What slang do you use? : Othor Games

» Sun May 13, 2012 2:38 pm

I use some, mostly lil' things like y'all or y'uns
And the standard boss = cool
I call the police station a Cop Shop sometimes.

You guys do anything more interesting?

» Sun May 13, 2012 12:04 pm

I say "g?lar" instead of [swedish swear] and, as far as I know, I'm the only one who do it.

I find it amusing, but non-swedes won't and most swedes probably won't either

» Sun May 13, 2012 4:00 pm

Aye a ken wit ye mean but am no fae yer part ae toon so get tae feck cuz yer startin tae dae ma heed in ya bawbag, talkin aboot baws wantae go fur a game a fitbaw later?

- No offence if "bawbag" just tried fitting as much into a sentence as I could.
- I do not use the word "ken", I can't said it

- Translation: Yes I know what you mean but I'm not from your part of town so get to [censored] cause you're starting to do my head in you scrotum, talking about balls want to go for a game of football later?

» Sun May 13, 2012 12:57 pm

My slang is a bit of a mash up of words I come across and like. For example, I actively use words/phrases like 'Wall flower'. In general, I don't really use modern slang in general though, most of the modern slang sounds ignorant and uneducated in my opinion.

» Sun May 13, 2012 9:42 pm

Just your generic Canadian stuff. Kerfuffle, hosehead, Two-Six, Mickey, pissed (used to describe a drunk person), Prairie Oysters, Tuque, etc...

» Sun May 13, 2012 9:02 am

I'm german, so I don't really use many english slang words in normal conversations.

Edit: But sometimes I say "Eeyup".

» Sun May 13, 2012 8:37 pm

Common 70's/80's American/California slang, nothing special.

"Trippy/What a trip."
"Groovy." (usually as a joke/with a wink)
"Time to boogie/Let's boogie."
"Spaz."
"Bogus."
"Gnarly."
"It's casual."
"Cool/Keen/Killer/Rad/Neat-o."
"Totally."

etc etc.

I occasionally call policemen "pigdogs", ever since I went out with a guy, once, who called them that.

» Sun May 13, 2012 2:23 pm

But sometimes I say "Eeyup".

I forgot "Eeyup" was even slang

» Sun May 13, 2012 5:55 pm

A mix of Californian and Jamaican (I live in England, it's pretty popular.)

» Sun May 13, 2012 7:35 pm

I engage in connotative derivatives when the contextual environment requires a diminished measure of linguistic formality.

» Mon May 14, 2012 12:00 am

Aye a ken wit ye mean but am no fae yer part ae toon so get tae feck cuz yer startin tae dae ma heed in ya bawbag, talkin aboot baws wantae go fur a game a fitbaw later?

Reminds me of my physics teacher

Lad - cant really describe it, sort of a replacement for dude
Sound - ok
Boss - really good, sometimes use "sick" instead
Quid - pound, 100 pennies
Ming - common banter line/insult "eeee what a Ming"
Whopper - idiot
Weapon - idiot
Bizzies - police
Terrored - bullied/owned

» Sun May 13, 2012 7:17 pm

A mix of Californian and Jamaican (I live in England, it's pretty popular.)

Are you one of those white kids from Kent that speaks like a Croydon crack dealer? All "Mandem" and "Bare Shank?"

I don't really use slang normally, I accept my middle classness. Sometimes for a joke I'll use American slang, I'm pretty good at accents so I mix it up.

Maybe a couple of English ones.

Quid - fairly standard

Tidy - to describe an attractive lady, or anything good in general

Spawny, jammy - Lucky

Can't really think of any others.

» Sun May 13, 2012 4:30 pm

Are you one of those white kids from Kent that speaks like a Croydon crack dealer? All "Mandem" and "Bare Shank?"

I don't really use slang normally, I accept my middle classness. Sometimes for a joke I'll use American slang, I'm pretty good at accents so I mix it up.

Haha. Oh no, but I know exactly who you mean.
But I do use -ting, bare and a few others, nothing too obnoxious.

» Sun May 13, 2012 8:05 pm

Norwegian stuff. It's not uncommon to use english phrases/words either.

» Sun May 13, 2012 12:55 pm

Haha. Oh no, but I know exactly who you mean.
But I do use -ting, bare and a few others, nothing too obnoxious.

Fair enough. I just missed out on that craze, it was still a cockney accent that was the thing all the insecure kids wanted at school. Seems like kids who are two or more years younger than me have the full on "lisp" and try and talk as street as possible. I use the odd "ting" and "bare" ironically obviously.

» Sun May 13, 2012 9:25 am

kind of hard to translate norwegian slang words to english :biggrin:

we also have a lot of dialects with weird slangs. I mostly use typical norwegian words and words from my dialect, but some english words as well as long as they don't sound weird

» Mon May 14, 2012 12:39 am

Fair enough. I just missed out on that craze, it was still a cockney accent that was the thing all the insecure kids wanted at school. Seems like kids who are two or more years younger than me have the full on "lisp" and try and talk as street as possible. I use the odd "ting" and "bare" ironically obviously. :tongue:

yeah, I live in a very multicultural area, you pick it up without even knowing it.

» Sun May 13, 2012 10:53 am

I grew up in central California, so I use "like" just a liiiiittle more often than necessary.

» Sun May 13, 2012 2:46 pm

I grew up in central California, so I use "like" just a liiiiittle more often than necessary.

This. So this. I do it like all the time.

As far as my native language, Finnish, goes, I speak very pronounced Helsinki slang.

» Sun May 13, 2012 1:03 pm

I grew up in central California, so I use "like" just a liiiiittle more often than necessary.

This. So this. I do it like all the time.

I find it tiring and annoying to listen to people who says "like" all the time, thankfully I live in Norway. :tongue:

You guys are probably cool though, as long as you're not like those teenage girls I see on american TV shows all the time. :tongue:

» Mon May 14, 2012 1:06 am

Lad - cant really describe it, sort of a replacement for dude
Sound - ok

Well that does remind me of the years I was at Liverpool Uni. :laugh:

I tend to use "Y'all" a lot, but I use a more British version, which sounds like "Ye'all"

» Sun May 13, 2012 9:36 am

Well that does remind me of the years I was at Liverpool Uni. :laugh:

I tend to use "Y'all" a lot, but I use a more British version, which sounds like "Ye'all"

Saahnd lad

» Sun May 13, 2012 11:26 am

I find it tiring and annoying to listen to people who says "like" all the time, thankfully I live in Norway. :tongue:

You guys are probably cool though, as long as you're not like those teenage girls I see on american TV shows all the time. :tongue:

liksom

» Mon May 14, 2012 12:47 am

liksom

? s?rr ass, du m?tte liksom bare gj?re det. Det var liksom s?? un?dvendig liksom, men det er greit liksom. No hard feelings hvis du skj?nner hva jeg mener.

Thank god I'm not hanging around people who speak like that. I guess it's more of a teenager thing. :tongue:

» Sun May 13, 2012 2:25 pm

What a groovy thread.