VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Microblog MemesEnglish · 1 day agoThis guy has a ton of 13yo fansdiscuss.onlineimagemessage-square133linkfedilinkarrow-up1838arrow-down132cross-posted to: agedlikemilk
arrow-up1806arrow-down1imageThis guy has a ton of 13yo fansdiscuss.onlineVetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Microblog MemesEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square133linkfedilinkcross-posted to: agedlikemilk
minus-squareT156linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·1 day 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-up16·1 day 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-up2·18 hours agoI hear it all the time in New England, full stop
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