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Yes, we English use it in place of "bullshit" too - "that's a load of bollocks" is a fantastic phrase... but it doesn't MEAN bullshit, it means balls.
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I must agree with Icarus about people who flip you off in traffic being upset if you stick your tongue out at them, but I find that if you smile sweetly and wave at them it really gets to them. They don't quite know what to think.
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My great-grandmother used to say "the Devil" all the time. Her descendants thought it was cute, but in the slang of her day, it was downright vulgar Posts: 2048 | Registered: Jul 2000
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My roommates and I say "crack" all the time. As in "I am sooo on crack!" and "What kind of crack are you on?", but also "What the crack?", "Crack what?!", "That's crack!" and "You are such crack!" Not to mention "You are so crack-like!"
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Other favourites of mine are "off the planet" meaning crazy, and "off your tits" meaning drunk. One of my very camp, overtly homosexual male friends once walked up to me and announced that he was "off his tits," which made me laugh. He refers to himself as "camp as tits" too. Men!
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"Frelling" is from Farscape. So are "Yotz" and "tralk."
I like "squick" and "squicky" which I picked up online. I also say "cool beans". I got it from an AIM buddy in Orlando.
My sister has been under pressure to curtail her cursing. Like me, she only tends to curse in times of sudden physical distress, but she curses much more like my dad. He was an Army seargent. A window fell on her hand as she was closing it, the other day. She managed to stop herself from actually cursing. It went something like this:
"Son of a... Mother... Duck."
Now her daughters tease her about the naughty duckling that lives in their house and always gets yelled at.
She used to do this thing in an east Indian sort of accent, "Holy hell-damn, Batman!"
"Tanj". Coined by either Larry Niven or Jerry Pournelle. Back in the days when it was even harder to use profanity in published prose, these guys started using this for such expletives as F*** and D**n. Its an acronym: There Aint No Justice. Also used with suffexes, such as "tanjit"!
Also, from Red Dwarf "Smeg Off"!
(Nifty, cool thread. Boy I wish I was around here earlier!)
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My personal most commonly used expletive is "Bugger!" My best friend's wife has taken to saying "Blast!"
quote:"Sick!"
I actually spent time around a bunch of X-treme sports guys on my mission who used this word constantly to mean something of a blend of "Cool" and "Daring" or "Dangerous".
Northern Californian teens and young adults (it has recently begun to migrate into Southern California) use the word "sick" as a general substitute for just about any positive adjective.
I've always been a big fan of adjectives like "Dope" and "Fly." My little brother went through a phase of using "dank" as a substitute for "awesome."
My friends and I can often be heard expanding the practice of putting "-age" on the ends of words by using "-aggio." Also often heard is "Get my [any action] on." As in, "Time to get my learnaggio on."
One that I'm quite happy to have gotten away from is the Northern California usage of "hella." That word just sucks.
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I use Frell a LOT.(it is two Ls, myr.) I love the phrase 'coulda shoulda woulda'. I use shiny like I used to use great, for something I really am excited aobut, or as mock enthusiasm.
Farscape and firefly have taken over my vocabulary.
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Way back in December, Noemon said,"10 points to anyone who recognizes the source of "Odds my Bodkins""
I don't think anyone ever answered that challenge.
IIRC, it was spoken by Daffy Duck in the Warner Bros. cartoon based on Robin Hood, where Porky is Friar Tuck, Sylvester is the Sherriff, Fudd is Prince John, and (I believe) Daffy is Robin himself.
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My family comes up with some slang which is nowhere else found.
My aunt uses the term "Roger victim" as slang for idiot. (after the late Mr. Rogers) I've never been sure what to think of it.
My dad replaces d*** with tax. It works pretty well. It's variant forms fit in all of the same places. Such as "I'll be taxed", "tax-ed-nation" (which moves easily into "tax the nations"), etc.
I'm pretty sure my sis came up with this one: she used to say "hurgendy-flurgen" in place of "nonsense".
The word "nelsy" means something like "on edge", though with a silly connotation. It's the type of thing that happens when you are trying to do something delicate (usually with your hands) and you have to hold back the desire to wiggle yourself out.
My dad also has a method of word modification that is limited mostly by imagination. You take a syllable of a word that sounds like another word, and repace it usually with it's opposite, or sometimes with a synonym. For example "Bread": my dad has a brother named Ed, so he sometimes replaces that with one of his other siblings to make "BrOwen", "BrEva", etc. American might become American't. Interpret might become outterpret.
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quote:IIRC, it was spoken by Daffy Duck in the Warner Bros. cartoon based on Robin Hood, where Porky is Friar Tuck, Sylvester is the Sherriff, Fudd is Prince John, and (I believe) Daffy is Robin himself.
And truly one of the greatest things ever to be witnessed by mine young eyes.
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My uncle is a very odd man. He teaches a Sunday School class and his daughter and I literally have translate for him when he's speaking although he speaks English...technically. This man butchers the English language like no one I've ever met. If you listen closely, you can make out a sort of pattern in the words he is speaking that sounds suspiciously like syntax. First off, correct prefixes mean nothing to him. Instead of "relax" he says "unlax" which is almost the exact opposite thing, if you think about it. He'll jokingly insult you with any combo of words that are so bizarre that you have no idea what he's saying, yet still, you feel distinctly Zinged. He creates pauses in the middle of sentences almost as if he's thinking.
Me: Hey Bean, where do you keep your paper plates?
Him: Well, (pauses) you know...this refrig-i-later...ain't been...hmmm...well hog-swagit.
Me: I'll ask your wife.
This man was in a band once, where he played the bass and did vocals. He spent an entire summer going from bar to bar, where strains of "Leaving on a Jet Train" could be heard, the original being, of course, by Bob Liver.
edit: I forgot to mention: We call him Bean because that's what he once told reporters that his middle name was. His middle name is Dean.
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I once met a guy who answered the phone "c'nup". I have NO idea what that means, and as the guy was a big strong retired trucker I was afraid to ask.
And as for the Enlish language, "loosen" and "unloosen" mean the same thing.
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I don't think this is local, but I use the word freak in place of all swear words. I said the word in my car while babysitting the other day and got a very indignant, "I'm not a freak!" yelled at me from the back seat.
I thought it as really dorky, but most of the people who go to my church use it too, so I don't feel nearly as bad about it now.
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