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:
Lemme add on....
GAH'BAGE- roun here we dont say trash, or gaRbage...we say GAHBBAGE! :lol:
Mova-Mother
Fava-Father
every other word has SON or MAD in it :lol:
dolla-dollar
A hunnit twenny fif-125th street harlem
block pawty-block party
Lemme add on....
GAH'BAGE- roun here we dont say trash, or gaRbage...we say GAHBBAGE! :lol:
Mova-Mother
Fava-Father
every other word has SON or MAD in it :lol:
dolla-dollar
A hunnit twenny fif-125th street harlem
block pawty-block party
see I say some of this....most of the other stuff is str8 lil italy.....but i had to come to NY this weekend, cuz these nuccas at T tryna get myass all countrified and i'm not having it
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:
