Words you wish your language had. - Page 3

Shawnee123 · 03-08-2011, 01:53 PM

And that's when Shawnee chortled.

footfootfoot · 03-08-2011, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

Did you miss changing a city there?

It's funnier that way

monster · 03-08-2011, 02:40 PM

See, I'd have known that if you hadn't missed the post-punch line

Spexxvet · 03-08-2011, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Beest

French and German have second person plural case and pronoun, but English is lacking, fortunately the southern US has filled this void with "y'all"

And South Philadelphians say "yous", pronounced "yooze"

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

I would like a word to describe the situation where food smells so much better than it tastes. It's a very specific kind of anticipation/ disappointment.

Olfactooooey!

Shawnee123 · 03-08-2011, 03:42 PM

Olfactooey!

monster · 03-08-2011, 04:07 PM

you missed two hos

Cloud · 03-08-2011, 04:37 PM

we need a word for those little whistle novelties that you blow on and they curl out. I suppose we call them something in English, but nothing can beat what they call them in Spanish: "tocasuegra" or, literally, "mother-in-law ticklers"

wolf · 03-09-2011, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by limey

The Russians also have second person singular and plural, and so do the Scots. "You" and "Youse" - although the latter is considered déclassé.
Now there's a word the English language needs, déclassé!

I don't recall there being a large number of Scotsmen in South Philly, but I don't get there much.

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Originally Posted by monster

We need a word to describe things which have no word to describe them

We have one. Sniglet.

Tulip · 03-10-2011, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet

And South Philadelphians say "yous", pronounced "yooze"

Olfactooooey!

From what I know, southerners say "y'all," northeasterners say "yous" or I've seen it written as "youse," and mid-westerners say "you guys." A few years after moving from Hawaii to Texas, I was still using "you guys" for the you plural form. A friend said, there are girls here too.

Tulip · 03-10-2011, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Plaster goes on walls. Or in Paris.

Hoover is like our south calling all soft drinks "Coke."

I got made fun of by a moron from Minnesota years ago for saying that I was going to the grocery. He insisted it was incomplete, without store following it.

What do you guys say?

Sorry, I would use the word "store" with it too. But you know what would be interesting? To make a poll, asking southerners. It could be a regional or perhaps a usage in your area.

Tulip · 03-10-2011, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Yeah, but he was still a moron. Must be a local thing.

Grandma asked my ex one year what he wanted for Christmas. He said a new butt 'cause his had a crack in it. Grandma gave him a jar of spackle and a putty knife.

I see where you got your humor from. Your grandma is a funny woman.

footfootfoot · 03-10-2011, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Tulip

From what I know, southerners say "y'all," northeasterners say "yous" or I've seen it written as "youse," and mid-westerners say "you guys." A few years after moving from Hawaii to Texas, I was still using "you guys" for the you plural form. A friend said, there are girls here too.

Guys in the plural form can refer to people in general. Just as Muchachos refers to groups of mixed gender while muchachas refers to groups of women only.

Shawnee123 · 03-11-2011, 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Tulip

I see where you got your humor from. Your grandma is a funny woman.

Thank you, she was. We lost her the day Princess Diana died. We joked that St Peter was all aflutter about this amazing woman who had showed up at the gates, and LOOK, there's Princess Di too! I bet my grandma cracked a joke or two for her, and they got along famously (if you believe in that sort of thing.)

She was an amazing woman. Independent, strong, funny, loving. I miss her all the time. If I believed in guardian angel types, I would believe in her. When she divorced my grandpa she never remarried, and was perfectly happy living her life on her own terms.

wolf · 03-11-2011, 10:05 AM

I would like more words for snow. I am jealous of the Eskimos. They can have the seal blubber, but I want the words.

monster · 03-11-2011, 11:23 AM

We need a word to describe the act of screen-spraying caused by the unfortunate interaction of reading humorful things on the interwebs and imbibing beverages both hot and cold

03-08-2011, 01:53 PM	#31
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	And that's when Shawnee chortled. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

03-08-2011, 02:40 PM	#33
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	See, I'd have known that if you hadn't missed the post-punch line __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-08-2011, 03:42 PM	#35
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Olfactooey! __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

03-08-2011, 04:07 PM	#36
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	you missed two hos __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-08-2011, 04:37 PM	#37
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	we need a word for those little whistle novelties that you blow on and they curl out. I suppose we call them something in English, but nothing can beat what they call them in Spanish: "tocasuegra" or, literally, "mother-in-law ticklers" __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

03-11-2011, 10:05 AM	#44
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I would like more words for snow. I am jealous of the Eskimos. They can have the seal blubber, but I want the words. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

03-11-2011, 11:23 AM	#45
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	We need a word to describe the act of screen-spraying caused by the unfortunate interaction of reading humorful things on the interwebs and imbibing beverages both hot and cold __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

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