Timeline for What are rollers that are sat one after one called?
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| Apr 12 at 15:08 | comment | added | Lambie | @MichaelHarvey It is not just the cop shows. It's everywhere in English series when the speakers are not laddeedah. There's similar stuff in AmE. Why go on and on about this? I doubt very much that Brit. series writers sit around saying Ah, right, let's put in this or that expression for the "international audience". The same goes for American or Canadian or Australian or New Zealand (the main ones, eh?) writers. And as an American, I never say, Can I get the fish. to a server. I say: May I have the fish. I guess that makes me posh, for a gringa. | |
| Apr 12 at 11:33 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | @KateBunting - if you find 'I was sat', he was stood', etc, annoying, don't come to live in Bristol! Certain native Bristolians do all of them, and in particular they call someone who is horizontal 'laid down', and they pronounce the first word of that phrase 'led'. | |
| Apr 12 at 11:31 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | @KateBunting - I spent my working life in the justice system, and saw a gradual change in the types of people who managed to be selected to be Crown & County Court judges. They aren't all white men who went to public schools any more, although the very highest levels still have a little way to go. Also the MoJ has been trying to make the justice system more 'accessible', and this includes language. I used to marvel at the solecisms I found in written judgements by Employment Tribunal judges. | |
| Apr 12 at 9:06 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | @MichaelHarvey - I was recently called for jury service, and was astonished that not only police officers but even the judge referred to people being 'sat' or 'stood' somewhere! (As I've mentioned before, I'm one of those who find the usage irritating.) | |
| Apr 12 at 8:44 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | @Lambie - very often (mostly!) the dialogue on those shows is what a bunch of TV industry/BBC luvvies and their milieu think is how cops, crooks, etc, talk. With tweaks for the 'international' market. | |
| Apr 12 at 8:39 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | @Lambie - ah, British police procedurals, those infallible guides to current English usage! I rather think they take the English language down the nick and give it a good kicking before verballing it up in front of the beak. | |
| Apr 11 at 22:54 | comment | added | Lambie | @MichaelHarvey I know all about that. Thanks. "those rollers that are sat [=that are sitting] one after one?" Sure, non standard but heard often enough in Brit. police procedurals to know that it's that. There's also stood, for was standing. | |
| Apr 11 at 22:13 | comment | added | Yosef Baskin | In simple terms, you are labeling an existing series of rollers that flatten the dough into sheets. The assembly line is established; you are not instructing builders to set anything up anew. If calendar is the jargon you need, use that. | |
| Apr 11 at 22:09 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | I think that's a 'four-roller noodle press'. | |
| Apr 11 at 22:07 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | @Lambie - That use of sat is British English - viewed by most Brits as non-standard and (by some) irritating. | |
| Apr 11 at 20:55 | comment | added | TimR | @Lambie Are you saying that BrE does not make a distinction between intransitive "sit" and transitive verb set , the latter verb meaning "to place something in a position or location"? It was sat on the mantel. Or are you saying OP meant "The rollers are sitting one after the other" not "The rollers are placed one after the other"? | |
| Apr 11 at 19:51 | comment | added | Lambie | @TimR That use of sat is British English. Now, see, there we do have a difference in colloquial speech: He was sat by the door, for where we say: sitting. I like the question and the answer was quite clever. I'm sure FF can tell you all about sat for was sitting. It came up just other day on ELU, I think it was... | |
| Apr 11 at 19:24 | comment | added | TimR | You forgot the step where the gasoline is rinsed out of the flour truck's tank before it is sent on the road. youtube.com/embed/b2w97JHBfEM | |
| Apr 11 at 19:18 | history | edited | TimR |
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| Apr 11 at 19:16 | comment | added | TimR | Side note: to place something in a position or location is to set it there. They would be set one after the other (not sat). | |
| Apr 11 at 17:35 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 11 at 17:19 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I’m voting to close this question because it's asking for highly domain-specific terminology that would be unknown to almost all native speakers | |
| Apr 11 at 16:38 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | "Rollers that are placed one after another". | |
| Apr 11 at 16:21 | vote | accept | newbie forever | ||
| Apr 11 at 16:05 | answer | added | Stuart F | timeline score: 10 | |
| Apr 11 at 15:49 | history | asked | newbie forever | CC BY-SA 4.0 |