Keep Up With Slang Losers

djchameleon · 11-07-2013, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by ladyislingering

I also refer to young men I tolerate as "son" (I don't know why?).

lol You "son" people?

On this coast that is mad disrespectful.

I kind of understand what you are saying though but I normally use sport or youngin' but never son. They would get pretty heated.

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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle

I personally find it weird that I don't use any of my generation's slang. Like "hella", I never use that word, or "days" to describe long periods of time. Hella days.

that's Cali slang.

When I'm describing long periods of time I generally say, I haven't done such and such in a minute.

ladyislingering · 11-07-2013, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

lol You "son" people?

On this coast that is mad disrespectful.

I kind of understand what you are saying though but I normally use sport or youngin' but never son. They would get pretty heated.

oh jeez, good to know.

I use the terms "man" for both ladies and dudes, always respect my elderly ladies by calling them "ma'am" (but I don't usually call elderly dudes 'sir' for whatever reason).

I used to use affectionate pet names for everyone I knew but that grew to be kind of weird, so I just razz people I like and they tolerate it.

Mondo Bungle · 11-07-2013, 07:17 PM

Omg that's what I say too

djchameleon · 11-07-2013, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by ladyislingering

oh jeez, good to know.

I use the terms "man" for both ladies and dudes, always respect my elderly ladies by calling them "ma'am" (but I don't usually call elderly dudes 'sir' for whatever reason).

I used to use affectionate pet names for everyone I knew but that grew to be kind of weird, so I just razz people I like and they tolerate it.

I use ma'am and sir as well but even for middle aged folks. Idk it is still in-grained in me from the military.

Freebase Dali · 11-07-2013, 07:31 PM

Here is my vast repertoire of slang go-tos:

Cool
Man

Sometimes I say "awesome", but that's not really slang in its strictest sense.
At all other times, I speak normal American English. And where I live, it makes me sound like a f*cking genius. Which is sad.

djchameleon · 11-07-2013, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

And where I live, it makes me sound like a f*cking genius. Which is sad.

Do you also get asked where are you from because of it?

Freebase Dali · 11-07-2013, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

Do you also get asked where are you from because of it?

No. I assume others just assume that my home town has a different accent and way of speaking, even though it's in the same state.

djchameleon · 11-07-2013, 08:05 PM

I wondered because people around my parts tend to ask me. They don't believe that I'm from this city which I'm technically not because I have been raised in a few different cities growing up but I have been here the longest now.

Mr. Charlie · 11-07-2013, 08:28 PM

Don't know much slang. I'd speak in the English of Charles Dickens and that era if I was intelligent enough to. But I'm not. They were so economic and efficient with their langauge back then. Or Shakespearean times even, when language was pure poetry.

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 11-07-2013, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by ladyislingering

It sounds dumb to say "hella" and I cringe when people say "craycray" - or when white people call their friends their "niggas".

WHAT THE HELL, 21ST CENTURY

I love saying cray cray. It sounds awesome! As well as peeps.

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Freebase Dali Partying on the inside Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 5,584	Here is my vast repertoire of slang go-tos: Cool Man Sometimes I say "awesome", but that's not really slang in its strictest sense. At all other times, I speak normal American English. And where I live, it makes me sound like a f*cking genius. Which is sad. __________________

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Mr. Charlie Shoo Thoughts Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: These Mountains Posts: 2,308	Don't know much slang. I'd speak in the English of Charles Dickens and that era if I was intelligent enough to. But I'm not. They were so economic and efficient with their langauge back then. Or Shakespearean times even, when language was pure poetry.