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.
@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
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!
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."
@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."
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.
@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.
@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.
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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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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The more I read this thread, the more I realize how many fake words I use.
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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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YES. CRESCENT FRESH INDEED.
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"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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Except I'm pretty sure it's not Stephanie. But I can't stop saying it. :P
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"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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Oh Hugh!! Give me your manly talleyOMGSPORFLE
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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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By the way, I know I'm ridiculous.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Also, I skipped linguistics today, and lo and behold get a little linguistics on Jez.
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