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minus-squareladicius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up130arrow-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-up63·11 months 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-211 months 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-up45·11 months ago“x” is a kiss, used as an informal “yours truly” in British English digital correspondence
minus-squareLemminary@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·11 months agoWait, I thought ‘x’ was hug and ‘o’ was kiss. Have I been wrong all these years??
minus-squareSjmarf@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up15·edit-211 months agoX is kiss, O is hug (at least, in the UK it is)
minus-squareteuast@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agothat is also how it’s always been explained to me
minus-squareZagorath@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·11 months 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-up16·11 months agoPretty sure it’s the x in “xoxo”, the old convention for hugs and kisses.
minus-squareTSG_Asmodeus (he, him)@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·11 months ago xoxo… the old convention for hugs and kisses.
minus-squaretrafficnab@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up18·edit-211 months 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-squarex4740N@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34arrow-down1·1 year agoAs a native English speaker I nearly got a stroke trying to figure out what it said
minus-squarecmbabul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-21 year agoI had to imagine Karen Gillan saying it
minus-squarePipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·11 months agoHere is an alternative Piped link(s): Fern Brady Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
minus-squareLemminary@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoAh, ye daft bot! Could’ve at least tossed a wee upvote me way for the comment, aye?
minus-squareramenshaman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down1·11 months agoAs a native English speaker, me too.
minus-squareu/unhappy_grapefruit_2@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-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-down2·11 months 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-up6·11 months agoI never knew you can just omit such key words.
minus-squareHandles@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months 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-up4·11 months 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
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 I nearly got a stroke trying to figure out what it said
I had to imagine Karen Gillan saying it
Oi
Mine was Fern Brady!
Oh, new comedian unlocked! Yes!
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Fern Brady
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Ah, ye daft bot! Could’ve at least tossed a wee upvote me way for the comment, aye?
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