Regional Sayings/Phrases..

[Dan L]

Meh.. I was thinking about this a little bit. Anyone who talks to me for prolongued amounts of time on AIM/MSN will probably know that I say "quality" a lot. That's because in Stoke on Trent, "quality", means (in this particular context) "sweet", "cool", "great".. whatever you choose to say.

I never use this on messengers, but around here we also call people "duck", for some reason.. and we greet people by saying "Ay up".. so a typical Stoke on Trent greeting is "Ay up, Duck"..

What can I say.. my area is weird..

Anyway, I was wondering.. are there any really weird, Regional Syings, or Phrases, in your area?.. Cos it's kind of interesting, seeing how people actually talk to people in their area.. unless you live in a really boring place.. mheh..

[The One]

[color=darkred]I live in London, but am from America, so that makes my 'slang'/'coloquialisms' rather strange. Often, to great someone, I would use the phrase 'sup dude.' or 'hey man', but on Messengers and games (Counter Strike :D) I have a tendency to use more 'English sounding' expressions such as 'lo' which sounds like 'ello' which is a pronounciation of 'hello'. Usually, as an exclamation I call somone a tit, or a boob if the do something particularly absent minded. Sometimes I randomly start to poke people and say 'poke hee hee hee, poke it hee hee' But thats usuall when I'm feeling a bit strange.

I temporarily said 'class' or 'classy' for a while, but then found that I got punched for the way I said it O,o;;;. I resorted to saying 'style'. Recently I have been using the word 'Intriguing' as much as possible wherever relevant, as I deduced that I did not use it enough.

Another thing is that while playing CS, I call people a 'bastie' which is an abreviation/way-to-get-a-way-with-saying Bastard. If silly VB has starred that word out, I shall leave it to your imagination as it isn't too difficult to figure out.

Apart from that lot, I can't think of much, I suppose because I just consider it every day language.

Another thing, just quickly, Scousers, people from Liverpool, hehe, 'eh? eh? eh?' hehe oh, right, you don't know what I'm on about, well thats ok, it's a private joke for all those who live in the UK ;).[/color]

[conpiracymonki]

[b][size=1]
Mancunian vocabulary = all slang...

[u]Dark/sick/awesome/mint/phat(I hate that one)/Nice/Oof[/u]-
great/excellent/brilliant/very good:
[/b][i]'Played Tekken 4?' 'That's a dark game..'[/i][b]

[u]Check[/u]-
look/listen. Also used for sarcasm and surprise:
[/b][i]'Check, yeah', 'Oi Check', 'Check -_-', 'Check!'[/i][b]

[u]Oi/yo/check (said really fast)[/u]-
Attention grabbing noise/one-syllable word:
[/b][i]'Oi so-and-so'[/i][b]

They're the obvious ones off the top of my head. Ones that me and my friend use also include: Prunehead, Poon, Nobbin, and things along those lines...[/b]
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Aaright Scousa? lol
Liverpudlians is having strange accent. We use 'style' and 'class' too. Not that much though.[/size]

[Sara]

[size=1]Bubbler vs. Drinking Fountain, heh...

Eh. I don't know about my area in general, but within my group of friends "Poke!" [accompanied by the appropriate action] is a standard greeting. I started that one, I'm afraid. _ _

And I find that I easily pick up phrases from the people I talk to online and end up saying them at school. I get some curious looks, but it's quite fun.[/size]

[Sere Tuscumbia]

Er. Geez. I've lived in Oklahoma with Oklahomans so long that I can't tell what's a regional saying and what isn't! @_@;;

This is so embarrassing . . . however, I can tell you that I've watched so much British programming, and have several British/Australian friends, that people look at me strangely when I start talking, because I use a lot of British slang. A LOT of British slang. Ah, strange looks are really funny . . . ^_^

So, if I discover anything within the next few days, I'll be sure to update . . . Oo;;

This is really embarrassing . . . T-T;;

--Sere

[Semjaza]

I'm from Chicago, and apparently we have accents here. I obviously can't tell as I live here, but people seem to be able to point it out when I vist some other state or city.

I went to Southern Illinois University in Carbondale for my first year of college, and it was such a huge difference. I didn't think it would be, considering it's still the same state... But everyone had southern accents. I worked at a Target there, and I didn't even know what people were talking about sometimes.

Bags were called sacks, receipts were called tickets, and other differences I can't remember. I said I wanted some pop one day, and everyone though I said pot... They call it soda there, which is something like NO ONE says here in Chicago. They also had fun pointing out my accent, apparently people from Chicago say "Chicago" different than everyone else... lol

[Solo Tremaine]

I'm from the South of England and have a Southern accent, supposedly. It just sounds... boring, really. Not much to it. I don't really use much slang. I used to say 'Gorden Bennet' (basically an expression of surprise/alarm/shock etc) lots, but I'm over that now. I heard some kids trying to make up a new swear word the other day. It was hilarious! They have absolutely no idea... anyway, people use more or less the same as your lot, Deus, except 'duck'. Actually, I can't think of many slang examples I've heard down here. Mostly because I don't tend to talk to the people who use them most often. Oh yeah- 'muppet' is heard a fair bit, meaning 'idiot', or something along those lines. I always thought the Muppets pretty smart, to tell the truth...

I make up my own words, like 'Splinge', and I'll say 'Fudge' to replace certain profanities when I remember. That's about it, I think.

[Guest cloricus]

Well every one knows the Australian slang from TV and movies, but to be honest in the cities unless it is a tourists place hardly any one uses slang. BUT you go out in the country and every thing you hear in the movies is used, EVERY THING!
Of course I don't here the accent part...

Also what about slang on the net, in different places you get different abv's. For example any one on excite, IRC, msn, yahoo all have their own ways of talking.
When I came to otaku I had to change allot of the ways I write to get up to a better standard because I had been around these places allot.
Any one else notice this?

-Lord EpSsy

[amibasuki]

[FONT=arial]um....everybody nowadays at my school says snap instead of sh!t when saying it as an exclamation (ex: "Aw snap!")

other than that, I can't think of any.[/FONT]

[Lady Macaiodh]

[color=darkblue]"that's bad. bad [i]and[/i] sad."

when something's bad [i]and[/i] sad, you know it's really bad. we've been saying that a lot lately. ;)[/color]

[BondFanatic]

If you speak the language of my region:

Five Dollar = Very stupid, so saying 'That's five dollar.' means that's stupid.

Fugly = *ahem*-ing ugly

More to come...

[Boba Fett]

[COLOR=green]In my close circle of friends, we greet each other with the Vulcan "Live long and prosper." accompanied by the appropriate hand movement.

When we are splitting up, we say "May the force be with you."

Can you say "Sci-Fi Nuts!"??[/COLOR]

[Deedlit]

[color=009966]Some kids at school are calling each other "crackers." No, not [i]that,[/i] type of cracker if that's what you're thinking. I'm talking about the grain-type crackers. Don't ask me why, though. Someone named James started it.[/color]

[Manic Webb]

Around here, we say [b]hella[/b] a lot. It means "very" or "extremely" or sometimes "a lot of."
examples: "I'm hella tired. I'm going to bed."
"I know a doctor who's making hella money."

[b]"That's Ghetto!"[/b]
Whenever something is cheaply done or effortless and ugly, it's ghetto.
example: "Girl, that imitation leather suit is so ghetto."

[Heaven's Cloud]

[color=indigo]I live in North Carolina, and very few of the people that live here have a grasp on the English language. Here is some redneckese

Y'all- A group of people; [i]how y'all doin?[/i]

fixin- Preparing to do something; [i]I'm fixin to go eat supper[/i]

how nice- **** you; [i]well how nice[i/][/color]

[Sara]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Boba Fett [/i]
[B][COLOR=green]In my close circle of friends, we greet each other with the Vulcan "Live long and prosper." accompanied by the appropriate hand movement.[/COLOR] [/B][/QUOTE] [SIZE=1]And some of my sister's friends greet eachother with the gestured reversed: "Die and rot."[/SIZE]

[Manic Webb]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Heaven's Cloud [/i]
[B][color=indigo]Y'all- A group of people; [i]how y'all doin?[/i]
[/color] [/B][/QUOTE]

I think I read somewhere that "y'all" used to be a real word; a contraction of "you" and "all."

[Corey]

Don't forget about "Don't Ya Know" Sara.

[Dan L]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Solo Tremaine [/i]
[B]'Gorden Bennet'[/B][/QUOTE]

WOOHOO!! Gordon Bennet!!.. I always wondered who that guy was.. we say that here a lot too.

I think "duck" is a [i]very[/i] local thing.. I say that because everyone who goes to university around here, from other parts of the uk.. hates the place because everyone calls them "duck"

I thought of some more ones around here..

"Sound" (used in the same context as "quality")

"Sorted" (as above)



There's a very "famous" saying around here.. which comes from the way people used to talk around here, 50 years ago or so (we've toned it down a lot now):

[b]"Ken ye kick a boe agen' a woe til it go won bost"[/b]

Which roughly translates as "Can you kick a ball against a wall until it bursts"

Like I said.. that's how we used to talk around here..

[Lady Macaiodh]

[color=darkblue]i just thought of another one.

"the nastiest of the nast."

i know "nast" isn't a word, but it's the state of being nasty. if something's really nasty, we say "that is just the nastiest of the nast."[/color]

[Makai Kite]

Well, here are some of mine...

Y'all (yes, I live in the South)
That's clean/that's tight/that's hot/sweet- That's cool, awesome, etc
Aw, man, that's cold-blooded- That's harsh, etc
Howdy- hello (actually, almost nobody says this anymore, but...)

These are things I've heard at school.
Not much slang to speak of.

[Dan L]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by The One [/i]
[B][color=darkred]Another thing, just quickly, Scousers, people from Liverpool, hehe, 'eh? eh? eh?' hehe oh, right, you don't know what I'm on about, well thats ok, it's a private joke for all those who live in the UK ;).[/color] [/B][/QUOTE]

Heh.. Kaam down, Kaam down!..

(another joke that UK people may understand)


I just thought of an exceptionally strange thing we do...

When something [i]is[/i] something, we say it [i]isn't[/i], in some cases.. we rarely actually say this.. but we say it enough for me to consider it a "regional thing"... for example:

"Quality, that isn't!!!" : [i]that is quality[/i]

"Sound guy, he isn't!!": [i]He is a sound (generally meaning, OK to get on with, in this context) guy[/i]

"Nice, this stuff isn't!!": [i]this stuff is nice[/i]

[Solo Tremaine]

I've not heard that before... Strange, inverted English.

I occasionally use 'straight up', as in 'Exactly', or 'I really am telling the truth'.

[conpiracymonki]

[size=1][QUOTE][b][u]Deus[/u] [u]Ex:[/b][/u]

[i]'Heh.. Kaam down, Kaam down!..'[/i][/QUOTE][b]That has to be the most funniest one of all...lol.[/b]

[quote][b][u]Semjaza[/u] [u]Azazel:[/u][/b]

[i]'...apparently people from Chicago say "Chicago" different than everyone else... lol'[/i][/quote][b]Hmm. People from Bury say "Bury" differently.[/b]

Scousers're still the funniest though... :whoops:[/size]

[BabyGirl]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Semjaza Azazel [/i]
[B]They also had fun pointing out my accent, apparently people from Chicago say "Chicago" different than everyone else... lol [/B][/QUOTE]

[color=deeppink]Oh but you [i]do[/i] ^_^. It's kind of like 'Chicaaago'; I counseled a girl at camp that was from Chicago, and I laughed [silently, of course] whenever she said it.

I always thought that people from Michigan had neutral accents, but my roommates told me that I have a northern accent or something. I admit that I say "bag" wrong, I can't pronounce it without using a long 'a' sound.

I've also grown up saying 'pop', which isn't as uncommon as I originally thought. Apparently a lot of northern west coast people say pop, too.

Lastly, after moving to California I've started to say things like [b]"wicked"[/b] and other things I can't think of right now. I also swear [cuss] a lot more now :bluesweat:

Oi, the funniest thing I've discovered from being out here is that Southern Californians really DO have Valley accents, and they really do say [b]"gnarly"[/b]! Hehe, that makes me laugh![/color]