Some thoughts on British linguistics

[tacit]

Comments

[violet_tigress1]

I don't like "snog." It sounds like something icky, like"snot."

[malaika02]

I agree. Either "snot" or "nog" like egg nog, which is disgusting.

[_luaineach]

+1

[sweh]

American is "English Lite" not "English 2.0". It's designed for people who can't handle ambiguity (what, a word meaning more than one thing? The shock!) and who can't handle all the letters (ah, who needs that "u", anyway?).

/tongue firmly in cheek...

[hypnagogie]

I like that word too. :)

(And I love that picture! Squee!) *kiss*

[aclaro]

That's a super sweet picture :).

I like the word "snog" too. "Making out" just seems very childish, like it's not *real*. So then I just call everything "sex" which doesn't convey a lot of information, or at least makes people prone to making the wrong assumptions. But snog, I think, works great.

[drjon]

I must say, I prefer the word "snog" in almost all circumstances, except one:

"Wanna make out?" beats "Wanna snog?" as an intimate query, possessing and lending as it does a certain necessary and polite formality in what is otherwise by definition an informal process.

;}P>