Thread "Funny, stupid words and things specific to your country, region whatever...?" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 10:07PM, Jul. 25, 2009

in indiana area (ohio, kentucky) they pronounce wa words with an r in them.

such as wash=war-sh
wabash=war-bash

and others i prolly think are universal but not.

Posted at 12:07AM, Jul. 26, 2009

lol!

Well here "pissed" is what you are when you're dunk. And "piss" is another term for beer. If you've ever drunk Aussie beer you'll know why. -_-

"Root" and "rooting" are terms for f**k and "f**king. But when you're really tired after work, you might say "bloody hell, I'm rooted mate!"

When I was little, if something was really cool we'd say "Mint!" and if it was even cooler than that, we'd say "mint OX!". I have no idea where that comes from.

Posted at 3:07AM, Jul. 26, 2009

That is amazingly hilarious!

Thanks. But there's also the telephone "ring" names:
Kring-Kring
Karing
Katring
Charing
Patring
Pedring
Puring

lol!

Posted at 5:07AM, Jul. 26, 2009

Wait, I do have one: Leaf Peeper.
It's someone who visits in the fall to drive aound looking at leaves. It's a pretty funny term when you think about it. Leaf peeper. How would someone react if you actually walked up and accused them of leaf peeping?

Posted at 10:07AM, Jul. 26, 2009

That is amazingly hilarious!

Thanks. But there's also the telephone "ring" names:

americans do that for all asians…we have decided that if you're asian, your name ends with an "ing". or just "ng"

"ching chong ping pong ding dong?"

Posted at 10:07AM, Jul. 26, 2009

americans do that for all asians

That's a little sad… :(

But I did know a couple of people called "Ng". Vietnamese I think.

Posted at 10:07AM, Jul. 26, 2009

in western NY we refer to any fizzy sugary drink such as pepsi, coke, etc. as POP. it often confuses people from other parts of the united states since they call it soda.

Posted at 11:07AM, Jul. 26, 2009

Here's some Trenton stuff,

-Everything disliked is 'Dirt' or 'Dirty'. Mostly used by teenagers.
-'I seen that' is very common.
-They say 'Meer' when saying 'Mirror'
-'Eating' must always be replaced with 'Chompin'' or 'Munchin''
-Nearly every person in their High School years, sans me and my siblings being foreigners, does drugs.
-Doing any form of drug is 'doing session' or something like that.
-Crap grammar defines your average Trentonian.
-'Win' rhymes with 'when'
-'Somewheres' and 'Nowheres' is commonly used aswell.
-Everyone, except my family being foreigners, is fat.
-Everyone, once again excluding us due to being foreigners, is Racist against everything that isn't a white man.
-Other than 'dirt', 'gay' is used to describe everything disliked. Mostly used by teenagers aswell. According to Trenonians, everything they don't like is happy. Never got why the word 'Gay' is associated with 'Homosexual'…
-Video Gaming Trentonians yell at the TV screen that the game was 'glitching out' or something like that if they get killed in any form of game.
-Video Gaming Trentonians also laugh in high pitches and yell 'DID YOU SEE THAT?!' everytime they get a headshot. Really. Even louder at FOUR IN THE BLOODY MORNING.
-They seem to think that being 'Sick' is a good thing. As in 'That was sick!'.

Most of this is people my age. I can't keep up with my own generation.

I'm not sure if this happens in other countries, but a lot of people actually say things like "L-O-L", "O-M-G", and "PWNED" (Which they actually pronounce PONED). Oh, and "nOOb". D:

Hey, they do that here too!

Posted at 5:07PM, Jul. 26, 2009

A few I know from where I've been (California to New Jersey)

1. Rice
-Any vehicle done up in body kits, tail wings looking like they came off a Boeing-747, large exhaust pipe (see "Fart Can" ), underlighting kits, and basically looks like Pokemon vomit

2. Ricer
-The person who drives said car

3. Far Can / Cherry Bomb
-An exhaust, usually the size of a Folgers can, which is more than too large and sounds like a car farting as it revs…usually seen on 4cyl vehicles

4. Guido
-A stereotypical Italian who wears lots of gold jewelry, has slicked back hair, and tries to be more sexy than he or she really is

5. Chug
-Drink something excessively fast

6. Poe Poe
-A cop or police car (IE "There's the poe poe!" )

7. One Time
-A police car, regardless of the number of occupants, being driven down the road

8. Himmed Up
-Wearing your gang colors or colors of your crew (see "crew" )

9. Crew
-The friends or associates your hang out with

10. Wigger
-A white person attempting to act like a stereotypical black person deep seated in the gang subculture (IE Vanilla Ice's original image)

11. Nick Knacks
-Useless items used to decorate your house

12. Blinker
-Your turn signal

13. Ghetto Bird
-A police helicopter

Posted at 5:07AM, Jul. 27, 2009

Jersey Bird, Jersey Salute, Jersey wave: The extended middle finger.

Left lane Dick, rolling roadblock, incourteous Richard: Someone who drives the speed limit or less in the left hand lane. In New Jersey it is keep right except to pass! (For you Brits that's keep left except to overtake) Anyone who forgets that and tries to enforce the speed limit by blocking the left lane.

Jughandle: A loop around on the right side of the road to let you make a left turn through a light.

Suicide lane: A third lane in the middle of a road for left turns in either direction that is not at an intersection.

A clarification: gweedette is a female guido. They have BIG hair and talk in butchered Brooklynese (dis, dat, dese and doe) Their clothes are always too tight and in garish colors or they wear garishly colored sweats.

East or west bumfuck: the middle of nowhere. Usually used by North Jersey Benni to describe any town south of Monmouth County. More commonly parking very far away from where your intended destination. "I went to the mall/shore and I ended up parking in East bumfuck!"

Posted at 8:07AM, Jul. 27, 2009

England has the oddest words ever. Especially the young people in London.

Minger: Ugly
Baffed: Confused
Bere: as in, lots, to be used like this 'There are bere mingers round that area'
Ends: Area
Peng: Good, as in 'That film was bere peng'
Creps: Trainers
Cushty: Good, fine
Allow it: Forget it (You mean that film's not on, aw, allow it, man.'
Blud/Bruv: Friend
'Ave it!: Go for it
Blates: Obvious, blatant
Innit: Isn't it. To be used after every sentence. 'We gonna go down them ends innit.'
Rah-tid: What the hell
Mandem, Boydem, Galdem: Man, girl, boy
Youngaz: Younger people
Oldaz: Older people
Wass gwannin: What's going on, what's up

Don't even get me started on Cockney Rhyming slang. D:

Posted at 3:07AM, Jul. 28, 2009

12. Blinker
-Your turn signal

that's what we say in Australia. It makes sense in my opinion, your "turn signal" blinks doesn't it?

Posted at 3:07AM, Jul. 28, 2009

England has the oddest words ever. Especially the young people in London.

lol! I've heard that stuff called "Ja-fakin" :)

Don't even get me started on Cockney Rhyming slang. D:

What shits me is when fellow Aussies claim that rhyming slang is "typically Australian". No it bloody isn't, it's all taken from the poms and probably not even that long ago either! (they'd like to crap on about convict times…) It probably all came over with the later waves of immigration in the 50's and 60's.

12. Blinker
-Your turn signal
that's what we say in Australia. It makes sense in my opinion, your "turn signal" blinks doesn't it?

Some people call it that… I call it an indicator.

Posted at 7:07AM, Jul. 28, 2009

It's hard to know what words in your language are weird without having somebody from another country to bounce them off of. But apparently it's a bit strange that Americans call petroleum "gas".

In other places it's "fuel" or "petrol", but we call it "gas" (short for gasoline).

Posted at 8:07AM, Jul. 28, 2009

England has the oddest words ever. Especially the young people in London.

Minger: Ugly
Baffed: Confused
Bere: as in, lots, to be used like this 'There are bere mingers round that area'
Ends: Area
Peng: Good, as in 'That film was bere peng'
Creps: Trainers
Cushty: Good, fine
Allow it: Forget it (You mean that film's not on, aw, allow it, man.'
Blud/Bruv: Friend
'Ave it!: Go for it
Blates: Obvious, blatant
Innit: Isn't it. To be used after every sentence. 'We gonna go down them ends innit.'
Rah-tid: What the hell
Mandem, Boydem, Galdem: Man, girl, boy
Youngaz: Younger people
Oldaz: Older people
Wass gwannin: What's going on, what's up

Don't even get me started on Cockney Rhyming slang. D:

When I first read those words, I was thinking 'My goodness, what a ridiculous lexicon,' but then I realised that I use most of those in my everyday language.

Posted at 9:07PM, Jul. 28, 2009

some people call Subway sandwiches subs or hoagies or heroes, but I just call them sandwiches.

I'm from New England, where we speak the purest, most pristine form of English.
our slang:

Yacht: our boat
Mansion: the summer cottage
Chauffeur: Ralph
J. Crew: standard uniform

oh here is a legit one:
Housie: Housatonic river? (pronounced whoo-zie, not house-ey, a mistake I made as well)

we call blinkers blinkers too; turn signal's too vague! (it can be a hand motion…)

Oh and some people around here pronounce horror funny– instead of saying like "WHORE-er" they say "hah-ruh". "hah-ruh-bull" instead of "WHOREible." My mom pronounces hero "heh-ro" instead of "hee-ro."

Another thing, we swallow our t's sometimes– Latin, for instance, is "La-in" and Shelton, my lovely hometown, is "Shell-in." (And Huntington is pronounced "honey-ng-tun" although I used to pronounce it like any rational person would (hunting-tun).

Posted at 5:07AM, Jul. 29, 2009

When I first read those words, I was thinking 'My goodness, what a ridiculous lexicon,' but then I realised that I use most of those in my everyday language.

I know. I hate to admit it, but I actually tend to speak like a Cockney chimney sweep. D: I don't even realize I'm doing it.

I have a posh Joanna Lumley voice for when I'm on the phone though XD

Posted at 6:07AM, Jul. 29, 2009

I know. I hate to admit it, but I actually tend to speak like a Cockney chimney sweep. D: I don't even realize I'm doing it.

I have a posh Joanna Lumley voice for when I'm on the phone though XD

Cor Blimey, what an absolutely marvellous linguistic collaboration me old china!

Posted at 10:07AM, Jul. 29, 2009

I'm always getting called out for saying things like 'pants' and 'gas'… everyone knows what I mean, they just like to make fun of me for it.

Posted at 11:07AM, Jul. 29, 2009

Just heard another one:
"Let me take a look-see."

Posted at 2:07PM, Jul. 29, 2009

I have a posh Joanna Lumley voice for when I'm on the phone though XD

PATSY FROM AB FAB?!?!?!

Posted at 11:07PM, Jul. 29, 2009

I'm always getting called out for saying things like 'pants' and 'gas'

Pants and Gas go together amusingly :)

Posted at 1:07AM, Jul. 30, 2009

I'm always getting called out for saying things like 'pants' and 'gas'
Pants and Gas go together amusingly :)

I think you can only put them together if you add refried beans…

Posted at 6:07AM, Jul. 30, 2009

Some people call it that… I call it an indicator.

really? That sounds so American. You don't call round-a-bouts rotaries do you???

Another thing, we swallow our t's sometimes– Latin, for instance, is "La-in" and Shelton, my lovely hometown, is "Shell-in." (And Huntington is pronounced "honey-ng-tun" although I used to pronounce it like any rational person would (hunting-tun).

I sometimes swallow my Ts, although sometimes I pronounce them as Ds. Like "Mittens" I would say "Middens".

Posted at 7:07AM, Jul. 30, 2009

really? That sounds so American. You don't call round-a-bouts rotaries do you???

Of course not!
Eh, I don't think it's American :)
You know, shops like supermarkets, corner shops, bookshops etc are now called "stores" by people here…

People are losing their local vocabulary :(