Title: What's the Local Vernacular
crapshack - January 14, 2005 03:34 AM (GMT)
So, how do the people where you guys live speak?
Here in Boston, we call garbage 'rubbish', soda 'tonic' and we say 'wicked' to elaborate how muchit is: (IE. "That car is wicked expensive." or "It's wicked hot out") and stuff like that.
But the one most famous thing about us is that we have an American English accent. There is no such thing as the letter 'r' here. The majority of the Bostonians here don't pronounce 'r's' I still have problems trying to pronounce 'Arlington' instead of 'Ahlington' And sometimes I pronounce 'bag' like 'baeg' (it sounds like the first syllable of bagel)
Tell us. I know I'm desperate for some new stuff.
Sathe - January 14, 2005 04:18 AM (GMT)
Hmm... We call soda 'pop' and we say things are 'fun' or at least I do... Oh, and things are hot, too.. LIke, 'That's a hot song' or 'That's a hot backpack you have there, buddy.' Things like that... Nobody much says things are 'gay' when they're bad, because I tend to beat them. And then I say 'yum' or 'yummy' sometimes... Like 'I only got 2 hours of sleep last night' and me: 'Yum.' I don't know why... My friends have started picking it up.
Someone once told me that people in Nebrasky have the most unaccented speech, or something like that, but I know that's not true. There's no such thing as unaccented speech. Because nothing is normal, you know? It's all just different. I don't really know what we say...
But, my cousins who live in Louisiana, they call every soda 'Coke' which I think is hilarious... I'm like, 'Can I have a Coke?' and the people are all like 'What kind?' and then I say 'Uh.... Coke?' and they say 'But what kind?' and you can see how it goes from there... 'Cept I never get just regular Coke...
Oh, we just call garbage 'trash' you know...cause it's trash.
Now I'm going to start saying 'wicked'. ^__^
crapshack - January 14, 2005 04:37 AM (GMT)
Hahah, Wicked. Hahaha.
Ah, Louisiana people are funny. "What kind of Coke?" I've been down there, but I've never heard a person speak "Cajun". Everyone said we talked to much
Sathe - January 14, 2005 04:48 AM (GMT)
Yeah, for French class we had to learn some créole phrases... When we went down there last year for Mardi Gras, I was missing school so I had to take pictures of things in French..
crapshack - January 14, 2005 04:52 AM (GMT)
Haha, that's awesome. I'd love to go back down to New Orleans. The people there were pretty cool. The older people kept looking at me and saying "She looks so much like her father" like they were pitying me, though. Oh well, I love crawfish and crabs (my sister and brother can't eat it because they're allergic to it, making it funner to eat) and seafood, basically.
Sathe - January 14, 2005 05:01 AM (GMT)
I hate going down there, because I hate seafood... And my cousins are all younger than me, like, 6, 11, and 12... Which is no fun.. Brook, the 12 year old, isn't bad, but she's a major prep.. And the 11 year old, Jordyn ( a GIRL ), has anger problems. The 6/7 year old is a boy, which means he's pure evil.
Luckily, they're moving to Texas, just an hour or so from my loverman... so I can go see them both at the same time now! ^_^
My dad, in Ohio, has some sort of dialect thingy goin' on... My preppy cheerleader sister says 'Neat' a lot, but that's because she's a devout christian lap-puppy who does everything right and believes that i'm going to hell for talking to people I don't know on the internet. I mean, i respect the whole religion thing, but..i mean...that's going a bit far... Anyway, the language... Yeah. Soemthing about it... I was going to say...but...nevermind.
crapshack - January 14, 2005 05:04 AM (GMT)
My 58-year-old math teachers says 'Neat.' Today, he commented about the math we were learning. He said, "Isn't this nasty, everyone?"
I think the dialects makes towns more interesting.
Sathe - January 14, 2005 05:52 PM (GMT)
Mhmm! I had a teacher last year who said everything was 'nifty' and we all started picking it up... Things are also 'rad' and stuff like that.
Oh, and I love the way my grandma pronounces the word 'pumpkin'. I say 'pumkin' but she says punkin' and it's soooo sparkly.
Oh, my brother also says things are 'shiny' if they're cool.
dualist - January 15, 2005 06:15 PM (GMT)
Everybody here speaks french, so I don't think you really give a damn about how they speak.
Sathe - January 15, 2005 06:28 PM (GMT)
Aww... C'mon, tell us, even if we don't quite understand what you're talking about...
Plus, I know a little tiny bit of French... I'm only in the 2nd level, but I know a tiny itsy bitsy bit...
crapshack - January 16, 2005 11:46 AM (GMT)
Ooh, I wanna know some French dialects. I think any other language's dialects sound slightly better than the American dialect.
Naruto-Uzamaki - January 16, 2005 07:39 PM (GMT)
well, here we kids say everything is sick. We always say sup or yo or man instead of hello. And the african-americans always say son in front of every single sentence. Most brooklanyian adults dont pronounce 'r' also. e.g.= you jerk=you joik
crapshack - January 16, 2005 07:49 PM (GMT)
Everyone says 'son'; there are definitely other people who say 'son'
dualist - January 17, 2005 03:18 AM (GMT)
Well most people here use english terms in their sentences. Examples: Instead of saying "Nous retournerons chez vous", (Which means "We're going back to your place") they're gonna say "Nous retournerons back chez vous". Weird stuff like that. Instead of saying "Je vais le cogner" (I'm gonna hit him), we say "Je vais le owner". Even weirder.
Sathe - January 17, 2005 04:00 AM (GMT)
Cool... And I'm happy, because I knew what that first sentence meant, and some of the last one... So that's a'cause you live in Canadia, right-o? Unless you don't, then yeah...
But that's kind of weird... Just pop in English words? Hah.. Me and my friend Tava do that with French.. A'cause we've taken French together forever... Like... 2 1/2 years... Though she does that on tests because she doesn't actually know anything...but yeah...
crapshack - January 17, 2005 03:15 PM (GMT)
Ooh, I do that with Italian, since I've taken it for...not even two years. BUt I can't stand it when my Asian peers speak Vietnamese and pop in a few English words, though. Probably because they can hardly pronounce the English words