you can drop “which” in there wherever, because apparently it’s just filler now.
If you’re a big fat liar
how will you ever cope
You’re weclome
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Personally father ted takes the cake in my books I’ve still got father Jack Hacketts wise words ingrained into my head
.such words of poetry such words of expression these words are moving pieces of poetry
As a native English speaker I nearly got a stroke trying to figure out what it said
I had to imagine Karen Gillan saying it
Oi