The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #149340   Message #3474966
Posted By: Steve Shaw
02-Feb-13 - 04:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Feb-ROO-ary!!!!
Subject: RE: BS: Feb-ROO-ary!!!!
"Thus, in the modern day ghetto, the term "allright" has become merely..."'ite", and "do you know what I'm saying?" has become "know'msayn'?" (often added unnecessarily after every 2nd or third phrase, which causes its original purpose...brevity...to be defeated by repetitive redundancy!)"

When our beloved daughter was a teenager many moons ago, her friends would ring her up on our house phone. One day, I picked up the phone and it was for her. Clearly, she regarded the call as a private one, so she seized the handset and exclaimed "Go vroom!" Translated, this meant "I will go into the other room!" Ever since then, the "other room" in question has always been "vroom". We noted on another occasion, when she'd picked the phone up for herself, the greeting to her friend, "I awhite awhite?" Apparently, this is best rendered as "I'm all right. Are you all right?" The missus and I have greeted each other thus ever since.