I heard up in norcal people say shit like 'nasty' as in good. Example: "man you should check out those dudes, their style is mad nasty".

Hella/Hecka are so freakin bad, I lived in sac town for a while and it bugged me so much. Then It started rubbin off on me. The ridicule of my friends back in So cal broke that habit pretty quick though.

Realpenguin

8253 Posts

November 14 2009 02:06 GMT

#44

On November 14 2009 10:44 Mastermind wrote:

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hella is the worst word ever. No other word bothers me more than that word.

i'm in norcal. born and raised here.
i use "hella" several times per day even though i've been trying to avoid it. it's hella annoying

and like Xeris said, people use the word "like" a lot. some of my friends are adding "beast" to their vocabulary as well.
"so like, did you see the Warriors game last night?"
"yeah like they were hella beast man"

snorlax

United States755 Posts

November 14 2009 02:11 GMT

#45

+5 I'm from cali. I just learned to except it.

alffla

Hong Kong20321 Posts

November 14 2009 02:18 GMT

#46

intersting read

Dark.Carnival

United States5095 Posts

November 14 2009 02:22 GMT

#47

we'll be okay in california, unless we adopt the use of y'all. then we will have problems.

d3_crescentia

United States4054 Posts

November 14 2009 02:32 GMT

#48

On November 14 2009 09:16 Pressure wrote:

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im from the east coast and we use "mad ___" like "that's mad cool"
i guess thats an east coast thing? or is that just something people all over use... cause i see this could be the counterpart to "hella" over in the west

living on the east coast I have never heard that shit in my life

n.DieJokes

United States3443 Posts

November 14 2009 02:45 GMT

#49

I use "dude" way to much and often inappropriately

meeple

Canada10211 Posts

November 14 2009 02:57 GMT

#50

Same way people get rid of accents, hard work and constant vigilance. Or electroshock therapy. I'll be glad to help with the second.

Ducci

United States588 Posts

November 14 2009 03:00 GMT

#51

hella

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

November 14 2009 03:20 GMT

#52

btw, op was a typo he meant to put this http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=105540

Pressure

7326 Posts

November 14 2009 03:21 GMT

#53

On November 14 2009 11:32 d3_crescentia wrote:

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living on the east coast I have never heard that shit in my life

are you serious? wtf?
where are you from? im nyc

Husky

United States3362 Posts

November 14 2009 03:31 GMT

#54

Just remember, every time you say 'like' in the incorrect way you make yourself look like a slightly overweight bleach-blond chick with super over-sized white sun glasses.

Kyuukyuu

Canada6263 Posts

November 14 2009 03:34 GMT

#55

On November 14 2009 08:47 Mickey wrote:
I'm sorry to hijack this thread, but making a new blog about this seems a little too much. Does anyone remember this video series about a college girl being addicted to WOW, I think it was posted a couple years back on here, but I couldn't find it. I remember in one video shes eating a McDonald's ice cream cone with a straw.

Also, just stop saying it.

The Guild?

bigsack

Korea (North)220 Posts

November 14 2009 03:37 GMT

#56

What about the word "tight"? Growing up in norcal, in schools people (as well as me) would use that word. For example, "that's hella tight man!," "fucken tight man!" It just bascially mean "cool" or "awesome." I don't use that word no more though, grew out of it. Also another word people would use in school is "my bad." It just basically means, "my mistake" or "sorry." I think people use "my bad" in a way to apologize, but not to show that their weak directly. Used to say, "like, hella, heckla, freaken" alot growing up, but not as much anymore. I guess for me to stop using these words because in college and how I deal with professional adults, I'm forced to speak formally.

I don't have any advice for you to stop saying "like," but you can like keep trying to remind yourself to stop saying it after everytime you say it just to register that into your head everytime you make that mistake. I'm sure your subconscious will eventually register that in and you'll be aware everytime you're about to say it.

Amnesia

United States3818 Posts

November 14 2009 03:41 GMT

#57

hella

SpiritoftheTunA

United States20903 Posts

November 14 2009 03:41 GMT

#58

sketch, like, legit, and dude are pretty much universal by now

hella = norcal
mad = new york
wicked = boston(ish)

Ry-Masta-T

United States478 Posts

November 14 2009 04:12 GMT

#59

Central Coast > Norcal > Socal

Mickey

United States2606 Posts

November 14 2009 04:17 GMT

#60

On November 14 2009 12:34 Kyuukyuu wrote:

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The Guild?

No. It was some spoofy humorous series, compromised of 4 or 5 videos. I think it was a satire, but it seemed real to me. Thanks, for replying though. I appreciate it.