Word "badinage"

[Bassim]

I don't know often "badinage" is used in everyday speech, but I've tried to use it in my sentence. Have I made any mistakes?

After David would watch a football match on Saturday afternoons, he enjoyed badinage and beer with his friends in a pub.

 

[emsr2d2]

I don't know often "badinage" is used in everyday speech, but I've tried to use it in my sentence. Have I made any mistakes?

After [STRIKE]David would[/STRIKE] watching a football match on Saturday afternoons, [STRIKE]he[/STRIKE] David often/always enjoyed badinage and beer with his friends in a pub.

See above. Note, though, that "badinage" is not used much in BrE. I suspect many people would have to look it up in a dictionary. More people would recognise "banter".

 

[GoesStation]

Shooting the breeze in American English.

 

[emsr2d2]

If you want more standard, colloquial speech, you'd use something like "David loves a chat and a pint with his mates in his local after the footie every Saturday".

 

[GoesStation]

"David loves a chat and a pint with his mates in his local after the footie every Saturday".

I probably don't have to point out that every noun in this sentence except "Saturday" is British English.

 

[Rover_KE]

Fair comment.

From time to time we need to point out that Bassim has made it clear he is more interested in BE usage.

 

[emsr2d2]

I probably don't have to point out that every noun in this sentence except "Saturday" is British English.

And if we wanted to change it all to AmE, we'd even have to change the day of the week - NFL games are traditionally not played on a Saturday, if I remember rightly.

 

[jutfrank]

I probably don't have to point out that every noun in this sentence except "Saturday" is British English.

Is chat not used in US English? What might be used instead?

 

[GoesStation]

Is chat not used in US English? What might be used instead?

We do sometimes use the noun form of chat, but I can't imagine someone applying it to, shall we say, robust, masculine conversation with the guys at the bar. The nearest equivalent that comes to mind is hang out: "David likes to hang out with the guys at the bar."

 

[bubbha]

"David loves to hang out and chug some brews with his buddies at the local dive after the game every Sunday."

 

[jutfrank]

Where I'm from, we say:

David relishes badinage and beverage with his compadres at the ale house after a soccer contest on a Saturday.

(No, we don't.)

 

[bubbha]

Before I saw this thread, I had never seen the word "badinage" in half a century of living.

 

[Tdol]

I visit a pub more for the beer than the badinage.

 

[SoothingDave]

And if we wanted to change it all to AmE, we'd even have to change the day of the week - NFL games are traditionally not played on a Saturday, if I remember rightly.

We have college football on Saturdays.