Idioms, slang, memes, and weird turns of phrase

In the UK we call any ground meat mince? (And also some types of finely chopped preserved fruit - hence christmas mince pies.) Is there a difference between mince and mincemeat to canadians, then?

 

mincemeat is the weird fruit stuff, and at least in ontario mince isnt really used to refer to anything

 

This explains SO MUCH i just thought y'all really liked meat

 

Mince just isn't used as a noun in my experience (like Everett, I'm from Ontario), and mincemeat = that chopped up preserved fruit.

 

oh my god my entire life i had thought you guys were making meat pies for christmas

which I was totally okay with but

ftr: no one uses mince as a noun here and I had always assumed "mincemeat" meant... meat... because we use "mince" as a verb and oh my god why are you calling that meat if it isn't meat

it's not even like it's pretending to be meat like spam or something

 

Because originally it was something with meat in it, mincemeat. Back in the day it was meat and fruit. Then the meat got taken out but people kept calling it that.

 

Hey, thats pretty neat! But yeah mince means to cut food into really small pieces to me. Usually refers to meat, but could be any food

 

weirdly I usually see it referring to onions, which are neither fruit nor meat

 

Can I just say I'm very entertained by the number of people I'm enlightening to the secret of christmas mince pies XDD

 

I definitely see Americans using 'twink' to refer to the Edeltwink defintion: i.e., specifically a character given gear/support from a higher level character.
A secondary character of any stripe is just an 'alt'.

 

Digging up this thread because I was looking up old threads and stumbled across it -

In british english, at least, you wouldn't call a secondary character a twink just because they were secondary - here 'twink' is used as slang for that kind of delicate-looking femme gay boy? Like I've got an online friend who calls himself 'InkyTwink', because he's slender and androgynous and gay as hell XD

I'm actually a little baffled that there's other meanings, but I guess it makes sense. Kinda like when ATLA first came out in the UK it had to be renamed 'Legend of Aang' because 'bender' is a crude slang term for queer folk XD (Coming from 'bent' being the opposite of 'straight' XD)

 

Slang i heard as a smol in eastern ontario and now as an twentysomething in "northern" ontario: to chirp someone is to make fun of them. When i was in like grade 7 it was synonymous with joshing i think? I was mostly surprised that people said it here because i hadnt heard it for years

 

I have a strange tendency to say 'no worries' instead of 'no problem' and I don't know why. isn't that an Australian thing?

 

I don't know but I was raised entirely in the U.S. and I use "no worries" interchangeably with "no problem".

 

Weirdly (or not that weirdly given the number of Canadians in the NHL really) I hear this all the time in interviews with hockey players.

 

As a teen I heard "twinky" as a noun for Popular Girls(TM) on certain websites.

 

Where else is "hot" is a synonym for "stolen and identifiable"? I've heard that quite a few times in my life but I never really knew how widespread its usage was.

Like, for example, "Don't do anything with motor for a while, it's hot as a firecracker." Meaning, "That motor was stolen from a vehicle (or possibly taken from a stolen vehicle) so don't try to sell it because people will recognize it."

 

SC and I hear that a lot.

 

I have heard that in WA, NY, and IL. I know I've heard it on TV and such, which may have helped it spread if it was more regional in the past?

 

I've heard it mostly on TV, especially Law & Order.