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Ariong posted:Does seppo mean american? I’ve never heard that before. Where does it come from? It's rhyming slang. Yank - septic tank - septics - seppo.
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Also the point of rhyming slang is to annoy people so it is working as intended.
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Mar 20, 2022 19:43
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Ariong posted:Does seppo mean american? I’ve never heard that before. Where does it come from? It's one of those rhyming slang things that criminals use. Septic tank=Yank.
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Mar 20, 2022 19:58
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Paladinus posted:It's rhyming slang. Yank - septic tank - septics - seppo. Wow, it’s like being insulted by a character from a nursery rhyme.
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Mar 20, 2022 20:16
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as an american living in london, calling us seppos is a bit rich when you see how much raw sewage ends up in the Thames
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Mar 20, 2022 20:20
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gleebster posted:It's one of those rhyming slang things that criminals use. Septic tank=Yank. I would have said something about not all cockney speakers being criminals, but yeah, no, they probably are.
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Mar 20, 2022 20:26
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OwlFancier posted:If you live in america I can't see why you would need one unless you are leaving permamently. It's a big country, you can pick whatever geography you like without crossing the border. A lot more people likely travel for cultural rather than geographic reasons. The weather and landscape of San Diego and Nice are reasonably similar, but that's about where the comparison ends.
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Mar 20, 2022 20:36
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passports also cost money that (for all the reasons stated before) can be hard to justify spending
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moonmazed posted:this is the most annoying poo poo on earth Yeah they're annoying but I think the ruskies are winning that title atm
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Mar 20, 2022 21:40
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I heard yank=septic tank came from WW2 when the Sherman tank came out. Not sure if it refers to the contents or the tank itself.
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Mar 20, 2022 21:44
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moonmazed posted:this is the most annoying poo poo on earth Agreed. But we just have to deal with the seppos until their civil war kicks off.
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Mar 20, 2022 21:47
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Its called rhyming slang and yet sleppos doesnt actually rhyme, the british remain the type of people id expect to not have murdered thier monarchs by 2022
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Mar 20, 2022 23:09
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mandatory lesbian posted:Its called rhyming slang and yet sleppos doesnt actually rhyme, the british remain the type of people id expect to not have murdered thier monarchs by 2022 I am 70% certain Tank rhymes with Yank. Also it's mostly Australians who use the term because if there's one thing we love it's short nicknames, generally being offensive, bigotry and being too drunk to sound clever or count. It's called cultcha. E: VV Reddo gets it Outrail has a new favorite as of 23:53 on Mar 20, 2022 |
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Mar 20, 2022 23:13
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you can easily tell it's australian because the last syllable has been replaced with an 'o'
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Mar 20, 2022 23:18
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there are so many better kinds of strange national slang than cockney rhyming slang anyway. my favorite is french verlan, where you take the syllables of the word and reverse their order. so for instance herbe (grass), weed, becomes her be ("ehr beuh") -> be her, or phonetically in french beuhère, the verlan slang for weed. this can then be shortened to simply beu. verlan is verlan for "l'envers," which means "in reverse" disque (record): skeud métro (subway, metro): tromé femme (woman): meuf multisyllable words might have different verlan versions. cigarette could be garetsi or retsiga. you can do it multiple times, too. say you start with arabe, arab, and verlan that into beur. you could use that term directly, or verlan it again into rebeu. the latter is common slang for a convenience store clerk, because the french are big ol racists. much more fun than cockney nursery rhyme stuff!
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Sagebrush posted:there are so many better kinds of strange national slang than cockney rhyming slang anyway. Sounds like seppo poo poo to me.
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I always assumed it meant separatist and thought that was an odd insult but then I learned it was septic tank and now it's a bummer of a thing to be called
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Mar 21, 2022 06:32
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Paladinus posted:It's rhyming slang. Yank - septic tank - septics - seppo.
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Mar 21, 2022 10:50
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mobby_6kl posted:That's the biggest stretch I've seen since goatse.cx Turn on your monitor.
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Mar 21, 2022 10:57
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Outrail posted:I am 70% certain Tank rhymes with Yank. Does pommie work the same way? Pommies - pompous shits - Brits? E: Oh, according to Wiktionary it is rhyming slang - pommies - pomegranates - immigrants.
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Mar 21, 2022 12:46
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Isn't it from "Property Of his Majesty" sewn into armed forces battledress? I'm not sure "pomegranate" really rhymes with "immigrant".
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Mar 21, 2022 13:22
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Everything rhymes if you pronounce it wrong enough.
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Mar 21, 2022 13:34
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tight aspirations posted:Isn't it from "Property Of his Majesty" sewn into armed forces battledress? this sounds like one of those "fornication under consent of the king" type urban legends
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Mar 21, 2022 13:47
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Platystemon posted:Everything rhymes if you pronounce it wrong enough. Absolutely. Just like the most important thing when writing rhyming verse is making sure it rhymes, with no thought for meter or scansion
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Mar 21, 2022 13:50
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moonmazed posted:this sounds like one of those "fornication under consent of the king" type urban legends Yeah, seems you're right, it was debunked by Snopes.
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Mar 21, 2022 13:51
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Platystemon posted:Everything rhymes if you pronounce it wrong enough. Australian culture broken down to its barest essentials
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Mar 21, 2022 14:55
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Platystemon posted:Everything rhymes if you pronounce it wrong enough. lmao
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Breetai posted:Absolutely. Just like the most important thing when writing rhyming verse is making sure it rhymes, with no thought for meter or scansion Roses are red But sugar is sweeter The internet throws up its hands in apathy when confronted by the idea of meter
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Mar 21, 2022 18:11
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Iamb amused by that post
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Phy posted:Roses are red 
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Mar 21, 2022 18:22
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moonmazed posted:this sounds like one of those "fornication under consent of the king" type urban legends Basically every single historical etymology that's supposedly based on an acronym is a lie. Acronyms only really came into common use after WW2
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Mar 21, 2022 18:22
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Sagebrush posted:Basically every single historical etymology that's supposedly based on an acronym is a lie. Acronyms only really came into common use after WW2 Okay
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Sagebrush posted:Basically every single historical etymology that's supposedly based on an acronym is a lie. Acronyms only really came into common use after WW2 i don't think i've heard anybody suggest an acronym-based folk etymology, maybe ever
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Mescal posted:i don't think i've heard anybody suggest an acronym-based folk etymology, maybe ever Had one forwarded to me just the other day, saying that "military brat" came about because 200 years ago in the British Empire, soldiers' children were classed as British Regiment Auxiliary Travelers, and furthermore 
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Mescal posted:i don't think i've heard anybody suggest an acronym-based folk etymology, maybe ever Fornication Under Consent of the King
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Port Out Starboard Home, Ship High In Transit, To Insure Promptness, Westernized Oriental Gentleman, there are a ton and they're all wrong.
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Mar 21, 2022 23:06
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What about WithOut Papers? Or Fresh Off the Boat? I am not entirely confident that some racial slur is not an acronym (even if I can't pinpoint which one)
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Mar 21, 2022 23:42
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Fresh Off the Boat? It's that one
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DACK FAYDEN posted:What about WithOut Papers? Or Fresh Off the Boat? "wop" comes from "guappo," Italian slang that corresponds roughly to modern usage of "pimp" or "player." A swaggering confident guy. I've never heard of anyone calling someone a "fob," personally. I've seen the term FOB used, sure, but the way it's used makes clear that it's an acronym. It's certainly possible that new slang terms are based on acronyms, because acronyms are popular today. It's the stuff that Phanatic mentioned, where old and well-established words like "tip" or "gently caress" are supposed to be an acronym for something, that is made up bullshit.
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Yeah, anything from before the 1900s is almost certainly not from an acronym. I believe "Fob" is relatively recent, like well after the mid-1900s.
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