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Using American slang while posting?

Cianos · 2006-09-08 17:40:20

Why do people use American slang words in their posting vocabulary, but never in 'real' life. You'd never hear someone say "Heck, I'd be up that tree in no time" face to face but people seem fairly eager to use words like these while posting. Anyone else notice this?!! EDIT: I dont know where I got "heck I'd be up that…

08-09-2006 5:40pm

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Why do people use American slang words in their posting vocabulary, but never in 'real' life. You'd never hear someone say "Heck, I'd be up that tree in no time" face to face but people seem fairly eager to use words like these while posting. Anyone else notice this?!!

EDIT: I dont know where I got "heck I'd be up that tree in no time" from, just the first thing that popped into my mind:P

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#2 08-09-2006 5:54pm

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Can you give other examples of this...? I've never seen anyone saying "heck" on boards , but perhaps they do use other American phrases

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#3 08-09-2006 5:55pm

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i tend to use "mom" online...

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#4 08-09-2006 5:56pm

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Cianos wrote:

Anyone else notice this?!!

I sure do boy-howdy!

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#5 08-09-2006 5:56pm

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This thread is sooooooooooo lame.

Mike.

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#6 08-09-2006 5:58pm

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mike65 wrote:

This thread is sooooooooooo lame.

Mike.

touché.

what about French words?;)

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#7 08-09-2006 5:58pm

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mike65 wrote:

This thread is sooooooooooo lame.

Mike.

Oh No He didn't

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#8 08-09-2006 5:58pm

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mike65 wrote:

This thread is sooooooooooo lame.

Mike.

you forgot the word like, like.

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#9 08-09-2006 6:00pm

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Whutevvveeerrr *puts up hand*:)

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#10 08-09-2006 6:03pm

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Cianos wrote:

what about French words?;)

Why yes, needlessly working French words into posts is my raison d'être. :rolleyes:

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#11 08-09-2006 6:04pm

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I work french words into life for some reason. I have said excusé moi for years instead of excuse me, it just happens...

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#12 08-09-2006 6:05pm

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For the heckord

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#13 08-09-2006 6:09pm

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i actually see a lot of irish slang in here as in language you'd only find in Ireland:

ya bastord/feckin this or that/arsehole...

and then theres the ppl from D4 who want everyone to know it and actually spell there words:

loike this roight because oi'm from D4 so don't take me for anything less loike, you know what i mean roish?ya?

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#14 08-09-2006 6:11pm

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smk135 wrote:

i actually see a lot of irish slang in here as in language you'd only find in Ireland:

ya bastord/feckin this or that/arsehole...

and then theres the ppl from D4 who want everyone to know it and actually spell there words:

loike this roight because oi'm from D4 so don't take me for anything less loike, you know what i mean roish?ya?

Fu(k me Irish slang on an Irish website well spotted sherlock

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#15 08-09-2006 6:13pm

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projectmayhem wrote:

i tend to use "mom" online...

I tend to use your mom offline.

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#16 08-09-2006 6:15pm

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sjones wrote:

I tend to use your mom offline.

Excellent LOL

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#17 08-09-2006 6:35pm

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sjones wrote:

I tend to use your mom offline.

Noice.

Not sure what it means, but it's still good

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#18 08-09-2006 6:40pm

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Is the OP
YANKing our chain en passant sil vous plais:D

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#19 08-09-2006 6:42pm

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muletide wrote:

Fu(k me Irish slang on an Irish website well spotted sherlock

yeah...i do feel like a twat now that you've pointed that out.

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#20 08-09-2006 7:29pm

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i use "Dude" quite a bit. i think i spent too much time watching beavis and butthead over the years.
damn, that show still cracks me up.

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#21 08-09-2006 7:32pm

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julep wrote:

i spent too much time watching beavis and butthead

That would be an impossible thing to do.

They're all on Youtube now btw if anyones interested in checking out a few classics.

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#22 08-09-2006 7:41pm

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i had a look around before.
couldn't find my favourite one. "couch fishing".
uhh huh huh huh. stewart fish.

that show first aired over here when cablelink didn't carry MTV. my friends could get it on free to air sattelite (i'm old now). they recorded it for me because they thought i laughed like butthead. so if anyone ever meets me and thinks i ripped it off, i didn't. i only say this because i have been accused of it in the past.

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#23 08-09-2006 7:49pm

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Uh-huh-huh-a-huh-huh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NpvccnQbIY

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#24 08-09-2006 7:58pm

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DaveMcG wrote:

I've never seen anyone saying "heck" on boards

I have on occasion. Mind you, I also use "nowt" and "owt" but draw the line at "ar".

If anything I've occasionally noticed a small number of words working their way into my regular speech that I thitherto tended to use exclusively on the interweb. Odd that.

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#25 08-09-2006 8:07pm

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Like, this thread soooooo belongs in the trash can, like OMG!

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#26 08-09-2006 8:08pm

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Pigman II wrote:

Uh-huh-huh-a-huh-huh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NpvccnQbIY

dude. i bow to your superior search skills.
thamk you very much.

all my VHS tapes have vanished and i haven't seen that episode in years.

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#27 08-09-2006 8:10pm

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bluto63 wrote:

Like, this thread soooooo belongs in the trash can, like OMG!

screw you, buddy*, i got a beavis and butthead show out of it.

we could always turn it into 'do you use american slang and if so, where did you pick it up?' thread.

*canadian, but technically american. terrance and phillip.

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#28 08-09-2006 8:12pm

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i dont change my vocabulary while typing although i use most american words even while speaking. Point being depends on the person

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#29 08-09-2006 8:18pm

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I'll admit to being guilty of this on occasion but it's mainly because I post on a few US forums. I'd almost never use US slang IRL....but there's definitely a whole generation of kids coming up that are not only using it but developing their own version of an american accent to boot...that pisses me off way the hell more than some text on a website...

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#30 08-09-2006 8:22pm

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I say dude but since I don't watch beavis and butthead, I'm pretty sure that's South Park's influence. I've also been known to pronounce here("hyah") and hey("ay") like Cartman does.

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#31 08-09-2006 8:24pm

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Feral Mutant wrote:

I've also been known to pronounce here("hyah") and hey("ay") like Cartman does.

Who gave you the authoratah to do that then?

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#32 08-09-2006 8:24pm

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Wertz wrote:

I'll admit to being guilty of this on occasion but it's mainly because I post on a few US forums. I'd almost never use US slang IRL....but there's definitely a whole generation of kids coming up that are not only using it but developing their own version of an american accent to boot...that pisses me off way the hell more than some text on a website...

i don't know where you live, but here in Leixlip (Co. Kildare) we have a whole generation of kids with dodgy Dublin accents.
my father was from the liberties in central Dublin and his accent was absolutely nowhere near as strong as these dodgy ones the kids seem to have.
i'd rather hear a dodgy american one that a fake Dublin one any day.

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#33 08-09-2006 8:25pm

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Pigman II wrote:

Who gave you the authoratah to do that then?

manbearpig does.
him and al gore.

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#34 08-09-2006 8:26pm

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julep wrote:

manbearpig does.
him and al gore.

Really? You cannot be serial?

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#35 08-09-2006 8:36pm

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tsst.

i'm super serial.
i'm going to go off and make a movie. then maybe people will pay attention to me.

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#36 08-09-2006 8:53pm

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julep wrote:

i'm going to go off and make a movie. then maybe people will pay attention to me.

I look forward to seeing it. Excelsior!

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#37 08-09-2006 9:14pm

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julep, Pigman II, cut out the chat or i'll ban both of you.
take it to IRC

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#38 08-09-2006 9:23pm

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I use howdy a good bit, but I haven't seen too much american slang overall.

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#39 08-09-2006 9:39pm

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that's because there isn't.
people just over react.

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#40 08-09-2006 10:06pm

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Its no biggie like, don't have a cow over it.

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#41 08-09-2006 10:21pm

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ok, man.

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#42 08-09-2006 10:28pm

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On the net I never put american slang in. Although at times in real life it slips out

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#43 08-09-2006 10:45pm

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bluto63 wrote:

Although at times in real life it slips out

Would you not try a more supportive pair of underpants?

I'll get me coat

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#44 08-09-2006 10:59pm

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My goal will not be complete until you are all using the Wisconsin Phrases "Corn Sakes!" and "Coopun!"

And btw, I think I started the "Heck" thing here. And I'm not sorreh!

Oh, but the OP's original example? Deffo not an american phrase. Not in my neighbourhood anyway.

Hugs,

L4L

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#45 08-09-2006 11:19pm

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#46 09-09-2006 9:55am

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Wessttttsiiidddeeeee! *throws his fingers up and does his crip walk*

Personally i cant stand irish people who say "mom".

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#47 09-09-2006 10:14am

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Tha Gopher wrote:

Personally i cant stand irish people who say "mom".

i would be the same, well it annoys me more than anything else

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#48 09-09-2006 12:11pm

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sjones wrote:

I tend to use your mom offline.

ohhh no you didn't *clicks fingers*

oh it's on...

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