what the hell IS international slang, anyway?
I have no idea what they mean, shrift, but my initial reaction is "at last! A language geek's name for 'lol' 'rotflmao' and '4Evah!1!'."
When in doubt, mock.
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Am-Chau Yarkona - Apr 14, 2003 8:24:17 am PDT #4807 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Rebecca Lizard - Apr 14, 2003 8:24:21 am PDT #4808 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Huh. Someone just wrote me and told me I should try to use more international slang in my stories.
Heh.
I'm luvv with Anna's latest project. Really well-done free indirect discourse is one of my literary kinks. I get all purry.
Jane St Clair, whose footprints I worship, did a Three Things that Never Happened to Ethan bit.
P.M. Marc - Apr 14, 2003 8:24:36 am PDT #4809 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
And what the hell IS international slang, anyway?
I think you should reply with "Hose off, eh?" in true Bob and Doug fashion.
Lyra Jane - Apr 14, 2003 8:27:24 am PDT #4810 of 10000
Up with the sun
Wild, flailing guess, but maybe the writer was confused by some of the US/SoCal-specific slang you used, wanted less of it, and was trying to phrase the request as a positive rather than a negative?
askye - Apr 14, 2003 8:29:17 am PDT #4811 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
I'm trying to think of international slang, but the only thing I can come up with are the bits of British slang I use and the odd bits of slang I picked up from an Australian chat friend. I'm pretty sure the slang he uses isn't so much Australian as his own weird way of talking.
P.M. Marc - Apr 14, 2003 8:31:13 am PDT #4812 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I used to know a bunch of Puerto Rican slang, but I've forgotten all of it, and besides, I'm not sure I could work in "your momma bangs ugly ferrets" or whatever the worst of it meant if I tried.
shrift - Apr 14, 2003 8:32:26 am PDT #4813 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I think you should reply with "Hose off, eh?" in true Bob and Doug fashion.
Well, it's either that or write a story entirely in Ebonics, but if I did, there'd be a long line of people waiting to clobber my ass.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Apr 14, 2003 8:33:48 am PDT #4814 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I'm not sure I could work in "your momma bangs ugly ferrets" or whatever the worst of it meant if I tried.
I would love to see you try. Some day... Obscure slang useage challenge, anybody? Could be weird or hysterical.
P.M. Marc - Apr 14, 2003 8:36:07 am PDT #4815 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I would love to see you try. Some day... Obscure slang useage challenge, anybody? Could be weird or hysterical.
Well, first I'd have to remember the expression, and as I no longer speak the language...
I miss speaking Spanish, I think.
shrift - Apr 14, 2003 8:37:07 am PDT #4816 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
wanted less of it, and was trying to phrase the request as a positive rather than a negative?
I'm guessing that might be the case, but I'm still sitting here wondering how on Earth I could do that. I mean, it's like asking me to write a John Crichton POV without making any pop culture references.
Not only would it be dead boring, it would in no way resemble the canon characterization. If that makes any sense.
I shall remain baffled, and diminish into the west.