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J W Campbell
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Shaun Barry wrote:
| Do people use "flummoxed" anymore, I wonder…? |
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*raises hand*
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Robbie Moubert
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This thread has inspired me to go and watch the Dr Johnson episode of Black Adder the Third.
I shall return interfrastically.
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Matt Hawes
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Brian O'Neill wrote:
| ...Is the internet at fault, or just he way the modern generation uses it?Knowing something like 'Winston Churchill' or Bewitched or 'Nathan Hale' shouldn't be too daunting for a Jeopardy! contestant. I knew of all three of those 'topics' when I was young,... |
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It's odd that the ease of which one can find information these days because of the internet, yet it seems the younger generation knows less about history (world history AND pop-culture history) than ever before. Worse than that, from the youngsters I have spoken with on the subject, they don't seem to care to learn history, either.
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Matthew Chartrand
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I am 46 and I recently used the phrase "jump the shark" in conversation with my wife and a friend I grew up with. Neither one knew what I was referring to. So I ran the phrase past a few others my age or older, not one knew the phrase or its origin. I was flabbergasted.
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John Byrne
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One thing of which I became aware many years ago is how many phrases we use commonly, without even thinking about it, have origins as slurs against homosexuals. When we say something "sucks," for instance.
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Roy Johnson
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Jeopardy contestents not knowing Winston Churchill is sad, but not knowing about TV shows from before they were born isn't. I've made WKRP references to people in their 20s - that show stopped being in syndication before they were born.
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John Popa
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I was on a work-related call a week or so ago, the highlight of which was a British co-worker continually using the word 'fortnightly,' which I love and which confused everyone else.
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Brian Miller
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I answer the phone with "ahoy."
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David Bensette
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You and Mr.Burns...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qonpElvRu8Q
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John Byrne
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Speaking of Englishisms, when I was a kid my parents were friends with a British couple who clung to a lot of antique terms. One was related to clocks. The wife would express 25 minutes after the hour as "five and twenty past." Didn't ever hear any variants, tho, like seven and twenty.
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Brian Hague
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My friends who have ties to England use English terms when speaking about time. For instance, they refer to 6:30 as "half six." They are up to here with my following it up with "so, three then, right?"
Edited by Brian Hague on 29 December 2014 at 7:38pm
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Steven Myers
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I used the phrase "10 'til" on regards to time and the person I was talking to (older than I) didn't understand. Finally she said "Do you mean 10 of?"
I find it strange that people can't figure out words from the context they are used. When I was talking to some teens about southernisms, they couldn't even guess what a "bad cloud" was. As in "We were playing ball, but it came up a bad cloud."
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