Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

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[pukunui]

I've gotten it, a couple of times, from folks in Australia/New Zealand, but i have no idea if it's a common idiom there.

I’ve lived in NZ for 20+ years now, and I’ve never heard someone who wasn’t from India, Pakistan or Sri Lanka say that.

There are a few other quirky English idioms I’ve heard people from that region use. I can only assume it has something to do with their own languages’ grammatical structures. Or they are quirky little expressions left over from colonial times.

 

[Mad_Jack]

I've always wondered where that came from, never heard anything like it from any other region of the world.

It's a grammatical quirk that happens when native speakers of some Asian languages accidentally mix-and-match the grammar and sentence structure of English and their own language. Adverbs particularly, for some reason. Geographically speaking, you see it less often in places that have languages with grammar and sentence structure that more closely approach English. In those places it usually tends to be things like slightly odd uses of tense or pronouns.
I've spent enough time modding international internet chatrooms to usually be able to tell where someone is from by how they twist up their English.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

I’ve lived in NZ for 20+ years now, and I’ve never heard someone who wasn’t from India, Pakistan or Sri Lanka say that.

There are a few other quirky English idioms I’ve heard people from that region use. I can only assume it has something to do with their own languages’ grammatical structures. Or they are quirky little expressions left over from colonial times.

The one expression I get over and over is: "I have a doubt." In Canada, in it's place, we would say: "I don't understand this... what do you mean?" The other mannerism that took some getting used to is the Indian head wobble. Once you know, you're good. Until then, it's super-perplexing.

 

[Thomas Shey]

The one expression I get over and over is: "I have a doubt." In Canada, in it's place, we would say: "I don't understand this... what do you mean?" The other mannerism that took some getting used to is the Indian head wobble. Once you know, you're good. Until then, it's super-perplexing.

Well, gestures (which that is) are one of those things that are in their way, as varied as language.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Hey, has anyone been getting some odd error messages from this thread (and only this one)? I'd gotten the impression it was indicating a broken ad, but its strange its only coming up here.

Edit: And then right after I post this I get it in another thread. Carry on. I'll mention it in Meta.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Well, gestures (which that is) are one of those things that are in their way, as varied as language.

That's pretty much the point I was making.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

 

[1QD]

I know this...this might break the internet but I feel a great sense of duty to add this comment. Pineapple on pizza.....keep following....Does belong on pizza, IF, you actually like it, and does NOT belong on pizza if you don't. Like mind blown right? I mean, personal prefference....pow!

 

[Scribe]

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Hmm I wager....yep.