Americanism

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Americanisms are every...

When I play poker, everything now is... [laughs] It used to be a full house.

You know? You had three of a kind and a pair.

Um, look, I, um, talking about phrases.

There's a couple...

And look, Americanisms don't bother me as much as they probably once did because they're ubiquitous.

There's a word.

I think it's what that is.

Americanisms, though, kind of kill me in this whole film because people now use speak to instead of speak about.

That speaks to this and that speaks to that.

And I actually feel like clawing my own ears off because it is the wrong use.

Mm.

So we don't automatically pick up Americanisms, but we s- but some of them just leak in by saturation, and this may be one of them, affecting...

I would think what you're talking about would be common with people under 40 and uncommon with people over 40.

Over 40, absolutely.

But it's on my list.

Um, and, and, um, finally, I loved our chat about Americanisms because, you know, I actually think that some Americanisms are kind of good.

Yeah, exactly.

And I'm not ashamed to admit it.

I don't even know what to think about the latest rumors.

But it-- in the conversation that keeps getting passed around is, is just sort of this insistence that this woman who's-- She should be, like, the poster child for Americanism.

She is one of the most racially ambiguous and perfectly mixed American ideals out there.

She, you know, she tells you she's an Afro-Latina, but she's also, like, 40% white, and she has both the family tree that was enslaved and slave traders, slave owners, and she's come together and from a, a modest childhood, has turned into a lady who makes, I think, $8 million a year for the last ten years, just barfing terrible opinions on The View.