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Zep--
10-15-2007, 01:28 PM
So I'm walking around work today asking for one..after about 6 people..I realize none of them knew what I was asking for. Isn't localized slang wonderfull! (I'm a Pittsburg'er (Go Steelers!) living in Floriduh) Sorry for lack of the shit b0nerz option.
Anaxagoras
10-15-2007, 01:36 PM
Didn't fascination with localized slang get old halfway through freshman year in college?

"Holy shit! You don't use dude? Woah! I don't use wicked! It's like we're speaking totally different languages!!!!"

Oh wait... that's right. It was kinda old even then.
JPR
10-15-2007, 01:42 PM
I spent a few minutes looking around for that thread about the wolf giving birth, car boot sales, supermarket trolleys, and mumbly-pegs but I can't find it. Unfortunately, the link to the survey and its results is broken now, too.

Internet to the rescue, though, here (http://web.archive.org/web/20070205052754/http://cfprod01.imt.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html) is the Internet Archive version.

edit: Bummer, though, not only is it incredibly slow, the pictures are timing out, so you can't see where the weirdos who talk wrong actually live.
Zep--
10-15-2007, 01:44 PM
Didn't fascination with localized slang get old halfway through freshman year in college?

"Holy shit! You don't use dude? Woah! I don't use wicked! It's like we're speaking totally different languages!!!!"

Oh wait... that's right. It was kinda old even then.

Not if you went to college in your own area? I never knew it was local slang until today.

Zep--
fire
10-15-2007, 05:39 PM
I could figure it out based on "rubbers" being "gummies" and all that.
Zep--
10-15-2007, 06:01 PM
Yeah..it's a rubber band...I also found out Jaggers are not known down here either.

Zep--
Kunikos
10-15-2007, 06:08 PM
If it weren't for E-40 I wouldn't even know the slang from the Yay' Area.
Aeon221
10-15-2007, 07:10 PM
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krokodile
10-15-2007, 07:12 PM
Gumband?

No, its a Rubber Band. Gum? What the fuck?
bago
10-15-2007, 07:23 PM
It's probably a rock band, too.
Athryn
10-15-2007, 07:41 PM
Did this really need to be a topic?
bago
10-15-2007, 08:37 PM
Did that really need to be a post?
Aeon221
10-15-2007, 08:42 PM
Do we really need an internet?
PseudoLogic
10-16-2007, 05:32 AM
Woah! Existential meltdown incoming.
krokodile
10-16-2007, 08:43 AM
Did Aeon just suggest that the groupthink be denied its main connection?

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bigdruid
10-16-2007, 08:52 AM
So, what is it about this thread that causes AdSense to stick me with a "Find your BBW Soulmate!" banner ad?

<shudder>
bago
10-16-2007, 02:27 PM
The things we really need I would guess.
Kunikos
10-16-2007, 02:42 PM
I just keep getting "Hillary for 2008!" ads that have the picture of some constipated lesbian troglodyte on them.