- Pronouns
- he/him
Discuss the latest article by @David Flin here
Navy friend reports that essentially all of the RN slang is still in use, @David Flin .Missed this one had been posted this morning (apologies) but it's been circulated on social media now. Thanks for the shout-outs to my articles, David.
I have a friend who's currently serving in the RN, so I've asked him whether these terms are all still in use or if some of them have now changed.
As I've been reminded several times while overseas, I don't speak English, I speak Australian.It's interesting how some of those are words I've been intinately aquainted with all my life - mankey, chunter, sprog, among others - while some are like an alien language.
Much like mine, to much of the supposedly anglophone world.
@David Flin references my own dialect in the article as being particularly incomprehensible.As I've been reminded several times while overseas, I don't speak English, I speak Australian.
I might have mentioned this one before, but the first meeting of my Granda and my Uncle was good for that. Granda had lived his whole life in the south western corner of County Durham, but hs three children had moved about a little bit. When the youngest brought home a young man she was keen on, he thought it best to be hospitable to the southerner. Born in Kent, grew up in Essex and Norfolk. Proper Southern. So Granda was very welcoming, made plenty of small talk, all very nice. When my Auntie took the chap who became my Uncle for a walk later in the day, she was keen to know what he thought of her parents.Once, on a journey from London to Edinburgh, my car broke down not far from Newcastle. The nice breakdown man couldn't fix the car at the roadside, so shoved it on the back of the trailer and took us to Edinburgh.
He talked incessantly from Newcastle to Edinburgh, and I swear that I didn't understand a single word he said.
At least the Soviet Army officer who had learned his English in Newcastle had a reason to be incomprehensible.