Figures of speech

Time for Portuguese forumengers to chime in.I believe it's pronounced shoreesoo there?
what curdles my blood is rapper types saying arks instead of ask-f*cking w*nkers

Well, my definition would be basically a friend or someone whom you know. Perhaps someone from 'around the way' or whatever. I believe the term started with Chicanos, but I'm not too sure.

I've just never heard it literally broken down to mean 'someone from my home town,' and I've never known anyone to use it that way. But you could well be right... I'm certainly no linguist!

I think the more you think on my definition, the more you'll buy it.... ;)

I think the more you think on my definition, the more you'll buy it.... ;)

It just reminded me of when I studied English and linguistics in Uni. The profs used to talk about "African American Vernacular English" (although I think we still called it "Black English Vernacular" when I was in school) and would ALWAYS point out how the black use of the word 'be' (as in "I be going to work") was a holdover from West African languages and originally was used to express a habitual tense or whatever that wasn't present in English. Therefore these enterprising Africans started using 'be' to express that.

It's a bunch of bollocks (and has since been discredited). 'I be going to the store' means 'I'm going to the store.'

He's clearly a massive fan of Gerry Rafferty...

Okay Platini... I'll bite. What does that mean?

It's 'out of my height', you fucking moron.

I disagree. "Out of my depth " if used in the context of a swimming pool and the competence of a swimmer is a useful description. So it can be used as a metaphor for doing some thing beyond one's competence .

Okay Platini... I'll bite. What does that mean?

Would you not like to spend more than 10 minutes trying to figure it out?
GYAC: 'Holmes' is the key...

I disagree. "Out of my depth " if used in the context of a swimming pool and the competence of a swimmer is a useful description. So it can be used as a metaphor for doing some thing beyond one's competence .

Thanks for clearing that up - do you ever feel like that?

I disagree. "Out of my depth " if used in the context of a swimming pool and the competence of a swimmer is a useful description. So it can be used as a metaphor for doing some thing beyond one's competence .

oopsy daisy

@ Polkatronixx - yeah, I did a bit of work on the tenses / tense variations of different vernaculars a few years back - it's really interesting. It's amusing as well as disappointing that the linguistic differences between minority / local / black cultures and the white English were perceived as yet more proof of whichever minority's inferior intellect - i.e. they couldn't get it right - whereas after a bit of intelligent research linguists were easily able to show grammatical consistency in all the permutations of English they listened to.

Time for Portuguese forumengers to chime in.I believe it's pronounced shoreesoo there?
what curdles my blood is rapper types saying arks instead of ask-f*cking w*nkers

by "rapper types" do you mean "certain demographics of black people"?

Would you not like to spend more than 10 minutes trying to figure it out?
GYAC: 'Holmes' is the key...

Well, my initial attempt at figuring out who Gerry Rafferty was revealed he had a hit song called 'Home and Dry' (which is apparently NOT the same as the Pet Shop Boys' song of that name). That's about the best I could do. I was surprised to find out that he was part of Stealer's Wheel, though. And surprised to find out Stealer's Wheel were a Scottish group.

It's "Holme and Dry"...

Well, my initial attempt at figuring out who Gerry Rafferty was revealed he had a hit song called 'Home and Dry' .

Tesco Value search engine fail...

Come on now...

Trivia: Bob Holness played the saxophone riff on Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street.

Interthreadualtastic or what.

I'm not a fan, sorry.

No shit, Sherlock?

Come on now...

Aha! You've won again, Platini. Well played....

Trivia: Bob Holness played the saxophone riff on Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street.

Interthreadualtastic or what.

beautiful connector to Bob Holmness, with that I retire for the evening

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Holness

So anyway... He went to the pet store and said "I'll take that cock over there"

they went back to the farm and the rooster went berserk. Shagged the chickens, shagged the ducks, shagged anything with wings....

almost always

I think I am drowning .

I ll get my float.

My homes be talkin' 'bout what's on.

I'm fucking wasted round here.

Don't get me wrong, it was a shit gag.

I'm fucking wasted.

Trivia: Bob Holness played the saxophone riff on Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street.

Interthreadualtastic or what.

Urban myth...
The song's prominent saxophone hook (in the original version) was played by Raphael Ravenscroft, and the guitar solo by Hugh Burns.
The eight-bar alto saxophone solo apparently led to a resurgence described as "the 'Baker Street' phenomenon". There followed a jump in saxophone sales, and a noticeable increase in the use of the instrument in mainstream pop music and TV advertising.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Street_(song)