Currently cool slang you will not touch
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mollyringleWhat is the local currently-hip slang word or phrase that you refuse to use?
I'm not saying it has to offend you (like calling stupid stuff "gay") - just something you don't use, because it isn't you.
For me, here in northern California, it's "hella." (Both as "very" and as "a lot of": "That test was hella hard." "He got hella bruises from snowboarding.") I thought it was extremely bizarre when I first heard it. I'm getting used to it now, but I still don't use it myself. I would feel like a poser if I did; like one of those sad teachers trying to sound cool. Even though I'm not exactly ancient.
Anyway. What is it in your area?
I'm not saying it has to offend you (like calling stupid stuff "gay") - just something you don't use, because it isn't you.
For me, here in northern California, it's "hella." (Both as "very" and as "a lot of": "That test was hella hard." "He got hella bruises from snowboarding.") I thought it was extremely bizarre when I first heard it. I'm getting used to it now, but I still don't use it myself. I would feel like a poser if I did; like one of those sad teachers trying to sound cool. Even though I'm not exactly ancient.
Anyway. What is it in your area?
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Date: 2003-01-18 06:01 pm (UTC)anything with "izzle" inserted into it. for instance, take the word "sweet," either as the kind of taste or as something that is cool or otherwise good. sweet + "izzle" = swizzle.
last time I checked, "swizzle" was relative to what you use to stir coffee... and yet, entirely too many people around here (central Florida) are saying things like that. "Swizzle." "Shizzle" (corruption of "sure"). I can't think of any more examples; generally when people say that I look at them like they've lost their mind and tune out whatever they said.
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Date: 2003-01-19 10:50 am (UTC)We certainly don't have the "-izzle" thing out here. Though now that you mention it, there were a couple people in chat rooms who kept using "shiz" (I guess for "sure"), and yeah, I thought they were very strange.
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Date: 2003-01-18 06:20 pm (UTC)Down here, the phrase that I won't use is "wrecks shop." As in "My car is fantastic. It wrecks shop" or "Jet Li is such a badass! He wrecks shop!"
Now, I don't actually find anything wrong with the phrase, but find it exceedingly silly. I have also only heard it uttered by a couple of people and therefore can't vouch for its origins or whether or not they were just making something up and pulling my leg.
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Date: 2003-01-19 10:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-18 06:21 pm (UTC)translation: It's very cold outside.
how BRICK became cold, i do not know.
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Date: 2003-01-19 10:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2003-01-18 06:30 pm (UTC)"Wicked," as either "cool" or "very"
With the variant "wicked pisser" (piss-ah if you're doing the accent,) which is just more so.
Sets my teeth on edge.
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Date: 2003-01-19 10:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-18 06:46 pm (UTC)Here in Memphis it's never "Where do you live?" It's "Where do you stay?"
I stay in hotels or with my parents. I LIVE in my house. I dislike the implied impermanance.
Any of the black slang, including def, fly, etc. I am far too white to use it and have it sound right.
I won't use "all that" either as in "She's all that."
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Date: 2003-01-19 10:57 am (UTC)And, yes, it's usually rap- or hiphop-ish slang that I sound silliest using. Similarly for "phat". I really am far too white to pull it off...even though, as a linguist in training, I know that's a completely arbitrary judgement. Fact remains people would look at me funny. :)
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Date: 2003-01-18 06:56 pm (UTC)As in, "He's got mad skillz, yo" and "Wow, that's a sweet car." ^^;;;
And I have heard "hella," well, hella times. :p
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Date: 2003-01-19 10:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-18 07:11 pm (UTC)I don't care how good your performance was... I'm going to congratulate you, not give you props.
If it is a really good performance, I'll tell you what I liked about it in detail, but I won't give you "mad phat props."
~j
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Date: 2003-01-19 11:00 am (UTC)"Mad phat props," indeed. I have heard it, but also would not use it.
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Date: 2003-01-18 07:14 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-01-19 11:02 am (UTC)Isn't that what the Kriss Kross kiddies said? (Like, 12 years ago?)
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Date: 2003-01-18 08:12 pm (UTC)I am guilty of "wicked". I'm from western New York but we say that too.
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Date: 2003-01-19 11:05 am (UTC)Heh; in California it's "like" that's attached to every syllable. Not just the girls, either; the boys seem to do it equally much.
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Date: 2003-01-19 02:55 am (UTC)Off the hook currently seems to mean something really wild and fun, or really good - hard to tell exactly.
Off the hook used to mean "out of trouble" - like when Fish asks Sonny Corleone, "Mike, can you get me off the hook?" when he knows he is gonna get whacked.
How did this phrase get misappropriated? I hate it when that happens.
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Date: 2003-01-19 11:06 am (UTC)Re:
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Date: 2003-01-19 08:35 am (UTC)Not offended by it, but I don't want to come off sounding like a try-hard
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Date: 2003-01-19 11:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2003-01-19 10:42 am (UTC)For me, it's "awesome." It's not a regional thing for me, it's within the culture of the youth ministry I worked with for 10+ years (Young Life). I think it's over-used (mostly by the volunteer leaders and staff), but I'm guilty of using it still.
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Date: 2003-01-19 11:08 am (UTC)that's hella interesting
Date: 2003-01-19 11:00 am (UTC)I hate it when people - and newspapers and major media! - say a politician is being "dogged." I think traditionally the word for this type of thing was "hounded." Somehow the hip-hop lingo of, like: "yo, home, you doggin' that" has worked its way into to the vernacular of the news-pretty-boys who are trying to be hip. It sounds really weird to me.
Here's my post on the topic (http://nikita_demosthenes.blogspot.com/2003_01_19_nikita_demosthenes_archive.html#87688336).
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Date: 2003-01-20 06:38 am (UTC)I'm not well versed in modern slang. I heard a song a couple of years ago with the line "phat like Cindy Crawford" and I turned to my daughter and said, "Cindy Crawford isn't fat ..."
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Date: 2003-01-19 05:08 pm (UTC)I just thought I'd comment, I added you to my friend's list forever ago because I followed a link from the LOTR community. ;-) Decided I'd give some input on this one.
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Date: 2003-01-19 06:43 pm (UTC)But most annoying of all, for me, are the people who use 'scandilous' as every interjection. For most of the people who use it, 'scandilous' is the biggest, most complex word they know.
Teacher: So, for homework...
'Cool' kid: SCANDILOUS! Homework!!
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Person: I got this new game for my Gamecube, it's so cool!
'Cool' kid: SCANDILOUS! I wish I had that game!
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Date: 2003-01-20 04:43 pm (UTC)Annoying phrases
Date: 2003-01-19 08:02 pm (UTC)australia's borrowing slang
Date: 2003-01-20 05:16 am (UTC)the one i had in high school was "getting payed out" -- insulted.
i.e. "you just got payed out man", "what a pay out"
that was about 8 years ago now. dang.
but one that ive been hearing recently on and off is "bling-bling". it's very awkward to see asian and very very white kids practising ebonics, "coz it don't work none, y'all trying to be a playa"
we do get a lot of generic U.S. Tv as well here, like law 'n order, the practise, sex in the city, southpark, sopranos, buffy, etc. etc. one show that comes to mind, is the slang from the show dark-angel was pretty vivid, it was "hella forced" but appropriate to the show.
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Date: 2003-01-20 11:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-21 01:33 pm (UTC)Ah, each to his own, I suppose
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Date: 2003-01-21 07:15 pm (UTC)Slang
Date: 2003-01-22 01:38 pm (UTC)Re: Slang
Date: 2003-01-22 06:24 pm (UTC)I think people here say "give me a holla" for "phone me", sometimes. I agree...I do not holler, not into the phone, and not usually at any other friendly time. Heh.
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Date: 2003-01-23 09:15 am (UTC)I use prolly alot. *grin*
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Date: 2003-01-23 09:27 am (UTC)I grew up in NYC and having been saying "Yo" since before MTV existed, but being jewish and white, I think I've bothered a few people (esp. the cousin of an ex who's African-American -- he asked her later, all suspicious, "Why'd he say 'Yo' to me??").
At college in Massachusetts, I was so tickled that people up there say "anyways" instead of "anyway" that I started doing it on purpose, which is the only time I've ever consciously adopted regional lingo.
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Date: 2003-01-23 05:54 pm (UTC)Hah, "411". Yes, that one bugs me too. But I've always said "anyways" as a variant. Never thought of it as particularly odd. Just goes to show, we don't notice our own dialect much... :)
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