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

[moogster1a]

Pissed means drunk, pissed off means annoyed.

I am pissed
its friday
later
I will be pissed
Is that clear ?

I can't really get used to it

Is piss an onomatopoeia or is it short for something?

From the French pissier

I googled it

You can use nearly any word to mean drunk if you do it right.

I was so

wankered
pissed
bladdered
badgered
gerbilled
webbed
curtained
stinkered
toenailed
tired-and-emotional

last night, my head really hurts this morning.

oh how revoltingly common, not an Americanism, please! Why can't people just speak how they want to speak? Personally don't get the MN snobbery of America, spent a few years in Texas, infinitely nicer people than the ones I lived around in London and not nearly so judgey about everything.

"Americanism" does seem to be shorthand for "phrase or word used in a way that I don't like".

I got pissed the other day and went outside for a piss but it was pissing down and I got pissed on which made me pissed off.

I agree with the daddyman poster person.

YANBU. I know all about the language evolving arguments and accept that they are correct. And I realise that it is inconsistent to say forgotten and not gotten. And I accept that people can speak however they like but it still annoys me.

It also irritating when my British spellings are underlined by wiggly red lines. I like Americans. I just don't want to be one.

Can ANYONE explain to me what "my bad" ACTUALLY means? I'm only 38 and have no pissing clue

redlac i think it means "oops that was my fault, sorry" but obvioulsy sounsd hideously flippant

i have never heard gotten used in ireland

There is never, ever an excuse to use "my bad". Ditto "Hospicle"

my bad

It is a bad thing that I have done that has caused this situation.

Can I put a vote in for vexed? Used in stead of pissed (off).

SoniaGluck

I had a uni lecturer change my English spelling to American, but then she was for ever saying "we do this so that you will be more reddier to ............."

English is a fuid evolving entity. It is not ours, it belongs to the world and while we have our own version words come in from other languages, phrases appear and disapear. Meanings of words change, words change while the meaning remains the same - does anyone listen to a wireless anymore? When was the last time you actually dialed a phone?

For an introduction to English, David Crystal is great.

My grandma used to say 'Hospicle'... she spoke with a broad lancashire accent though so also said 'keckle' (kettle) amongst other things...

I'm not a fan of sick in the sense of good - but what about sad? Or gay? I love that words change.

Although the poster above that referred to 'uni'...you I'm afraid will have to stop that right now. That is not evolving that is an example of Strine, a far worse development than anything the poor Americans have ever sent (excluding the Kardashians).

sashh I had a uni lecturer change my English spelling to American, but then she was for ever saying "we do this so that you will be more reddier to ............."

Just

We once had a tutor repeatedly announce that she was going to learn us to do this, that or the other.

Most strange.

I get pissed about anti-Americanism. It's like, so totally uncool.

You know what? You want Americanisms to stop 'creeping' into British English, stop watching our TV. And our movies. And playing our video games.

And reading our books.
And visiting our shores.

Otherwise? Get over it.

I kind of sympathise with the irritation behind your post, Tee, but it isn't quite as simple as that. Cultural products in English are produced for an international market, of which the UK is a small part and the US a large part, so economics dictates that, although intended for both countries, and even if initially produced in the UK, US language styles will often be favoured. I often edit into American styles books that have been produced by UK academics, in UK styles, simply because the US market is huge and market research apparently shows that US readers are much less willing to read UK styles than UK readers are to read US styles.

Globalisation erodes cultural difference. It's a bummer. Less so for the UK than for cultures that are wiped out much more comprehensively, but a bummer nonetheless.

And what is this thing where someone was 'raised' in London, or Birmingham etc. Seems to be standard now.

No, you you weren't 'raised' there, you were 'brought up'.