I know someone who works with someone who's Cornish, and he said that in Cornwall they have "darkie" nights, and before coming to Bath never thought of it as racist.
Ha. Strange, the childish double meanings of each word are obvious, but somehow I had never realised the combined double meaning until you actually typed it out.
To add to jessiecat's fairly comprehensive Kernowisms:
Me luvver - My friend - 'Ow are you me luvver?' Where's it to? - Where is it? - 'Wanna come to a party?' 'Sure, where's it to?' Flasket - Washing basket Down Clodgy way - West Oggy - Pasty
I live in a place that's close to two huge cities as well as rural areas, and plenty of suburbs, with our own little cities here as well, so you'd think we'd have more slang, but I can't think of many now, and those that I can seem borrowed from elsewhere (wicked is being used alot... I know its a New England thing but somehow we're picking it up.
Anyway, I don't use too much slang and sort of get annoyed when some people use it because it seems one needs to possess a certain amount of gravitas to pull it off and I have plenty of friends from the burbs (there's one?) who simply can't pull it off. Or am I just thinking of my one friend? bleh. I'll go think about some.
I know someone who works with someone who's Cornish, and he said that in Cornwall they have "darkie" nights, and before coming to Bath never thought of it as racist.
"Darkie" nights are a thing of the past in most areas and, while racism here is still alive, I don't think its as nasty here as many parts of the UK. In fact, most of the really racist people I've met in Cornwall seem to have moved here recently from the North of England.
And plenty of double negative mistakes to take your pick from.
I'm in hill country
Actually I'm in a small town in hill country, we have maybe 3 guys in high school who aren't white, one of them is Clayton and he's either Mexican or Filipino, not sure which, sometimes we call him brownie. It's all in fun though
Oh? How about let's say I come over there and say I'm feeling up for some tacos.
(It's one of my fav foods so it's not too improbable.)
I ask around and I'm led to some shady looking alley. BAM the cops raid the place and I'm arrested.
Ang Moh - Anyone who is white or speaks like an Englishman
Kopi - Coffee
Wah Liao - Something similar to Oh My God or WTH
Wah Piang - Cruder than Wah Liao
Chi Bai - Cuss word, directly translated, Vagina
Upstairs/downstairs - To refer to something that is on top/below of something else. "The title is upstairs of the questions"
Chicken/Duck - Female/Male Prostitute
Helicopter - Chinese Educated People cannot pronouce English words properly
Borrow - Lend "Borrow me your staple."
But I dont use them. They are vulgar, nasty sounding and overall, Singlish
Bogan- white trash/redneck/country people
Houso- someone that lives in government housing
Dero- someone very poor (i.e. derelict) or who dresses poorly
I can't think of much else- that is actually used. There's plenty of Aussie slang, but no-one uses it; it's outdated and very bogan.
Slang refers to informal lexical items used by a specific social group, for instance teenagers, soldiers, prisoners and thieves. Slang is not the same as colloquial speech, which is informal, relaxed speech used on occasion by any speaker; this might include contractions such as 'youre,' as well as colloquialisms. A colloquialism is a lexical item used in informal speech; whilst the broadest sense of the term 'colloquialism' might include slangism, its narrow sense does not. Slangisms are often used in colloquial speech but not all colloquialisms are slangisms.
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