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From: RedGrittyBrick on 3 Feb 2010 12:24 Lew wrote: > Britishers Do all Americaners call Britons Britishers?
From: Lew on 3 Feb 2010 12:46 Lew wrote: >> Britishers RedGrittyBrick wrote: > Do all Americaners call Britons Britishers? I don't know, but the term comes from Indian English, not American, so it's the Indiaers who say it. I was just being international. <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Britisher> It's not like I made up the word, or that it's uncommon or incorrect. When Jack Kennedy said, "Ich bin ein Berliner," he was saying, "I am a pastry." That'd be like me saying in English, "I am a Danish." -- Lew
From: Tom Anderson on 3 Feb 2010 12:49 On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Lew wrote: > Lew wrote: >>> Britishers > > RedGrittyBrick wrote: >> Do all Americaners call Britons Britishers? > > I don't know, but the term comes from Indian English, not American, so it's > the Indiaers who say it. Indianers, surely? > I was just being international. > <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Britisher> > > It's not like I made up the word, or that it's uncommon or incorrect. In the UK, i suspect it's associated with Germans. Specifically, unconvincing German villains from old war films. "Ve vill victimise ze Britishers viz zer villainous V2!" etc. tom -- I was employed by a Lacanian and, believe me, you don't want to see what a postmodern approach to cashflow entails. -- G'
From: Mike Schilling on 3 Feb 2010 13:33 Tom Anderson wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Mike Schilling wrote: > >> Lew wrote: >>> Mike Schilling wrote: >>>> Lew wrote: >>>>> "SPAM" in all upper-case letters is a trademark of Hormel foods >>>>> for their canned pork product. >>>> >>>> Hormel's SPAM museum >>>> (http://www.spam.com/games/Museum/default.aspx) has a Monty Python >>>> exhibit. Pretty cool of them to embrace the skit rather than >>>> getting shirty about trademark usage. >>> >>> But the Monty Python skit actually does refer to the Hormel >>> product. No risk of confusion there. >> >> No, but since the point of the skit is how disgusting the stuff is >> ... > > That's not the point of the sketch. The point of the sketch is the > surrealism of a cafe which only one thing, but serves it in dozens of > presumably indistinguishable combinations. That the one thing is spam > is important, because i don't think the sketch would be funny if it > was chocolate instead, but i think that has as much to do with the > funny sound of the word than the disgusting nature of the stuff. They did a very similar sketch with "rat". Woman: Well there's rat cake ... rat sorbet... rat pudding... or strawberry tart. Man: Strawberry tart?! Woman: Well it's got some rat in it. Man: How much? Woman: Three, rather a lot really. Man: ... well, I'll have a slice without so much rat in it.
From: Arved Sandstrom on 3 Feb 2010 17:39
Lew wrote: > Lew wrote: >>> Britishers > > RedGrittyBrick wrote: >> Do all Americaners call Britons Britishers? > > I don't know, but the term comes from Indian English, not American, so > it's the Indiaers who say it. I was just being international. > <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Britisher> > > It's not like I made up the word, or that it's uncommon or incorrect. > > When Jack Kennedy said, "Ich bin ein Berliner," he was saying, "I am a > pastry." That'd be like me saying in English, "I am a Danish." > Well, no, JFK actually did say - correctly - that he was a citizen of Berlin. In fact, in this case, it was probably better for him to say "Ich bin ein Berliner" than "Ich bin Berliner". In either case the phrase, in context, meant exactly what it was supposed to mean, and not that he was a pastry. And in Berlin, in particular, there wasn't even any ambiguity: http://www.esskultur.net/lm/berliner3.html. AHS |