VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoThis guy has a ton of 13yo fansdiscuss.onlineimagemessage-square146linkfedilinkarrow-up1881
arrow-up1881imageThis guy has a ton of 13yo fansdiscuss.onlineVetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square146linkfedilink
minus-squarerainwall@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·edit-22 days 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-up4·2 days 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-squarePanini@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 days 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 day 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