Yesterday, aka marathon class day, was an amusing one for the ears. I heard so many funny stereotypical British speachisms.
Like ‘la’. Lydia says it all the time in Pride in Prejudice (and in P&P fanfiction), and I’ve always wondered how you can get off with saying ‘la’ without sounding like a git (for definition, please see my comment on the post below, aka. part one of the ‘funny things english people do’ series). Well, I heard someone say ‘la’ yesterday. It was a girl, probably nineteen or so, who is in my Narrative Fiction class. She was talking with friends before we went into the lecture room, and said it like we Americans would say ‘duh’ or ‘whatever’ in conversation. Not Valley Girl-ish, but just a nonchalant, defiant, ‘well duh, anyway…’
And then, to make my day even better for the ears, during our break for Northern Myth and Epic, one of my classmates (a girl, about twenty-one, who was sitting next to me) came storming in fuming and cursing up a store. I heard lots of ‘bloody fuck’ going on, plus ‘knob’, plus ‘cock-up’. Hahaha. She was really sincerely angry; she is on joint honors for English and Drama, and one of her drama classes has a performance next week. Apparently rehearsal space is really tightly booked, and the only day they could book rehearsal in the space they would be performing in was today and Saturday. So, during break, she went down to double check the room booking and discovered that not only had another group from her drama class booked it at the same time, but it was also being used by a class. Triple booked. Oops. Sound familiar, Players? At least we don’t double/triple book things, right? We just know months in advance that we have no chance of getting proper rehearsal space to begin with…
Cheers, darlings!
