Common Words You Say Differently
Breakthrough
Texture Artist (ns_prometheus) Join Date: 2005-03-27 Member: 46620Members, Constellation
Texture Artist (ns_prometheus) Join Date: 2005-03-27 Member: 46620Members, Constellation
in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">Not Purnouncation, See Inside...</div> Yes, I spelled purnouncation(sp? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> ) wrong (well, TBH, I'm not sure, but I'm not opening up MS Word to check it).
I was just wondering how many of you say words differently than a majority of society (being made fun of for saying it is a good way to tell).
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><u>EXAMPLE</u></span>
This is my own contribution to this thread BTW - I say this in real life.
Everyone calls it a "tool box" [storage for tools <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> ], but I happen to call it a "tool chest" for some reason... Myself, that's a cooler name, and it is sort of like a chest... Tool chest...
I was just wondering how many of you say words differently than a majority of society (being made fun of for saying it is a good way to tell).
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><u>EXAMPLE</u></span>
This is my own contribution to this thread BTW - I say this in real life.
Everyone calls it a "tool box" [storage for tools <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> ], but I happen to call it a "tool chest" for some reason... Myself, that's a cooler name, and it is sort of like a chest... Tool chest...
Comments
how old are u? <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
/edit
oh and i tend to replace alot of verbs with "that one thing" "thingy" "it" "like the, you know" "the uhhh uhhh" "whats it called" "whatchamacallit"
i call lots of things units too... like my light unit.. or my pez unit...
edit based on har hars edit: verbs eh? you mean nouns?
I also call the "remote controll" the "tv clicker"
And also my famous skirt/dress debate.
<i>Ex. actual = what i call it</i>
Short Dress or Short Skirt = Skirt
Long Dress or Long Skirt = Dress
(i classify it by length of the hangy part, not by how much upper body it covers)
I have had many arguements about this, and at one point called long skirts "half-dresses" and short dresses "body-skirts". I just feel that "Skirt" should refer to a short length one, and "dress" to a longer length one.
Also use "ohnoes" in everday conversation. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I purposely use "teh" when typing online sometimes.
Can't think of any others.
I think "grage" is just as common as garage, just like "mir" is with "mirror."
Sneakahs and yahd seem to be common in NYC as well <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> .
My friend said "vid-ye-games", and we always say it now. Same with "San An Drea As" (e.g. Let's play San An Drea As, and <u>summon</u> the Monster Truck).
Unit sounds cool - I'll have to use that one more.
Oh, and I call lights <b>sconcins</b> (from a wall sconce). You purnounce it Skon-Sin. Yeah, it's weird, but I call all lights that. Summon me a sconcin unit, so we can play some vid-ye games like San An Drea As, and we can summon a monster truck or a plane.
EDIT: Yes yes, I know, it could be considered a pronunciation difference. It's what I could remember, so I went ahead and posted anyway.
Oh, and pop over soda all the way.
And I hate the following sentence.
I sometimes ommit verbs or nouns from my sentences under certain circumstances (very tired, for example), replacing them with "thing" and 'thingy", but my sister can almost always work out what I'm refering to.
"Eject the felines!" has come to mean "kick the cats out of the house for the night". (yeah, we shouldn't really do that since cats are nocturnal and therefore hunt at night; we do it because they wake us up in the middle of the night otherwise).
To the great annoyance of the rest of my family, I sometimes throw in words I know from other languages just for the fun of it (usually Hebrew and Japanese, which they know <i>some</i> of).
I also use "owned" regularly in conversation with normal people, although that's not really what we're talking about here.
When I was little I used to call acorns "cawtoos" in fact I'm not even sure how to spell it because it’s not even remotely a real word. Of course I never stopped calling them that but I’ve noticed my mother and sister accidentally saying it from time to time so maybe it’s catching on.
If I can't think of the proper name for something I often use "doohickey" or “whatchamacallit”.
I'm sure there's more but I can't seem to remember them...
Here in Canada, we call remote-controls "converters". (Well, at least here in Vaughan we do).
You call it a garage? Well la-dee-frickin-dah, I call it a car-hole.
How does that work?
How does that work? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
You can check your washing machine for stored calls?
By the gods.
edit:
Sometimes I really do think I'm retarded.
My mom calls leftovers "srevetfel", which is obviously "leftover" backwards. Or, she calls it a "CORD Meal", which stands for "Clean Out Refrigerator Day Meal". If she gets mad, she says "joysmells". She calls knives "kuh-nifees". She calls spaghetti "sketty" or "pasketty". She calls the television the "boob tube" or the "idiot box". She learned a lot of it from her own mother, who has been known to rename items with strange new names. There are many more things she's renamed, but I can't think of them all at the moment.
My little sister called her forehead her headfore, since she was set on getting a headboard for her bunkbed (she was on the lower bunk, and had no shelf space). Instead of "closing out" of a program by clicking on the X (close) button, she's been taught by my mom to say "x out", since it was easier to use the shape.
My grandmother (father's side) calls K-Mart "K-Marks" and Wal*Mart "Wal*Marks".
I often say "clickity" instead of "click". Ever since the GI Joe videos, I've found myself saying "compootah" in the same voice as the "stop all the downloadin'" guy.
Wow, a little more brainstorming actually worked.
EDIT: funbags, writing down "the 'F' word" would work just fine as well.
And I hate the following sentence.
<!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
WTH
I say Sorry like a brit. I say a lot of things like a brit. I also say 'ya'll', and generally use every racial-specific thing ever.
Hey fools.
Whoa, check out dat chica
And when I try and be funny I use a irish accent.
etc.
Also, I only say "pullz" instead of please(plz), and I too say "ohnoes" quite a bit. I've been cought going "doublya teef?" and "om-geh"
I'm guilty of that. And my word for a thing when I can't think of a name: "Thingamabob"
"How was the movie?" "Fantabulous."
"How's the chicken?" "Chick-a-licious."
"You feeling okay?" "Splendiferous."
I have recently started responding to people with nonsensical noises, odd faces, and random words, such as "Yessir" when being asked a many-answer question.
My brother also used to call Ukraine Oo-ka-lakey, no idea why, we were just playing risk and he said it....
And whenever it is true, I try to sneak in a "lork on teh clorf!"
Listed as slang: <a href='http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fantabulous' target='_blank'>http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fantabulous</a>