Talk:British slang

"spelling" section

I'm seeing a couple issues here, but I'm too tired at the moment to fix them:

The phrasing with 'British'/'others' doesn't really work for me... If by 'others' you mean 'Americans', then say that. And as a rule, avoid implying that ~all~ Americans/others can't understand it. I understand it just fine. Also, in general I don't really think it's appropriate to focus solely on differences with American slang/spelling... if that's your focus, change the section header.
Format your tabular data as a table.

--Alynna 07:12, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion Tag

I believe this article should stay on a deletion tag status, unless someone can argue otherwise on here. The list is untidy, obviously and forever incomplete, and could easily be a link to a website as a footnote on British English or American English. Jmlk17 07:53, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I do not support deletion. Instead I propose merging this article (which has useful material, albeit without citations) with English slang Testbed 14:58, 12 May 2007 (UTC)Testbed[reply]

The article should be fixed, not deleted. This is an important topic. Furthermore, anybody can challenge a prod deletion by removing the tag, therefore this edit means the page was incorrectly deleted. I quote: "You may remove this message.... if you otherwise object to deletion of the article for any reason.... If this template is removed, it should not be replaced." (emphasis added)

Furthermore, any admin can reverse a prod simply by restoring the page, which I have done.

I would urge editors to remove any non-encyclopedic crap from this article, rather than deleting it. I'm quite certain it's a valid topic. --kingboyk 13:00, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Snog

Added Snog to words with no equivalent. I figured that Make out was two words and didnt count as an equivalent. Im surprised this wasnt already on here. 71.176.134.94 (talk) 17:43, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just like to point out:

Some of the "American equivalents" are words used in practiacally every English-speaking country in the world, including the UK. Therfore this article is inaccurate. Please do something to change this. AlmightyClam 11:48, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. The slang terms ought to be translated into plain English not American English otherwise it needs to be nominated for deletion...--Camaeron (t/c) 16:32, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Let's have a bit fairness!!

I notice that much is made about the validity of an article on British Slang and whether it should be deleted. Which I hasten to add is fair enough, as I think most of it's not encyclopedic really.

But my gripe is about level playing fields...you see last year some american reviewers deleted the whole article on scrotes. An english perjorative that is regularly used to describe thuggish types bent on trouble. It irked me that in the discussion for deletion. One editor remarked that the article on scrotes was just a piece of trash writing masquerading as fact. Yet there are dozens, if not hundreds of similiar articles written about american slang, racial perjoratives and the like.

Take for example propably one of the most controversial and provactive nouns in the English language - the word nigger. There is a huge (some might say ridiculous) wikipedia article about this noun.

When I suggested that this article should be deleted. Instead to be replaced by a simple dictionary note I was told by an american editor that Wikipedia does not make moral judgements only 'factual' ones.

Therefore it seems that if it's deemed by the majority to a minority issue - the majority wins!! Apparently it would therefore be right to summarise that american slang and racial perjoratives remain on Wikipedia due to their high use in the county of origin. As opposed to British ones that are only used in the UK or Ireland!!

If British slang is to be deleted or even discussed about deletion then all similiar english language articles on slang/perjoratives/venacular should also be included.