Bertie-isms!

[laughinggas13.livejournal.com]

I've just discovered that my French teacher uses the word 'bally' a lot. I am insanely, weirdly happy about this - I am no longer alone!

In a bid to make this a more interesting post for other people: what Bertie-isms do you find yourself using in everyday conversation?

Me, I say 'Indeed?' rather a lot, substitue 'Dash it all!' and 'bally' for swearing and I have been known to greet people with the words 'What ho!' No one I know actually gets why I do this, but it's still fun!

Comments

[solitaire55.livejournal.com]

I don't think I use any Bertie-isms, but I like use them.

Whenever I hear someone say 'Indeed' I usually think about the character Teal'c from Stargate SG-1, but if I here 'Indeed sir' I think of Jeeves. They both bring a smile to my face.

I would start greeting people with a 'What ho!', but I know I'd be looked at strangely.

[gravescape.livejournal.com]

When I visit my parents I usually yell "What Ho!" when I enter the house. (They live out of town so I don't see them much.) I use indeed tons it's also become my new hmm mmm while on the phone. (Nobody seems to notice...)

Example: Person: Great day today.
Me: Indeed.
P: We should do it again.
M: Indeed.
P: Are you even listening...
M: Indeed.

[random-nexus.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Extra credit for squicking the teacher!
Woot!

[blackletter]

Your teacher was probably *shocked* and *thrilled* that his/her students were fans of a classic English author.

[random-nexus.livejournal.com]

The goofy thing is that I use 'Bertie-isms' in my mind tons more than I do out loud. My inner dialogues have always been far different from what actually comes out of my face. Probably the same with everyone, though, I'd imagine.

I think I've used 'Bally' and at least one 'crikey!' fairly recently.

:D

[xlions-roarx.livejournal.com]

I end up texting people "how are you old fish?"
I don't get many replies ahaha.

[who-is-small.livejournal.com]

That would be Cheerio, What-ho and Indeed for me :)

[firtavain.livejournal.com]

When emailing someone, I often tend to finish my mail with the words 'Toodle-pip', 'Pip pip' or 'Toodle-oo'. :)

[waqaychay.livejournal.com]

i find myself using "bloody", "bally", and "indeed" quite a bit. and lately, i've been known to say "that's rum!" and "dash it!"

i love the weird looks i get when people hear this kentucky girl spout bertie-isms. :D

[niektete.livejournal.com]

I am going to order a t-shirt with the words "Indeed, sir" printed across it! ^^ Lavender, of course... *evil cackle*

And that's about as much as I can do. I live in a non-English-speaking country, which makes me sad on a daily basis, so I can't just pop "bally" or "rather" or "indeed" into my conversations at will :(

[derien.livejournal.com]

A lot of them are nonsense words even to English speaking people, so don't let the language barrier stop you. ;)

[pyrocrastinator.livejournal.com]

Hee. They're all over in my inner-dialogue, and beginning to slip into my actual speech. Usually 'rummy,' dashed,' or 'bally.'

[laughinggas13.livejournal.com]

My inner-dialogue is in Jeevesian for some reason!

[iugularemortuos.livejournal.com]

I like to throw them into conversation and see who picks up on it, or who uses the word at a later date. Linguistic osmosis!

After first seeing Blackadder Goes Forth, my little brother and I spent a few years greeting everyone with "tally ho, pip pip and bob's your uncle". Very loudly.

[smutnazi.livejournal.com]

Rummy and dashed have worked their way in, bally has been there for a long long long long time (probably from when I originally saw J&W when it was first on and I was a wee little thing).

Soupy's become another one too, although I don't use "in the soup" at all.

My inner dialogue, however, is now Bertie through-and-through.

[dreamwaffles.livejournal.com]

I use "toodle-pip", though I shorten it to "toodles" rather a lot; I use "indeed," "right-o", "dash it," and "I mean to say! Good lord!" kind of a lot. :D

[blackletter]

'Toodle-pip' has been creeping into my speech. 'Bloody' has always been then, but I think of it more as a Britishism than a Bertieism. 'Dashed' is popping up in my inner monologues more and more frequently, so it's only a matter of time before it starts popping out of my mouth, too.

[emeraldreeve.livejournal.com]

I think them often, but I don't use them too often when speaking.

[chibi-wolvie.livejournal.com]

I used this words when I writing in english, or thinking... yes, sometimes I thinking in english... and it is more correct than that what I wrote... bally thing ^^"

When I go to my english-lessons (there are over, *sob*) I had used some of them. "Indeed" - of course, "balley", "jolly", "bloody", "what the hell?" "Dashed it!" and sometimes "pip pip" and "Toodle-pip." My english-teacher are very pleased with this. She has staying in america and do not to used the british way of speaking. Long story short: I have much learned from her, but she also a little bit from me. ^^

*smirk* I sometimes used these words in german sentences and confused my speak-partners. I loved this

[chaoticchaos13.livejournal.com]

I've accidentally what-ho-ed someone at my office. They stared.

[jolly-rotten.livejournal.com]

cool french teacher, then. ;) I'm living in Germany, and Jeeves&Wooster isn't much popular around here (it's a shame, really) so everytime I'm using Berti-isms, in school people tend to stare at me like I'm an alien or something. *lol*

I'm using the 'By Jove' or 'What ho!' phrases a lot, though. ;) And toodle-pip of course. My friends kinda used to it I guess, but my english teacher freaks out everytime I'm using it. *haha*

[enchantee.livejournal.com]

I've always been a fan of and "Oh, rather," which pops up in a great deal of interwar dialogue all over the place, but it's particularly endearing in Bertie's hands. Ditto "I say," and "steady on." But I think more than actual words, I've always had a tendency (since before I encountered Wodehouse) to abbreviate my words in ways that aren't exactly necessary: condish., circs., periph., that sort of thing. I think that if I wasn't already in love with Bertie's narrative voice, that's probably what sold me.

[feanix.livejournal.com]

"Pipped" has managed to work its way into my vocabulary somehow...

[derien.livejournal.com]

I say "chuffed" now and then. :)

[derien.livejournal.com]

"Tea, tea, tea, what, what?" - I say that a LOT.

"Rummy" - both I and my sweetheart say this, now, though possibly he more than I.

[georgeodowd.livejournal.com]

Goodness, doesn't anyone say 'rot'? That has got to be my biggest Bertie-ism. Or, well, the word I picked up from Wodehouse that I use the most frequently.
I use it to refute people's statements:

Co-worker: You can't add that function to my library!
Me: Rot!

And to express disgruntlement at the day's proceedings:

Friend: I'm sorry, I'm a sad lazy ass and I'm going to stand you up again.
Me: Rot!

And to describe things:

Mother: How was that movie you went to see last night?
Me: Rot!

And sometimes when I need to say something but I just don't have the words:

Me: Rotting rotten rotty rot! Rot rot rot!

Something about this word has endeared it to me terribly.