[Wiflewood]

Okay, I created this topic because I'm interested in the different words you guys all use to describe different things depending on your region (or country) and also region (or country) specific jokes.

For example, in Manchester;
People who listen to Metal/Rock music, wear black hoodies/T-shirts and Jeans with chains and stuff, we call Moshers.

People who listen to Hip-Hop/Rap music, wear blue/black tracksuits, tuck their pants into their socks, wear white trainers, Burberry scarves (for the girls) and wear their hoods up are called Scallys or Chavs

I mean, over the internet, I've heard Moshers referred to Grungers, and Chavs referred to as Gangstas. What do you call them?
Also, are there any country/regional specific words that you know of that you use? for example in England we call it a Rubbish Bin, but in America they call it a Garbage/Trash can?

Furthermore, you know the jokes that say "3 people were..." and one of them always makes fun of a certain country?

E.g, In England, its always "An Englishman, A Scotsman and an Irishman were..." and the Irishman is always the stupid one.


I don't think there was a topic on this before. I searched but couldn't find one.

[Split Infinity]

Lol, I was just about to make a topic about almost the exact same thing. o_O

Hmm, Australian dialect...well, we do tend to call air-conditioners 'egg-nishners'. <_<

[TheEnglishman]

I've never heard anyone call a chav a 'scally' before. Things must be different up in Manchester.

[Laharl]

Chav/Scally/yob/scumite/dregs of society all the same to me, HATE CHAVS, still working on mutating Bird Flu into Chav flu lol. Then you get Chav dialect, which is mostly grammatically crap

"AY MATE GOT ANY BIFTERS?"

If answer if yes

"MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE IS RIGHT"

If answer is no

"AYYYYYYYYY MOSHER I'LL GET OUR PAUL TO T**T YOU"

I live in a council estate














Help Me

p.s the swear filter sucks

also found this

http://www.rock-sound.net/uploads/chavbusters.jpg

that's one cool shirt, i should get one

This post has been edited by laharl the slayer: 02 March 2006 - 04:28 AM

[Elliott]

Oh we have a hell of a lot of slang down here. I couldn't even scratch the surface. For startes tomato sauce (or ketchup as you may call it) is sometimes called 'dead horse'. We say 'bloody' a lot i.e 'bloody hell!' or 'bloody polititions!'. And we shorten words a lot like:

Get over here
Get over 'ere

Or

It is great
s'great

Yeah there's a lot, I think Australians have the sloppiest English around.

[My Best Wishes]

Agatio, on Mar 2 2006, 09:33 PM, said:

For startes tomato sauce (or ketchup as you may call it) is sometimes called 'dead horse'.

It is.... <_<

I think Australian language has changed alot with the amount of (not being racist) wogs, asains and Islanders being here. Mostly Agatio is right, we say bloody alot but i'd also say Australians swear alot aswell.

[Laharl]

we probably use f*** where you use bloody lol.

We swear a lot in this country even the non-chavs like me

[Toasty64]

Well, if you're talking about the US, then yes. Alot of people here swear alot. Even my friend who never cused has started since we got into 7th grade. I myself don't cuse. As for three people jokes, mainly Blond, Brunett, & Red Head. The blond is usually the idiot.

[Laharl]

no i'm british we get the blond jokes too, but we don't call swearing "cussing"

[Eugine]

You could have just said dark-skinned you know... Wog is offensive. @Watch.

[Someone Else]

Chavs are called "Gangsta's" here. Also known as "Posers" for those of us who don't like them. <_<

They wear the same thing Chavs do except with baggy pants, and they don't tuck the pants into their socks. What is a "mosher"? :idea:

[Sea of Time]

Yeah, same here as WD. I had never heard about all these other types. I guess I'm not in touch with the dialect of the world.

[Someone Else]

Other names for "gangsta's" here (insulting):

Wangsta's, wanksta's, wangster, wankster, etc.

Basically it means they're a wanna-be gangster. Also known as a "Poser". These terms probably originated from the British term "wang". <_<

This post has been edited by Wind Dude: 03 March 2006 - 01:43 PM

[Sea of Time]

There's also the infamous 'wigger' which is a ripoff of a horrible word that I'm not even going to mention. They give this name to white posers as well.

[Eugine]

LOL. That's not correct Wind Dude...

A "wanksta" is a gangsta who is only pretensive, meaning they're not really one but poses to be one.

OK, here in the Caribbean the people (not so much in Grenada) people replace I with me and me and you with I... So like I have "I am OK" usually they always say "me fi' ok'"... Surprising...

[Someone Else]

Eugine, on Mar 3 2006, 04:36 PM, said:

A "wanksta" is a gangsta who is only pretensive, meaning they're not really one but poses to be one.

Basically what I said..?

[Eugine]

LOL. Ignore me. Never saw the definition somehow. When you said "Other names for "gangsta's" here (insulting):" it sounded like you were going to put synonyms.

[Someone Else]

OHHH. XP; My bad. Don't mean to diss ya all the time. ._.;

As for country-specific jokes. I don't know of any, but we're the "home of George Dubbya" so we make fun of him alot. I assume other countries do, too, but maybe not.

[Toasty64]

You're democratic are'nt you? Only Democrats make fun of Bush. Us republicans like to dis' Jhon Kerry, we call him G*Y. If anyone saw the clips of John & Jim Kerry that FOX showed on the news durring the elections, you'd know why.

This post has been edited by Toasty64: 03 March 2006 - 11:17 PM

[My Best Wishes]

Eugine, on Mar 3 2006, 10:03 PM, said:

You could have just said dark-skinned you know... Wog is offensive. @Watch.

Wuh... If they were dark skinned I would've called them black not Wog, since when has Wog been offensive?

[Laharl]

i've never heard wog used before.

@whoever asked: A mosher is someone who goes to Mosh pits, wears mostly black but doesn't go to the goth extreme, or any where near it for that matter

[Wiflewood]

Me neither. Never heard of the word 'Wog'.

I'd also consider myself a Mosher.

I also heard that like we make jokes about the Irish, that Canadians make jokes about the Ukraine. Yeah doesn't make any sense. Is this true?

[Mars Djinni]

I don't make jokes about Ukraine. Nor does anyone in my school, nor anywhere. I don't suppose it's true.

[Someone Else]

Toasty64, on Mar 3 2006, 09:16 PM, said:

You're democratic are'nt you? Only Democrats make fun of Bush. Us republicans like to dis' Jhon Kerry, we call him G*Y. If anyone saw the clips of John & Jim Kerry that FOX showed on the news durring the elections, you'd know why.

I HEAR THERE'S RUMORS ON THE, UH, INTERNETS...!

- Good ol' Bush

I'm not democratic, either. Nor am I Republican. I'm a politicians worst nightmare. :wacko: I think you can squeeze an answer out of that.

Naw, I just don't like Bush. Kerry'd been better. Neither of them are that great, really... and Kerry lost anyhow, so, whoop dee doo. =/ The deed is done.

EDIT: OHH by the way. Don't watch Fox News.................. I though everyone knew that! @.@; That stuff kills your brain cells.

[Toasty64]

Fox happens to be the best news station around. Better than CNN.

[Sea of Time]

How can you not like Anderson Cooper? Or Wolf Blitzer? CNN is much, much better than Fox!

[Toasty64]

Man, this is getting off topic. But, Bill O'Rilley is better than those two. Now back to the topic. (Whatever it was).

[Eugine]

On that topic:
Fox news is the best american news channel, maybe because the majority of members there are ultra-conservative and I love that, but BBC World is the best in the world... Well, for the English world. Europeans are much more sophisticated on the news than Americans and they definitely aren't biased... American channels are too biased...
Specifically in America: CNN is really a dead channel (except for Anderson), the reporters usually sound like boring, old teachers who just sit in front of the class and drag their sentences. They're good at their job, but boring and that makes their shows monotonous and uninteresting.

If you want to watch a biased American news show, I'd watch Bill Orielly, he's my favourite. Oh, and I really love Anderson Cooper, he's a good looking old person and probably the most charismatic person on CNN with excellent reporting skills. That's the main reason why I watch his shows really...

Other than that, here's some Caribbean slangs - "PasaPasa" - Pornography, "Picknie" - Young Child, "Bloodcloth" - ****....

[Someone Else]

Most people think that Fox News isn't a biased channel, but that's just because Fox News tells the viewer what they want to hear, it isn't even real news. I trust CNN much more than I trust Fox News but, meh. Don't talk about what you don't know about.

(Mostly aimed at Toasty...)

This post has been edited by Wind Dude: 13 March 2006 - 01:27 PM

[Sea of Time]

I still go to the Daily Show for my news. It's definitely not boring and Jon Stewart is hilarious!

[Toasty64]

Wind Dude, on Mar 13 2006, 08:49 AM, said:

Don't talk about what you don't know about.

I know what I'm talking about. Fox doesn't just tell the watchers what they want to hear. Mabey you shouldn't talk about what you don't know about. But then again, it's all an opinion. Now back to the topic.

[Sea of Time]

I always thought that it was weird in Canada how instead of pronouncing the letter 'z' as zee, we pronounce it zed. My grade three teacher actually near-punished us when we pronounced it zee.

[Mars Djinni]

I've gotten used to the "Zed" factor. I got used to it within a year of moving into Canada

[Sea of Time]

I still always say 'zee' because I never got used to the other way. I'm half-American and it just seems too different to say 'zed'. But maybe I'm just weird like that.

[Toasty64]

"zed" huh? Never heard it pronounced like that before......................Must sound kinda funny from time to time.................

[gsninja]

I'm full Italian. However, I was born in Italy too, but only lived there for three years before moving to California. Although I don't really have an Italian accent at all, I still pronounce some words that aren't Italian in an Italian-ish way.

[Lemontime]

The Australians who speak like people have mentioned in this topic are really just the Bogans (For all you americans out there, this is... Pretty much a 'Redneck' in your language)..
They haven't been raised properly. They make more mistakes than everyone..
Take the Cronulla riots for instance, before then, Cronulla was a fantastic place (I went there every sunday, infact), But after this, I just didn't feel safe going there, even though I look aussie.. Yeah. I'm going off topic.. But my point is, You don't see someone who speaks perfect english beating up a GIRL because they're muslim or 'of middle-eastern appearance'.. Case, Closed.

AND.
Us australians say 'Zed'. It's so much cooler than 'Zee'..
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZED!!
Cackle.

This post has been edited by sibsag: 31 March 2006 - 02:01 PM

[Wiflewood]

In England we say "zed" as well. The Alphabet is as follows:

Ay
bee
see
dee
ee
eff
jee
ayche
eye
jay
kay
ell
em
en
oh
pee
kyuu
arr
ess
tee
you
vee
doubleyou
exx
why
zed

[Mars Djinni]

I lost my Filipino accent years ago. I used to pronounce V's like B's and F's like P's.

Example: "pabourite" (favourite)

[Toasty64]

O.o;;;..................Okay,.......................Here we say Zee. And all other letters are normal. In the American Alphabet of course.

[Split Infinity]

Ever heard of the Indonesian alphabet? Here's how it goes:

ah
be
che
de
e
ef
ge
ha
ee
je
ka
el
em
en
oh
pe
key
air-r
ess
te
oo
ve
we
ye
zet

o_O; This is what I have to study.

[Kikuichimonji]

It's the same as the malaysian "alphabet". It's really weird

I have a sorta cocney/posh-ish accent. More posh-ish to be honest :) but it's definitely London-ish.

BTW Manchesterian accents are intriguing. Manchester is intriguing, loadsa foreigners think it's London apparently and get confused :S(thank man u for that :D)

(swear filters?!Censorship on the internet?!What blasphemy is this?!)

This post has been edited by Kikuichimonji: 02 April 2006 - 05:01 PM

[kate]

what I love is french. which is a type regional dialect in canada at times. It's quite interesting because we are required to learn french, and often we screw up and pronounce s's at the end of words where we shouldn't.

people in quebec have a slang word "ta piss" which means "you pee" in quebec (tho piss isn't a french word). "tapis" which is pronounced "ta-pee" means carpet. A friend of mine was in quebec but wasn't french, and was trying to talk about her newly purchased carpet, but kept pronouncing the s, so saying "ta piss". FUNNIEST THING EVER. to me. so that doesn't take much.

[Mars Djinni]

Accents and swear words aren't a good match, apparently.

A strong Filipino accent woudl turn "I need a sheet of paper Mr. Beech!" into "I nid a sh*t of paper Mr. B*tch"

[kate]

what did you just call me? haha but you're right. it is impossible to make a french person pronounce an "h" it's all "ospital" and "ockey" and "ell" what the ell? XD

[TheEnglishman]

Kikuichimonji, on Apr 3 2006, 12:00 AM, said:

It's the same as the malaysian "alphabet". It's really weird

I have a sorta cocney/posh-ish accent. More posh-ish to be honest :P but it's definitely London-ish.

BTW Manchesterian accents are intriguing. Manchester is intriguing, loadsa foreigners think it's London apparently and get confused :S(thank man u for that :P)

(swear filters?!Censorship on the internet?!What blasphemy is this?!)

How dare you insult Man U! At least they play some English players, unlike Arsenal.
One of the teachers in our school comes from Cornwall and she sounds like a farmer. Even she thinks its pretty funny.

[Kikuichimonji]

Hey hey hey, I support Man U coz it pwnz

Always have and I hate glory followers (cough cough the sudden surge of chelsea fans at school etc)

And arsenal have a bum's name (get it, i am THAT witty)

Mebbe it's coz I was raised in london, my belief is that the rest of it is countryside and would hate to move to the countryside

I don't care my life span is cut by ten years, I PREFER car exhaust fumes to country air :P

Back on topic, are any of you members chavs/chavettes by any chance? XD

[Yuki]

XD you're all wrong
Arsenal>Man U

Chavs. Grungers. I remember all that stuff o_o;;

We speak tagalog! (:

[Mars Djinni]

I don't. I lost it. I need to get you and Lin to re-teach me. I'll probably pick up some other insteresting stuff to say in this topic along the way.

[Kikuichimonji]

OMG HELP, I FORGOT HOW TO SPEAK ENGLISH D:

:P

I forgot how to speak my languages (malay/tamil) too :P I don't speak it that often at home other than simple stuff (coz I only learnt simple stuff XD)

I am stupid like that but then again i admit I am crap at languages so yei for non bilinguility!

[Yuki]

o.o yeah well..tagalog isn't really that hard. I just know enough to get by in a conversation. A short one xD

I don't think Lin knows any tagalog...
I'm working on japanese and welsh x.x

[TheEnglishman]

Love_Guardian_Yuki, on Apr 4 2006, 11:51 PM, said:

XD you're all wrong
Arsenal>Man U

So why are Man U above Arsenal in the table then?
Don't mention chavs to me. They annoy me so much. They'll stand there, trying to look hard and ready for a fight, but they won't actually do anything. And don't even get me started on how they talk...

[Kikuichimonji]

innit doh blad, I is kotchin in ma yard when this chav walked by and I had to beef him coz he was chav yeh? It was bare funi even doh I wasn't bovered. Do I look bovered?? Do I look bovered to you mingers?

BRRRAAAP

:lol:

And yeh rofl, why IS Man U above Arsenal in the league if Arsenal are better :D

This post has been edited by Kikuichimonji: 05 April 2006 - 11:00 AM

[Sea of Time]

Is that really how they talk? That's pretty hilarious.

I've seen Man U get some impressive victories in the last few weeks, but Arsenal is actually in one of the finals.

[TheEnglishman]

Kikuichimonji, on Apr 5 2006, 05:59 PM, said:

BRRRAAAP

I hear that so much in school! Can someone tell me why they do that?

[Toasty]

I don't think I've ever met a chav. Guess I'm lucky :P But that was hilarious. The way they talk, no wonder people hate 'em.

[Kikuichimonji]

Me111, on Apr 5 2006, 07:30 PM, said:

I hear that so much in school! Can someone tell me why they do that?

I actually have no idea either :P it's just...weird

You learn chav language when you have relatives who are chavs/chavettes. t3h shame u.u

[TheEnglishman]

It's weird. I learn more chav words than French in my French class.

[Sea of Time]

My geo teacher said this today and I found it interesting.

"I don't need to say zee so I can be more American."

It's just interesting what some people think about our neighbors south of the border.

This post has been edited by Sea_of_Time: 10 April 2006 - 01:44 PM