to be pissed off with people saying pissed, not pissed off

[moogster1a]

Pissed means drunk, pissed off means annoyed.

YANBU. Gets on my nerves.

I can't stand Americanisms like this - my dcs say 'quit' instead of 'give up' as well grrrr

Mind you, I've even heard some Americans say 'pissed off' (which is obviously the correct term!) so maybe that bugs their pals too.

YANBU. It's an Americanism and although I have absolutely nothing against America or Americans I'm getting increasingly irritated by us Brits adopting its language. I mean, what is so wrong with British English!? Thing is though, I even get a bit irritated by the prevalent use of "Hi" instead of "Hello" so realise I have a bee in my bonnet about this subject

Yanbu.

It doesn't bother me because I know language and the way that we talk evolves and changes over the years.
It's just one of those things.

YANBU - I get real pissed.

If that's all you have to get pissed about, I really wouldn't worry!

It is confusing. You have to divert the conversation to check, do you mean you are drunk, Er,no. Etc etc.

YABU. You accept American films, music, clothing, television - you are of course going to have to accept the language. As for confusing, well if you can't get it fom context then you probably struggle understanding others anway.

Quit rather than give up is fine because you know immediately exactly what they mean.

In most situations you can tell if someone means angry or drunk, but I agree it's annoying because there are some stories (I shouldn't have shouted at him, but I was really pissed") where it is ambiguous.

I am frequently pissed.

both meanings

Pissed and gotten have become common on here and it makes me cross

YANBU

When I am pissed it is easier to make me be pissed off.

YANBU!

I don't like all this "come see me", "Go ask her". Whatever happened to "and"??

Gotten is used all the time in Ireland. It's not an 'americanism'.

Gotten is an old word that we no longer use, not a new word or even a new usage of an existing word. We still use forgotten.

Anyone read Chaucer? See how much our language has changed in the last few hundred years? It will keep evolving, suck it up. English is a mongrel language that has adopted words from every culture it comes in contact with!

Do you wear pajamas? Indian word! Go find something else to wear to bed!

Do you drink coffee in a cafe? What? A French word? Better not pop to costa anymore!

If languages don't evolve and accept influence from other languages and cultures they die.

And btw, pissed is the past tense of pissing. Didn't originally mean being drunk. So YABU sucks to you [raspberry]

I don't mind language evolution, I just hate the studied coolness with which some people use Americanisms, thinking it makes them sound all E4. I particularly dislike the creeping use of, 'I love that...' instead of 'I love the way that...' or 'I love it that...'

It must be odd to be David Schwimmer or Jennifer Aniston, and to think you're more or less single-handedly responsible for making an entire nation 'get' a coffee, instead of 'having' one.

Some words we see as used by Americans were actually used in English long ago, e.g quit was used by William Shakespeare - "By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year is quit for the next"

And from the tempest

"Or that we quit this place; let's draw our weapons. ALONSO Lead off this ground; and let's make further ..."

I love the way language evolves, but I have to agree I find the 'pissed' thing confusing and also 'sick' for ill, sick to me means being sick, but my cousin (from London you know; 18) says it in the context of ill.

better than using "sick" in the context of describing something as good.

YABU

MN is not exclusively British