How you speak

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Do you pick up little phrases and mannerisms and things from your mates? Loads of my friends are scottish so I say "wee" instead of little, and stuff. And "it's all good" is something our group say, although no one knows where that came from. And "coolie".

They all seem very specific to my group rather than my area - do others have words and phrases that you've picked up from your friends?

Edited to add "fabulous" and "go team".

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I seem to use the word"we" instead of "I" in conversation.

Like, I say "We like that" when somebody says something I agree with. No idea why.

I probably say "cool" too much too

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Originally posted by Bri-namite
Like, I say "We like that" when somebody says something I agree with. No idea why.

Too much Lord of the Rings- that's why

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Originally posted by Bri-namite
I probably say "cool" too much too

:yes: especially when I don't have an educated response to something Im told

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Yea, there's a few words that me and friends would say to each other that i wouldn't to others.

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Originally posted by Jazza Bing
Too much Lord of the Rings- that's why

Never seen Lord of The Rings in my life :eek2:

It's probably because I'm oh so cutting edge and trendy. Everybody will end up speaking like me soon enough :yes:

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Originally posted by Shogun
Yea, there's a few words that me and friends would say to each other that i wouldn't to others.

such as.....

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Originally posted by Anti-Christ
such as.....

Scobers..it's a long history of it, but basically my friends dad starting calling us all scobers for going around the streets trying to sell sweets at a street shop we made, we were children and it's sort of stuck since then.

That sort of thing.

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Originally posted by *Groovaybaby*
It's all good.

My mate does that all the time! Along with "fabulous"!

I just say "for fucks sake" a lot. I'm a well mannered girlie.

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because in my group we have 3 people called Lu, (me, *ahem*, and Lauren), we talk about Lu, just to confuse people. i often say me likes or you like? rather than i like it and do you like it. we often speak to each other in spanish, elvish, and gaelic, itailan, and german, (mainly spanish, english and german though, as i'm the only fluent speaker of the other 2) and we talk about "the dude" to confuse everyone because everyone is a dude. and fairies, thats *ahem's* fault, because his pesonal insult is you fairy.

so, no one ever know who or what we are talking about!

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Originally posted by luby
we often speak to each other in elvish and gaelic.......as i'm the only fluent speaker of the other 2)

You fluently speak Elvish?!

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Too much Star Trek there if she does.

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Originally posted by Shogun
Too much Star Trek there if she does.

Theres elves in Star Trek?!

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Originally posted by *Groovaybaby*
It's all good.

Originally posted by DaisyChainThing
My mate does that all the time! Along with "fabulous"!

No, she's not allowed, they're my sayings!

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Originally posted by RiSe & ShIne
Theres elves in Star Trek?!

I don't know, i think Elvish is the language used in Star Trek or Star wars, i'm not sure, i never watch any of them.

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Originally posted by Shogun
Too much Star Trek there if she does.

Lord of the Rings surely? Although at the risk of being an anorak, it's actually elfish...

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Originally posted by Shogun
I don't know, i think Elvish is the language used in Star Trek or Star wars, i'm not sure, i never watch any of them.

Try LOTR - No aliens :thumb:

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well not fluently but i can have a convo quite easily in elfish, (and i'm sure it's elvish)

and elvish in star trek

i was a treky a while back but that takes the biscuit.

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That's right, Lord of the rings.

Go luby; talk some elvish now.

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lle delotha mel amin

you hate to love me

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Originally posted by luby
so, no one ever know who or what we are talking about!

You're not wrong there!

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Me mother's a cockney, but I have a slight Welsh twang.

That make me 'weckney'?

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Originally posted by luby
lle delotha mel amin

you hate to love me

And you can actually speak this?

Imagine the headfuck being out of it listening to that :crazyeyes

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Originally posted by luby
(and i'm sure it's elvish)

It's elfish! Go read the stuff JRRT wrote about LotR! In English it would be elvish, but he changed it.

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I speak in the third person sometimes.

And I call EVERYONE Chicken, or Dude, or Miss Muck.

I used to say a lot of things a lot, but I've forgotten what they are. So like, yeh =S

I go woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo a lot when I'm hyper, which is a lot these days

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i call everyone dude, i called my 87 year old landlady dude and i say s'all good. i have a tendency to end all my sentences with man. and i like to ask whadya know. actually every word i says just slurs into every other word...

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i say things like blatantly, and my mates do.

have also noticed my boyf pick up a slight westcountry tinge to his brummie accent from me....if you can imagine

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me and my housemate have a tendency to add '-alicious' or '-tastic' to the ends of words.

e.g. 'someone has neglected to clean the cat's litter tray out for quite some time, and now it is gipalicious/mingtastic.'


i also pick things up quite easily from people. i started saying 'wee' after my time in aberdeen, i still say 'i'm grand' some 7 years after my irish boyfriend, and i have been picking up coventry-ish from mr. kaff, such as the use of the word 'never' instead of 'didn't', which i don't quite understand, but still say

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Originally posted by kaffrin
such as the use of the word 'never' instead of 'didn't'/

Everyone says that around here. I despise it. WHY? And when people say "I won you". No you didn't, you beat me.

I say one a lot. And put lots of French into everyday English.

E.g. J'ai besoin un piss, j'ai une headache etc.

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for some reason i keep using australian sayings like i always say 'no worries' if someone asks if i can do something (or summat) and also 'no worries mate'

i havent caught myself saying 'ripper' or 'bonza' or 'g'day', but i did catch myself saying 'strewth!' the other day

as well as that, theres also 'Dude' which i completely over-use, and 'Cha!' as a shortening of the Wayne's World quote 'Cha! and monkeys might fly outta my butt!'

apart from 'Dont worry about it' i dont think theres any others

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I say things like,

okies,
aiit,
shut the fuck up.
whore (i say that a lot)
its all gravy,

oh and i put french into english aswel, i always say merci and oui.