Teach me your language

[Ali]

As mentioned in the Icons thread, I would love to learn more about other languages.  Curse words are easy to remember, but really, I like to learn any words.  Vocaroo is a great website for recording voices, which is very helpful with pronunciation.  I guess I'll start since I brought it up, although it seems to me that all of you are more than proficient in English.  Still, fun to say

Curse words:

"Shit" - can mean, literally feces, but can also just be an exclamation of dismay.

http://vocaroo.com/?media=vbwcVrC1yld0qtOJy

"Fuck" -  also just a general term of dismay, but can be used in a multitude of ways (see below)

http://vocaroo.com/?media=vvSgyiswI1C3FfLqm

"What the fuck?" - What does this mean.

http://vocaroo.com/?media=vE1pEkGP9WyWfgETX

"Fuck that." - This is not worth my time.

http://vocaroo.com/?media=v8L24yIBMJJYFVC1j

"Fuck you." - You are not worth my time.

http://vocaroo.com/?media=vu1d6n1rovwJUuXRj

"Damn" - This sucks

http://vocaroo.com/?media=vCyFbvXvAOT4irYg3

"Daaaaaaaaamn" - That's cool or That/She/He/It's Hot

http://vocaroo.com/?media=vBs46qnccIJ0d0ox4

Okay, now you guys.  Teach me!

[The Magic Pudding]

G'day cobber, av sum brecky, I'll see ya in vah arvo.

Hello friend, help yourself to some breakfast, I'll see you this afternoon.

[Ali]

G'day cobber, av sum brecky, I'll see ya in vah arvo.

Hello friend, help yourself to some breakfast, I'll see you this afternoon.

Okay, new rule.  You have to provide some sort of pronunciation guide.  Here is what I came up with on my own:

http://vocaroo.com/?media=vXpedsb3FpMLFzLlU

[Tank]

G'day cobber, av sum brecky, I'll see ya in vah arvo.

Hello friend, help yourself to some breakfast, I'll see you this afternoon.

Okay, new rule.  You have to provide some sort of pronunciation guide.  Here is what I came up with on my own:

http://vocaroo.com/?media=vXpedsb3FpMLFzLlU

This is going to be a wonderful thread!

[Gawen]

G'day cobber, av sum brecky, I'll see ya in vah arvo.

Hello friend, help yourself to some breakfast, I'll see you this afternoon.

Explain to her what a chook sanger is too...*chucklin*

And I'd like to know what the Brit slang "wotcher" means and where it comes from.

[The Magic Pudding]

G'day cobber, av sum brecky, I'll see ya in vah arvo.

Hello friend, help yourself to some breakfast, I'll see you this afternoon.

Explain to her what a chook sanger is too...*chucklin*

And I'd like to know what the Brit slang "wotcher" means and where it comes from.

chook=chicken
sanger=sandwich

Although you didn't ask a rangar is a red head, derived from Orangutan I think, unless it's just from orange.

Ranga eaten a sanga is kind of poetic.

[OldGit]

Wotcher is a corruption of What cheer?, a medieval greeting which originally asked 'what's happening that's good?'.  I don't think it's been understood by most speakers since around Shakespeare's time.

[DeterminedJuliet]

I think I wrote something in "newfienese" before here, but this is another example.

'ey b'y, Whaddayat? I'm crooked as sin because I burnt me toutons and now I got nar ting for breakfast. Stunned as me arse.

Hello, how is it going? I'm annoyed because I burnt my toutons and now I have nothing for breakfast. Boy, I'm dumb.

People also regularly use "Ye" for "Your" or "You". "What are ye up to today?" "Is that ye hat?"
It's fun  

Edit: if you'd like to know what it sounds like, here's a silly youtube video of "ET in Newfoundland" that someone put on Youtube. It's pretty accurate.
http://youtu.be/aXLmCJG9USw

[Anne D.]

Wotcher is a corruption of What cheer?, a medieval greeting which originally asked 'what's happening that's good?'.  I don't think it's been understood by most speakers since around Shakespeare's time.

What a cool greeting.

People here in Texas say "fixing to" to mean they're planning to or about to do something (I'm fixing to go to the store. Do you need anything?). & of course "y'all" for the plural form of "you." (We would say "you guys" where I grew up.)

The magazine Texas Monthly has a kind of tongue in cheek advice column, and in the last issue, there was a letter from a non-native Texas asking at what point it was permissible for a transplant to adopt these expressions. I started using them freely after a couple of years living here but still sometimes feel (like the letter writer) that I could be called out for it by a native Texan.

http://www.texasmonthly.com/2012-02-01/courtney.php

[Cecilie]

I love how this whole thread so far only have native English speakers who have posted.

[Ali]

In fairness, I never would have known what either Pudding or DJ were saying if they hadn't posted the translation.

But yes, it's time for something other than (what passes for) English on this thread.

[Tank]

I think TMP should post himself saying his line!

[Ali]

I agree.   

[Sandra Craft]

People here in Texas say "fixing to" to mean they're planning to or about to do something (I'm fixing to go to the store. Do you need anything?). & of course "y'all" for the plural form of "you." (We would say "you guys" where I grew up.)

When I was much younger and carless I had a boss from Texas who always offered to "carry me home" when it was raining.  "Carry" of course meant "convey someplace" but it aways created a real interesting word picture since she was about half my size and 3 times older. 

Also got my vocabulary broadened watching "The Shield", the phrase sticking in my mind the longest being "bottom bitch": a pimp's most reliable prostitute, the one he could always go to when he hit bottom.  It's also acquired the meaning of "office skank" but I prefer it in the original form.

[Guardian85]

"Vi skåler for våre venner og de som vi kjenner,
og de som vi ikke kjenner dem skiter vi i!"
http://vocaroo.com/?media=vKnxKsCiHHEQ9FIcb

A toast to all our friends and those that we know,
and of those we do not no we don't give a shit.

My favourite norwegian toast.