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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?

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Always call my friends manos, always adress my female friends with meis. No idea it sounds right

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"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.

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i always call guys by their last names. only girls i call by their first names.

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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....

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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.

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So essentially, they're Quagmire's mannerisms
Oh Yes

I sometimes do that. I originally do it for irony, but it becomes habit for a few days.

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Dig the MST3k reference

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.

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I say awesome too much

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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.

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I got called out for overusing "involuted" and "visceral." Now I almost never say or write them. I guess I'm scarred.

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I use "plethora", usually prefaced with "veritable". That, and

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"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.

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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.

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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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I use the word "seedy" often, along with "that's brilliant" and "bollox".

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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.

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bloody, and bloody hell. for example; 'the hell you say, that bloody whatever whichever had bloody hell not get in my bloody way!!!'

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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 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...

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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.

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"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.

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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.

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I never really noticed it, but now that you mentioned it - yeah you're right.

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--lutely" is a great word for this, where you can replace 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.

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*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.....

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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).

EDIT: And there's another one - adding esque to the end of completely random nouns.

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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

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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.

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Whilst writing, I use one kind of punctuation too much; semi-colons.

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