What is your slang?

[Yassen]

Recently, a friend of mine asked me to read a book called Clockwork Orange. I had never heard of the book before although I asked around and apparently the movie is more recognised but that's besides the point.

As i started reading i was dumb-struck at the amount of made-up slang the author used called "nadsat". This is a powerful literacy device designed to distance the reader from Alex, the narrator, to make it seem like the things he did (have a threesome with two drunk 10 year olds etc) seem less horrible.

Some examples of "nadsat" are 'malchick' which means a guy, derived from 'male chick'. 'Droog' is Russian for friend but he uses it anyway as slang.

So the question i ask you all is this, have you made up your own personal slang, what are they and how did you think them up?

 

[Le' Moog]

One of my best mates is from Belarus, so we actually use alot of slang, like "droog", alot of it's swear words, and for all we know he's calling us ungodly things but hey, it sounds cool

much of the slang i use involves scots, i.e foosty (disgusting)

although It changes alot, usually depending on the accent we're mucking about in.

I feel i'm rambling on. I feel indecisive. please tell me to stop

 

[Duck Sandwich]

SMITEAGE! = my slang for "BUUUUURNED!", "OWNED!", etc.
Communist = general nonsensical term used in place of things like "jew," "gay," "(insert minority here)" etc. (ie. "We have a huge project due a week after it's assigned? That's so communist.")

 

[The Reverend]

SMITEAGE! = my slang for "BUUUUURNED!", "OWNED!", etc.
Communist = general nonsensical term used in place of things like "jew," "gay," "(insert minority here)" etc. (ie. "We have a huge project due a week after it's assigned? That's so communist.")

Heh, I use the word "Fascist" like that. Like at work "Dude, you go on the unit." "Bah, making me work, you fascist.." Its all good.

 

[Frybird]

A friend of mine and me are calling each other "Hoschi", as in the german dub of "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure".
I think the correct term in the Original is just "Dude", but since "Hoschi" is made up by the translators and is, to my knowlege, not part of any german slang, it's awesome.

Btw. i use the word awesome in german sentences...a lot.

Also, we have a saying that goes "Das funktioniert nur zu Drei-Vierteln, Hoschi" ("That only works out for three quarters") to point out any sort of flawed plan and/or action

 

[cleverlymadeup]

As i started reading i was dumb-struck at the amount of made-up slang the author used called "nadsat". This is a powerful literacy device designed to distance the reader from Alex, the narrator, to make it seem like the things he did (have a threesome with two drunk 10 year olds etc) seem less horrible.

well it's not much a slang as it is the language they speak, it's a combo of russian and school boy speak. the author actually is a linguist and created the language spoken in the movie quest for fire, desmond morris did the body language of it.

as for the book there are 2 versions, the american which ends in the hospital which the movie is based on and the british version which ends at the korova milk bar. kubrick didn't know about that extra chapter and was rather pissed he didn't know about it, it gives the book a whole different meaning

as for the movie, that scene with the young girls is one of the funniest sex scenes in any movie. they don't portray them as 10 year old girls, just younger women.

 

[Anarchemitis]

"BURNiNATED!"
Or about as usually, "Gotcha!"

 

[Sparkly-elf]

Skanger/Scumbag - term for someone very common
Hippie - someone who likes rock or metal music
Gick'na (pronounced gick-nah) - idiot
Gick - another word for faeces
Bollox - Testicles
Shitehawk (pronounced shite-hawk) - Idiot or asshole
Story horse - Hello
Y'allrigh' - Hello

 

[cleverlymadeup]

Hippie - someone who likes rock or metal music

that one could get you in trouble, hippies and metal don't mix, much like hippies and soap

i'd dare say it could get you beat up in some places, much like going to a man u game wearing a liverpool fc shirt and singing "you'll never walk alone"

 

[cleverlymadeup]

I created 'lol'.

sadly i've run into ppl that say "lol" when they want to laugh

 

[Singing Gremlin]

Mainly spoonerisms adopted from my inebriated brother personally. He came out with "Hanley Manshake" once, which we promptly appropriated. Another time he typoed "Knonk", which we thought was a great word, and strove to think of a meaning for. We settled on 'to headbutt while under the influence'.

 

[Larenxis]

I generally just utilize my vocabulary, but I use a fair amount of slang. Here's a guide.
What?: Nani desuka, wtf mate, what in zombie Jesus, *pardon
Fuck! (I don't really swear): Curses, damnation, curses and damnations, blast, bollocks
Friend: Buddy ol' chum, mate, **babe, dearest
Problem: Sticky wicket, *conundrum, bit of a pickle, dash of trouble
Really?: For ser G (I got this from a friend, it means 'For serious, Gangsta?' I believe.)
Great: Groovy, spiffing, boss, *splendid, bitchin' (got that one from American Graffiti)

*Not actually slang, but I say it so casually and nobody else says it to the extent I included it here.
**Only used in the context of 'thanks babe' which I absorbed from Shaun of the Dead.

 

[ThaBenMan]

I don't really have any slang that I use myself, but one of my good friends and some other guys he knows use these:

Chooch - loser, idiot, moron, etc.

Weeb'em - (pronounced "wee-um" - they heard some crazy drunk dude outside a bar say it once) a general exclamation, like "Damn!"

Bitzes - one of them was drunk and meant to say "bitches" but said this instead. now they use it all the time.

 

[Anarchemitis]

(When I die) "Son of a.. Capulet!"
(When I die somehow else) "Son of a.. Montague!"

 

[Larenxis]

I also say 'Ta ra' instead of goodbye. Don't know why, or where it came from.

 

[Nerdfury]

I use a mash of various lingual oddities from all over the place. Geek humour, slang and dialects from various cultures and times and movies. I'll tell someone that got screwed over somehow or tricked that they got 'seriously duck/rickrolled.'

My 'exclamation' of choise is "Sweet fancy Moses!" or "Sweet Zombie Jesus!" for most of the time, or 'Holy trees with dicks!' for amusement's sake.

I use terms like 'old son' and such when referring to friends.

THere's more, but it's harder to think of them then to just use them!

 

[FranicalFrazical]

Greenoakian slang -
Mop- Long Haired person
Basa - Bastard
Bollocks - Balls
Skyting/Fly - Dodgy/Crafty
Skyte - Miss or Bastard
Skidge/Skive - Truant (?)
Wanker - jerk off
Ba'Heid - Dick head or Baldie
Twat - numerous meanings