10-22-2004, 01:37 PM
|
#1 (permalink) |
|
PowWows.com Addicts
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Fort Washakie,WY
Posts: 3,908
  |
"Native Vocab"
What are some curious words or phrases frequently/over used either in your family or tribe from the English language?? Or maybe they're not even from any particular language.....somehow they just came to be.
EX. I always wondered why the older folks always use the word "heavy set" instead of "fat". Also I wonder why folks around here always use the word "scads" instead of "many".
__________________
"I'd rather be @ a POW-WOW!" Last edited by Furiously-Fancy; 10-22-2004 at 02:15 PM. |
|
|
| Sponsored Links |
|
|
|
10-22-2004, 01:48 PM
|
#2 (permalink) |
|
Cloud Dancer
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Heaven
Posts: 5,676
|
Sumone spring a leak??
Ok where I come from people have a conversation and they say sumthing that they think is strange or they disagree with they Go
TSssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss... whats that about??? It always sounds like they sprung a leak... and I have asked that before, why do you do that and half the people are unaware that they do it... I have even been caught doing it too.. Tsssssssssssssssssssssssss... and white people have caught on to it too.... Tsssssssssssssssss... HolEh.....Too sik!!! rofl thats the phrase that usually comes along with displeasment in our parts. |
|
|
|
|
10-22-2004, 02:20 PM
|
#3 (permalink) |
|
PowWows.com Addicts
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Fort Washakie,WY
Posts: 3,908
|
Another thing that's real common around here among the youth is saying "suuuuuuuuuuhhhhhh", as a cue for "disapproval".
Oh yeah.....I wonder why the old timers say "so and so really got 'worked over'," instead of "so and so really got 'beat up'!"
__________________
"I'd rather be @ a POW-WOW!" |
|
|
|
|
10-22-2004, 02:27 PM
|
#4 (permalink) | |
|
Cloud Dancer
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Heaven
Posts: 5,676
|
Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
10-22-2004, 03:07 PM
|
#5 (permalink) |
|
Senior Dancer
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 686
|
Scads?¿
ive never heard that word before !! lol ill have to keep my ears open see if any one i know used that word my mom used to have some outrageous sayings ~she used to say things like u have one speed granny low ~bol~ she had a few others but i cant remember them now days she just likes to talk like my 9year old nephew witch is way stranger to hear lol |
|
|
|
|
10-22-2004, 05:14 PM
|
#6 (permalink) |
|
Teenah's Too Cool
 
|
OMG, I say "Suh" all the time!! And I didn't realize everybody doesn't say "scads" just scads of times.
I always wondered where "ain't" came from. Is it a contraction between aye (like in aye, aye, cap't) and not? And did "enit" come from "ain't it"? Chay, FF! Something to mull over, huh? What's "mull"? And where did "huh" come from? |
|
|
|
|
10-22-2004, 05:19 PM
|
#7 (permalink) | |
|
~Brown Sugar~
|
Quote:
Ya i hear that a lot too, also Holay and Ennit
__________________
...GoT GreaSe?... www.Grease.It.Ayye.com RezinInc     *Kalilsha* |
|
|
|
|
|
10-22-2004, 05:48 PM
|
#8 (permalink) |
|
Gangster of Love
 
|
 Yeah.... there are certain words or phrases that I associate with different people and ususally give em a rough time over. Won't mention the persons name ..... but they say... "Got Dang" and "whay" :taunting: :rofl2:There is this one otter person (won't mention any names here..lol)that follows some of my posts with a "you ain't right or "ow.":Tongue :chatter: Then there is Delia that says "ever sick" when I tell her something..  Leonard Malatare has his " it ain't gonna get no gooder than this eh?" when he is MC'ing. There are some I know that say..... "you wanna go with? " or "you wanna come with?" :Thinking... go or come with what? where? huh???? :Tongue
__________________
   "We see it as a desecration not only of a mountain but of our way of life. This is a genocidal issue to us. If they kill this mountain, they kill our way of life." ~Debra White Plume |
|
|
|
|
10-22-2004, 06:06 PM
|
#9 (permalink) | |
|
Got Ice?
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: N. Carolina
Posts: 10,823
|
Quote:
__________________
 ~Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday~
|
|
|
|
|
|
10-22-2004, 06:12 PM
|
#10 (permalink) |
|
Got Ice?
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: N. Carolina
Posts: 10,823
|
Another one, Chop Chop, for hurry up and do it quick..
My Dad used this one.. maybe he picked it up when he was in the Navy back in the 40's. and A-#1 OK.. for the best! When you ask someone how they are (mostly country folks) they say Fair to Middlen... this comes from back in the cotton/tobacco days.. used to grade cotton/tobacco at market.
__________________
~Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday~
|
|
|
|
|
10-22-2004, 06:27 PM
|
#13 (permalink) |
|
Cloud Dancer
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Heaven
Posts: 5,676
|
PC crashed during post
Ok.. AHH frustration..lol..
My kids have this habit... when they are frustrated they add the AHH sound to every word.... when excaliming they dont want to do something it sounds like this... NoAhhh.. i tell them Noah dont live here and he isnt apart of this convo... when they exclaiming thier sisters name it sounds like this... "But ChristineAH...... or StarAH... and so on... I have observed other kids do it too, like my nephews and neices.... Just dont get why..lol it sounds weird. |
|
|
|
|
10-23-2004, 04:16 AM
|
#14 (permalink) |
|
Space Cowboy
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Alaska
Posts: 9,618
|
Ok I do it to my kid (and the dog) cause my mom always did it to us, and i have heard my aunties do it and my grandma... but it's this kinda broken aa aa aa when a kid is doing something they are'nt supposed to and you want them to just stop, freeze in their tracks right there and then... like say a toddler is picking up a very expensive glass knick knack and mom would come rushing over going" aa aa aa aa aa " in a distressed no no tone, really fast too. Actually it sounds like a bluejay cry LOL!
__________________
Don't worry that it's not good enough for anyone else to hear... just sing, sing a song. 
|