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That’s shithouse mate

Recently I was at the cricket with a mate, an english mate let’s call him little ginger neil, and after someone had done something bad in the field, he smiled and said, that is a shit house.

It took me a few seconds to work out he was putting in a little aussie effort.

What he meant was “that’s shithouse” as in, that is a shit performance, but his correct English tongue could not get around the words in the proper slangy way.

His Brain was thinking of a shit house, and every time he tried to say shithouse, you could tell he was thinking too clearly.

I could see the way he was going through it, shit is an adjective, and house is a noun.

What he had trouble with is that when combined as shithouse, it is purely an adjective.

It took a good 4 minutes for this Cambridge educated guy to finally work out what the true meaning of shithouse was.

I felt we bonded afterwards though.

And yes, I have been reading a book about grammar, what is your point?

June 10, 2009 Posted by Jrod | living in london | grammar, swearing | 8 Comments