Guards say "No loligagging."

What does that mean? Does it mean what it sounds like it means? I find it... disturbing.

means no idoling about .-.

It's just something funny.
But it literally means "to loiter aimlessly".

Basically "No loitering aimlessly"

Here:
http://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&fhp=1&site=webhp&q=lollygag&tbs=dfn:1&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=8P0eT9moNaec2AX096GfDw&sqi=2&ved=0CCEQkQ4&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=d3080f2561ccffbc&ion=1&biw=1599&bih=824

An exclusive Americanism. I may be wrong, but don't believe it is used anywhere else on the planet and sounds odd in the Schwarzenegger-like Austrian accents of the guards.

Hey, they're serious about that! Ask Borkul the Beast!

I am in the UK and my dad said it a fair bit to me when I was younger.
I guess it's just one of those things, we all know someone who over uses some outlandish words. It's the added hilarity of life.

I'll gag your lolli you mad stallion
HIYO!

But seriously, it just means loitering.

actually i think it really comes from anglisied gaelic or at least irish english.

Must be, doesn't sound american

I understand the tremendous differences in the colloquial language the U.K. and U.S. share, but I didn't realize that "American" had become a seperate language.

I suppose that is justified, though. Mexicans speak Mexican, right?

It means to not mess around. It mainly came from Europe, & has been around for quite awhile.




The U.K. & U.S. version of the English language only differs in a small bit. There tends to be more different scientific terms than common language terms though. But there really is no difference. Basically a tomato tomato thing. Only this time it is lady bug to lady bird.

I'm sure to get thrown into a dungeon someplace for loligagging eventually. Naturally, I won't pay the fine for it

Hahahaha, yes and the Swedish speak.... Ah, never mind.
I think we were more on the subject of dialects and origin of certain words. Not languages

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lollygag

"First known use: 1868"

Would almost have to be, no?

The differences between "American English" and "British English" are fairly obvious, referring to something as an "American" saying is really just shortening the terms.

Seems so yes. And several other sites marks it down to originate from America as well. What do you know

Meh, the "Origin unknown" is somewhat ambiguous. I would bet people with backgrounds in literature and such could argue it's sourced from somewhere else and the term "lollygag" itself was first used then, but originated from something else in a different language much earlier.

Arguable. I've had conversation with Americans and they've pulled out entire phrases that have left me blank as an Englishman - "My dogs are barking", "it's the sh*t", "You sound like geiko", "English muffins", and that's without taking into account french derivatives in modern English absent in modern American (Colour/Color, -ise/ize, Zed Vs Zee) - they certainly use most the same words as the English language but there are functional differences in how those words are applied (Chips Vs Crisps. Cookie Vs Biscuit, Gray Vs Grey) and how verbs are conjugated (ie. Hooked on phonics... "Neoverbalization"(?!))

Strictly speaking it's more like a sub-variant, like Castellan Vs Mexican Vs Catalan Spanish)

Dialects and qolloquial language are the same thing: Informal, cultural, and geographical.

Therefor, the proper wording would have been American English, being that is is the American dialect of English.
However, it would be redundant to label proper spoken English as English English, being that the root language is self evident.

And in order to find the origin of a word we would need to look in to its respective root language, not just assume an entire language to be formatted around an informal, cultural and local version of itself. I can't find an American language dictionary that will teach me the origin of English words...

catalan isn't spanish, its closer to french on the lingusitic family tree than anything

http://www.word-detective.com/093098.html#lollygag Now, in most online sources actually state that this word is in fact an American Idiom and the first usage was recorded around 1860 in a poem about a dead cow from Wisconsin.

22 Kwarts of milck she give,
As true as Eye dew liv,
but now er 12 Kwart bag
Aint wuth a lallygag,
Poor old thyng!

still not confirmed.

at any rate, according to wiktionary, it also has a translation for "silliness"

I dont think it really has been used in America for 50+ years. Its something my granma would have said, rest her soul.

http://emonemox7.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/rika_display.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Gag-overthemouth-lorelei-kibf903.jpg

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs22/f/2008/024/d/e/Tape_gagged_Mikuru_chan_by_Natsuko_Hiragi.jpg

Any questions?