The Foreigners Talk Funny

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

I wish we'd had some 'splanations for some of those.

Interesting stuff.

What is it you want explained? What they mean, or how they came to mean it?

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

He 'splained them, but he was talkin' foreign so we don't know what he said.

Originally Posted by DanaC

What is it you want explained? What they mean, or how they came to mean it?

The why.

Example:

'Pure Barry', it was explained what it means, but not why it means fucking brilliant. Wtf? How did that come to be? Did some guy named Barry make some astounding observation and from then on his friends said anything that was brilliant was 'Pure Barry'? Do the Scots find Barack Obama particularly brilliant? Izzat where it originates?

I must know these things!!!!!