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does anyone else have certain words that they just say all the time? Like for me, if somebody says something that can possibly be construed as something sexual, I go:
"Giggidy!"
or
"Awwwwwwww riiiiiiiiiiiiiigggghhhht!!"
both mannerisms made by the family guy character Quagmire.
so what are your guys' words and where are they from?
Always call my friends manos, always adress my female friends with meis. No idea it sounds right
"Manos: The Hands of Fate" Manos?
I occasionally go on sprees where I end my sentences with "yo" and talk like a wigger. Then stop.
i always call guys by their last names. only girls i call by their first names.
I have a ton of them, and I'm always on the lookout for even more ways of addressing people. It would take too long to list them all, and it's norwegian anyway, so....
I usually end sentences with "mang," yes with a "g" when talking to my brother. I also end sentences with "o rly" ala the owl when talking to my mom (to slow down her rambling). That's about it though.
Other than that I'm a man of few words. When I converse with people I tilt my head to either left or right and fold my arms, speaking softly no intonation whatsoever.
Oh I always put on this face when talking non-casually to my girlfriend :
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is ******************************** a word by the way? I am tired of trying marrying my laptop. Yes I do. Yes I really want to close that.
So essentially, they're Quagmire's mannerisms :beam:Quote:
Originally Posted by Prussian Iron
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Originally Posted by A Very Super Market
I sometimes do that. I originally do it for irony, but it becomes habit for a few days.Quote:
I occasionally go on sprees where I end my sentences with "yo" and talk like a wigger. Then stop.
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Originally Posted by A Very Super Market
I say the word "dig" a lot. I also add "man" to the end of a lot of my sentences. I also say "far out"
There are undoubtedly some more, but I probably don't notice them enough to put them down.
I say awesome too much
I also use silly '60s '70s slang whenever things get too serious. So "Far out" is a big part of my vocabulary. Oh, and I also swear like an irate sailor.
I got called out for overusing "involuted" and "visceral." Now I almost never say or write them. I guess I'm scarred.
I use "plethora", usually prefaced with "veritable". That, and ~:doh:
"Trippin' Ballz"
"The fu..."(Note I never actually finish the word)
"10-4"
"And your point is?"
Thats it off the top of my head. I'v been called out for a few more but none that I can remember off hand.
Montana has slowly been corrupting my speech patterns... I used to be quite heavy with the Colorado speech patterns saying such words as "Ya know?" after virtually sentence, or "wut up?" as a greeting. Then when I moved out here, I started getting called on it; people would say "No. I don't know." or "uhh... the sky?"
Although when traveling outside of Montana I catch myself saying commonly said words not heard outside of Montana such as "Cool Bean!" which is a guess a corruption of "Right you are, old bean!" or things you might not hear at all in most of the US such as ending my sentences with "eh?" Must be our close proximity to British Columbia/Alberta. In eastern Montana they have an entirely different accent.. getting it mostly from the Dakotas and Saskatchewan.
Australians ask questions that don't need answering.
Aussie on a bus in London: How heavy is this rain!
British person: *holds hand out* Fairly heavy?
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Originally Posted by pevergreen
I use the word "seedy" often, along with "that's brilliant" and "bollox".
In normal conversation, not a whole lot.
I sometimes start conversations like a stuck up old white guy saying.. "What up (pause), dog."
Apart from that, just the normal australian words.
Have you ever noticed that Australians go up at the end of every sentance?
Because we're all too insecure to actually make a statement?
I can imagine in 25 years time, in the supreme court, the judge handing down a verdict: "I find you guilty of murder?"
When you think about it, we actually do speak like that.
"Oh hey Chris, I put that report on your desk?"
Its noticeable when you actually listen for it, otherwise we miss out...I love it. :2thumbsup:
bloody, and bloody hell. for example; 'the hell you say, that bloody whatever whichever had bloody hell not get in my bloody way!!!'
Me and my friends share a 2 litre bottle of coke as we smoke... over time instead of asking someone to pass the drink we just call 'yo' cuts down on alot of unnessecary politeness, several of our other friends do this when thier hanging around with us (we refuse to acknowledge anything but a yo call for the drink)
I usually answer the phone to some of my friends with an enthusiastic 'Yo yo yo!' (said quickly) then 'sup'. 'waz appataining' is another one I like using... you :daisy: beauty is a favourite when Man Utd score usually. I also like using 'yo ho' as a greeting... only really to my male friends (as they won't be insulted) and just because it ryhmes nicely... I think 'yo ho' is my face to face greeting and 'Yo yo yo' is my phone one...
I never realised how much I overuse the word yo...
I often say "brilliant" or "maaaaagnificent" when something goes wrong, I also insert "well" into the middle of a lot of my sentences and when I ask someone to show me something I almost always say "show us".
Also, has anyone else noticed how when you regularly see someone in passing you start out by saying "Hi" as you walk by, then the hi is no longer necessary and it becomes just a nod, then just a tilt of the head, then eventually a twitch of the lip is all you need to say hi.
"Yall"
"Cool"
"Brutal"
",Yeah?" after saying a statement, to get confirmation that what I said was correct.
"I used to could" Meaning I was able to at one time but now I'm not.
"Howdy"
Texans say things that are only funny to non-Texans. :cowboy:
Tilt upwards of the head and raising of the eyebrows is a formal greeting. We're too lazy to do anything else. Sometimes just one or the other.
I never really noticed it, but now that you mentioned it - yeah you're right.Quote:
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I like using the word "apt" as it is under-appreciated in our language, if you ask me.
I prefer to say "indeed" instead of "yes" because it makes me sound pretentious.
"Pretentious" is another word I try to slip into conversations quite often.
I have a few other ones that involve slipping various profanities into the middle of words just to highlight them. "Abso-:daisy:-lutely" is a great word for this, where you can replace :daisy: with your profanity of choice.
I also have plenty of mannerisms that I'm aware of, such as my inability to stay on topic for more than about 20 seconds.
*looks at pictures of CountArach dressed up as Death at work*
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I've kinda developed a kinda quirky saying among my friends recently:
"If *thing friend hates* was a *insert name of cute animal,* how would you kill it?"
Funnily, it usually cheers them up for a bit and then they get depressed at whatever they were hating at before.....
Oooh, just remembered one (After using it) that is based on this. I yell "Keep up!" at people when they get confused by my ramblings. Very Ross Noble-esque (Who I freely admit I stole it from).Quote:
Originally Posted by CountArach
EDIT: And there's another one - adding esque to the end of completely random nouns.
I like vex, and bloviate (to speak pompously). A new one I just learned is tyromancy (divination by observing the coagulation of cheese), so I'm going to need to find ways to use that. I also like stripping the prefixes off words that no longer really work without them (kempt, shevelled, whelming, gruntled, etc.)
Ajax
I also have a nearly uncontrollable urge to say inappropriate things at times. For example, when writing a script for corporation X, I was instructed to emphasize everything as family-oriented. I felt the familiar tickle in my brain-stem, and couldn't resist saying, "So you want it really gay? How gay are we talking about, here?" Which is almost as bad as when I walked into a meeting of a bunch of web-wonks who were looking very serious and concerned, and shouted, "What up, *******?" (PM me if you really need to know the word. It got a good laugh, though.)
I usually get away with my inappropriate outbursts, if only 'cause they make people laugh. If there's no laugh, I am in deep trouble.
Whilst writing, I use one kind of punctuation too much; semi-colons.
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Originally Posted by Lemur
sometimes if someone asks a question, I'll just answer "Penis!". I'm getting a little too used to it though; yesterday I accidentally said it right in front of my littl ebrother and sister, so I quickly made it into "Penis..rocafatocratic!". Close call :sweatdrop:
I as well. My English teacher must hate semi-colons by now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Subotan
They sound to me in my head like dotted crotchet rests, like in music, in between commas and full stops :3 (With the latter two obviously being quaver and minim rests, obviously)Quote:
Originally Posted by Prussian Iron
I used to do that a lot too. Now that I've gotten a bit better at punctuation, however, I cannot stand semi-colons. I'd sooner rip them out of all literature and purge their existence if I could.Quote:
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They make writing jazzy :no:
My hate for them is purely based on the errors they cause, mind you. So few people actually understand how to use them correctly that I'd rather they not use them at all.Quote:
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Without semi-colons, how would you join a list of elements with internal commas? It'd be chaos I tell you! Chaos!
Ajax
I subconsciously copy the accents of people I spend a long time talking to...
Also I tend to be very creative when describing things I don't like. Instead of saying: 'This laptop is c**p!'
I would say: 'This vile piece of technology is as horrendous as Borat's speedo.' for example.
So when do you use them then?Quote:
Originally Posted by Monk
Between two main clauses separated by a transitional phrase, or in a listing of elements that contain internal commas as ajax has pointed out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Subotan
Those are the only situations in which a semicolon is grammatically correct.
I do this when talking to kiwi's, only it's not so subconscious ~D and I ask them to say "fish and chips" and "six" because I know how much that annoys them.Quote:
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That always reminds me of this clip from the Chaser.Quote:
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I must confess, I say "male gyration" WAYYYY too often.
I can't even think of an appropriate context to say that in. :surprised:Quote:
Originally Posted by Askthepizzaguy
Oh I can relate, I simply can't help making jokes it's stronger than me and I really need to bite my tongue at times. I will always be as mischievous as I can possibly get away with and I sometimes cross the line.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lemur
edit: had to make something for my religion teacher (santaclauslike thingie), made a stigmata-kit
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Originally Posted by Fragony
qwaaaa and gyp
I tend to refer to my friends (or all of humanity, depending on my mood) as "mortals". Generalisation about a group you are part of for the absolute win. Then, I've managed to sometimes adopt a manner of speaking similar to that used by TotalBiscuit - "No, I shall not!" and "Are you joking?" quite certainly originating from excessive listening. It has another interesting side effect - a large amount of emphasis on the last word of a sentence, and sentence structure to support it, where convenient.
Oh, "awesome" and "awful" are another two words I use rather often indeed. But hey, they're awesome, so it's fine.
I constantly make references to female body parts in entirely inappropiate ways. When faced with something shocking and/or frustrating I will blaspheme in ways that have had my soldiers balk and some request that I never say such things again, so I just make sure they're not around. I use the same ones over and over again so they're my signatures, but posting them would get my post deleted and a pm from Lemur.
To add to the Texasisms: 'might could', 'maybe definitely' are the only ones off the top of my head.
oh god i have so many...........
i say dude wayyyyy to much, as well as bro
And i was always the kid who could imitate voice patterns realyyyyy well. for example among my many quirks.
1. when around my black friends i usually imitate the way the speak unoticeably. I say things like dawg and son, and yo, etc. Never ****** though.
2. I often drop into a southern twang. once when my dads friend from georgia came to visit he thought i was insulting him because i sounded to southern. No specific words just my tone. I also pray and do the pledge of allegiance like a dixie boy.
3. This one is sort of strange..... i say aye and yah know at the end of my sentences like i was canadian. This one really annoys my parents.
4. I speak in a british accent when im talking to really stupid people.
5. And finally whenever im near my grandmother or other russian speakers i drop into like a strange russian accent laced with russian words. like for example i say da and nyet instead of yes and no.
i have alottttttt more strange things but these are some of the major ones.
I like to say words in German occasionally in my conversations. I'll just be talking to someone, and it will go like this:Quote:
Originally Posted by Centurion1
"So did you see that new movie?"
"Nein."
"What?"
"Nein."
"Ummm.......ok?"
"It means 'No'."
"Oooooh!!!! Bye!"
"Gut Nacht."
"Wait, what?"
*Facepalm*
Wait, you have a problem with people dropping a bit of another language in their posts here everynow and then, yet... You do it in real life, and you facepalm when they act weird about it? :inquisitive:
Hes a confused boy.
Imagine him as SFTS before the manliness, and sucess.
its different. i dont have entire posts in different languages for no apparent reason. I drop an occasional word here and there. not sentences.Quote:
Originally Posted by miotas
besides this isnt the thread to discuss old-ass arguments in.
Здравствулте! PI, вы довольно интересны. В плохом пути. Я зеленый цвет.
Yeh. I sometimes do similar things. I'll randomly reply in German or Spanish to someone who can't speak either. Acquaintances get baffled.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prussian Iron
That had me rolling on the ground yet I have no idea what it saysQuote:
Originally Posted by pevergreen
Bah, only those weak in the world of speaking resort to other languages for diversity. I flip around with accents quite a bit, and try to create as much discordance as possible whenever I do so. I've done formal readings in a broad Australian accent, songs in incomprehensible slavic basso, and yelled at people in an aristocratic drawl.
I occasionally use the British Accent when I try to say something snarky, attempting to be snarky with an American accent just makes you sound like a pretentious douche.
$50 says you did it bad. :grin2:Quote:
Originally Posted by A Very Super Market
You lose, good day sir!
Well, it's a broad one. It has to be bad to be good.
i do that too actually.Quote:
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the most funny part about it is that my friend tries to do a british accent.....and he fails. hard. if he was forced to do a british accent, and 1 person would die every time he failed, we would all be dead.
and then i come in with my well-practiced variety of accents and make him look like a dumbass :laugh4:
Obtuse
I use that word regularly because it applies to many people I meet.
It's done with one or another automatic translator which decided "way" was used in the primary meaning of the word.Quote:
Originally Posted by Veho Nex
British accent as in Lord Hoity-Toity the Fourth of Bigglesworth, or normal bloke from down the road British accent?Quote:
Originally Posted by Prussian Iron
I've got a couple, my favourite has got to be "You're making me angry" and my other one I use when descibing things I just add "And.............$^%£" on the end when I've ran out of things to say.
Other than those I don't really speak a lot, noise irritates me, which is awkward when you're living with a woman, any woman. I've also picked up a reputation for being very forthright with my contractors, if they are deliverables are substandard I like to make sure they know, so I tend to use the word "Pants" when describing them.
Bigglesworth, all the way. I can't think of anything more suited to anything but an extra cultivated RP. Of course, I've been forced to undergo therapy sessions as well, so who knows.
Ah yes, I sprinkle Spanish and Arabic through out my speach randomly.
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Hehe. This all reminded me of Vonnegut.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monk
"Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."
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Bah. I still like 'em.
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Originally Posted by Psychonaut
"Feck", due to seeing Dara Ó Briain numerous times.
Then there's "gah", a general outcry of surprise or annoyance.
Also, there's the Daimoku which is common when I grow displeased with the ignorance of certain people. I sometimes use the Fire Sermon when I find that people complain too much.
"Blargh" (generally only during morning, before I'm capable of forming words). Also, "ginormous" and "skeevy." At work I seem to write "inadequate" more than almost any other word right now...