Stupid Regional Sayings
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Chance Abattoir
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07-06-2005 16:03
From: Madame Maracas LOL dairy farm!! Gee and we just have "purple mooing cows"!
davenport/divan/sofa/couch/chaise anyone?
pocketbook/purse, seems to be and east coast/everyone else bit
Oh and up/north, down/south, I thought that was universal, anyone care to comment? The Nile flows north, so I imagine to the ancient Egyptians it must have been "down north, up south..." Hrm. When translating ancient Egyptian into English, I wonder if we call their North "North," when the idea of their North is South. The end of things for them would be North, just like Peter North's career has gone South. Where's that rabbit with the cup on his head?
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Jake Reitveld
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07-07-2005 11:10
Wicked..
The SoCal-boston Language axis. My freinds from boston all think that I started saying Wicked because of them, but really its a so cal thing to.
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Colette Meiji
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07-07-2005 11:19
From: Chance Abattoir "Hella" "Open-minded." "Common sense." "All you need is love." "I'm a sensitive person." "Defenestrate." "Have faith." "Everything will work itself out." "That's a picture of <Person's name> and I." (It's in the predicate.) "Your stupid." "Mischievious." Where do they use Defenestrate? That means to throw someone out of a building, right? |
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Colette Meiji
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07-07-2005 11:23
Some Mid West Ones
- yes I use the word "pop" instead of soda.
- "No doubt." is considered a complete sentence and an answer.
- "Nasty" is used far too much.
- "scoch" however its spelled , meaning a little bit.
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Agatha Palmerstone
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07-07-2005 12:00
I'm not from the south, but I use y'all because english lacks any other separate plural for you. I think it definitely should become part of the official language.
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Ricky Zamboni
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07-07-2005 12:14
From: Agatha Palmerstone I'm not from the south, but I use y'all because english lacks any other separate plural for you. I think it definitely should become part of the official language. What about "youse"? I think if more people used that on a regular basis, it would become socially acceptable in a few years time...  |
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Cliffy Palmerstone
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07-07-2005 12:34
From: someone
What about "youse"? I think if more people used that on a regular basis, it would become socially acceptable in a few years time.
Already is in the North East of England...for as long as I can recall..at least 20 years or so. Might be looked down on by a few pedants though. |
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ZsuZsanna Raven
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07-07-2005 15:15
I don't know if this one has been posted already or not but I work at Cingular and people will come in and say " Yo, uhhh I need a phone cut on". How exactly do you cut on something? Sometimes I act like I have no clue what they mean so they make themselves look even stupider by repeating it over and over...then I say "Ohhh you mean you want a phone activated" Then they look at me like I'm speaking a foreign language because I am using correct grammar. Some days it is the only amusement I get at work.
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Dakota Callahan
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07-07-2005 15:29
From: Colette Meiji Where do they use Defenestrate? That means to throw someone out of a building, right? Technically, it means to throw something out of a window. But I agree, I've never heard that used anywhere.
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Chance Abattoir
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07-08-2005 02:38
From: Colette Meiji Where do they use Defenestrate? That means to throw someone out of a building, right? Throw something out of a window. I keep seeing it pop up in articles about "office lingo." If someone used that in my office, I think the undeniable "I smell a fart" look would plaster itself on my face.
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Chance Abattoir
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07-08-2005 02:42
From: ZsuZsanna Raven How exactly do you cut on something? It's kind of like how people use "literally" to mean "metaphorically"  It's also annoying how often people say "you're jealous" when they mean "you're envious" (except I imagine they'd spell it "your jealous"... God, I hate the internet sometimes).
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Dianne Mechanique
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07-10-2005 09:58
From: ZsuZsanna Raven I don't know if this one has been posted already or not but I work at Cingular and people will come in and say " Yo, uhhh I need a phone cut on". How exactly do you cut on something? Sometimes I act like I have no clue what they mean so they make themselves look even stupider by repeating it over and over...then I say "Ohhh you mean you want a phone activated" Then they look at me like I'm speaking a foreign language because I am using correct grammar. Some days it is the only amusement I get at work. I went to the opera lst night and got faced with a weird "new" term as well (I think). There were two lines for tickets, cash only and "willcall." What the heck is a "willcall?" I had to ask. They mean prepaid tickets of course, or reserved seats, or something like that, but willcall??? That is such a vague, made-up and non-communicative word IMO. . |
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Vestalia Hadlee
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Ink Pen
07-10-2005 10:46
I'm not sure if this is regional, but I never heard it until I visited a friend in the midwest -- ink pen, as in "I need to make a note of that, do you have an ink pen I can borrow?"
I always do a double-take on that. I mean, what else goes into a pen besides ink?
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