@cassana@the-crossroads-inn.com
2026-02-12 10:45 UTC
@afewbugs@social.coop New grammar module:
British english insultative vocative: “You (insert random creatively applicable noun).
Emphatic insultative vocative: “you absolute …”
This one is of course related and regularly combined with the common exclamatory vocative: "Oy!", e.g., "oy, you absolute disco light!"
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@quixoticgeek@social.v.st 2026-02-12 11:00
@cassana@the-crossroads-inn.com @afewbugs@social.coop the crazy thing with this is you can also use it to describe being drunk. "Got utterly trousered yesterday" "totally gazebod"...
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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org 2026-02-12 12:01
@cassana@the-crossroads-inn.com @afewbugs@social.coop note that, without the “you”, exactly the same nouns can be used as a term of affection. “Hello, gazebo!” — affectionate “You table!” — insulting As Pete Seeger noted, English is crazy.