Linguistic Oddities

[Emiliana]

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/69590/

My best friend/college roommate and I had a TON of these, so many that we eventually began to refer to the way we communicate as "Roommatese." One that's stuck around, and that now Marx also uses, is "The _______est [inanimate object] that ever lived," e.g. the biggest green bean that ever lived, the tastiest curry that ever lived, the fastest processor that ever lived. The other day I told my students that every integer that ever lived was divisible by one. I think they thought I was strange.

[NerdGirl]

One time I was shopping with my friend, and I had diarrhea when we were in Sears, so now whenever one of us has to go twosies, we say we have to go to Sears. Although I guess maybe that's more in the inside joke category, but it certainly has become part of our vocabulary and some of our other friends have started saying it too because they know the story. This is what happens when you are in med school - you talk about poop all the time with everyone.

[yayfulness]

I decided against posting these, but I came up with a few on my mission with my companions. In the MTC, saying you had to do Jeremiah 4:19 (actually 19-21) meant you had to explode the bathroom. Also, after deliberation, my second-to-last companion and I decided that "Lady Gaga" should be a euphemism for anything against the Law of Chastity. I think we converted about half the zone to the phrase.

[Marduk]

Bob's sister has one that really gets on my nerves: as perhaps some sort of exclamation, any activity becomes "all the (X)!" So, if we go eat dinner with her, we're "eating all the dinner!" When she has homework, it becomes "I have all the homeworks!" The problem is it works for just about any activity or situation. "Do you like steak?" "I love all the steaks!"

[yayfulness]

Hijacked meme?

[Emiliana]

This is what happens when you are in med school - you talk about poop all the time with everyone.

This also happened on my study abroad in Zambia. I was living in close quarters with 23 other American students and we aaaaaaall had the runs at some point.

[mic0]

This is what happens when you are in med school - you talk about poop all the time with everyone.

This also happened on my study abroad in Zambia. I was living in close quarters with 23 other American students and we aaaaaaall had the runs at some point.

This is also also what happened on my study abroad in China. Not necessarily that we all had the runs, but we all had issues at one point or another getting used to the food, and also sometimes we ate in REALLY shady places. Good times.

[Dead Cat]

Instead of saying "see you soon" I say "soon you see." Also frequent is saying "hoi polloi" instead of "oy vey" and "gag me with an egg cooker" instead of "gag me with a spoon."

[bobtheenchantedone]

Marduk's sister always says "What do you wish?" instead of "What do you want?"

I have a few interesting speech patterns. Let's see if I can remember any. There are a couple of phrases that I always say in Spanish (and did even before I met Marduk (so they're probably not that accurate)). I (along with several of my family members) always refer to things like running errands together as "going on adventures." I frequently misuse grammar on purpose. My close family and friends get at least half a dozen nicknames each, but sometimes I'll call even a mere acquaintance "sweetie" or "lovely." Using "honey" to refer to someone almost always means I'm being sarcastic. I frequently mispronounce words, though I'm not sure if that counts because it's on accident (seriously though, there are a few that I can never get right).

Sorry I'll stop.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

This is also also what happened on my study abroad in China. Not necessarily that we all had the runs, but we all had issues at one point or another getting used to the food, and also sometimes we ate in REALLY shady places. Good times.

QFT

[Whistler]

I had a roommate who referred to things in her teeth as friends. So after a meal she could ask "any friends?" and smile, and then I could tell her if she had anything stuck in her teeth.

[C is for]

I asked my sister about this, since she's ... got a lot of them.

They say, "What? Know ye not?" a lot

and they call quesadillas "quasis" and broccoli "brock"

And when they're saying bye to each other they'll say:
"Have a good"
and
"Remember who you are! and don't let it get you down!"

And whenever there's a weird noise anywhere (like in the back of the apartment), they'll all say, "Alex," referring to the boy that hides in their storage closet. They did this at our house once. Imagine them saying Alex like David Tennant says "Barrowman" and you'll get it.

[Emiliana]

"Remember who you are! and don't let it get you down!"

Bahahahahaha

[Emiliana]

This is another one that's bordering on inside joke rather than linguistic oddity, but I felt like sharing anyway. Marx talks in his sleep on occasion, and on occasion I can't tell whether he's talking in his sleep or actually trying to tell me something. One particular night he was muttering something moderately incoherent, so I asked him, "Are you asleep?" And he replied, "No, I'm conscience" (instead of "conscious"). So now we use "conscience" to refer to a state of semi-consciousness.

Also, I once woke up around 5am and told Marx, "If you can't drink vodka, you're not free!" I have no idea why. But according to my dream-self, I guess very few people on this forum are free. *shrug*

[krebscout]

Thread resurrection spell.

Sometime near the start of our marriage, Sauron and I invented a word for the act of pulling a blanket/pillow/other object out from partially under the body of a comfortable person, leaving that person all unsettled. "Ribbong" is the word, as in "Don't ribbong me!" The etymology is lost to the foggy mists of time, but I'm pretty sure it came from me pulling a ribbon out from under him.