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Report your use of Brokieisms in so-called "real life"
CellarDweller:
I think it still echoes in all of our brains.
serious crayons:
Addendum to my earlier post: The other day, for some reason I can't remember, I was wondering what religion an acquaintance had grown up in, whether she was Catholic or what. But the way I phrased it in my mind was, "Was her folks Catholic?" I realized that I now always think about that situation using that sentence structure and grammar. My own folks was agnostic.
I'll probably say it that way out loud to someone at some point, and they'll probably wonder why I've slipped into folksy nongrammatical dialect, but it's such a short sentence they'll probably just let it pass.
Front-Ranger:
The disagreement of verbs with their nouns in Brokeback Mountain is significant and telling. Plural with singular, singular with plural.
On a more general note, I can never get used to the European plural usage of the corporation. "BHP were" as opposed to "BHP was".
Penthesilea:
Not quite a Brokieism, but telling nevertheless:
A couple of weeks ago, I sorted through some old papers and receipts and found a receipt from my bank about exchanging Euros into US dollars. Only that the receipt was from 2004. Before Brokeback, I had never been to the US and didn't have any ties over the big pond.
Helen (my middle child) commented: "Why did you exchange dollars in 2004? That was before BBM!"
Even my kids divide the world into before and after BBM! :laugh:
At least sometimes.
After a while it dawned on me: that was the time before we Germans could buy English books from Amazon, and before paypal. So I used to buy books from Ebay US (and Ebay UK) and send cash in an envelope. The times, they are a-changin'...
Sason:
One of my co-workers brought home made apple pie for us today.
When another coworker saw the pie on the table in the kitchen, she said jokingly: "Oh good, then I don't have to bring out the cake I brought today!"
To which I replied: "Never enough cake!"
Only after I said it did I realise what I had actually just said. ;D
I guess there's no going back. Brokeback is so deeply engraved in our souls and brains that we're not even aware of it anymore! 8)
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