What habits or practies have you adopted from cultures besides your own?
For example, I'm a white Jewish guy but I've adopted the Japanese practice of keeping dedicated house slippers at the front door.
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For example, I'm a white Jewish guy but I've adopted the Japanese practice of keeping dedicated house slippers at the front door.
I'm British and I say y'all fairly often. It just rolls off the tongue.
I’m a redneck American who says y’all, and calls people cunts a lot. We have so much to share
Thank you for that gift, cunt
Happy to have more of the y'all in English English, but personally I'd like an uptake in youse.
As someone who has lived both in Pennsylvania and Kentucky, y'all just sounds and feels better than youse.
Is youse a thing I'm Pennsylvania and/or Kentucky? I was thinking a la the land of the free, home of the brave (Scotland)
I'm trying to recreate this and my brain just won't let it happen.
It's like "yawl".
Try it with Tom Hardy's cockney accent. 🙃
Now yer talkin'!
It probably has some root in a region of England anyway.