Currently cool slang you will not touch

[mollyringle]

What 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?

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[grass-stained.livejournal.com]

hi. my name is amy. I added you to my friends list after reading your Two Towers parody. Just wanted to say hello, since I've posted twice in your journal now and you might be thinking I'm just a random weirdo, but no, I'm actually a fan of your humorous Lord of the Rings posts. Which might still make me a weirdo, but hopefully a less random one. Moving on...

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.

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

Hi Amy - don't worry, no random weirdo-ness assumed. :)

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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[grass-stained.livejournal.com]

"shiz" is most likely short for sure. Unless that doesn't fit in the context, and then they've probably just corrupted another word. I just have to wonder where they get these things from.

[evenstar9.livejournal.com]

i thought shiz was shit.

(now you probably think i'm the random werido..)

<33jacey