Eb

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(at least you didnt call tech support yelling "IT DONT WORK!!!")

(at elast i hope you didnt)

;)

Allegra;WICKEDFANONE

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eb, what?

also, graeme, i do belive thats a new swear for me! please, do share it with us (me)!

Graeme

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I assume you don't mean the F word, so <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bollocks">check this</a> for the <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bollocks">B word</a>.

Rhiannon.

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I do believe the B-word is the best swear word in the English language.

Tasha

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Is the B-word a real swear word like "f***", or is it just a word you don't use in front of your mother like "damn"?

Spells

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Heh, you're lucky! I spilt Ribena all down my keyboard, and about 2 hours after, it started to get a mind of its own!! Everytime i typed something, about a thousand of those charaters would come out. Most annoying thing ever when you're on msn trying to talk, and the enter buttons gone crazy, entering every single tiny thing you type!

Hmb

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Americans sound so weird saying B*****s, I love being a Brit! No offence intended, we sound weird saying Ass if it's any consolation! It has to come out 'Ar-se' if a Brit says it.

Justme

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this is a weird conversation

Tasha

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British is my favorite accent (next to Southern)! I walk around the house doing a half-cockneyed, half-god knows what imitation, saying "brilliant" a lot, but then I have to stop because my usually peaceful husband begins to threaten me with physical harm. Now I'll yell "Bollocks!" when he tells me to stop. Thanks, Lazylaces!

Tasha

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Oops, I meant "Bo****s!"

Tasha

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Wait, do Amercians have to use astericks when we type it?

Tasha

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Americians, hah! AmeriCANS.

Sorry, the call center closed and I'm bored waiting for the bus. I'll stop posting now.

Careful

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okay.......................

Think~Pink

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Tasha, it isn't as profane as the 'F' word, and it isn't a word you would use in front of your mother.
I guess the best way to describe it, would be a mild expletive, (although it is used more widely to describe 'mens bits') XD

Spells

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:S This is kinda random, but if you look through the archive pages, how far back do you go?
(Sorry for being off-topic and all, but i guessed most people wouldn't notice since they mainly obsess about being first poster!)

Tafkam

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like "bloody"? which just sounds funny/old-fashioned to Americans, like "blimey" or "good show."
(like i really know what's true for all Americans, lol.)
but it's really hard to imagine saying e.g. "bloody hell" with any real anger, unlike say "f*cking hell." in fact i use "bloody hell" to avoid swearing in social situations where you get in trouble for using "the F word." (i live in the Midwest, and they're much more uptight about swearing than people on the coasts, my doctor's receptionist gave me flak because when she called me to tell me i had missed my appointment i instinctively said "f*ck!" -- she called me a "potty mouth.")
"stone the crows" is another good substitute swear (Australian, damn if i know what it means but doesn't it sound great?)
and of course the great W. C. Fields, "Godfrey Daniels!"

Skillette

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WOw! Now I can brag to my friends I know a new swear word... even though I dont cuss... LOL

Elen

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i cant believe yall dont know the b word!

Hmb

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Hehehe. Up north it's not unusal to hear the word 'feck' as an alternative to f**k. Sounds great when coupled with a heavy northern english accent (er....if you know one)...?

Hmb

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Although an Irish one works too...

accent that is.

Tafkam

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i thought the Irish equivalent was "fugh"? but what do i know, i'm a Yank, wouldn't recognise a North English accent if i heard one...

Yayfulness

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I'm up in Illinois.... Northern? uhhh- am I northerm???? Woohoo, there's TWO B words y'all! And like, ten hundred F words! Want some examples? Fudge, food, feet, fall..... Yep, bragging like there never was!!!!!!!!


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Tia

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Tafkam, you'll recognise one alright. Even for us Londoners over here, understanding other accents and dialects in other parts of BRITAIN is a hassle.

Hey do different states in America use different slang words? And do you have different accents, cuz (to me) you all kinda sound the same (apart from those from Texas and maybe some other distinct parts)?

If you want lessons on how to speak a bit of cockney, I'm here!

Tafkam

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OH yeah, though the distinctions aren't always clear. e.g. a Southern accent is NOT the same as a Texas accent, which is (i've been told) more extreme.
the best-known accents are Southern/Texan (us Yankees [northerners] can't tell the difference) and Bronx ("da boids is in da trees"), maybe because they're both very different from "mainstream" American English, which is basically what people in the Midwest speak. some people can tell that i come from California, though i can't tell how, since (of course) i don't have any accent at all to myself.
BEV (black English vernacular, academic term for black slang) is of course very different from most white slang, though us honkies try to pick up on it as fast as we can, in order to sound hip.
and there are regional idioms -- in New England, you don't call it a "water cooler," you talk about a "bubbler." (or with a South Boston accent, "a bubblah.")
here's a New England accent-based joke -- what's PSDS? (answer below).
i've heard that some British accents are unintelligible to other Britons -- god knows when i was over there i couldn't figure a lot of it out, and i don't just mean the Scottish. there was a guy from the Midlands who i didn't understand at ALL -- if he said my NAME he had to say it twice for me to understand it.
when i was over there, i started developing a "British" accent, or at least that's what i thought it was. but i asked my Londoner friend if i sounded British, and she said "no, it just sounds like you're trying to sound like a toff."
i love what little i know of rhyming slang, though the things i've seen on-line make it seem like there's no one-to-one correspondence at all -- any rhyme can mean a million different things, and anything you want to say has a million different possible rhymes, and a lot of the rhymes are cut short, and (i THINK) some of them are so well-known (butcher's hook, trouble and strife) that they've developed rhymes for part of the rhyme. in other words, incomprehensible.
answer to joke: what you put earrings in. that's a Rhode Island accent. and you pronounce "mall" sort of like "moo-all" but in one syllable.
another ueful Rhode Island/South Boston accent phrase: "wicket pissah!" ("wicked pisser"), meaning "very very good."

Tasha

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Wow, I'm a black English major, and I'd never heard of BEV.

Yeah, we U.S. midwesterners speak English the way it's supposed to be spoken. That's why all the call centers are here. Lucky us, huh?

Now did you ever answer what PSDS is?

Tafkam

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lol, you thought i left you hanging? it's the 6th line from the bottom.
now, are you a Black woman-majoring-in-English, or a woman majroing in Black-English? (or a man with an unusual choice of user-name?)

Tia

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You know, Tasha said exactly what I would have said (had I seen your message before)...ok, maybe NOT exactly, but the BEV thing...never knew about that...oh and that I neither majored nor minored in english, even if I did it would have been english lit not lang. and linguistics...ANYWAY....lol I cant help laughing at english being spoken the way its suppose to be spoken in America...even us over here cant do that!..but then again, we dont try...

We have a lot of call centres here too but people complain that they prefer the ones in India because they are more polite than we are...true...we tend to be cocky but oh well!

Personal question now

Tafkam, are you an academic?

Tasha

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Black woman majoring in English. Never heard of Black English. Black literature, yes. Black English, no. Well I suppose Ebonics is supposed to be Black English, but that is both a word and concept I despise - it promotes the ridiculous idea that poor grammar and pronunciation are solely and inherently "a black thing." Uh oh, wait, I'm NOT SAYING THAT'S WHAT YOU MEANT (I know things can come across wrong on a message board!).

And Tia, I'm more lit than linguistics.

Tia

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Ok me dear, when I said the thing about enlish lit, lang and liguistics I was talking about me lol.

I definately know things can come across wrong on a message board...I think Tafkam and myself know much about that!!!lol

Tafkam

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ooh, Ebonics. i don't know nearly enogh to understand the whole thing, but it sounds like a particularly messy combination of academic speculation and research, good intentions, political pressure groups, tongue-in-cheek humour, stereotyping, and mis-communication.
as far as i know, the point of BEV (and maybe part of the original point of Ebonics?) was precisely to make the case that much Black slang is NOT just "bad grammar," but is based on linguistic usage from West African languages.
probably a controversial point, but the basic idea (that nobody's language is "degenerate" or "inadequate" or "inferior") applies to all languages -- BBC or Oxbridge English may be the "received" form of British English usage and pronunciation, but that doesn't make it more legitimate AS A LANGUAGE than Cockney. as a medium for communication in a social realm, obviously it out-ranks Cockney.

why yes, i am in academia, how DID you guess?

(p.s. for more academic infighting, check out the interchange in Don't Stay Dead)

Tia

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Dont remind me....
Yea even though I know cockney slang etc. I dont speak it...lol I always laugh when people are so surprised at what I am like...because of the part of london I live in, I'm supposed to be

a)Pregnant
b)taking drugs or
c)uneducated

They are also suprised that I dont drink or swear on a regular basis either. Im like a good girl from a bad neighborhood (emphasis on the hood). It amuses rather than upsets me though. Well I cant blame, we all discriminate sometimes...

Tafkam

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Tia, what's up with your spelling? "neighborhood"? are you uneducated, or maybe deprived, or on drugs? or (shudder) a Yank? lol...

Tia

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Ah you must forgive! So annoying when you find out you spelt a word wrong especially AFTER you have posted the bloody comment....
Of COURSE I knew I spelt it wrong...I just wanted to know if YOU would notice.........hehe

Yes to all the above.

JOKE!

Tafkam

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oh good -- i was afraid arguing with me was somehow mutating you, influencing you to spell it "neighborhood" and "color," and start pronouncing "schedule" as "sked-ju-wool" and "lieutenant" as "lootenant," and talk about trucks, elevators, and flashlights instead of lorries, lifts, and torches. and say "b*lls" and "f***ing" instead of "b*ll*cks" and "bloody."

Tyson<3Ska

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Good ol Graeme, the first time ive seen him like this. But then again things happened when a tech geeks tech gear get messed with.
SENDING LOVE FROM CALI YO

Sofa King We Todd Ed

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Myspacebarisbroken,too. Nah, not really.

Tafkam

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if it were, you'd be sofakingwetodded.

Meg

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All this accent stuff is so weird cause none of us think we have an accent but we do to other people. like us canadians can tell if people live in america just from the way they say certain words.

Caffineehacker

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New Englander's do not say "bubbler" but being a Mainah (someone from Maine) I will say we've got quite a few weird words, yes sah. Head up ta Bah Harbah and pahk ta cah in the street. I can't even understand the Mainah's from the north part of the state.

Tafkam

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SOME New Englanders say "bubbler" -- i think it might be a South Boston/Rhode Island thing. along with "frappe" instead of "milkshake"

Mystery

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er....why are you actually swearing, whats the point of it anyway i mean i just dont get it. actually all the swear words i know, i've learned from websites and the f word from a show that i saw at 11 o clock at knite wear they diddnt cancel out the swearing whith beeping noises like on all the other shows i've wached.....

Meg

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Wow this diary entry is sooooo old! More entrees Graeme!!!!! How else will we3 know what is happening in the wonderful world of you!!

Mystery

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yup, actually i diddn't look at the dae , hey how do you know the date anyways ??????

Meg

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undernaeth there are numbers like 02/09/2005 so that is september 2

Mongoose

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wooo go me, two days later than the last person *does little dance* anywho, I'm from England, and I don't think I have an accent particularly from any part of England... maybe just "The South"

Mystery

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COOLl

Tigeress

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never new da b word b4.......

cooli........

sorry....

ugg...

Tigress

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uhhhhh........

i thort dat tha b word woz

another wort 4 cattle.....

bull---ocs

hmmmmmm.....

Lost Enigma

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Just thought I'd let y'all know that not all Americans are as ignorant. I lurve the b-word. Meh. I am of the oppinion that English (as in the Brits) and American English are different languages. Hello. Americans have distorted English enough as it is. Forget it. Brits speak english. Americans speak American.