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I'm writing a story with British people in it but I'm from Canada.

An American would say "Get out of my face!" if they wanted somebody to stop annoying them.

What are some things a British person is likely to say in that situation? The character is not a cockney or a royal, just an average person.

>> No.4011843

piss off

>> No.4011845

"Git outta m'face!"

>> No.4011856

They wouldn't say anything. Stiff upper lip, wot wot?

>> No.4011868

>>4011840
"Fuck off"
"Pack it in!"
"Shut it/up!"
"Put a sock in it!"

>> No.4011877

english up this sentence would you chaps?

"Well, if he gets in my face maybe I'll kill him too."

>> No.4011881

>>4011877

it depends what segment of society you're writing about in all honesty

middle class?
toffs?
poor white working class?
ethnic urban?

etc

>> No.4011885

>>4011881
middle class

>> No.4011887

>>4011877
"If I see that cunt around here again I'll kick his fucking teeth in"

>> No.4011916

>>4011887
thanks but not quite what I'm looking for

I'll give some context

Victoria is staying with Lord Cavendish and she has just killed 3 of his zombie maids. She's thinking that he might be upset about it and get angry with her and she doesn't like him very much so she's not entirely opposed to killing him too. But she hasn't talked to him about it yet she is just thinking to herself.

"Well, if he gets in my face maybe I'll kill him too." Just doesn't sound very english.

>> No.4011918

if 'e gets up in me boat i'll just give 'im a smack in the gabber innit m8

>> No.4011921

oi m8 jog on or ill spark u out swear on me mum

>> No.4011922 [DELETED] 

>An American would say "Get out of my face!" if they wanted somebody to stop annoying them.

A Brit would say, "Fuck off, you're doing my head in."

>> No.4011923

>>4011921
>>4011918
lol

sounds a bit too cockney for this character

i might use swear on me mum on a future project though, thanks :)

>> No.4011924

"bugger off"

do they say bugger in the uk?

>> No.4011927

>>4011924
If you're a certain breed of 40 something middle class dick head

>> No.4011934

"bugger the fack off my colonels!"

>> No.4011940

>>4011916
still need a suggestion for what she would say here thanks

>> No.4011941

"Get out of my face!": I'd probably say "leave me alone", "get lost" or perhaps "shove off!"

"If he gets in my face": "if he gets on my nerves", "if he winds me up".

I'm middle class and British and that's how I would talk.

>> No.4011966

>>4011941
i think i'll just leave it gets in my face unless somebody comes up with something else

thanks for the suggestrons everyone

>> No.4011983

>>4011966
Nobody English would say that though, certainly not somebody who knows a Lord. What's wrong with 'gets on my nerves' or 'winds me up'?

>> No.4011988

OP, what do you understand of the class system?

Middle-class in Canada/America mean very different things to middle-class in the UK.

>> No.4011992

We're too passive to say anything.

>> No.4011997

>>4011840

ill bash ye fucken 'ed in

>> No.4011998

>>4011924

tracy beaker does

>> No.4012000

Overheard this on the train today, OP.

"Move your bike, you're blocking the doors!"
"Maybe if you lost some weight you could get past."
"Fuck off!"

So yeah. Temperament also plays a part. If someone was bothering me I'd say "Excuse me, could you please stop that?" or if I was really pissed "Could you stop that, please?"

>> No.4012011

>>4011983
Well I don't know what english people would say that's why I'm asking.

Gets on my nerves is all wrong because...She's not worried she's going to be annoyed because she's a little aready annoyed. She's wary that he will be angry that she killed people that were previously loved ones to him.

She's thinking... if he gets angry with me then maybe I'll just kill him. She's not seriously thinking about doing it, she's just angry with him ... possibly because he's kept zombies alive. Possibly because she just doesn't like the guy.

>> No.4012060

>>4011916

>"Well, if he gets in my face maybe I'll kill him too." Just doesn't sound very english.

I think you're thinking of stereotypes too much. The passive-aggression of that quote is pretty perfect.

>> No.4012082

>>4012060
okay thanks

it's not a big deal because british people can use american phases sometimes

it's just i thought the "in my face" really sounded american and was wondering what a British person would say.

>> No.4012129

i'll nob ya in ya gob, ya sod

>> No.4012204

>>4012000
>or if I was really pissed "Could you stop that, please?"

Oh, you.

>> No.4012214

300 confirmed kills, etc.

>> No.4012220 [DELETED] 

>>4011924
>do they say bugger in the uk?
Yes, but it's mainly the older generation, the same as 'bloody'.

"Bloody 'ell, Philip, the swans 'ave shat on me car again."
"Oh, those dirty buggers."

>> No.4012222

What kind of British? English? Welsh? Scots?

What kind of middle-class? Lower? Upper?

British middle-classes never say the word 'got' or its past or participle, if they can possibly do it. Most British, of a certain education, hate the word.

'Get out of my face' is an Americanism, so what time period are we talking about? Modern? Perhaps. Victorian? Absolutely not.

Middle classes, especially the upper end, prefer to use 'shall' for the future auxiliary in the 1st person, singular and plural, 'will' for the rest. Old rule, though, this is dying out.

>>4011941
>"get lost" or perhaps "shove off!"
Best suggestions yet. I'd go with 'shove off', very middle-class sounding.

>> No.4012248

>>4012222
What North American is going to write about the Welsh when even the rest of the UK doesn't give a shit about them? I often forget of their existence.

>> No.4012386

>>4012222
it's modern middle class

and aren't British and English the same thing?

>> No.4012391

git rekt straya cunt

Or 'piss off'.

>> No.4012394

>>4012386
NO!

British can refer to the Welsh, Scottish or English. Just like 'American' can refer to a Texan but 'Texan' can't refer to a Californian.

>> No.4012396

"i say my old chap, would you mind awfully removing your personage from my general vicinity? "

source - i am british

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>>4012386
> and aren't British and English the same thing?
No

>> No.4012401

if you rooty my tooty

>> No.4012405

"Keep fucking sounding off. But I'll turn. Oh aye, I'll turn. Then you're popped, spunkbubble, you're fucking popped."

>> No.4012408

>>4012396
>>>reddit

>> No.4012409

>>4011916
'Well if it bothers him that much, I can always kill him too'

>> No.4012413

>>4011840
"U wot m8? I'll smack you in the gobber, swear on me mum"

>> No.4012423

"piss off, ye sodding sausage nigel or I'll smack a rickedy pop on ye gob"

>> No.4012462

"Piss off!"

When Brits use this phrase, they don't mean "to make angry".

>> No.4012479

>>4012409
British person here: this is the best one.

You've got to get the sarcasm in, it's integral. For example a few days ago I heard a man react to a couple queue-jumping by saying ' oh my all means go ahead, by your company it's clear your need for alcohol is considerable greater than mine'.

>> No.4012507

i can't think of anything equivalent i'd say apart from 'fuck off'. i've heard plenty of people say 'get out of my face' here (london).

don't make the characters constantly say things like 'oi piss off mate, you bloody wanker'

>> No.4012534

>>4012082
I'd change it to
>Well! If he gets in my face, maybe I'll kill him too.
or
>Well. If he gets in my face, maybe I'll kill him too.
The punctuation makes it sound a little more exasperated. The "Well" in "Well, I never!".

>> No.4014831

We'd be too polite/awkward to say anything and just have to deal with it.

>> No.4014849

>>4014831
Dunno where you live, mate, but up North this is not acceptable.