"New" slang that makes me laugh...

[JEDIpartner]

Why is someone that you are dating or keen on called "shorty"? Whenever I hear that I think the person is a midget or something... maybe even a jawa. :rolleyes:

The other word is "Peeps". Whenever I hear THAT one, I think of those Easter marshmallow chicks.

So here I am in my car, listening to the radio...

"Shorty you're my angel. You're my darlin' baby. Closer than my Peeps you are to me..."

I picture a guy with a jawa stuck to him, surrounded by a ring of those candies...

Just plain insane. :crazed:

[LTBasker]

LOL, I know what song that is. :D

I dunno what's with the short thing, I guess since he's talking about a girl... As for the peeps thing, I'd guess it's just a spin-off of people. ;)

If you want to hear some very odd slang, learn leet/1337 speak. It's quite odd...

[JEDIpartner]

Yes... I know about the "peeps" thing... but it sounds hysterical to me...

I've heard "shorty" used for both male and female...

what is "leet/1337"?

[Forhekset]

Hrm, I thought a "shorty" was your kid, and the person you were keen on was your "boo". Like, "My boo be havin' my shorty" or something like that. :D I'm not really up on my urban street slang....

L33t/l337-speak is the slang that "elite hackers" aka l337 h4x0r5, aka "script kiddies" use. And in case you don't know, a script kiddy is some bonehead who knows how to perform a really common, not difficult to pull off attack, such as a simple DoS (denial of service), and goes around proclaiming his "eliteness" to the entire Internet (ever been on IRC?). Hence, elite-speak (l337-speak). :) It's basically just substituting numbers and other non-alphabetical characters in your words...pretty stupid really.

[Jason B]

where did l337 come from? is it one of the T teams in CS? or is that a coincidence? :confused:

[JEDIpartner]

gotcha!

[Mandalorian Candidat]

I've had enough with all this slang.

Now, if you'll excuse me I have to drive my hoopty to my crib for a 40, a'ight!. ;)

[JetsAndHeels]

I have never heard of leet/1337, but I have heard of Blink 182!!
And JediPartnr, that song is funny. I think it is by Shaggy if I am not mistaken. I like the 80's version of that song better because you can actually understand the meaning.
Well I will catch all yall dawgs on the flipside yo!!
Peace out home skillet!!

[mabudonicus]

The funniest thing I've noticed is how, when a word gets turned into "slang", with the commensurate new meaning and so on, it invariably is the opposite to what the first meaning was.
e.g. Bad=Good, Mad=Lots/Great, Bomb=good (When I say something was a bomb, it don't mean good) Dope= Right on!! (used to mean a dummy, so to me it seems just like saying "that's stupid, man")
I just don't get it- I mean, english is weird enough as it is, right?? Why do kids have to keep rewriting it??
It was bad enough when , as a young lad, my friends and I totally devalued the word "awesome" by applying it to stuff like new chocolate bars etc. Maybe this new, opposite slang is the only way the youth can go, since we already took all the words for "great" and "lots/many/large" and made them into silly clichees.
Sorry kids, we didn't know what we were doing either (although it started to come clear once, for "freshness" sake, we started using the word "mega" for EVERYTHING)
WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[scruffziller]

It's ebonics homes!!!!!!!!!!! No' slang.

[SWAFMAN]

Can you imagine someone saying "Word to your Mother!" to you 30 years ago?
Them's fightin' words, as far as I'm concerned.

I tend to just ignore the "new" slang words as symbols of ignorance and general decline of our society, but the one trend in recent years that I really picked up on myself is the typing shortcuts that have become so commonplace with all the internet chat we all do these days.

things like ignoring capitalization, using 'prolly' for probably, 'dunno' for I don't know, 'sorta' for sort of, 'IMHO' 'BRB' 'CUL8R' 'MTFBWY' and all the others.....

I have always prided myself on at least attempting to use proper spelling and grammar. But something has changed (evolved?) in my standards when I'm posting here, and in my other informal internet correspondence.


BTW, if you haven't already noticed, start listening to how often the word 'Actually' is used by people.
It must be the most overused word in the English language.



(mabudon, that was NOT intended as a dig to you, personally!)

[mabudonicus]

Actually, I usually speak in colloquialisms, like I pronounce "gotta" like that, and will reply with no more than "dunno" as written, so I will usually type them out the way I'd say em (see- I say that too) On the net, IMHO et al. just gives me a few more years till my arthritis gets way too bad. At least it's generally the phrase I mean, and not some crazy sarcasm-although the H is kinda Ironic (note the capital) in some cases.........WOOOOOOOOO!!!
I thought the H meant "HUGE" :)

[Mandalorian Candidat]

Originally posted by scruffziller
It's ebonics homes!!!!!!!!!!!

Is that where they'll put Snoop Dog when he's old? In a ebonics home?

[LTBasker]

Leet speak was mostly made so that illegal operations could take place over the internet and buffers wouldn't pick it up. Letters would be replaced by numbers and symbols that look like the letters. 1337 = Leet, 1=L 3=E and 7=T.

Mostly used also now to disguise the fact that alot of gamers on gaming and editing boards burst type before they think. :rolleyes: :D

[stormie]

I use kinda, sorta, hecka/hella, gotta, etc. all the time...and get laughed at by anyone east of California. Might be a definite regional thing...or maybe I'm just kinda lazy. :D

Favorite slang term? "Bling-bling." Just has a certain ring to it. ;)

[Lowly Bantha Cleaner]

Originally posted by Mandalorian Candidat
I've had enough with all this slang.

Now, if you'll excuse me I have to drive my hoopty to my crib for a 40, a'ight!. ;)

Word up homes. That s**t is whack! Don't mind if I chill with ya? We'll be sippin' some mad dog, talkin' bout fine a@@ women with their fine a@@ ghetto booties. Dam skippy my man.


Peace out dawg:p

In all seriousness, as you can see I don't hesitate to incorporate slang in my vocabulary. Well the one's that I understand at least. And while some of terms might be inappropriate, the majority of the stuff I think is pretty harmless. If you don't overuse the words, as long as you leave them out during the job interviews and off the resumes, and as long as you don't offend anyone (know your audience), it's all good :cool:

[Master Goeweins]

This thread is so wizard!

[LTBasker]

I agree, totally gonzo!

[Forhekset]

Originally posted by stormie
I use kinda, sorta, hecka/hella, gotta, etc. all the time...and get laughed at by anyone east of California. Might be a definite regional thing...or maybe I'm just kinda lazy. :D

Favorite slang term? "Bling-bling." Just has a certain ring to it. ;)

Sorry, I just couldn't resist...I whipped these up in Photoshop real quick.

[Forhekset]

Bling bling!

[Forhekset]

Bling bling! again

[Forhekset]

Bling bling! yet again

[Mandalorian Candidat]

OK, now I have to get onto my square white man soap box and ask, What the hell does bling bling mean? It sounds like what you get from a one-armed bandit in Vegas.

[Forhekset]

Originally posted by Mandalorian Candidat
OK, now I have to get onto my square white man soap box and ask, What the hell does bling bling mean? It sounds like what you get from a one-armed bandit in Vegas.

I think it's just something you say when you're a homie. Or, more specifically, when you're a white guy from the suburbs who thinks he's a homie. :rolleyes:

[stormie]

Bling bling refers (I believe) to expensive or flashy stuff; be it jewelry (gold chains), a fly set of wheels, or maybe even a carded Vlix! :D

Forhekset's pic #3 is probably the best one to illustrate the term...though they're all classic! ;)

[mabudonicus]

I'm touched that you edited your post just for mabudon :) I actually(like THAT :) I know exactly what you mean) wasn't defending myself from your statement, it just made me think.
I mean, some slang seems pretty silly, but it can be sort of "contagious". I seem to pick up additions to the lexicon from almost EVERYWHERE. You know, little phrases from stuff like Kung Fu films- Example -I can't seem to stop referring to things that went horribly wrong as someone's "failure at the cave". That is slang just as much as "bling bling", in a way, only it is a VERY regional dialect (as in between people I know well enough). To someone else, it probably sounds ridiculous, or meaningless at the very least (unless you're a SW fan!)
BTW- I think bling-bling refers to that sound they play on TV when you see diamonds or gold sparkling. Just an idea, but it makes sense, as that's the word I use for that SE.

[Forhekset]

Originally posted by stormie
Bling bling refers (I believe) to expensive or flashy stuff; be it jewelry (gold chains), a fly set of wheels, or maybe even a carded Vlix! :D

Forhekset's pic #3 is probably the best one to illustrate the term...though they're all classic! ;)

Actually, I got the two pics of the blonde-haired guy off a crappy-looking website called "Mr. Bling-Bling's Ca$h Money Page". :D No kidding.

Here's some highlights from his site:

"I'm Allen representin' tha A-Town projects. People call me all different things, but mainly: BiG SeXy ~ Stunna ~ Mr. Bling Bling ~ H-Bomb ~ A-Dawg ~ GQ...."

"**Bling Bling**"

"Don't try tah baller block me aight. Peace...."

[JediTricks]

Originally posted by Master Goeweins
This thread is so wizard!

Originally posted by LTBasker
I agree, totally gonzo!
Both of these slang terms used (or cut from, but intended to be) in SW are from the 1940s and '50s.

Slang evolves faster than actual language because slang is contingent upon which group at that moment finds it "cool" - if you'll pardon my use of slang ;) :D - slang is mostly faddish, though some uses have been incorporated into the actual language over time. Where "dope" used to carry a negative connotation 40 years ago because it was a reference to drugs of all kinds, 40 years before that it referred to sauce and gravy, and now it reflects more of the latter than the former since the former fell out of popular fashion as a reference to drugs (beyond marijuana, which is somewhat of a different issue) over the last 30 years.

[2-1B]

Straight up JT, that post was dope!
Tonight I'm having some noodles and dope with my grandmother, and then we're gonna smoke some dope.

Later peeps,
:stupid:

[Jedi Juice]

How's about:

Make Um Say Ugh!: Master P
Whoadie: 504 Boyz
Ooh Wee: Master P
Bling Bling: BG
We On Fire: Hot Boys
We got this on lock: Juvenile
Fo Shizzle ma Nizzle or Fo Sheezy ma Neezy: Lil Wayne
Drop It Like It's Hot: Lil Wayne
Numba 1 Stunna: Big Tymers
Get Your Roll On: Big Tymers

This is current slang in rap songs and listed is who originated the slang.

Haha. Cash Money's website used to have a slang chart on what each word or phrase meant, but they took it off their site. Oh well, have fun.

[Forhekset]

I have a question for you. Why is everyone nowadays called "Lil" this and "Lil" that? Now I even have to see commercials on TV for some movie starring "Lil" Hoodlum, I mean Bow-wow. :rolleyes:


Originally posted by Jedi Juice
How's about:

Make Um Say Ugh!: Master P
Whoadie: 504 Boyz
Ooh Wee: Master P
Bling Bling: BG
We On Fire: Hot Boys
We got this on lock: Juvenile
Fo Shizzle ma Nizzle or Fo Sheezy ma Neezy: Lil Wayne
Drop It Like It's Hot: Lil Wayne
Numba 1 Stunna: Big Tymers
Get Your Roll On: Big Tymers

This is current slang in rap songs and listed is who originated the slang.

Haha. Cash Money's website used to have a slang chart on what each word or phrase meant, but they took it off their site. Oh well, have fun.

[JediTricks]

"Lil" has been around for about 80 years I believe, it's short for "little". I can't imagine why someone would WANT to be known as being little, but to each, his own.

[JEDIpartner]

Yo, yo, YO! We gonna bum rush da bowling alley... G!

What the heck is THAT??? :confused:

[JediTricks]

You've never heard of bum-rush or "the bum's rush"? It's when you force your way through, into, or out of something very quickly; "the bum's rush" is a pretty old term (yup, it's "old school" :D), it's a "forcible and swift ejection from a place" (like when someone throws a homeless guy out of their restaurant right when da bum walks in the door).

"G" is short for "gangster", which I hope you don't need an explanation for. ;)

[Forhekset]

Yeah I understood what "Lil" was supposed to mean, just not sure what the big deal about it is with the rap names. :p

[JediTricks]

They're teeny-tiny and want you to know it, G-money! ;)

[Forhekset]

Bling bling!

[RooJay]

Originally posted by SWAFMAN
...the one trend in recent years that I really picked up on myself is the typing shortcuts that have become so commonplace with all the internet chat we all do these days.

things like ignoring capitalization, using 'prolly' for probably, 'dunno' for I don't know, 'sorta' for sort of, 'IMHO' 'BRB' 'CUL8R' 'MTFBWY' and all the others.....

I'm with you on that one! It annoys te heck out of me when people online abbreviate words, phrases, and even whole sentences just to avoid having to type them out! That having been said, I'm sure I do it more often than I care to realize! No offense to anyone that does it! ;) It also bugs the crap out of me when people use the word "of" in place of "have"; as in, "It must of been.". Same thing with "prolly" in place of "probably", and when people use the word "irregardless" which a lot of people seem to think means the opposite of what it would actually mean IF it were a real word. I guess that's kind of bad since some people just don't realize they're doing it, but I've always thought it was pretty hilarious! Again, no offense to anyone who does this!:happy:

[RooJay]

It also drives me nuts when people purposely mis-spell words to make them...cooler I guess (?!). Like when people use the letter "z" in place of "s" as in, "boyz and girlz". What up wit dat yo? Why does every word have to be hip and cool nowadays? Like "sk8r", "thugz", "killa", "playa", and the like.

[JEDIpartner]

I know about the "bum rush" & "G" parts... but I was referring more to the "Bowling Alley" part. I really don't think that anyone who would say "Yo! We gonna bum rush... (something)... G!" would be "bum rushing" a bowling alley! Hahahahahaha :p

THAT'S what was perplexing.

[JediTricks]

OH! You mean incongruities like "we gonna kick it down at da library and then go voting yo!", gotcha. ;)


RooJay, about 10 years ago, there was this tagger out in my neighborhood who was tagging "Menus" on this one gas station. After a few days staring at it, I came to the conclusion that this illiterate was attempting to state that he was a "menace". I concluded that he certainly must have been one... to his teachers. :crazed:

[Jedi Juice]

These new figz is off tha heezy! I'm gonna get myself some new kicks and take a lookin' fo some good cookin'!

(Wow, I didn't know where that came from, just shows you some ebonics talk)

[RooJay]

Originally posted by JediTricks
OH! You mean incongruities like "we gonna kick it down at da library and then go voting yo!", gotcha. ;)


RooJay, about 10 years ago, there was this tagger out in my neighborhood who was tagging "Menus" on this one gas station. After a few days staring at it, I came to the conclusion that this illiterate was attempting to state that he was a "menace". I concluded that he certainly must have been one... to his teachers. :crazed:

I have a similar story; not that it has much to do with slang at all, but it's still amusing.

A couple years ago someone thought it'd be pretty cool to deface this Buddhist shrine in a nearby city by covering it with graphitti in the form of Satanic messages. Just to further prove his/her ignorance he/she sprayed the name "SANTAN" all over the shrine. Yes...SaNtan.:stupid:

[SWAFMAN]

re: saNtan

I hate it when he leaves brimstone in my stocking on x-mas.

[Darth Sidious]

Ah yes...1337 speak....That brings me back. I know that language well. C4n 4ny0n3 3153 5p34k 1337? Y35, 1 9u355 7h3y c4n... H4xX0rz r001z!!!! XD! XD! XD! XD! Jk, I just wanted to do that again...

[JediTricks]

No no RooJay, you misunderstood, they just wanted to share their love of Carlos Santana, but kept running out of paint. :D Here in my part of town these days, the only recognizable word they graphitti is the F-word, as if it was SOOOOOOO shocking. I remember when graphitti used to at least be interesting to look at, now it's just a few quick arm movements with the paint or that stupid glass-etching gel. I'm really sick of that stuff, and those morons don't even realize their word gets lost when the gel drips.

[DeadEye]

What really does "G" mean anyway?


I give this thread MAD PROPS!!!! :rolleyes:

[Jedi Juice]

I think it means "gangsta," but I'm not totally sure on that.

[Jonna]

I have a question: Does the phrase "My Peeps" mean "My People" or is it slightly more clever like "My Women" as in Peeps (the noise) coming from chicks (birds) also meaning Chicks (females)? Or am I just thinking about this to hard? Oooorrrr is it refering to those galationus marshmellow atrocities?

[Jedi Juice]

"My Peeps" refers to "My People." The people who use this slang tend to keep it simple and have rather close words for what they're referring to. Anyway, I hope I didn't undermine you in any way.

[Jonna]

No undermining here! Infact to mining at all. I am just hoping that things are always more clever than they really are.:cry: :cry: :cry:

[DeadEye]

Doubtful. Most people that use slang are anything but clever...

[RooJay]

Most people use slang of some form or another everyday.

[DeadEye]

Yeah, but I don't mean slang like "don't," but stupid slang. G-Thuggz in da Hood, that kind of crap. :stupid:

[Jedi Juice]

OK, no fighting......

[JediTricks]

"don't" is a contraction, not slang. ;)

Slang - (noun) A kind of language occurring chiefly in casual and playful speech, made up typically of short-lived coinages and figures of speech that are deliberately used in place of standard terms for added raciness, humor, irreverence, or other effect.

Contraction - (noun) A word, as won't from will not, or phrase, as o'clock from of the clock, formed by omitting or combining some of the sounds of a longer phrase.


So as you can see here, "don't" is a contraction, but "ain't" is slang! :D :crazed: (ok, it's actually a colloquialism ;))

[DeadEye]

Ok, JT...so what would be "slang" that people use every day? "Ain't" is not a word that an intelligent person would use...unless he's trying to fit in with the "in" crowd of scum and villainy.

Another thing I can't stand is people that use poor grammar and/or can't spell. There are seniors at my school that say "ain't not nothing" and write "your" instead of "you're". That is so annoying! :frus:

[JEDIpartner]

"Tha"

I think that is the funniest looking word in ghetto slang. It looks like it should be pronounced with an "a" sound as in "as" or "that" rather than the "uh" sound. Say it that the next time you see it and the whole phrase becomes completely hilarious!

[DeadEye]

It's scary how often we think the same thing! I agree! :D

[JEDIpartner]

that's my little brother! :)

[DeadEye]

...Taking after his big brother! ;)

[RooJay]

On the contrary, I use "ain't" all the time and I'm plenty intelligent. I don't use it to "fit in" with anybody. Believe it or not it actually IS a word; it has become very much a part of our language. Ain't that weird?!:D

[JediTricks]

Hmm, slang I use in every day conversation... well, I guess profanities don't count. :D "Cool" and "lame" are commonly used in slang terms. That's all I've got right now though.

[SWAFMAN]

for a while, the word "hosed" was getting used in every other sentence at work when something went amiss.

[Hasbro'sBountyHunter]

Well bling bling, word to your mother yo, aiight! This thread be raisin the roof 24/7, 'cause its the s***! Oh, my bad, I mean its da bomb!

Translation: I like this thread. :D

[DeadEye]

So do I.

I be grantin' da mad props to this biyotch!

[RooJay]

Originally posted by DeadEye
Ok, JT...so what would be "slang" that people use every day? "Ain't" is not a word that an intelligent person would use...unless he's trying to fit in with the "in" crowd of scum and villainy.

How about words like: "yeah", "pics", "man", "cool", "darn", "cheesy", "congrats", "anyhoo", and "boney"?

[JediTricks]

I mentioned "cool" in my earlier reply, but I don't use "anyhoo" and "boney" ever so in MY list, they probably wouldn't show. I *suppose* "man" isn't exactly slang since it's being used as the word itself, but yeah ;) those all seem like everyday examples.

[DeadEye]

I've never even heard "boney". What does that mean? :confused:

[RooJay]

I don't really know. I pulled all of those off of some of you recent posts DeadEye! Just to prove a point I did a search of your posts and there they were! Hope ya don't mind much!;) :D

[DeadEye]

Oh yeah...i did say "boney" but not as slang. Someone said Vader in episode 3 would kill with chicken bones...and i said "yeah, that's cheesy," and he said, "Not cheese, bones!" So I said, "Ok, boney."

:happy:

And "Darn" isn't slang...it's just a way to avoid swearing.

[2-1B]

I've noticed the word "suck" being thrown around the forums a lot more lately. :rolleyes:

[Darth Sidious]

Hmm...I just thought of a slang. Whenever somebody is being an annoying jack@$$ or are just being stupid or perverts in general, they are pulling a jingofett! I think this term is appropriate for those kinds of people. :D

[scruffziller]

Originally posted by Mandalorian Candidat


Is that where they'll put Snoop Dog when he's old? In a ebonics home?
Don't think it will be labled as such, because they are all ebonics homes, HOMES!!!!