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devilchyld22
04/17/09

In reply to Slang: Fun Games For Your Brain
It's not really slang, but in Maryland I've found we're pretty lazy with out words.

For "on" it's "a-on" and "for" is "fur" and I definitely say ya'll a lot. I also say definitely a lot.

My favorite slang right now would be shitton though.
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HereComesMyBaby
04/17/09

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I say "totally" and "wack" at work all the time. My boss is British and everyone else is Israeli. They think I'm Cher Horowitz. Oy.
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girl.of.your.dreams
04/16/09

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My brother and I say "knucks" for fist bumps, which has somehow evolved into my husband and I doing elbow bumps in the car, and saying "elbs".

The more I read this thread, the more I realize how many fake words I use.
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meritxell: an erotic life
04/16/09

In reply to Slang: Fun Games For Your Brain
So ever since the advent of "cray cray" I've been all about the doubling up of the first syllable of a word. Somebody bought a BMW? I'm "jeal jeal".
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girl.of.your.dreams
04/16/09

@meritxell: Oh, i like it. I say "jelly".
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Slovenly Muse
04/16/09

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It bothers me when people deliberately spell "lite" and "rite" when they obviously mean "light" and "right." Way to be so lazy you have to save yourself from the arduous task of writing ONE EXTRA LETTER! It does not look cute; please stop it.
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boxspelunker
04/16/09

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I wish we could bring back "crescent fresh".

HE'S NOT CRESCENT FRESH

HIS WHOLE LIFE'S A MESS

Now, if only sock puppets weren't my source of cooling.
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clementine
04/16/09

@boxspelunker:

YES. CRESCENT FRESH INDEED.
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meritxell: an erotic life
04/16/09

@boxspelunker: SUPER CRES AT BEST
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boxspelunker
04/17/09

@clementine: @meritxell: HA FRIENDED!
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TheUptightMidwesterner
04/16/09

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Oh god.

"Chillax". I hate it, and I say it over and over,a nd then I hate myself.

It is the John Mayer of slang.
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boxspelunker
04/16/09

@TheUptightMidwesterner is (insert general bitchery here): I ALSO HATE THIS WORRRD
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Slovenly Muse
04/16/09

@TheUptightMidwesterner is (insert general bitchery here): Agreed. Make it stop!
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girl.of.your.dreams
04/16/09

@TheUptightMidwesterner is (insert general bitchery here): There's an episode of The Family Guy (which is a show I don't even like) where Brian the dog is a substitute teacher a la Lean on Me, and he says "No Stephanie, I will not chillax."

Except I'm pretty sure it's not Stephanie. But I can't stop saying it. :P
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Adora Belle Dearheart
04/16/09

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I like "boojie", or "booj" short for bourgeois. Also, two of my friends can have an entire conversation with the word "Gantz".

"Yo gantz, yesterday I gantzed with that gantzin gantz and I was gantzing everywhere!"

"Dude, that is gantzing!"

They have 5 minute long conversations with that word. Apparently, intonation is the key
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The HZA.
04/16/09

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I'd still like "fetch" to happen.
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Fridge Hussy : Is finally heading back to uni!
04/16/09

@The HZA. [member of the zombie nation]: That's so "rufus!"
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euterpe35
04/16/09

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I am very fond of the word "talleywhacker" to describe the peen. However, I cannot say it with a straight face. ("peen", neither)

Oh Hugh!! Give me your manly talleyOMGSPORFLE
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Adora Belle Dearheart
04/16/09

@euterpe35: fruit and veg?
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Slovenly Muse
04/16/09

@Adora Belle Dearheart: I'd always heard "meat and two veg." I don't get "fruit and veg!" Which is which?
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Adora Belle Dearheart
04/17/09

@Slovenly Muse: I wondered too. But apparently "fruit" is used as plural. So...Two cherries and a cucumber? Two oranges and a squash?
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Slovenly Muse
04/17/09

@Adora Belle Dearheart: Two spuds and a banana? No, wait...

I still think it's a weird way to put it, but I get it. It's strange; ever since I discovered Jezebel, my vocabulary of genital euphemisms seems to grow bigger every day!
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MrsChuckBass
04/16/09

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Oh my God, I LOVE silly/bizarro/ridiculous slang words. I'm not too hot on "totes" by itself, but I REALLY like "totes mcgotes." I don't think I made it up, but I wish I had. I also like roughsauce and jerksauce, rastah boom bastah (an exclamation of happiness), jawesome (one of my favorite slangs), ya'll (I'm from TX, I can't help it, nor would I want to), and adding "saurus" or "saurus rex" to people's names. Hortense-a-saurus rex, for example. I also like "bitchin," "radical," "don't get it twisted," and the expression "I'm going to put you on blast."

By the way, I know I'm ridiculous.
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girl.of.your.dreams
04/16/09

@MrsChuckBass: Totally friending you for this! I also love ridiculous words, especially adding "pants" or "sauce" to the end of words. And my husband and I used to call our dog Monty "Montasaurus Rex", but it's now been shortened to "Snorus."

P.S. "Totes Mcgotes" is (most recently) from I Love You, Man. If you haven't seen it, you will love it. Keep an ear out for "Jobin."
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meritxell: an erotic life
04/16/09

@MrsChuckBass: My friend invented (I think?) "harshcore" and OMG I LOVE IT.
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R-Star
04/16/09

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This thread is really making me think of a lot of pet peeves. This is perhaps not good for my blood pressure.

I hate it when people put LOL at the end of the every sentence, even if it's not funny and there's nothing to laugh about. And now even some of my students have stopped properly laughing and will just say, "LOL", as though LAUGHING has become too much effort.
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RisaPlata
04/16/09

@R-Star: Yes. I know grown-ups who think "lol" is punctuation, so they use it instead of commas, periods, question marks, etc. And it makes them seem 13. My cousin's girlfriend in particular is very sweet and I like talking with her on Facebook, but "I've been sad lately because I'm fighting with my friend lol" is NOT APPROPRIATE!

Also LOLOLOL, which I got recently from a co-worker. Really? You're laughing out loud out loud out loud? Because I'm not sure how that works but it probably doesn't sound good.

The thing about kids saying "lol" struck me as very disturbing, and then I remembered that in sign language there is a sign for laughter that is basically spelling out "hahaha" and now I find it amusing.
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R-Star
04/16/09

@RisaPlata: Exactly! You don't end a statement of sadness with LOL. Similarly, updating Facebook status with 'So and so is trying to figure out what to have for lunch lol' is not okay. There's nothing amusing about that statement. That person is not laughing out loud, and nor is anyone else reading that statement.

I will admit that it made me laugh when my student said LOL in replacement for laughter. I later told her brother, who is a couple of years older than she is, and he just said, 'Yeah, she's kind of a chav sometimes.' His honesty killed me. As an English teacher, however, I constantly feel like I'm fighting against text speak. Tomorrow is never 2moro. Never.
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anony-miss
04/16/09

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I have two!
First: MEH. Lack of interest is always 'meh.' I can't decide if I hate it or not.
Second: Not slang, but people use this in my life seriously: CONVERSATE. It drives me nuts. Probably the most annoying response i've heard to my complaining about it is 'get over it, everyone uses it, it's a word.' But that doesn't make it a word! And a teacher said this to me! She's one of the people responsible for educating future generations!
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boxspelunker
04/16/09

@anony-miss: "Meh" is one of the seven words you can't say on the internet! :D

Honestly, I hate it. It seems so snotty to me. It's like I AM ANNOUNCING I DON'T CARE THEREFORE NO ONE SHOULD BELITTLE BELITTLE SNORK
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Liz11685
04/16/09

In reply to Slang: Fun Games For Your Brain
I love the Homer Simpson infixes because they remind me of my dad and his crazy made up language that has been evolving his whole life.

Also, I skipped linguistics today, and lo and behold get a little linguistics on Jez.
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Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.
04/16/09

In reply to Slang: Fun Games For Your Brain
Favorite exclamation? "HOLD THE PHONE!" It works in so many ways.
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Fridge Hussy : Is finally heading back to uni!
04/16/09

@Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.: I use that too! I got it from watching "Shrek."
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RisaPlata
04/16/09

@Fridge Hussy : Emissary of Hell: I think I just aged several decades.
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