I totally blown it guys :( - No I never! He likes me!!!

Gloomendoom

daisiegg wrote: »

I think it really depends where you are. My cousins live in California and I have spent a lot of time there and I find their lifestyle a million times more laid back than in England. Especially things like the attitude towards working from home...they live/work in Silicon valley and my cousin never goes into the office - he does everything from home at his own pace and in his own time. It means he can go days with doing no work at all, then work for 30 hours straight when a deadline is approaching. No one cares as long as the work gets done. Here, my husband is pretty high level in his job and ought to be trusted yet on the rare occasions he works from home he needs to be very 'visible' logged in to the system from 6.30am to make sure they know he is working. Just completely different attitudes and lifestyles.

I work in the UK and I have no formal working hours. I just need to get the job done. When and where I do it, for the large part, is up to me.

It depends what you do for a living both here in and in the US. There are plenty of slaves to the clock in both places.

daisiegg

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I work in the UK and I have no formal working hours. I just need to get the job done. When and where I do it, for the large part, is up to me.

It depends what you do for a living both here in and in the US. There are plenty of slaves to the clock in both places.

My husband and cousin both work in the same industry, which is why it is comparable.

lostinrates

daisiegg wrote: »

My husband and cousin both work in the same industry, which is why it is comparable.

My husband has different experiences within the same COMPANY let alone industry both in different international offices and different 'team leaders' and clients.

daisiegg

Big-Package wrote: »

An expert on english who just used a play on the word colloquialism. B o ll o cks = colloqs/colloquialism. If you look at it through her mistake of no, i never. Then really its not up for debate and just pathetic and immature that you would even waste your time trying to put someone down for your own satisfaction. What do you hope to achieve by ganging up on someone over something as tedious as a misplaced comma?

Go look on google at colloquial phrases, i challenge you to find no i never anywhere as a colloquial phrase. The only place it appears as a colloquial phrase is on this forum by 2 bigots.

The definition of a colloquialism is 'a word or phrase that is not formal and is used in ordinary conversation'. Something does not need to appear on a googled list of colloquialisms in order to be one; it just needs to be not formal or standard English. Hence, 'no I never' is a colloquialism. As the other poster already explained, it is nothing to do with commas, misplaced or otherwise.

Bigots? Ganging up? Wow! It is a big leap from speculating that a non-standard phrase is typically English rather than American, to being bigoted and ganging up!

FBaby

Gosh, I hope Oduliet shows this thread to her new friend, he would be either horrified or in pain with laughter if he saw what he caused!

iammumtoone

I am not going to get in an argument with anyone here, I don't know who is right or wrong personally I think the OP is real but don't really care either way.

I don't know for a fact but I suspect 'No I never' is said in most english speaking countries I have heard this phase from my six year old, it is something a child says when they have not yet learnt the grammatically correct way to speak, therefore easily picked up by adults, at time same time a lot of adults are not always grammatically correct (before anyone corrects my post I know I am certainly one of them ) Lots of times I hear adults say "I writ" not "wrote" it is really just the same thing.

esmerelda98

I am sorry daisiegg has received a load of abuse for her comments on my posts. I will not be responding to Big-Package as to do so would be like arguing with a child, something I consider beneath me. I am always up for reasoned debate but recognise that sometimes people can be happy in their ignorance, and this is clearly the case here.

I realised from my first post that there are many who are enjoying the thread and giving the OP the benefit of the doubt. There is nothing wrong with that and I always expected that situation to continue. I personally don't really care much one way or the other whether the OP is genuine, but once I became convinced she is not, I lost interest in the thread.

esmerelda98

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

I agree esmerelda. It's a term we use up here in the North (well the area I'm from anyhow) and one, when I think about it, I tend to say a lot....you've just made me realise how awful it sounds!

I don't think it sounds awful per se. These quirks are what make languages interesting. I find it interesting comparing English usage around the world. I suppose I do wish that people who have had an English education would be more familiar with standard English too, not just the way English is spoken round their parts. It's sort of the point of a formal education.

PlymouthMaid

Ignoring the weird discussion about 'No, I never' going on above, I have just caught up with the latest. Good news Oduliet. I hope you are enjoying your time together but remember 'take it slow' and do not use the L word.

DCFC79

Noticed this thread today OP and have just read the British Guys thread, I hope the relationship lasts.