Down South
The bottom fell out
All the way (how to get a burger with "The Works")
Cut the light on

Westward
Animal Style (how to get a burger "all the way")
sick (it's "ill" in the north)

3/21/2008 12:32:34 PM

you had never heard "All the way"?

and sick and ill seem like pretty universal (or at least national) terms...not really colloquialisms

3/21/2008 12:33:29 PM

man i am 31 years old, all of these words are so old it pathetic. i hear people using some slang like it so hot and new, but in reality i have heard it so much my ears bleed when i hear it.

3/21/2008 12:34:19 PM

North
Wicked (as in "Its Wicked cold outside")

Far West (NorCal)
Hella

3/21/2008 12:35:20 PM

all those words have been in nc for years son. really.

3/21/2008 12:36:07 PM

and they're still gay. even for slang

3/21/2008 12:39:33 PM

^^So has your poor attitude but you dont see me complaining

[Edited on March 21, 2008 at 12:40 PM. Reason : .]

3/21/2008 12:39:56 PM

oh shit

3/21/2008 12:41:49 PM

a lot of my friend up north say 'church' as a way of saying goodbye

but they pronounce it like 'chutch'

I say it from time to time

3/21/2008 12:42:28 PM

oh shit The Judge has ruled

3/21/2008 12:42:53 PM

Quote :

"^^So has your poor attitude but you dont see me complaining"

i don't understand. i am all for self-improvement, so please tell me about my tude, and if it needs to be adjusted, i'll do so

3/21/2008 12:43:08 PM

I thought that chuch thing was Snoop Dogg's bag, right around when all that izzle foshizzle business surfaced

3/21/2008 12:43:35 PM

i think you people are swaying more towards basic slang than colloquialism

3/21/2008 12:45:59 PM

church is jive talk. been around for decades, even in nc.

3/21/2008 12:46:00 PM

I haven't been back up north in awhile, but this is how they talked when I left.

North
What it is? (What is it?)
Mang (man)
carried like a shopping bag (insulted very heavily)
steal ya in the jaw (punch)
The Dozens (A "Yo Momma" showdown)

3/21/2008 12:46:47 PM

I speak jive!

^ thats around here too

[Edited on March 21, 2008 at 12:47 PM. Reason : !]

3/21/2008 12:47:08 PM

i hate when black people or wiggers say ONE to me when saying goodbye

alright man, later

ONE

wat?

3/21/2008 12:47:22 PM

^^^1 and 4 are ubiquitous the rest are here, and been here for some time.

[Edited on March 21, 2008 at 12:48 PM. Reason : sdfg]

3/21/2008 12:47:47 PM

say blood?


what it is jive turkey?

3/21/2008 12:48:02 PM

Quote :

"The bottom fell out"

I hear this all the time on Marketplace on NPR (which is produced in San Francisco)

3/21/2008 12:48:17 PM

Quote :

"steal ya in the jaw (punch)"

its not that it's only up north, it's just that it is so old that nobody down here says it anymore

think back to 4th grade

3/21/2008 12:48:39 PM

Spontaneous, where did you live in the North? B/c those things aren't uttered anywhere in NY/NJ/PA/DE, thats for sure.

Quote :

"sick (it's "ill" in the north)"

again, what is this? they're interchangeable up here in the north.

"Wicked" is a New England thing, and thats well known. Keep that shit up there, retarded saying.

[Edited on March 21, 2008 at 12:49 PM. Reason : k]

3/21/2008 12:48:56 PM

^^ hahaha my niece says ONE and i say 53 or some random number

[Edited on March 21, 2008 at 12:49 PM. Reason : wrt]

3/21/2008 12:49:14 PM

"mash" instead of press or push
"break bad"
"come to jesus"

3/21/2008 12:49:33 PM

so it seems the lines have blurred a lot.

I still contest that I will only hear that the bottom feel out during a storm in the Bible Belt, while Cletus cuts the light on.

3/21/2008 12:49:50 PM

my boy's wicked smaat

3/21/2008 12:50:19 PM

i have always said cut the light off

[Edited on March 21, 2008 at 12:50 PM. Reason : ^first thing i thought of too ]

[Edited on March 21, 2008 at 12:51 PM. Reason : dang, now i want to watch that]

3/21/2008 12:50:36 PM

Pray to J I get the same ol' same ol'

3/21/2008 12:51:45 PM

I"m from Prince George's County, Maryland, where it's 32% black, 32% hispanic, 32% white, and 6% Asian. We have no identity. We just steal it from everybody else's.

And the ill thing was a horrible example. I just happened to be illin' to some Beastie Boys and getting some sick air on Tony Hawk.

3/21/2008 12:52:59 PM

the ONLY (variation) word that i hear in maryland/dc that i have NEVER heard anywhere is DUG (they pronounce DOG as DUG). thats the most unique colloquialism i know of.

3/21/2008 12:53:06 PM

you folks aint never been to Harkers Island

3/21/2008 12:53:44 PM

the Yoopers have an interesting dialect in Michigan and Wisconsin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yooper_dialect

Gullah is another interesting dialect in the Low Country of Georgia and South Carolina

the High Tiders are another example

3/21/2008 12:57:42 PM

colloquialisms differ from dialects
though they are frequently involved with one another

3/21/2008 12:58:20 PM

Quote :

"you folks aint never been to Harkers Island"

lololol

3/21/2008 12:59:12 PM

colloquialisms are what make dialects.

3/21/2008 12:59:22 PM

not entirely, no

3/21/2008 1:02:38 PM

i could argue that they do, not saying that i will not listen and learn from what you have to say otherwise and change my mind. this debate is too much for to write on a message board, maybe one day if i meet you we can talk about this. but for now, we both are right... deal?

3/21/2008 1:04:54 PM

i agree with Snewf

3/21/2008 1:06:07 PM

^^no, actually, you're wrong

[Edited on March 21, 2008 at 1:06 PM. Reason : .]

3/21/2008 1:06:13 PM

you're not wrong

but I'm more right than you

dialects are defined by their vocabulary and grammar, sure
colloquialisms are results of that

but dialects are also defined by their phonology

[Edited on March 21, 2008 at 1:07 PM. Reason : -]

3/21/2008 1:06:51 PM

fo shizzle

everyone agrees with snewf but has not contributed anything to the conversation, hahaha

[Edited on March 21, 2008 at 1:08 PM. Reason : sdfg]

3/21/2008 1:07:40 PM

Quote :

"colloquialisms are what make dialects."

This statement is wrong

3/21/2008 1:07:53 PM

Quote :

"everyone agrees with snewf but has not contributed anything to the conversation, hahaha"

3/21/2008 1:08:46 PM

WRONG wrong WRONG wrong.... wrong WRONG wrong WRONG.... you're wrooong

3/21/2008 1:10:28 PM

Ok friendo

for example

the use of ja is a colloquial flavoring word.

Ich bin kalt.

I am cold.

Ich bin ja kalt.

use of colloquial flavoring agent, however, still considered "upper" or "high" german, not dialectical

3/21/2008 1:11:49 PM

3/21/2008 1:13:40 PM

really.. who gives a flying fuck

3/21/2008 1:13:49 PM

really, and it was me and snewf talking in a civil manner, and the pissing contest started hehehe anyway, thx snewf for acting like an adult. you are a good man.

3/21/2008 1:20:11 PM

no prob

3/21/2008 1:44:23 PM

home oh's

3/21/2008 1:46:16 PM