This has never occurred to me before and now I am having a full existential crisis about times I might a have used this phrase to an audience of @mollyquell.bsky.social 's...
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Don't worry, I'm sure if there'd been a terrible miscommunication you'd have come to know about it. I've lived and learned many instances of my British and, specifically, Yorkshire colloquialisms causing 🤨🤨🤨 amongst cosmopolitan student audiences.
Irish colloquialisms often have a similar impact - since moving to the Netherlands I've gotten much better at the 'quick recovery when I offhandedly use a phrase and then realise that to others it's absolutely outrageous'. A skill which I think I should put on my CV!
I start off okay, quite neutral, but as I get tired and/or excited/carried away my accent slips and my vowels get looser and the colloquialisms come out. I imagine you have a similar double whammy?
Precisely the same - and when I get carried away is also when I start speaking waaaay faster - triple whammy of potentially offensive incoherence to those not familiar with the phrases.
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