snacktastic
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Post by snacktastic on May 16, 2005 13:03:29 GMT -4
I've always lived in or around Boston and, yes, "Wicked" is very unique to us. I recall in high school, a cousin of mine was talking about some other kid and expressing how smart the kid was. He said, "Oh, that guy's smart. He gets wicked A's." Yes, we acknowledge that "wicked" is a strange adjective around here, but that was pushing it! We never let him forget that. Growing up in Maine, we Mainers also claim wicked good and in fact, many of us feel as if it was stolen by Bostonians as slang from Maine.
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mrpancake
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Post by mrpancake on May 16, 2005 13:20:20 GMT -4
Oh, NorCal and SoCal are two totally different places and they don't really like being grouped together. We both think we're better than one another, but clearly SoCal is better. Dude never caught on with me, but everyone I know says it. My sister does it a lot, and so does my roommate, who is from LA. It only bugs me a little, but with my "like" vice I'm in no place to judge those who say "dude."
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dwanollah
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Post by dwanollah on May 16, 2005 13:47:12 GMT -4
Oh, NorCal and SoCal are two totally different places and they don't really like being grouped together. We both think we're better than one another, but clearly SoCal is better. Dude never caught on with me, but everyone I know says it. My sister does it a lot, and so does my roommate, who is from LA. It only bugs me a little, but with my "like" vice I'm in no place to judge those who say "dude." Word, dudes! I say 'dude" WAY too much, especially considering I teach college English. *hanging head* Admittedly, though, "SoCal" and "the OC" are starting to bug the crap out of me. However, I will NEVER give up "sammich!" It's been a family joke ever since "Navin, I wrapped your sammich in celophane, jus' the way you like it."
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sumire
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Post by sumire on May 16, 2005 14:21:31 GMT -4
That happened to me, too, and I had _NO_ idea that Brits said their "er"s any differently! It was only much later, that I realized--they sort of say, like, "beuhhhhd" instead of "birrrrrd," right? I suppose the school was happy with my replacement, a Bristol native. But then again, that guy absolutely could not pronounce "something" as anything other than "somefing," so...
Really? Same thing in Japanese, and from there, Hawaiian pidgin English. Small kid time, we used to sit in a circle and point and chant, eeny-meeny style, "One two three, a bumble bee, who is the lady with the fat chi-CHI!" And then we'd all tease the Lady With The Fat Chi-Chi, like that was a bad thing, until our moms came out and gave us dirty lickins.
IIRC, my roommate told me "chi-chi" is urine in Colombia, too. OTOH, in Hawaii's Japanese-American communities, it's "shi-shi" that little kids make in the potty.
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mansonlamps
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Post by mansonlamps on May 16, 2005 15:21:58 GMT -4
While I detest "aiight", I have no problem with "Dude." I use it all the time, for both men and women, and I'm not from the OC, SoCal or NorCal, I'm from Chicago. Or should I say Chi-Town?! (Just kidding, no one here actually says that). My friend in Denver uses it all the time too.
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Post by batmom on May 16, 2005 16:52:33 GMT -4
If I didn't say dude, I'd have to call Batboy "Hey you, stinky kid." Seriously, I use it so much, I think I've forgotten his name.
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Post by LurkerNan on May 16, 2005 18:47:24 GMT -4
ITA. My seven year old son doesn't mind me calling him "dude" at all, especially when the alternative is "sweetpea".
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CAgirl
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Post by CAgirl on May 17, 2005 0:03:38 GMT -4
I agree with the Cali usage. I hate it. I'm from San Diego, but many of my friends are from San Francisco and they hate when people call it Frisco. And I have to agree with them.
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underjoyed
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Post by underjoyed on May 17, 2005 7:58:04 GMT -4
Hee! "Cali" and "Frisco" seem like words that people who are from neither California nor San Francisco use because they think they're using the native slang. Unless something's changed in the last eight years since I left, there's a similar situation going on with Vancouver. No one I know who's from there (including myself) ever refers to it as "Van" when speaking (although they may very occasionally do so in writing, but only as an abbreviation). Mr. underjoyed, who lived near Vancouver as a kid, and then grew up elsewhere, used to refer to it consistently as "Van", until my giggling put a stop to it.
I've recently become concerned by my growing tendency to use the phrase "hells, no". When I began adding the extra "s" at the end of "hell", I was doing so with what I thought was the requisite level of irony. Then it became a force of habit, and I now catch myself saying it without any knowing pop-culture reference implicit in my voice whatsoever. Same thing happened with "riiiight".
I don't know what I'd do without "dude", though.
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huntergrayson
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Post by huntergrayson on May 17, 2005 8:32:44 GMT -4
Leading to the LA based sitcom: "it's like, you know."
My mother made fun of me saying NorCal/SoCal, but every local does it. Back when I lived in TN, I wanted to die the first time I said "y'all."
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