Does that phrase mean the same as “Give your balls a tug”?

  • HikingVet
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    14 hours ago

    It’s not sub-english. That’s not how dialects are described.

    • EABOD25@lemm.eeOP
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      I’d prefer to refer to it as sub-english because it’s English… but it makes more sense to Canadians (of a certain regions) than the rest of the world until the rest of the world hears it and then it makes perfect sense. It’s not a new language. It’s just using an old language in a new way. If it was a dialect it would be like everything described by Jeff Foxworthy with his “you might be a redneck” jokes

      • Zahille7@lemmy.world
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        That’s like calling the English Australians speak as “sub-english.”

        Also it just sounds wrong to refer to a dialect of a language as “sub-language” almost like you’re referring to people of a certain racial or ethnic group as “sub-people.” Just my two cents.