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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[jedmiller.livejournal.com]

The absolute worst is "peeps"... but I think anything ending in "-ps" is ill-fated: "haps" ... "props." Also not into giving anyone the "digits" or "the 411." I feel like those are all SoCal-based, but I could be wrong. I'm also suspicious when anything is "mad-" anything.

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.

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

(On your icon: It's really sad that I recognize Legolas by his eye and ear. Sigh. Anyway...)

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... :)

[jedmiller.livejournal.com]

On your icon: It's really sad that I recognize Legolas by his eye and ear. Sigh. Anyway...

Just promise me you'll let me know if you find an image of him getting onto that horse. Now that was the chilly most. Also, where'd you get the cool JRRT runes-font?

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

I think that horse-flipping trick is out there as a moving picture file, somewhere...but haven't seen it myself.

And that font is called First Order; it's freeware... can be found here: http://www.acidfonts.com/f6.htm
...although that's not the original page where I found it. It's just, I can't remember the original page. Heh. Doesn't matter, I guess.

[jedmiller.livejournal.com]

so cool. thanks!