Talking turkey

I'm kind of formal myself. It took me a long time to warm up to things like lol and rofl. And I'm still uncomfortable with things in the language that have changed since I was a kid such as "my bad" or "acting out" (instead of acting up).

Some things strike my fancy. Like I use 'kewl' but not wicked in it's new connotation. Too many swear words make me uncomfortable too. And 'enry 'iggins would agree with you on that last one, but it's not something you see here in the US!

'urrah for that indeed! There is 'ope then

no 'eschew obfuscation' eh?

My mother was very correct also. She was from the South and deliberately lost the accent and was also very well educated. At the same time, she could just let lose with a barrage of bad grammar in some kind of a funny accent if she wanted to get a laugh!

My mother only had a standard education - she did not go to college or anything as her parents had emigrated from Ireland to the U.K. because of the fighting in Ireland at that time. she also lost much of her hearing in her teens due to complications from measles. She was fiercely ambitious for her children as she did not want us to be trapped in marriage with no means of escape if we were unhappy. she wanted us to be able to earn enough money to be independent of a man/husband. She was born in 1912 so definitely a lady before her time.

Sounds kind of like the great-aunt who raised my mom...

I talk the way I talk too but I notice it when somebody else uses a lot of expressions that I'm not familiar with or am uncomfortable with.

lol I laughed when I saw you responded even before I saw your response...

Haha well really i dont get what ya mean..whats that fancy word you used?

no comprende senorita

Where I come from 'dragged' but I hear 'drug' all the time...

"Drug" is the old way to do past tense, now "dragged" is considered proper, but sounds so WRONG to me.

naw, drug is slang, isn't it?

Not according to the Oxford English Dictionary, its an archaic form of the past tense.

I may be a lousy at spelling and at grammer, but that's history and that's my bag.

Very interesting - did not know that. Of course the Oxford English Dictionary has no standing here in the good old U S of A. lol

Actually, it does.... http://www.oed.com/

As they say for themselves, its the definitive record of the English Language. You want to know word origins, you will find the complete origin in the OED.

(Learned that in my "History of the English Language" course in college.

For word origins, sure, but not for current American usage.

None the less, while they say that it is an old term, here in the states anyway it is still in usage and has been. I think we have it in use because of the fact that the word was still in common usage when the States were settled.

It's very much in usage! But I thought it was just slang, had no idea that it was an archaic form.

I had an actual word "fight" over this word, I wanted to stick to my prefered usage and my "editor" wanted to use "dragged." I had to go to the dictonary and PROVE it was a form of the past tense before she accepted it, and then only grudgingly*itching it wasn't in normal usage.

Almost caused a knock down drag out? lol

Good thing there were a LOT of miles between us!

Guess so ( did I mention that I like puns?)...

No, but I have a fondness for them myself, and my friend, Maggiepie, loves them!

Me either, except occasionally to make a point...

I have a daughter who is almost a teenager, so I suspect I'll be getting a whole course on what's mainstream real soon!

oh dear. lol good luck with that!! I'm sure it will be very confusing and annoying!

and even more so when the twins get to be that age (heaven help me lol)...