Comments by "Kathy Bramley" (@kathybramley5609) on "Vanity Fair" channel.

  1. There are regional and sometimes idiosyncratic variations in the use of idiom. I've heard lackadaisical used to mean disorganised headless-chicken moods rather than Shakespearean-level sadness, and more than once. Dibbs is kind of related to Tig and Tag and tick variants of the children's cat-and-mouse game. As well as to alternative names for a remote control that are also horticultural tools: dibber, dobber. Dobber also means to tell someone off. And both those words could be along with dribs and drabs sometimes be used to describe painting. All in all a short/light touch or almost percussive application. Hey presto, Bob's your uncle, just like that, as if by magic the shop keeper appeared. I love it when a plan comes together.
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  2. But British actors probably use it with a degree of irony and then quite naturally translate simply for Americans.
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  3. Slang and dialect - I dislike calling all dialect slang, it's political. And not linguistics.
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  4.  @AdamMorley  see above.
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  5.  @boristheblade5933  Have you visited my channel!?
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  6.  @boristheblade5933  I guess slangs pluralized like that is carrying the sense of vernaculars and dialects which are much more legitimate plurals to me - but the speakers make the language. There's no such place in the British Isles as the platonic universe-ity of RP and standard English only, except perhaps some voice training schools for actors and other professional purposes. But the same voice coaches, the acting based ones certainly, are actually interested in a wide variety of dialects and vernaculars, and the internally consistent rules that make them sound authentic. Business and marketing also need to concern themselves with register and getting the artistry and self presentation aspects of slang, dialect and vernaculars right for their audience. They don't always want to sound authentic, sometimes cheesy cringe has its own value for getting stuck in people's heads. But it never works for the conservatives youth wing!!
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  7.  @boristheblade5933  But actually if you're referring to the OP - that use of slangs was elision or synecdoche in reference to videos in the series
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  8. It's colloquial: this is social media. Keep your hair on.
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  9. Cheap as chips. That gets non Ian McShane irl use by mahogany antiques experts. Eg on Bargain Hunt!
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  10. I'll correct myself - dobber means to tell on someone more than tell someone off.
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  11.  @clearmelody6252  Alack the day. Ye Americans!!!
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