December 19th, 2007

You’re Never Fully Dressed Without Some Slang!

I’ve noticed something odd about my personality.  Shut up!  Yes, I know there is more than one thing…but for today let’s just focus on the one, shall we?

Anyway, I don’t particularly always say things the right way.  There are certain words or phrases I tend to twist around and say differently more often than not.

For instance:

  • I don’t pronounce it "mullet"….I say "mullay".
  • I never say "dumb ass"…it’s always Dumas!
  • Although I do sometimes say "shenanigans"….I say "shenanigoats" a lot more instead.
  • I never ever ever just say the world "fool"….I always say, "Foolio Iglesias" instead.
  • And most things that are supposed to end in "-er" end up ending with
    the "ah" sound.   Ya know, like crackah, sistah,  vibratah.  Stuff like
    that.

Am I the only one that does this?  Yeah yeah, some of you are Grammarians who look down your noses at people like me.  I actually majored in English, by the way.  I just choose to create my own slanguage, which is a mixture of things that my friends and I have thought up over time.  I’d rather be fun than correct.

And yes, I can turn it off when the situation calls for it.  In the middle of a business meeting, you won’t even hear me use "like" and "all" as verbs, let alone walk into the room screaming, "what’s up in this beyotch?".

Anyway, chime in so I don’t feel so alone, mmmmkay?

Stuffing Your Stocking With Kisses,
Me

Posted in Silly Hilly | Comments (29)

29 Responses to “You’re Never Fully Dressed Without Some Slang!”

  1. kilax Says:
    December 19th, 2007 at 6:57 pm

    Steven and I have a whole vocabulary of made of words, and a special way of pronouncing words to make each other laugh. YOU ARE NOT ALONE! :)

  2. Bre Says:
    December 19th, 2007 at 7:12 pm

    I say “ah” (as in apple) instead of a (like uh) when I’m talking about singular things. “Can I borrow AH pen?”

    It’s weird.

    Also, I assign an awful lot of nicknames to folks based on the way their names sound.

  3. Hilly Says:
    December 19th, 2007 at 8:10 pm

    Kim: Haha, yes. I think only certain people understand me at times :).

    Bre: Yes! I constantly make up nicknames and pronounce people’s names all differently!

  4. diane Says:
    December 19th, 2007 at 8:27 pm

    “Foolio Iglesias”?
    HA HA! I almost fell off my chair laughing at that one.
    I know I have my own slangs, and I have a Master’s in English. I can’t think of too many…except I picked up a friend’s habit of saying “lurve” or “louve” when I mean love in the more generalized sense…as in, “I lurve Hilly’s pretty lipgloss!”
    I have funny ways of saying button and mitten where I splice the word apart at the t’s so it sounds like “But-tahn” and “Mit-tehn”.

  5. Kevin Says:
    December 19th, 2007 at 8:33 pm

    No, you are not alone in this type of behavior. For instance, snackiepoo is a common used term around our house. Go figure.
    Perhaps you should start a club? Where do I join?

  6. Denise Says:
    December 19th, 2007 at 8:44 pm

    When I talk with Mick and/or the cats (SHUT UP…my husband is stationed in Japan and yes, I talk to the cats!), I substitute silly words for real ones all the time. For instance, I call the ugly-a@@ uniform Mick wears when they’re out to sea the “Uncle Elmer” because it reminds me of something your Uncle Elmer who is retired and living in Florida would wear. I don’t call them cat treats, they’re kitty crunchies. I have to be serious when I’m at work, so I have as much fun as possible at home.

  7. Hilly Says:
    December 19th, 2007 at 9:07 pm

    Diane: Foolio Iglesias and Ricky Retardo are probably two of my favorite things to say. And so no one gets mad, I call my cat Ricky Retardo more than anyone else :). I can’t wait to meet you and make you say button!

    Kevin: Right here! Club coming soon :). And you know, snackiepoo was born out of me talking about snackie’s and carrying Snack Well cookies in my purse all of the time!

    Denise: As I said to Diane above, I always talk to my cat AND never call him by FC…it’s always epseedoodle or smoopie “C”. So yeah, I get it!

  8. Lauren Says:
    December 19th, 2007 at 9:47 pm

    this postist with the mostist was simply splendiferous.

  9. Erin Says:
    December 19th, 2007 at 10:15 pm

    I see nothing wrong with coming up with your own slanguage!! But shenanigans?? Like, how would that even come into conversation in the first place?? LOL.

  10. Kentucky Girl Says:
    December 20th, 2007 at 2:08 am

    Heh. You know, I WRITE like that on my blog…like, that is how I talk and stuff so like when I’m typing it just sort of comes out, too. Even the “heh”s and the “squeeeeeeeee”s…seriously. Like a nerd and all.

  11. RW Says:
    December 20th, 2007 at 4:12 am

    I cain’t tink of anything right off handed.

  12. tori Says:
    December 20th, 2007 at 6:04 am

    While I was knitting, I ALWAYS called it my sweatah but in a long drawn out way too. It cracked my kids up so much that we started adding the ah to the ends of other words too.

    I also have a hundred billion nicknames for each of my kids that somehow each of them knows when I am talking to them. I almost never use their actual name in real life, I usually use one of the crazy made up nicknames.

    I also rename street names. Or finish the names. There is a street by the hospital called Potter, and I ALWAYS call it Harry Potter road. By my old house there is a street called Rollins, which I ALWAYS called Henry Rollins. Maybe the lesson here for everyone is that I just talk too much and name things too many things.

  13. Kyra Says:
    December 20th, 2007 at 6:43 am

    I get a sort of weird brittish/aussie accent on some words. Sort of comes out of nowhere… I pick up accents like crazy, it drives me bonkers. And then they don’t just “leave”, they attach to certain words and I can never shake them again. If I really do become a world traveler I’ll start sounding really bizarre.

  14. Avitable Says:
    December 20th, 2007 at 6:48 am

    My wife and I say “FYU” instead of “FYI”, and I usually say “See you later, crocodile”. Not quite the same thing, though.

  15. Dagny Says:
    December 20th, 2007 at 6:56 am

    What? Calling cats by other names? Natasha will always be Natasha or Tash. Boris on the other hand is frequently called Bobo or more currently Boba Fett.

    And I love Lauren’s use of splendiferous as I am known to use that word. But my favorite phrase probably has to be “Great guggamugga!” I use it in place of things like “goodness gracious.” Sometimes I say it just to make Jade laugh.

    Oh, I minored in English. When I taught middle school English, I stressed grammar. By the end of each year, the students would often say, “There’s a time and a place.”

  16. Bully Says:
    December 20th, 2007 at 7:29 am

    I say “buttah”, since the movie Cousins….but there have bene lots of examples in movies etc since then! “Soft as buttah!” you know…

    Funny how we pick up a way of saying something. I say a slightly musical,”sonnova-B*TCH!” like my dad used to, or “How’dja like that?” Mmm.

    My mother has picked up somehow the word, “Evidentally”, and uses it in just about every other sentence when making (or trying to make) a point. It’s annoying, yes.What’s worse, is when I start saying it too! LOL.

  17. Atomic Bombshell Says:
    December 20th, 2007 at 8:33 am

    Oh good heavens, no, you’re far from alone in this. I butcher the English language every chance I get.

  18. Miss Britt Says:
    December 20th, 2007 at 9:27 am

    I make up words all the time.

    Of course, I can’t think of a single one now.

    But I swear I do!

  19. MB Says:
    December 20th, 2007 at 9:36 am

    Hey Sistah - you would fit right in with your “ah” for “r’s” here in Beantown. We religously butcher the English language but it sounds oh so fake when you hear it on tv (even from Boston natives like Matt and Ben). So come for a visit and we’ll show you how to paaahk your caah.

  20. Jeff Says:
    December 20th, 2007 at 9:47 am

    One I picked up from Karl and can’t get rid of (much like something else I picked up from him, but that’s our little secret) is the word “presactly” instead of “exactly.”

    Thanks Karl. Like I need another reason for people think I’m odd.

  21. Aunt Robin Says:
    December 20th, 2007 at 9:57 am

    Me? Slang?

    Ya, you betcha, eh! But, eet’s always worse first tink in da mornik.

  22. y not i Says:
    December 20th, 2007 at 10:56 am

    Not an English major, but I am a grammarian (I will bust your ass for using “all intensive purposes”). That said, I too have a slanguage for the same reason. After all, why should something be ‘great’ when it can be ‘fantabulous’?

  23. Rick Says:
    December 20th, 2007 at 11:23 am

    Humidity = human-titty
    mustard = mouse turd
    My dog reads pee-mail.
    I’m sure there are more.

  24. metalmom Says:
    December 20th, 2007 at 2:37 pm

    In a ‘certain’ chatroom we use “mutha freka”

    yeah, I’m a dork. I do stuff like that all the time!

  25. Shannon Says:
    December 20th, 2007 at 3:41 pm

    So glad I came across your blog :) You had me rolling on the floor with this one!

  26. Lisa Says:
    December 20th, 2007 at 5:07 pm

    I do it all the time! Foolio Iglesias is great. You’re crackin me up sistah!

  27. Sizz Says:
    December 20th, 2007 at 6:42 pm

    i am so using that foolio iglesias thing. that cracked me up! (just like i cracked my head!)

  28. looneymoth Says:
    December 24th, 2007 at 4:03 am

    All the “buttah”s and “sweatah”s sound right to me, since I’m an Aussie and we don’t stress “R”s like you ‘Mericans.

    I usually pronounce “Target” (the chain store) as “Tar-zhay” - someone asked me last week if I realised I was saying it wrong, but it’s too hard to explain…

  29. Barb Says:
    December 25th, 2007 at 6:42 pm

    foolio iglesias - that is funny.

    We get our slang from the show Kath & Kim, not sure if you have seen it

    gropable instead of ropable
    up to pussy’s bow - full of food I think

    and we also call furniture in our house after the people we bought it from eg the David Saunders cupboard or “look on the Jenni Rolf”

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