Do you still have it?

Still use words you grew up with that have friends laughing or saying “huh, what you mean?”

Have you adapted to your surroundings?

I went to LA years ago and they were doing the hand dap snap thing and my boy was like “they looking at you funny cause you didn’t do snap”

no shit, I aint from here, don’t want to fake it and look even worse.

its one of the reasons I loved college. All these people coming together and trading saying and slang.

I’m from the Burgh so we have Pittsburghese.
yinz = yall
pop = soda
buggie = shopping cart
warsh rag = wash cloth
dahntahn = downtown
chumpy = that could mean anything you have. Your hat, coat, girlfriend etc.. my homie made that one up or stole it from a rap song. On the way to school he was like “yo, Imma start calling my hat my chumpy yo” like he was Ghostface talking about Clarks… lol. and we all started running with it.

Growing up I didnt say most of that stuff because my mom was like “don’t say that shit” but when I go home I crack up because it sounds so refreshing and normal to me.

first time i saw the word chumpie was in the Double XX Posse liner notes for Put Ya Boots On

I was like wtf they say that at?

This 90s rapper out in Cali Erule used it in the classic 'Listen Up'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgf_ujr5XrE

But as you can tell from the flow he was highly NY influenced

Spent a lot of my younger years in LA, I didn't like that snap shit either. The majority of people used the hand slap / fist bump combo before I left

but this was like 1990.. maybe early spring 91

the bump part was something mexicans in la and the valley were doing that spread. people on the westside and southbay weren't adding the bump, it was more just 2 part shake and pulling your hand back.

i wanna say mid/late 90s black people started adding the snap, then in the 2000s lotta white people started doing that 'blow it up' thing

it's still all over the place imo. slap(half shake)/bump or just bump seems to be what i see the most lol

you always got that one dude that don't want to use the fist and slaps the outside of your hand like he's a feudal lord dismissing a peasant lol

>you always got that one dude that don't want to use the fist
>and slaps the outside of your hand like he's a feudal lord
>dismissing a peasant lol

it has flattened slang so much. Accents aside... like everyone (young people) talks the same. Everyone uses the same phrases. There have always been certain terms that have become ubiquitous, but now there's just a trove of them. It annoys me.

how Drew talks vs. how Zayna and Dami talk is so different

Flattening of language and culture through social media, I'm sure there will be studies on that if not already

I never really paid attention but wouldnt the age difference play into that as well?

I don’t expect kids to talk the same way old heads talk even if from the same area.

but it wasn’t something that really jumped out to me.

I remember 10 - 15 years ago kids in HS had slang very unique to NY

on the show it's just bro, bro, bro, bro and internet slang

could be the writers too though

edit: also just realized i compared real life to a tv show. i need sleep

I know it took a while for woke to catch on but now we are seeing phrases and slang being bastardized at a much faster rate.

i need some cultural space and partitioning....language was like the last place of refuge...we're losing that.

some white dude is like “what? what was that? I wanna say that around my white friends to know that I’m down”

https://youtu.be/tscEqmEhNqo

hit me with the chumpie slang lol. then it seems like i heard it in a will smith song.

lol

if they know that:

The Square-basically downtown but where two major streets intersect (Trade and Tryon)

The Freight-the city bus. "Imma just hop the freight and get over there"


Shell as hell-Basically means you/they are crazy as hell. I'm guessing its short for shellshocked, but nobody knows exactly when, where or why, lol. But if you say somebody is " 'shell" or " 'shell as hell", dont even fool with em.



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Pop > soda

Shitlins > Chitterlings

Pardon my Midwest upbringing.

Am I the only still calling stuff Jake?

lots of abbreviation (frfr, asl, etc.). emojis that arent immediately intuitive as to their meaning.