VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoThis guy has a ton of 13yo fansdiscuss.onlineimagemessage-square157linkfedilinkarrow-up1933arrow-down134
arrow-up1899arrow-down1imageThis guy has a ton of 13yo fansdiscuss.onlineVetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square157linkfedilink
minus-squarerainwall@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35arrow-down1·1 month agoMay not be common, but I’ve heard it in american slang. I think its more an old carry over from telegrams that never quite left our shared language.
minus-squareT156@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·1 month agoDid telegrams use full-stop? They pretty much only used STOP, no? It seems more likely that your man picked it up from a British influence, like a friend or something.
minus-squarePanGodofPanic@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 month agoI’ve been hearing it in regular language for 30 years now across all of lower Michigan and upper Wisconsin. It’s very decidedly present in American English, thought it might be less common than in Britain.
minus-squareMadzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI hear it all the time in New England, full stop
May not be common, but I’ve heard it in american slang. I think its more an old carry over from telegrams that never quite left our shared language.
Did telegrams use full-stop? They pretty much only used STOP, no?
It seems more likely that your man picked it up from a British influence, like a friend or something.
I’ve been hearing it in regular language for 30 years now across all of lower Michigan and upper Wisconsin. It’s very decidedly present in American English, thought it might be less common than in Britain.
I hear it all the time in New England, full stop