Try using the Chinese. I've been caught telling people to "bizh-wei". (Excuse faux-phonetic spelling, please.)
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Miracleman - Apr 04, 2007 7:19:38 am PDT #9590 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Ailleann - Apr 04, 2007 7:23:37 am PDT #9591 of 10001
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I call things goh se a lot too.
I've always had a bit of a malleable speaking pattern.. I seem to pick up whatever it is I'm watching/listening to at the time. Good for mimicry, bad for not slipping into someone's accent when you're talking to them.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 04, 2007 7:40:35 am PDT #9592 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Try using the Chinese. I've been caught telling people to "bizh-wei".
You know, that may not be Chinese.
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Zenkitty - Apr 04, 2007 7:54:31 am PDT #9593 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I said "reckon" and "ain't" before... watching Firefly definitely brings out my more "colorful" colloquial speech patterns.
"I ain't" is, of course, correct. "Ain't" is the contraction of "am not". Wonder why that word fell out of favor with the Grammar Powers That Be?
Polter-Cow - Apr 04, 2007 8:01:08 am PDT #9594 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
"Ain't" is the contraction of "am not".
Where'd the i come from? Shouldn't the contraction be "amn't"?
Zenkitty - Apr 04, 2007 8:07:43 am PDT #9595 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Where'd the i come from? Shouldn't the contraction be "amn't"?
Because "amn't" sounds dumb?
Or maybe it was amn't originally, and the sound just shifted into something easier to say.
Ailleann - Apr 04, 2007 8:09:01 am PDT #9596 of 10001
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Cause "amn't" looks like an abbreviation for "amount"?
JohnSweden - Apr 04, 2007 8:49:23 am PDT #9597 of 10001
I can't even.
I've heard amn't as a kid growing up in Scotland. Pretty heavily frowned upon, but how you sound is a pretty big deal over there. I wonder if (meta issues aside) Fireflyverse English is consciously "americanized" to indicate something about one's status/situation, that is, is there anything political about it? Is it a reaction to the melding of the cultures (ie. Sino-American Alliance) or something else?
libkitty - Apr 04, 2007 9:10:05 am PDT #9598 of 10001
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I seem to pick up whatever it is I'm watching/listening to at the time.
I do this too. When I was a kid, I spent some time in Europe, mostly England and Norway. When I came back, I started at a new school. Apparently, my new teacher loved me because I sounded so "respectful." This was totally based on the accent I picked up, not on anything wonderful that I said.
I find myself using a lot of Firefly speak, but I have a lot of friends who are fans, since I was quite the evangelizer for a while, so mostly I use the terms when speaking with them. When a Fireflyism slips out in regular conversation with others, it usually seems to go unnoticed.
Ailleann - Apr 04, 2007 9:14:08 am PDT #9599 of 10001
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I think people have a tendency to just let it go if they hear a phrase they don't recognize, but get the context clues. When it's close to another word/phrase, like "gorram," they feel the need to validate the pronunciation.