Ughh. I spent all day in bed doing AP homework. I would have gone to school, except when I woke up my feet were so swollen that I couldn't walk. Yayyyy airshow.
It turns out I did my math wrong due to Monster buzz and I actually worked for about 27 hours this weekend. My feet spent all that time laced up tight in my combat boots (which I literally beat to death, the soles on each foot are cracked beyond repair) and I broke three toes (two on the right, one on the left) and I think I have a stress fracture in the ball of my foot on the right. My feetsies are not happy campers.
Along with the sadness of having to retire my combat boots, which have been my trusty, sexy, rugged, go-to shoes for the past three years, I feel ugly and stupid and gross and its just been one of those days :P
Anyway.
Today, since I've been starved for human contact, I started thinking about speech patterns and isms. Like, I have little Juliaisms that I use when I speak; the most obvious ones are that I say "yo" like a skate kid and "n shit" after many of my sentences.
ex: "Yo, are we gonna hit up Chipotle n shit?"
I also noticed today while talking to Fsb that he has some Wsbisms, because they used to be so tight and all. And Wsb used to always say that I had the Isms of his ex fiance (because I knew her for about seven years before he did). And it got me thinking about my own isms and how half of them aren't even mine, they're assimilated from the isms of my friends.
I started thinking about how I write with certain isms that I never use in speech, and how other bloggers have their writing isms, and then I started wondering if their writing isms were anything like their speaking isms and then I wanted to have a massive blogospehere conversation so I could find out.
What are your isms?
Julia
Sad to say, but sometimes I have Valley Girl-isms intermingled with a few of my go to words.
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ReplyDeleteI tend to mix 50's lingo, surfer lingo, and weird hip-hop lingo that I barely understand. Such as, "Well gee whiz, that's rad!! Grapes Of Wrath is a pretty sweet book, fo shizzle!!"
ReplyDeleteI mean, not every sentence, but I like to throw in bizarre adjectives. I don't think people get I'm using the ghetto slang ironically though...
I definitely use 50's and 60's slang that no one understands... like 'swank'
ReplyDeleteHa ha I loved this post. As always. You're amazing. I'm sorry you feel bad. I would try to tell you to cheer up because I think you're awesome, but I'm worried it would float right over your head.
ReplyDeleteI don't exactly have many weird isms, I don't think. I use a lot of adverbs, but I always end every sentence in "man," "my brother," or "motherfucker." I don't even know. I need someone to tape one of my conversations secretly so I can see how I talk. I'm usually so high that I have no idea what's going on.
Bye!
I live in the middle of lacrosse central so I always call my guy friends 'bro' and any variation of it. I also have the 'n shit' thing going on and I call everyone nicknames that they aren't even called out side of my world. And I'm always throwing in cali slang like 'hella' and random spanish words.
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