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I moved to pittsburgh for a while. I remember them calling bologna "jumbo", rubberbands "gumbands", and they coloquially referred to people as yins
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My mom was full of these. Translated from Swedish as best as I am able. Translators notes in parenthesis'. There is no cow on the ice! (with the optional add-on:) As long as the tail is still on the shore. (It's not an issue, it's no big deal). Better a bird in your hand than ten (birds) in the forest. (What you have is preferable to what you may attain, essentially wishing will get you nowhere.) Better a ten in your hand than a twenty in your foot. (A 'ten' here referring to a swedish 10 SEK coin, basically a dollar. A twenty refers to a pitchfork used to transport hay-bales.) A quarter past five is when dad comes home. (I am honestly not sure what this means, because it was used regardless of if my dad was home or not) Do not think, boy, it just bewilders you. (Best not to overthink things. Slightly derogatory or condescending?) Here an owl lies buried. (Something doesn't add up) They have a fox behind the ear. (They are clever). Look out on the hill, ten holes in your neck! (Shouted when going downhill, or on a slide, or similar.) When you speak of the trolls! (with optional add-on:) They are in your entrance-hall. (What a coincidence.) A Swedish Tiger. (En Svensk Tiger is a saying amongst the military which can be translated as both A Swedish Tiger, as in a fierce defender, or a Swedish Person Remains Silent, referring to how to not give away secrets to the enemy in times of war.)
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Mar 4, 2023 16:26
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In Iceland something that is substandard is "not worth many fish"
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Mar 4, 2023 18:09
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Swedish Thaumocracy posted:Better a bird in your hand than ten (birds) in the forest. Ah yeah, we have a similar one here. "One in the hand is worth two in the bush", with essentially the same meaning. Myself and others I know like to alter the saying depending on what we're currently doing/watching/playing, for a chuckle
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Mar 5, 2023 02:14
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widefault posted:Also Wisconsin That's a drat eastern Wisconsin thing, don't lump all of Wisconsin in with that To contribute, upper midwest gets uff da as a general purpose exclamation, could be good, could be bad, it doesn't matter. kdrudy has a new favorite as of 02:23 on Mar 5, 2023 |
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Mar 5, 2023 02:20
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Icochet posted:"Ota kiinni mandariini, osuuskaupan tissiliivi" no loving way lmao
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Mar 5, 2023 02:23
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"Det rycker i vill-ha tarmen" Doesn't translate easily but something like "My want-it-colon is twitching" When you see something you really want.
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Apr 5, 2023 13:47
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Go away out of that, would you go away out of that, W'je g'way ow'a da' I don't believe you/stop that/really? Another excellent Irish one
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Apr 16, 2023 18:12
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ManBoyChef posted:I moved to pittsburgh for a while. I remember them calling bologna "jumbo", rubberbands "gumbands", and they coloquially referred to people as yins "Redd up" is my favorite thing my yinzer relatives say, as in "gotta redd up the house a bit, we got company comin' over". "Go poo poo in a hat" or "go poo poo in the ocean" is pretty common amongst the older second generation Eye Ties around here. I knew two different dudes from New England at different times in my life, and they both used the phrase "oval office hair" as a unit of measurement pretty frequently, without any regard for who they were saying it in front of. Not a second thought. I heard it most frequently when I'd play pool with them: "ahhhhh, missed it by a oval office hair." fwiw both of these guys were real rough trade, the older one being my friends dad. He tried to kill a sheriff's deputy with an axe. He was allowed to leave town forever instead of getting arrested because the other guy started it. The 60s were wild. e: The other guy was super Irish Catholic from the Boston area, and he'd refer to JFK as "our Kennedy". He hated living here "cuz the fuckin' Eye-talians killed our Kennedy." ee: I asked my wife, and her off the boat family were fond of saying "to Hell with you and your mother." As she is fond of saying, it sounds better in Italian. DangerDummy! has a new favorite as of 02:37 on Apr 17, 2023 |
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Apr 17, 2023 02:00
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We say "sweet summer child" to refer to naive people, but it probably only makes sense where I'm from because seasons last several years at a time there
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Apr 17, 2023 02:37
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:We say "sweet summer child" to refer to naive people, but it probably only makes sense where I'm from because seasons last several years at a time there Words are wind
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Apr 17, 2023 13:20
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:We say "sweet summer child" to refer to naive people, but it probably only makes sense where I'm from because seasons last several years at a time there Where I'm from winter lasts years but the other seasons... I've heard of. One is called Sweatnight, I believe
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Apr 17, 2023 13:41
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Seasons in Vermont are now up to six. It goes Spring->summer->fall->stick->winter->mud. Mud's been around for a while, but I only heard about stick season last stick season.
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Apr 17, 2023 13:47
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DangerDummy! posted:e: The other guy was super Irish Catholic from the Boston area, and he'd refer to JFK as "our Kennedy". This is super old Boston Irish poo poo that gets a nod on King of the Hill of all loving things ("Lyndon Johnson killed our Kennedy." in S2E9); I had to Google it and the character who said it (described as "an obnoxious northerner who acts like a southerner") was voiced by Billy West, who grew up in Roslindale. For some reason I was remembering it as Mayor Quimby on The Simpsons. Maybe because he's a parody of Kennedy.
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Apr 17, 2023 17:43
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DangerDummy! posted:I knew two different dudes from New England at different times in my life, and they both used the phrase "oval office hair" as a unit of measurement pretty frequently, without any regard for who they were saying it in front of. Not a second thought. I heard it most frequently when I'd play pool with them: "ahhhhh, missed it by a oval office hair." In Scotland we use ball hair (pronounced "baw hair") for the same thing. Heard, and used, it in loads of situations.
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Apr 17, 2023 21:02
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venus de lmao posted:This is super old Boston Irish poo poo that gets a nod on King of the Hill of all loving things ("Lyndon Johnson killed our Kennedy." in S2E9); I had to Google it and the character who said it (described as "an obnoxious northerner who acts like a southerner") was voiced by Billy West, who grew up in Roslindale. For some reason I was remembering it as Mayor Quimby on The Simpsons. Maybe because he's a parody of Kennedy. Oh man, I completely forgot that episode! That's the only other time I'd heard it at that point. I thought it was just some weird quirk of his, but I also got confirmation from my old boss who was an former Bostonian.
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Apr 18, 2023 02:25
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DangerDummy! posted:"Redd up" is my favorite thing my yinzer relatives say, as in "gotta redd up the house a bit, we got company comin' over". Mine drop the “to be” from sentences. “That shirt needs washed” or “I gotta get up, dinner needs made” On another note, my Baltimore-raised in-laws found it hilarious that George Clooney played a guy named Danny Ocean, and waited for the punchline reveal on that which never came. Baltimore slang for going to the beach is “going down to the ocean”, and in the Baltimore accent it sounds like “goin’ Danny Ocean”
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Apr 18, 2023 05:48
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Swedish Thaumocracy posted:When you speak of the trolls! (with optional add-on:) They are in your entrance-hall. This makes me think of "Speak of the devil", which is also a shortening of "Speak of the devil and the horns appear" and has a similar meaning.
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Apr 18, 2023 07:08
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skeleton warrior posted:Mine drop the “to be” from sentences. “That shirt needs washed” or “I gotta get up, dinner needs made” This doesn't appear to have made many inroads on the west coast yet, but I'm determined to spread the gospel of dropping the unnecessary "to be" from such phrases. "That shirt needs washed" is perfectly unambiguous as well as parsimonious. This is the way of the future.
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Apr 18, 2023 08:27
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referring to a dry spell, 'can't even take a poo poo in a crick'
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Apr 18, 2023 11:44
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People in my area pronounce the word “trough” like “troth,” and when I happened to stumble across the usual pronunciation (“troff”) in the dictionary I legit thought I alone might have been somehow mishearing and mispronouncing this word my entire life, until I eventually found a dictionary that indeed listed “troth” as a hick-rear end regional pronunciation. Also people around here sometimes say “boughten.”
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Apr 22, 2023 01:34
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Australian poo poo here. "Yeah nah" and "nah yeah" both of which can mean yes, no or be an uncertain equivocation depending on tone and context. Also less a saying but there's a swathe of rural Queensland that randomly places "but" at the end of sentences without meaning. To everyone else it sounds like they're never sure of anything but it's just a vocal tic. My dad grew up with it and despite largely removing it it will come out occasionally.
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Apr 22, 2023 22:04
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A Sometimes Food posted:Australian poo poo here. The various stacking of yeah and no in American English is great. Yeah = yes No = no Yeah no = no Yeah Yeah no = yes No Yeah = yes
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Apr 22, 2023 23:00
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:The various stacking of yeah and no in American English is great. Yeah it's pretty similar to that here in South Australia, too. "Yeah nah" is no, "nah yeah" is yes, etc. Really, it's just the final word that tends to matter. So sometimes you'll hear someone saying "oh, yeah nah yeah nah" and that can simply be interpreted as: "No" 
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Apr 24, 2023 10:09
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Often people here say "Jo nä" = "yes no" which then means yes.
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Apr 24, 2023 11:41
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gotta put the garbage out on the devil's strip
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Apr 24, 2023 15:25
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Major Isoor posted:Yeah it's pretty similar to that here in South Australia, too. "Yeah nah" is no, "nah yeah" is yes, etc. What am I, invisible?
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Apr 24, 2023 21:45
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"Shy bairns get nowt" is a local phrase that always ran true for me, as a shy bairn. If we're extending sayings to regionalisms in general, ending sentences with "but", is kind of funny because people from elsewhere will wait for them to finish their sentences, like 'but what?' Also calling women "man", and daughters "son" is kind of endearing, but I sometimes wondered if that's just born out of some sort of patriarchy. Major Isoor posted:Ah yeah, we have a similar one here. "One in the hand is worth two in the bush", with essentially the same meaning.
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Apr 25, 2023 00:52
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A Sometimes Food posted:What am I, invisible? Nah, you're just a Queenslander, by the sound of it!  Speaking of which, is everyone over there an aggro driver? (In the urban areas at least) Since I noticed it a lot over there, whenever I was walking around on my previous trips up that way. I'd walk down a single street and hear heaps of people getting angry at other drivers, honking away etc
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Apr 25, 2023 01:22
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Major Isoor posted:Nah, you're just a Queenslander, by the sound of it! Couldn't tell you, I'm from Perth, my dad's from Queensland is all.
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Apr 25, 2023 06:05
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Don't know about now, but back in the 80s and 90s if you had long hair and wore heavy metal t shirts, ripped jeans etc .. you would have been known as a "freaker". Most other places I've been they would have been called "rockers" but back home it was "freaker". Haven't heard anyone use the term for a long time now, but that's what it was back then.
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