Quote: Alan C @ May 28 2008, 10:42 PM BSTThanks for reminding me Aaron
I hate the word c**t!
C**t is fantabulous word! 
How can you object to a sound? WHERE'S THE LOGIC?!
(Fantabulous is a fantabulous word as well.)
Quote: zooo @ May 28 2008, 10:45 PM BSTMy uncle says that arcs instead of ask thing.
He's white. From London but lives in Manchester. I don't know where it came from!
Either TV or people he lived/grew up with/around probably. Seems to have come from thick Caribbean accents.
I am not keen on the word 'serendipity'.
Quote: Aaron @ May 28 2008, 10:49 PM BSTSeems to have come from thick Caribbean accents.
White boys who speak like they're black boys
Acid ie like on acid.
Quote: sootyj @ May 28 2008, 11:03 PM BSTAcid ie like on acid.
He's like Norman Wisdom . . . On acid!
alluring (thanks to badge in another thread)
A Loo Ring 
"Random" is bugging me when used in place of "surreal" or "crazy".
"Oh my God, that's so random!"
F**k off.
Quote: Alan C @ May 28 2008, 11:55 PM BSTalluring (thanks to badge in another thread)
A Loo Ring
You're pronouncing it all wrong! (nearly)
LOL. When said. My dear daughter says it all the time. But I seldom beat her these days. Anger management courses and the court system really do work.
Quote: roscoff @ May 29 2008, 12:19 AM BSTLOL. When said. My dear daughter says it all the time. But I seldom beat her these days. Anger management courses and the court system really do work.
I say 'lol'!
Quote: Perry Nium @ May 29 2008, 12:15 AM BST"Random" is bugging me when used in place of "surreal" or "crazy".
"Oh my God, that's so random!"
F**k off.
I hate it, but I know I do it.
I've also caught myself saying 'elohel' out loud, and 'roffle' on the odd occasion. I should probably be shot.
Words I hate... Hmm. Revision. Ironing. Work. Exams.
Oh, and using 'sick' to mean something's good. It's just confusing. 
Messaging language very, very useful. It's like a big red flag warning some one is complete arsehole.
LOL, textese, ROFLOLSMP, Luv,
All useful ways of telling some one is a contemptible, bum hole well in advance.
Apparently the queen has a maid to send text messages for her.
Quote: sootyj @ May 29 2008, 8:43 AM BSTtextese, ROFLOLSMP
Eh?
Oh, and "LOL", "ROFL" etc are nothing to do with texting. They're Internet acronyms and abbreviations which have been in use since before mobile phones were invented.
Quote: Alan C @ May 28 2008, 10:13 PM BSTarcs instead of ask
Was reading my little book last night before bed, and came across (oo er) this passage during an analysis of London's words and dialects, explaining that many come from Cockneys being lazy speakers:
"Some words have simply shifted allegiance; in the mid-nineteenth century Cockneys would tend to employ 'Ax' rather than 'Ask', but that ellipsis is now in use predominantly among black Londoners."
Aha! That explains my uncle.
It's cos he's a cockney!
Dick Van Dyke's voice in Mary Poppins never sounded weird to me as a kid, because my uncle's Cockney/Manchester mix sounds exactly like him. 