I mainly spit my own slang...

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What would you say are the main influences on the vernacular and non-standard English you use?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

howway man, the missus like.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

(I did think this thread was called "I nearly split my own schlong". So, I just called it so no need for parody thread you guys.)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.birlinn.co.uk/store/uploads/covers/parliamo_glasgow.jpg

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

Ah yes, Stanley Baxter, another Glaswegian who, like myself, got the hell out of the place as early as possible.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

ilx.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

howway man, the missus like.

Dude, it's gotta be like the rad chick I'm bonin'.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

At my school the most vocal (and therefore by extension "coolest") students tended to be the West-Indian lads, and thus I still gah "Nah. Nah. Nah." punctuated with staccato head shakes when disagreeing with something.

Also, since moving to Yorkshire, I've started prefacing conversations with "Now then", although that may just be a subconcious tribute to Brian Clough.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 16 June 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

Whereas "Now then, now then" would be a subconcious tribute to Jimmy Saville

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 16 June 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

.. or I Ludicrous

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 16 June 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

Preposterous tales!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 16 June 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

dom, are you living in leeds now?

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 16 June 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Horsforth. I'm over at Trinity and All Saints.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

I favor archaic slang over contemporary for all occasions. Pre-WWII, if at all possible.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

The source of A LOT of current hip-hop slang is E-40, he really doesn't get enough credit. I try and speak like him.

― La Monte (La Monte), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Parody and/or meta-referencing, as odd as that sounds.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

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