Slang Terms That Just Confuse You

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by katiuska

None taken, though that's not quite fair. It does sound kind of redundant, but it's added when one needs to specify the dialect. We don't add the qualifier every time we mean "American English" because it's implicit in a context where that's what most or all of the people are speaking. I don't know, how do Canadian francophones indicate France-French, as opposed to Canada-French?

Incredibly nasally, using words outdated by hundreds of years. :p


I kid, but, well, I heard a lot of gaff about Canadian French from other French-speakers when I was still in a position to speak French. (Realizing you've lost most of a language is very sad. )

[Kerensky287]

I don't understand why the term "Dropped the ball" is ever used. I mean, I get what it means... but "Dropped the soap" just works SO MUCH BETTER to get across the same meaning, you know? Rather than just losing a game of catch or basketball or something, you are setting yourself up for sodomy.

[Azisien]

Getting "merked" was an annoying term I only learned when I visited Toronto multiple times.

I understand, vaguely, the apparent origin, but come on, mercenaries sometimes like, escort people and shit.

[BloodyMage]

Doesn't dropping the ball refer to having failed which is nothing like dropping the soap or the implied sodomy of doing so? Or is there some original meaning that I'm unaware of?

[Premmy]

I really don't see how people are annoyed by slang, what is the big deal?

[phil_]

Originally Posted by Premonitions

I really don't see how people are annoyed by slang, what is the big deal?

Premonitions, if I found something amusing, and you were in the same room, and I expressed my amusement by rapidly clucking "elohelohelohelohelohel," would you or wouldn't you punch me? Answer truthfully. It might save me a punch in the face from you someday.

The issue is sorta like that, I imagine.

[Premmy]

Originally Posted by phil_

Premonitions, if I found something amusing, and you were in the same room, and I expressed my amusement by rapidly clucking "elohelohelohelohelohel," would you or wouldn't you punch me? Answer truthfully. It might save me a punch in the face from you someday.

The issue is sorta like that, I imagine.

Yes, but see I also am aware that that's me being an asshole as it's none of my business how people choose to express themselves and I should just learn to deal with people speaking other languages/using language different.

Other people don't annoy me, I'm a dick and am annoyed by other people.

[Sir Pinkleton]

Honky tonk.
I don't know what it is, or where it comes from. I just know there was a crappy video game somewhere where a redneck trucker would constantly yell that.

[Doc ock rokc]

Originally Posted by Sir Pinkleton

Honky tonk.
I don't know what it is, or where it comes from. I just know there was a crappy video game somewhere where a redneck trucker would constantly yell that.

honky tonk is a type of bar with musical entertainment common in the Southern and Southwestern United States. The term has also been applied to various styles of 20th-century American music mostly country and country rock.

honky was a term used to be racist to white people (that we found hilarious and used it ourselves)
Tonk was a brand name for pianos commonly found in such bars.

[phil_]

Originally Posted by Premonitions

Other people don't annoy me, I'm a dick and am annoyed by other people.

What a coincidence, I'm a dick, too.

-alternatively-

lol wut?