Slang SurveyWhat new bit of language are you hearing at the moment? We want to hear words and phrases, with definitions and where it's being used. We're interested in marketing speak, stuff from kids in playgrounds etc.
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rob, Sun 1 Feb 2004, 14:00)
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The Judeo-Christian tradition...Seems to play a big part in my current selection of expletives.
"Sweet baby Moses in a bulrush basket!..." - a good one for when a situation is so surprising that other words fail you.
"Jesus suffering FUCK..." - useful for similar situations which actually require profanity.
"Skin chimney" - um. Ladybits. You know. Down there. [blush]
"Change at Baker Street" - to make the transition from the pink line to the brown one. Or from the skin chimney to the Hershey highway.
"What the yellow rubbery ARSE is going on here?" - splendid, if blatantly stolen from Stephen Fry. But it has a mellifluity all its own.
Then there are the legions of examples from management NewSpeak. My favourite is the euphemism "Sub-optimal", as in "this department is performing sub-optimally". It really means, "this department is abject shite, and everyone working in it is a shit-brained, mong-fucking oxygen thief who should be sacked immediately".
(, Wed 4 Feb 2004, 20:11, Reply)
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