Hey, hi, hello fellow Americans.
WHAT DO AMERICANS MEAN WHEN A SHOW IS ON AT LIKE FUCKIN 8/7c WHAT IS THAT????
2.When someone identifies as a “hockey mom.”
What does it mean when Americans say they are a “hockey mom”?
Their child plays hockey and they take them to practices?
3.When real estate listings say the house has “2.5 baths.”
What do Americans mean by 2.5 baths?
4.When someone says they’re “transferring to a 4 year school.”
what do americans mean when they say transfer to a 4 year school?
i thought all universities there are 4 years
5.When Americans say “bite me.”
What do Americans mean when they say “bite me”?
6.When someone is “grounded.”
@Yumekii what do americans mean with ‘grounded’?
7.When Americans say “I do not disagree.”
What do americans mean when they say dive bar?
Is our equivalent just a pub?
9.The term “running errands.”
What do Americans mean when they say “running errands”?
This has always baffled me.
10.When Americans use the phrase “government name.”
What do Americans mean by “Government name”?
12.The term “corny.”
What do Americans mean when they say something is corny ?
13.When Americans say they “haven’t done __ in a minute.”
What do Americans mean when they say someone is a tool?
It seems like an insult, but tools are useful.
15.What “tailgating” is.
What do Americans mean when they say tailgate?
16.When Americans say “period” after a sentence.
What do americans mean when they say period after a sentence or something?
Is it just like saying full stop?
I’m confused :‘D
17.When Americans say “sidebar” during a conversation.
What do Americans mean when they say Sidebar
18.When Americans say they have “finals.”
What do Americans mean when they say “finals”?
19.When Americans say someone has been “drinking the Kool Aid.”
What do americans mean when they say someone’s been ‘drinking kool aid’?
20.When Americans say “I’m just sayin’.”
What do Americans mean when they say “I’m just sayin'”?
I hear it a lot on podcasts.
21.When Americans use “blocks” as a form of measurement.
What does it mean when Americans go ‘Its two blocks away’ what’s a block?
22.When Americans say “what’s the 411 on that.”
What does it mean when Americans say “and that’s the 411 on that”?
23.What pudding is.
Just realised I have no idea what Americans mean when they say “pudding”.
24.When Americans wish someone a “happy belated.”
Why do Americans measure everything in “football fields” long?
What does that mean to anyone else in the world?
26.When Americans say they are from the “tri-state area.”
As a European, what do Americans mean when they say “tri-state area”?
27.When Americans say “eat me.”
Been bugging me for years, but what do Americans mean, when they say ‘Eat me!’?
28.When Americans say they want creamer in their coffee.
what do americans mean when they put creamer in their coffee.
do they have milk?
29.When Americans talk about “fake cheese.”
What do Americans mean when they answer Im good to almost every question?
32.When Americans say they just did their taxes.
What do Americans mean when they say I just did my taxes?
What is there to do??
33.When American recipes call for “one stick of butter.”
What do Americans mean by [insert day] scaries?
Is it like bad mood?
35.When Americans refer to the UK as “across the pond.”
Do americans really say “across the pond”??
36.When Americans say “holy cow.”
Do Americans really say “Holy cow"I need to know.
37.The amount of times Americans use “like.”
Do Americans really say “like” every 10 seconds, or is it a reality TV show thing ?
38.And lastly, grits.
Just, like, what are they?!?!
What do Americans mean by grits?
Cuz I thought it was oats but then wtf is Parmesan cheese grits?
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