I never realized how truly dumb america is until I read this thread with people actually voting "break yourself."
Thanks a lot.
Thanks a lot.
Go to prison sometime and you will understand WHY it's BRACE YOURSELF!! :Q
(Or so I've been lead to believe....
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(Or so I've been lead to believe....
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Slang also produced phrases such as "23 skidoo" (pronounced "twenty-three skid ooo").Originally posted by: HombrePequeno
Proper English changes throughout the ages. What was proper back in Shakespeare's time sounds kind of weird today. Slang is part of the language. You have your own slang and others have theirs. Honestly I've never heard "brace yourself" before but have heard "break yourself" so that's how I would say (which I never really do).Originally posted by: jliechty
Do you honestly go around saying break yourself (especially in the way illustrated by various participants in this thread)? To me that sounds just retarded. Perhaps it's just because I was taught that it is best to actually make a small attempt at using proper English.
ZV
Alright G, what exactly does "break yourself" mean? Obviously "brace yourself" means prepare yourself for this incredible sh!t I'm about to tell/show you.Originally posted by: HombrePequeno
Originally posted by: jliechty
Do you honestly go around saying break yourself (especially in the way illustrated by various participants in this thread)? To me that sounds just retarded. Perhaps it's just because I was taught that it is best to actually make a small attempt at using proper English.
Proper English changes throughout the ages. What was proper back in Shakespeare's time sounds kind of weird today. Slang is part of the language. You have your own slang and others have theirs. Honestly I've never heard "brace yourself" before but have heard "break yourself" so that's how I would say (which I never really do).
Of course the language changes. Four hundred years ago, if thou finished thy chores, and I finished mine, then we'd party like it's 1699, but today, things are different. I don't really give a **** what you say when you're conversing with your friends (who presumably understand your dialect), but if you are intending to communicate in a more universal manner (such as on these forums, where people of various nationalities and thus widely ranging dialects of English participate), you should use the variety of English which is considered standard (hint: it doesn't include the majority of "gangsta" expressions that you seem to be so fond to defend). Needless to say, I hope you don't try to pass off some of these expressions as good English when you write some sort of documentation for a school assignment. Again, though some styles of speaking may be popular, that does not make them proper for the more general and useful communication.
Originally posted by: jliechty
Do you honestly go around saying break yourself (especially in the way illustrated by various participants in this thread)? To me that sounds just retarted. Perhaps it's just because I was taught that it is best to actually make a small attempt at using proper English.
They are both perfectly acceptable English. They are both commands that are issued. Brace yourself has more practical application than break yourself, however they both are actually quite acceptable as valid sentences. They don't mean the same thing, and comparing them head to head is actually unfair in that there is no basis because they mean entirely different things.
Break Yoself is something I've heard in movies and music and have been quite entertained by it. So that is what I voted for, and I don't know why more people didn't.
Part of the point, exactly. Not everyone likes to listen to your loud and obnoxious excuse for music (sorry, my opinion, but many share it), and thus as it were, we are not educated on your high and lofty conversation. That's the reason why there is some form of a standard of good English. Please, don't take something to be proper English just because it's in the dictionary. You can find fvck, sh!t, piss, and many others in the dictionary, yet you probably wouldn't use them in a formal composition, or even in general conversation with others aside from your friends (who presumably don't have any problem with it). :disgust:
You are going off on a huge ghey rant here. WTF is there to argue about? I'm certain right before a wreck you would not have a driver screaming out "break yoself!" to the passengers. However, when I go to a buddy's house and I ring the doorbell, it is perfectly acceptable for me to greet him with the obligatory "BREAK YOSELF FOO!".
If I were more like you I would be professing that everyone who voted for "brace yourself" was an idiot. They are both fine- but they both mean different things.
I'm not here to knock any music, I listen to some rap & hip-hop...no biggie, but I do think a lot of what they make up is retarded
That doesn't take away from the good beats, though...Oh, and if all you "break yourself" defenders really mean "brake yourself", then I might partially understand..."break", however, still doesn't make any sense in this context.
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Slang also produced phrases such as "23 skidoo" (pronounced "twenty-three skid ooo").Originally posted by: HombrePequeno
Proper English changes throughout the ages. What was proper back in Shakespeare's time sounds kind of weird today. Slang is part of the language. You have your own slang and others have theirs. Honestly I've never heard "brace yourself" before but have heard "break yourself" so that's how I would say (which I never really do).Originally posted by: jliechty
Do you honestly go around saying break yourself (especially in the way illustrated by various participants in this thread)? To me that sounds just retarded. Perhaps it's just because I was taught that it is best to actually make a small attempt at using proper English.
ZV
Arnold's grandpa uses that phrase in Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold! cartoon. I thought it sounded kind of cool.
First, I'm in desperate need of getting sleep, so please ignore the anti-rap rant; that came off too strong, and I must sheepishly admit that I do like a tiny fraction of a percent of that music. It' snot all bad...but almost
Now, I guess I grew up in a different world (a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far away...), and not surprisingly was shocked to learn of things like an extended middle finger being a perfectly well accepted greeting in some circles. Perhaps it comes down mainly to acceptability; brace yourself is fine even with 90 year old grandmothers and the strictest ultra-conservative pastors, while break yoself only works well with your friends and other people who actually understand what it means...or doesn't mean. Which leads me to the next point - sensibility; one makes sense in the context of regular English grammar (anyone with a sliver of common sense could figure it out), while the other has no meaning (at least that makes sense to someone not inside the group of people who look to the rap artists as the ones who set the standard of the latest proper English usage).
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