What kind of slang do you use?

[retromike22]

I don't know what happened in my childhood development (lack of brothers perhaps) or the cultural isolation placed by my librarian father and schoolteacher mother. My nephews and nieces, along with my sister and I watched the Marx brothers instead of Adam Sandler, we had detective games instead of video games, we didn't have Nickelodeon or the Disney Channel until I was a teen, but all the kids were required to put on a play each summer. Maybe one of those things caused me to almost never use the words "dude, bro, brah, sup" or anything like that.

Oddly enough, my family and I have created our own slang, like "g-narly (pronounce the g)," "double curses," and "oinkitymoobaa for now."

What kind of slang do you use?

[politicus]

"oinkitymoobaa for now."

lol

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Thieves' cant.

[politicus]

Rotvælsk with a dash of Kaudervælsk

[Panda Express]

witches' knickers

[Ban my account ffs!]

It'd be a lot to describe but the slang is local to this area.

You hear a lot about Native cats staying with their old ladies.  They never live anywhere...they stay.  Its also a bit Like the 70s called to offer slang advice.

Of course natives use 'boozhoo' (hello..obv french inspired) or miigwech (thank you).

White people are much more indistinct outside of dialectical idioms like the 'oh, for...' As in 'oh, for cute!' Or 'oh, for chrissakes' or the so,...then construction...

Soooooo...when we gonna get out on da ice then?

Oh for chrissakes ya asked me that yesterday

Soooo...Friday then?

You bet.

[angus]

Dude pretty frequently but never bro, brah, or sup. 


Generally, I don't use a great deal of slang.  I tend in the opposite direction, pronouncing long strings of words even when acronyms are well established, and I sometimes speak in metaphors.  There are some exceptions.  To wit:  Invariably, I refer to both the act of urination and the substance resulting from that act as "pee" although I refer to the substance resulting from the act of defecation sometimes as feces and sometimes as shit.  I usually call police cops and sometimes I call beer brew.  TV, of course, is always TV and never television.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

"bruh", "homie" and lots of other regional words such as "jawn" (meaning "thing" or "object"), "flames" (meaning "good"), etc.

For instance, "bruh, that jawn was FLAMES" would mean "friend, that thing was fantastic."

[Reaganfan]

Absolutely none.

By 13 years old, I found myself disgusted with the whole slang/hip-hop/Slim Shady culture. To me, it screams culture cringe and culture subversion.

No hoodies, no slang, no baggy pants, no fist bumps, no vibrating rap music, ect.

Perhaps that's why I am the way I am, given that was already 15-20 years ago.

[Deus Naturae]

Absolutely none.

By 13 years old, I found myself disgusted with the whole slang/hip-hop/Slim Shady culture. To me, it screams culture cringe and culture subversion.

No hoodies, no slang, no baggy pants, no fist bumps, no vibrating rap music, ect.

Perhaps that's why I am the way I am, given that was already 15-20 years ago.

The other stuff makes sense for a very conservative person...but no fist bumping? Everyone does that. The fact that you didn't doesn't mean that you were just conservative for your age, it means that you were weird. You were the outlier, the subverter.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Absolutely none.

By 13 years old, I found myself disgusted with the whole slang/hip-hop/Slim Shady culture. To me, it screams culture cringe and culture subversion.

No hoodies, no slang, no baggy pants, no fist bumps, no vibrating rap music, ect.

Perhaps that's why I am the way I am, given that was already 15-20 years ago.

Are you a time traveler?

[retromike22]

Absolutely none.

By 13 years old, I found myself disgusted with the whole slang/hip-hop/Slim Shady culture. To me, it screams culture cringe and culture subversion.

No hoodies, no slang, no baggy pants, no fist bumps, no vibrating rap music, ect.

Perhaps that's why I am the way I am, given that was already 15-20 years ago.

The other stuff makes sense for a very conservative person...but no fist bumping? Everyone does that. The fact that you didn't doesn't mean that you were just conservative for your age, it means that you were weird. You were the outlier, the subverter.

I don't currently fist bump, but I think they should be promoted over hand shaking since it's less likely to spread germs. Oh better yet, we could politely bow to each other like in the late 1700s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n725zX3zIk0

[J-Mann]

Is this more of a catchphrase thing?

I say ...

GNG = giggle and grabass
You look like you've been shot at and missed, and sh[inks] at and hit.
I wouldn't pay that much to see a piss ant eat a bale of hay.
He wouldn't say sh[inks] if he had a mouthful of it.

And referring to using the bathroom ...

I've got to drain the main vein.
I've got to shake the dew off my lily.
I've got to go shake hands with the unemployed.

And as to how gay I am ...

Gay as a wood duck
Gay as a summer hat
Gay as a box of birds
Gay as a tap-dancing hyena

Etc.

If I think hard enough, many of these slightly offensive yet folksy sayings will come to me.

[Reaganfan]

Absolutely none.

By 13 years old, I found myself disgusted with the whole slang/hip-hop/Slim Shady culture. To me, it screams culture cringe and culture subversion.

No hoodies, no slang, no baggy pants, no fist bumps, no vibrating rap music, ect.

Perhaps that's why I am the way I am, given that was already 15-20 years ago.

The other stuff makes sense for a very conservative person...but no fist bumping? Everyone does that. The fact that you didn't doesn't mean that you were just conservative for your age, it means that you were weird. You were the outlier, the subverter.

Ok...ok...I fist bump, but I kinda only do it if a person offers their fist.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I'm Australian... end of story

[Ban my account ffs!]

There is an art to the analogy here...

Things like

"Oh Jesus Christ on the cross don't scare me like that!  Never sneak up on the livin when they're paintin' on the dead.  Mr. Larson's son found out the hard way...took an embalming needle right to the eye!"

"I betcha ahunnert ta one that the vikes make it to the super bowl"

"Ya thats about as likely as a beaver crappin out a heart shaped turd onto a postcard and mailin it to yer old lady"

Things like that

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I'm really eclectic.  Sometimes I say 'far out', 'rad', and 'watcha doin', for instance.
If it's slang that somehow has to do with Fairly Odd Parents it's likely I say it at least once in a while.

[Joe Republic]

Cuss words and slurs.

[BaconBacon96]

I'm Australian... end of story

[morgieb]

I'm Australian... end of story

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Absolutely none.

By 13 years old, I found myself disgusted with the whole slang/hip-hop/Slim Shady culture. To me, it screams culture cringe and culture subversion.

No hoodies, no slang, no baggy pants, no fist bumps, no vibrating rap music, ect.

Perhaps that's why I am the way I am, given that was already 15-20 years ago.

Even and old like me wears hoodies, Michael. 

[Torie]

Absolutely none.

By 13 years old, I found myself disgusted with the whole slang/hip-hop/Slim Shady culture. To me, it screams culture cringe and culture subversion.

No hoodies, no slang, no baggy pants, no fist bumps, no vibrating rap music, ect.

Perhaps that's why I am the way I am, given that was already 15-20 years ago.

Even and old like me wears hoodies, Michael. 

I wear hoodies too, and I am about as establishment and bourgeoise as one can get. Perhaps Mr. Naso is insecure about his socio-economic status? Oh, and I like rap music too.

[Sopranos Republican]

Flimwad and Jao are the only slang one needs.

[Tender Branson]

Not really a "slang", but the local Pinzgau-version of the Salzburg/Austro-Bavarian dialect of German.

It means that someone from Northern Germany (like Franzl) is virtually unable to understand what I'm saying.

[Tender Branson]

A few good examples:

"driving backwards": aschleng foan (dialect), rückwärts fahren (standard-German)

"bridge railing": Bruggnglanna (dialect), Brückengeländer (standard-German)

"cranberry marmelade": Granggnmarmalad (dialect), Preiselbeermarmelade (standard-German)

"talk": Hoagascht (dialect), Unterhaltung/Gespräch (standard-German)

"pickaback": Bugglkrax (dialect), Huckepack (standard-German)

"native": doega (dialect), Einheimischer (standard-German)

"groundhog": Manggei (dialect) - Murmeltier (standard-German)

"pointless": lafeschdeg (dialect) - zwecklos/sinnlos (standard-German)

"poor guy": heita-mandl (dialect) - armer Mann (standard-German)

"sand avalanche/mudflow": bloak (dialect) - Mure (standard-German)

and a ton of other words that have nothing to do with standard-German ...