i'm workin' on this paper about dialect due later on tonight for my speech phonetics 4 non-majors class....& i ran up on this site...
http://www.slanguage.com/
lol see if ya city's up there....& if u can relate to any of the words or phrases they have up there (& if u don't c ya city, u can maybe look up the next big city near tha one u live or go 2 school in)....
i only picked up on a few of tha phrases for Los Angeles...none of which I've eva used....guess I've been in Raleigh long enough 'cuz i caught onto a lot of those....again, tho, none of which i use...LOL @ "Yenny Kinta" lol - that iz kun-tree fo REAL
& "Beltline"...yea that one's always gotten me too since i came out here...in Cali, it was just "Freeway"...in Raleigh, it's "the Beltline" :roll:
LOL, I checked Houston and New Orleans. A lot of the N.O. slang is correct especially "Da Caught A" for The French Quarter and Make Groceries...but we do that in TX too..lol. The Houston (Bayou City) list was a bit extreme, but Washateria, Do What, and H Town were appropriate.
I've lived in this area for all but three years of my life (Durham, Raleigh, Fayetteville) and I have NEVER heard some of that slang.
Yenny Kinta? Naw, I've heard "who yo people?"
Beltline? Yeah that's a Raleigh thing. Everyone else calls it 440 . . :lol:
Tobacco Road? Basically all of I-40
Some other slang:
Gone Now - Go One Now (as in leave me alone, quit playin)
People - can be used interchangably for family or friends
Folk - refers either to family or people you don't know at all (strange huh?)
Ex: My folk back home (family) or Dem folks out there, crazy (usually when folk shootin at the club)
Random -means when someone does something that defies common sense or stupid
Durhmites - people who grew up in Durham
The Hill - Chidley Hall at NCCU
slouch - a state of being sorry
Washington DC
*A Blank Stare
Typical DC Greeting(ppl dont say hi...so when i came down to NC...i thought ppl were extra friendly)
*The Skins
Beloved football team
*Bean Pie
Local vendors' specialties
*Pottle
Holes in the road your car hits
*The Metro
Excellent underground public transportation (the best transportation eva...especially if u dont drive)
*The Mall
Where the monuments & tourists are
:arrow: Ball Mer
How to truly pronounce our city
:arrow: Merlin
Our state
:arrow: Dug
It bit the cat
:arrow: Pockeybook
Purse to most
I use these sometimes
:arrow: Ball Mer
How to truly pronounce our city
:arrow: Merlin
Our state
:arrow: Dug
It bit the cat
:arrow: Pockeybook
Purse to most
I use these sometimes
