Page 2 of 4
Re: Question for Americans re: slang
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:02 pm
by magma
noam wrote:sd5 wrote:more pressingly, her bowels
im partial to an incontinental breakfast myself...

Re: Question for Americans re: slang
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:07 pm
by nousd
yuk yuk
Re: Question for Americans re: slang
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:12 pm
by sigbowls
mabe she likes to say ja and grrr?
Re: Question for Americans re: slang
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:14 pm
by Neptune

nah fam

she looks nice here. and on her single cover as well.
Re: Question for Americans re: slang
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:18 pm
by Neptune

I'd move to dat
Re: Question for Americans re: slang
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:27 pm
by wolf89
Neptune wrote:clifford_- wrote:give it one tho still, is she legal? hope so.
noam wrote:still fit as though
wolf89 wrote:I most definitely would
really?? has she undergone a transformation? i'm gonna have to watch this video.
Ok, first, she only looks good in little bits of the video. Mostly not that great.
Second. Me saying I would is not really so much of a good measure as to whether someone is hot.
I mean that's like saying "That must be a good pork pie, John Prescott said he would eat it"
Re: Question for Americans re: slang
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 8:17 pm
by wormcode
Never heard of her, she looks like she came straight from 1982 in some of those pics, Pat Benatar look haha. Also has a Selena Gomez shrunken head syndrome going on. Gonna see how long I can avoid hearing this.
"Jagger" just makes me think of The Rolling Stones, but even Swagger Jacker sounds stupid.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jagger
Re: Question for Americans re: slang
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 9:56 pm
by tacospheros
just for the record, im from NY and almost nobody over here says stupid shit like swag, swagger. i dunno, slang isn't as universal as it once was. there's alot of west coast shit that doesn't translate well.
i've never understood the hyphy thing for example...
Re: Question for Americans re: slang
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 9:58 pm
by wolf89
Does anyone else have slang that's exclusive to their group of friends at all??
Me and my mates really seem to but no-one else so much
Re: Question for Americans re: slang
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:09 pm
by faust.dtc
tacospheros wrote:just for the record, im from NY and almost nobody over here says stupid shit like swag, swagger.
Mattron is from NY and says swag in every post.
Re: Question for Americans re: slang
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:12 pm
by wormcode
wolf89 wrote:Does anyone else have slang that's exclusive to their group of friends at all??
Me and my mates really seem to but no-one else so much
Yeah for sure, we can pretty much have a private conversation in public and no one would understand much. We used to use acronyms back in school as well, but not so much any more since it's become a bit too lame with SMS type things these days.
Re: Question for Americans re: slang
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:14 pm
by noam
wolf89 wrote:Does anyone else have slang that's exclusive to their group of friends at all??
Me and my mates really seem to but no-one else so much
yeah... loads... there's been hundreds over the years... most of which are too embarrassing to say around people who dont know what you're on about...
newest batch is all about 'leisure', example if we go back to a place after a night, that place is the 'leisure centre', different places are judged on the amount of 'leisure' they have, somewhere might be more 'leisurely' than somewhere else, some places really lack 'leisure' you know what i mean??
gotta find the perfect amount of 'leisure'
then you get stupid with it, certain people have gold memberships for the leisure centre, full access to vending machines, locker keys, free towels... other people have their leisure passes revoked, mainly for being unleisurely
wow.

Re: Question for Americans re: slang
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:17 pm
by .onelove.
Remember when 'swag' used to mean waste or shit over here only a few years ago? Shows how powerful American media is as it's now pretty much the same as their interpretation of the word.
magma wrote:She was the only promising thing to roll through X Factor/BGT in years and she is getting rrrrrrrrrraped by the industry already. Waste.
what???? No....I.....WHAT???
Admittedly given how fucking awful X Factor is, that statement is hardly a seal of approval, but still. Her whole persona was a product of that industry, hideously merging of all popular trends to an disgustingly untalented mess;
-Mimics looks of Britain's heralded woman (Cheryl)
-'Raps' over trashy 'urban' mainstream beats (Lyrics jacked off various other artists)
-Sings in that warbely fake American accent like every other teen act
-Video/expressions akin to Rihanna/Nicki Minaj
Caked in make-up, continuously churning out "HATERS GON' HATE" which she perceives a valid response to criticism, and to seal it off backed by that sinister juggernaut Sony/Cowell.
and yes, I still would.
Re: Question for Americans re: slang
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:19 pm
by knell
why is it a question for americans regarding slang when Cher Lloyd is british? surely that means theres an understanding of it over there

Re: Question for Americans re: slang
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:21 pm
by noam
nah cos the slang was an american term...
and she got it wrong, cos her writers are idiots...
Re: Question for Americans re: slang
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:21 pm
by Sheff
noam thats hilarious

thats what me and my mates are like, we have stupid shit like that
i darent even begin though cos it sounds lame as fuck
Re: Question for Americans re: slang
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:25 pm
by wolf89
Noam's is hilarious.
Ours are too hard to explain/too stupid
Re: Question for Americans re: slang
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:25 pm
by faust.dtc
knell wrote:why is it a question for americans regarding slang when Cher Lloyd is british? surely that means theres an understanding of it over there

Might be because she was signed by Jay Z
Re: Question for Americans re: slang
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:26 pm
by knell
noam wrote:nah cos the slang was an american term...
and she got it wrong, cos her writers are idiots...
i thought the swagger term was universal? i didn't know its origin had been pinned down
i think swag is my least favorite word, even when people use it ironically
Re: Question for Americans re: slang
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:30 pm
by noam
Sheff wrote:noam thats hilarious

thats what me and my mates are like, we have stupid shit like that
i darent even begin though cos it sounds lame as fuck
there's been so many lol....
back in the day, there was this extra bit at the end of one of the Bo Selecta vids... that got raped, the bit with Robbie Williams goin round Paris lookin at stuff and sayin it in a stupid voice
'bagueettttte'... 'saus-aaaaaaage'
wow again.