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:
Cleveland
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some of this stuff are things only tha white ppl say...
Walk Prospect
This could get you in trouble
The Jake
Jacobs Field
**** Man's Curve
Dangerous section of I-90
The Flats
A buncha bars and stuff near downtown
Mistake on the Lake
Say this here and you'll get a punch in the nose!!!
Go to Hell Modell
Unliked local
**** Dee
Local paper Cleveland's Plain Dealer
oh here I added some of my own...
Down Tha Way...an area in Cleveland and also a dance native to Ohio
Tower City...a place downtown that everyone chills at...
Back coming up in the Ville we used to say "I'm mad at that. . . ", which meant more like, "That's surprising". . .Folks up here would think I really was mad
How Awe Ya?
Typical greeting
Go to Jersey
An insult
Da Gawdfadda
Someone you respect and do not cross
Turdy Turdin' Lex
33rd street and Lexington Avenue
Washda Closendaws :arrow: You see the doors closing, if you that dumb you deserve to get caught between them >>> Wachda Dawz
Warning heard on the subways
Less Order a Pie :arrow: ...NO pie... Peetza
I would like to order a pizza
BQE
Brooklyn Queens Expressway
L Eye E
Long Island Expressway
Hawbuh :arrow: or Sout Street SeePawt
Water between Manhattan and Brooklyn
Huh
Opposite of him (Heard on "My Cousin Vinny"
New Yawk
Where we be at
Long GUY Len
Long Island
Terl It :arrow: NO... TOY Let
Toilet
Chalk Lit
Opposite of vanilla
Earl :arrow: WRONG!!! It's AWLL & Vinnega
Mixed with vinegar on salads
Yonkiz and Yonkuz
People from Yonkers
Dawta
Not my son
Cawna Fish Treet
At the corner of fifth street
Hawt Dawg Awe da Way :arrow: NO...Hot Dawg Wit Evvrything
Hotdog with chili, onions & mustard
Da Bronze :arrow: NO ... Da BronKs... sheesh
Only NYC borough that begins with a "D"
Stat Nigh Lynn :arrow: Nah, it's Stat'n NighLyn
Staten Island
Pawta Crappa :arrow: WRONG ...it's Pawtta ****... Who sez Crapper?
Outside convenience toilets
Dah Boat a Yews
The both of you
Hero
Sub sandwich to most (Hoagie in Philly)
Toy Teen :arrow: NOPE WRONG!!! It's DurrTeen
One less than fourteen
Mudder :arrow: They Forgot about Bruddah, AWNT, and UnKoo
Married your fodder
Yo if you asK me who ever got this info wasddealin strictly with them Italian cats, this mess sounds straight out of an episode of Soprano's :?
But at least you get the piKcha :wink:
Back coming up in the Ville we used to say "I'm mad at that. . . ", which meant more like, "That's surprising". . .Folks up here would think I really was mad
i thought everyone has picked up on that (saying that)...
i know i was KILLin it @ one point...
I went to the site and looked up my hometown...that ATL...but man all those words we dont even say...i say like 1/4 is right but the rest i was like...confused...i was like i never heard this before..maybe other ppl in Atlanta say it but not ppl i know. And some of the words were right the meaning was off. Here are words we stay down South
Skreet- same as street
Aight- alright
shawty or shawty man
Gawga- Georgia
Coke - thats any soda not just coca cola
da ATL/A-town/Hotlanta- all names for Atlanta
Fixin to - in the process of doing something/ or gettin ready to do it
Its more I can't think of that I say everday...its sad i know...smh.. ..if ya know them...just add-1LUV
Just throwin' in a few cuz... I feel liKe it
Cawnna staw :arrow: Corner Store, or Bodega... whatever
BobbaShop :arrow: Barber shop
Most words ending with "BLE" are usually replaced with "BOO"
eX: Table...Tayboo
Homee Down :arrow: Hold me down, meaning let me hold that till... or let me borrow that
Ho'd :arrow: the word Hold, but someway or anutha the L is silent
Thoat :arrow: Idunno how but when it's said you realize they are meaning your Throat
New York
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Pizza Paula
Everyone outside of Brooklyn says "Pizza Parlor"-Dey aint NEVA LIED!!!
New Queen of Mean- I neva hurd this :?
Shockey -This edder
How Awe Ya? -THIS sounds more like JERSEY accents
DUMBO-*shrugs*
Straphangers- :?
Go to Jersey-We say this when nigas start complainin
Da Gawdfadda - FUGGEDABOUTTIT :lol:
Cruise da duce-42nd STREET!!!!!!
Good Sense a Yuma-This is TRUEE
Whadaya Whadaya? -this them Italians when u finna get SLAPPED!
Washda Closendaws-Watch the Closing Doors (subway)
Poppy Wit a Shmear _ i neva say this but i hurd it b4
Poppy-seed bagel with cream cheese
Less Order a Pie -Pizza Order
BQE _BROOKLYN QUEENS EXPRESSWAY....DUH!
L Eye E -Long Island Jump off
Hawbuh- The Harbor :lol:
Long GUY Len - Long Island
Terl It -this is DOWN SOUF....(toilet)
Chalk Lit-chocolate
Yonkiz and Yonkuz -lol....Yonkers NY...upstate :lol: :lol:
Dawta - daughter
Da Bronze - da BRONX!!!!
Stat Nigh Lynn -Staten Island :lol:
Hero-Sub sandwich
Toy Teen -13 :lol:
Mudder -mother :lol:
...okkkkkkk....do I REALLY sound like this???...I think I say SOME of these words...I gotta HELLAWARE accent now :?
..if ya know them...just add-1LUV
