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Post by Ganbare! on Mar 28, 2010 9:23:40 GMT -5
Lingo is typically the kind thing you never learn in formal language training.
I was ordering a pizza last night and I asked for it to be "all-dressed" to which the employee replied "what is that supposed to be?" I answered "with everything on it, you know,"
he replied: "ok... dude". I just realized the expression is only used among Montrealers.
Another example generally used in Canada is "allophone" designating individuals whose mother tongue is neither English nor French.
I think it could be interesting to learn new vocabulary, what's your lingo? (slang also applies).
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Post by TeeHee on Mar 28, 2010 23:19:32 GMT -5
I'm from New Orleans, or as a native like myself would say it, Nawlins. For a while, I hadn't realized that a "po'boy" was a local term. As I came to meeting and conversing with folks who were not local or familiar with the area and used the term "it's like a po'boy" to describe a certain sandwich, the most common reactions were "what's a po'boy?" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po%27_boyI also know I'm from New Orleans/Louisiana when at a crawfish boil, if someone said "Don't eat the dead ones", I knew what they meant. |
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Post by Ganbare! on Mar 29, 2010 1:24:43 GMT -5
Interesting link, I had never heard of them.
New Yorkers tend to use slang too deliberately, people speak very differently depending on the borough, occupation or social status. A WASP from the Upper East Side and a Jew from Brooklyn speak so differently, they're almost distinct dialects.
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Post by jefe on Apr 1, 2010 0:22:00 GMT -5
Well, I have never been to New Orleans, but after several dozen cajun cuisine restaurants, it is easy to know what a Po' Boy is.
New York has a vocab all its own -- indeed, there are dozens of Yiddish words used daily. Also, "Regular Coffee" means with milk and 2 teaspoons of sugar -- when I was in DC it meant non-decaffeinated.
In UK, "pissed" means drunk, not perturbed and angry. So, I understand some British did not understand when I said, "If you say those things, people might get pissed."
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Post by tbw on Apr 5, 2010 6:50:04 GMT -5
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Post by penguinopolipitese on Apr 6, 2010 13:07:11 GMT -5
I never heard of allophone. But I'm from the west of canada so french doesn't matter here
how about chesterfield? I always understood it as a smaller 2 cushion couch.
to deke. a fakeout in hockey when taking on the goalie one on one.
chinook - a warm westerly wind (probably exclusive to southern Alberta, Canada)
in ontario they called electricity 'hydro' cause it comes from hydroelectric stations or maybe are just r-tards.
I'm pretty sure no one outside of canada knows what a double-double is. But no loss since tim horton's coffee sucks balls anyway.
I think runners or running shoes is not used outside of canada for sport related shoes.
serviette (aka napkin)
iced tea (in canada you won't receive chilled tea but rather nestea sweetened iced tea)
quebecers always say "close the light" instead of "turn off the light".
regarding quebec I will also add "danse contact" the two sweetest words you will ever read. Oh and of course the dep' or depanneur which is their word for a convenience store.
Interestingly in Finland they just seem to have one chain of convenience store called Kioski.
I always remember working up north with my european co-workers and they told me they couldn't understand a word the local guys were saying. I actually had to translate. You never really notice it until someone from outside points out.
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Post by Ganbare! on Apr 6, 2010 13:31:18 GMT -5
I loled at the hydro part. By the way "closing the light" is interlanguage not lingo per se. My brother kept saying that every night until his English teacher corrected him.
As a kid, I kept saying f**k you instead of thank you to express gratitude because of his quality "teachings" !
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Post by Yingy on Apr 12, 2010 17:55:53 GMT -5
For sure totally! Living in Canada many Cads have pointed out I'm not one of them, why is this!? Because I don't say eh or dontcha ya know  J/K I'm sure with the bazillions likes and totally I say in one sentence gives way I'm a Vally Girl. Growing up in LA I picked up a lot of Mexican lingo and I still use it and it makes no sense to other people what the hell I'm saying , love it! ;D Where ever I live or visited I try to pick up the same lingo they use and I will still use it. |
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