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Post by Verbivore on Jul 18, 2008 15:03:42 GMT
Pissed off is still the Oz norm for "annoyed". Pissed is drunk.
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Post by Paul Doherty on Jul 18, 2008 15:59:31 GMT
In what age group, Vv?
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Post by Pete on Jul 18, 2008 17:35:39 GMT
Another one is pissed. In the past, if (as a brit) I was pissed with someone, I'd have been drunk in their company. If I was annoyed I'd have been pissed off with them. That distinction has gone (along with off), I think. I haven't come across this loss of distinction. I would still get/be pissed with someone if we got drunk together but pissed off with someone who annoyed me. But Americans would definitely use pissed in the sense that we use pissed off, i.e. annoyed. They do not use pissed in the context of drinking (possibly because their beers are so weak that it never gets to that stage! ;D).
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Post by Verbivore on Jul 18, 2008 22:57:01 GMT
At least my generation (Baby Boomers) and my sons' (Gen X); I'll check with the local Gen Ys over the weekend and report back.
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Post by Verbivore on Jul 22, 2008 23:30:52 GMT
Pissed off is still the Oz norm for "annoyed". Pissed is drunk. At least my generation (Baby Boomers) and my sons' (Gen X); I'll check with the local Gen Ys over the weekend and report back. Well, here are my "research" results (no PhD methodology - just casual enquiries over four days): Of 27 Generation Y members questioned thus: "What am I if I am pissed?", 21 responded "Drunk", four responded "Angry" (or a synonym thereof), one replied "Drunk or angry", and one responded with "Huh?". I next asked "And if I'm annoyed, what am I?". The responses were: 25 for "pissed off", one was "Angry", and one was "Mad". The first question no doubt influenced the responses to the second, but as I mentioned above, the "research" was less than scientifically sound. The respondents ranged across a broad-ish spread of socio-economic-educational levels. (Being a former youth worker gives me some degree of easy access to generations younger than mine. No wisecracks are necessary! ) One respondent was raised in a TV-free home environment (he answered "Drunk or angry"); most of the others live in "normal" TV-saturation / TV-credulous mode. On that rather flimsy basis, I conclude that "drunk" is still the majority meaning of "pissed" in Oz, and that "angry" is expressed as "pissed off" - across at least four generations (my parents' - born between the world wars; mine - Baby Boomers; my sons' - Gen X; and the current teens-to-20 - Gen Y). Techno-cultural linguistic imperialism appears not to have had a huge effect on "pissed" in Oz (yet).
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Post by Paul Doherty on Jul 23, 2008 0:51:39 GMT
That's very roughly an 80/20 split for drunk/annoyed. About the same as here, I'd say!
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Post by TfS on Jul 23, 2008 6:59:57 GMT
Vv, "and that "angry" is expressed as "pissed off" " Now here's an odd thing. "Pissed off" means "angry" but when someone is told to "piss off", it doesn't mean "go and get angry", does it?
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Post by Verbivore on Jul 23, 2008 8:15:09 GMT
Vv, "and that "angry" is expressed as "pissed off" " Now here's an odd thing. "Pissed off" means "angry" but when someone is told to "piss off", it doesn't mean "go and get angry", does it? Indeed, TfS. I had forgotten that one.
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Post by Geoff on Jul 23, 2008 9:43:49 GMT
"Pissed off" means "angry" but when someone is told to "piss off", it doesn't mean "go and get angry", does it? I don't think Vv answered your question, TfS, so I will: ' piss off' means a stern ' go away' or ' stop annoying me' or ' stop being a pest'.
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Post by Paul Doherty on Jul 23, 2008 22:48:15 GMT
Locked for length, and because it's no longer about missing words.
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