Recently, a friend of mine asked me to read a book called Clockwork Orange. I had never heard of the book before although I asked around and apparently the movie is more recognised but that's besides the point.

As i started reading i was dumb-struck at the amount of made-up slang the author used called "nadsat". This is a powerful literacy device designed to distance the reader from Alex, the narrator, to make it seem like the things he did (have a threesome with two drunk 10 year olds etc) seem less horrible.

Some examples of "nadsat" are 'malchick' which means a guy, derived from 'male chick'. 'Droog' is Russian for friend but he uses it anyway as slang.

So the question i ask you all is this, have you made up your own personal slang, what are they and how did you think them up?

One of my best mates is from Belarus, so we actually use alot of slang, like "droog", alot of it's swear words, and for all we know he's calling us ungodly things but hey, it sounds cool :D

much of the slang i use involves scots, i.e foosty (disgusting)

although It changes alot, usually depending on the accent we're mucking about in.

I feel i'm rambling on. I feel indecisive. please tell me to stop

SMITEAGE! = my slang for "BUUUUURNED!", "OWNED!", etc.
Communist = general nonsensical term used in place of things like "jew," "gay," "(insert minority here)" etc. (ie. "We have a huge project due a week after it's assigned? That's so communist.")

Duck Sandwich:
SMITEAGE! = my slang for "BUUUUURNED!", "OWNED!", etc.
Communist = general nonsensical term used in place of things like "jew," "gay," "(insert minority here)" etc. (ie. "We have a huge project due a week after it's assigned? That's so communist.")

Heh, I use the word "Fascist" like that. Like at work "Dude, you go on the unit." "Bah, making me work, you fascist.." Its all good.

A friend of mine and me are calling each other "Hoschi", as in the german dub of "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure".
I think the correct term in the Original is just "Dude", but since "Hoschi" is made up by the translators and is, to my knowlege, not part of any german slang, it's awesome.

Btw. i use the word awesome in german sentences...a lot.

Also, we have a saying that goes "Das funktioniert nur zu Drei-Vierteln, Hoschi" ("That only works out for three quarters") to point out any sort of flawed plan and/or action

Yassen:

As i started reading i was dumb-struck at the amount of made-up slang the author used called "nadsat". This is a powerful literacy device designed to distance the reader from Alex, the narrator, to make it seem like the things he did (have a threesome with two drunk 10 year olds etc) seem less horrible.

well it's not much a slang as it is the language they speak, it's a combo of russian and school boy speak. the author actually is a linguist and created the language spoken in the movie quest for fire, desmond morris did the body language of it.

as for the book there are 2 versions, the american which ends in the hospital which the movie is based on and the british version which ends at the korova milk bar. kubrick didn't know about that extra chapter and was rather pissed he didn't know about it, it gives the book a whole different meaning

as for the movie, that scene with the young girls is one of the funniest sex scenes in any movie. they don't portray them as 10 year old girls, just younger women.

"BURNiNATED!"
Or about as usually, "Gotcha!"

My dialect, spoken, not written/typed, comes from three things. Most of my developmental years, 10-14, were spent in a literally all black community, as such I'm very fluent in the slang of such a crowd. The second third of my dialect comes from Lewis Carol's writings, often using terms such as frumious, with a smattering of grunge talk. (excessive use of "dude")
And the last piece comes from my extensive knowledge of grammar and english literaure...So generally, hearing me talk is quite an event.

Skanger/Scumbag - term for someone very common
Hippie - someone who likes rock or metal music
Gick'na (pronounced gick-nah) - idiot
Gick - another word for faeces
Bollox - Testicles
Shitehawk (pronounced shite-hawk) - Idiot or asshole
Story horse - Hello
Y'allrigh' - Hello

Sparkly-elf:

Hippie - someone who likes rock or metal music

that one could get you in trouble, hippies and metal don't mix, much like hippies and soap

i'd dare say it could get you beat up in some places, much like going to a man u game wearing a liverpool fc shirt and singing "you'll never walk alone"

I created 'lol'. No, seriously, I did...

j-e-f-f-e-r-s:
I created 'lol'.

sadly i've run into ppl that say "lol" when they want to laugh

cleverlymadeup:

j-e-f-f-e-r-s:
I created 'lol'.

sadly i've run into ppl that say "lol" when they want to laugh

I usually respond to that by having my fist get intimate with their gut.

Mainly spoonerisms adopted from my inebriated brother personally. He came out with "Hanley Manshake" once, which we promptly appropriated. Another time he typoed "Knonk", which we thought was a great word, and strove to think of a meaning for. We settled on 'to headbutt while under the influence'.

I generally just utilize my vocabulary, but I use a fair amount of slang. Here's a guide.
What?: Nani desuka, wtf mate, what in zombie Jesus, *pardon
Fuck! (I don't really swear): Curses, damnation, curses and damnations, blast, bollocks
Friend: Buddy ol' chum, mate, **babe, dearest
Problem: Sticky wicket, *conundrum, bit of a pickle, dash of trouble
Really?: For ser G (I got this from a friend, it means 'For serious, Gangsta?' I believe.)
Great: Groovy, spiffing, boss, *splendid, bitchin' (got that one from American Graffiti)

*Not actually slang, but I say it so casually and nobody else says it to the extent I included it here.
**Only used in the context of 'thanks babe' which I absorbed from Shaun of the Dead.

I don't really have any slang that I use myself, but one of my good friends and some other guys he knows use these:

Chooch - loser, idiot, moron, etc.

Weeb'em - (pronounced "wee-um" - they heard some crazy drunk dude outside a bar say it once) a general exclamation, like "Damn!"

Bitzes - one of them was drunk and meant to say "bitches" but said this instead. now they use it all the time.

(When I die) "Son of a.. Capulet!"
(When I die somehow else) "Son of a.. Montague!"

I also say 'Ta ra' instead of goodbye. Don't know why, or where it came from.

I use a mash of various lingual oddities from all over the place. Geek humour, slang and dialects from various cultures and times and movies. I'll tell someone that got screwed over somehow or tricked that they got 'seriously duck/rickrolled.'

My 'exclamation' of choise is "Sweet fancy Moses!" or "Sweet Zombie Jesus!" for most of the time, or 'Holy trees with dicks!' for amusement's sake.

I use terms like 'old son' and such when referring to friends.

THere's more, but it's harder to think of them then to just use them!

Greenoakian slang -
Mop- Long Haired person
Basa - Bastard
Bollocks - Balls
Skyting/Fly - Dodgy/Crafty
Skyte - Miss or Bastard
Skidge/Skive - Truant (?)
Wanker - jerk off
Ba'Heid - Dick head or Baldie
Twat - numerous meanings

One word I accidentally made up is "Chubi" which happened when I was trying to type bitch (in a non offensive way) into the predictive text in my phone. I sent chubi by mistake and I decided it worked pretty good.

Another fantastic source of slang is the "Ross O' Carroll Kelly" series of books. It's huge here in ireland, and follows the life of a fictonal rugby jock. He is from the south side of the city of Dublin, which has a reputation for being upper class people (where the north of dublin is more deprived). Ross and his friends use a self invented rhythming slang. My favourite slangs are the period (as in a womans period) slangs. I use these to ask girls if it's that time of the month without them knowing if they're a little cranky. Anywho they are the following

"Are you taking part in a period costume drama?" (obvious enough, the one i use the least)

"Are you flying the flag for Japan?" (I love this one, it's excellent!)

"Munster must be playing at home" (An Irish only one I think, Munster are a rugby team here, who wear red when they play at home. All Irish people know this so it works pretty well)

Use the japan one, see if you get away with it!

I speak Deeptongue.

I mainly use Yorkshire slang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_dialect_and_accent)

however, most of the stuff I use is generated from specific in-jokes from various TV shows and bizarre behaviour of myself and friends.

"proper bo" from Bo' Selecta's Craig David, means "it's very good"
"AHOY" means, well, hello. Used in greeting, the louder the volume the better.
"Nudge Nudge Wink Wink say no more" from the monty Python sketch, can be used to highlight accidental or deliberate double entendre's or to follow on from someone accidentally saying a line from said sketch.
"SKETCH!" (must be accompanied by appropriate hand motion). from the Rip-Slyme song "joint" this is said for no reason whatsoever, just like in the song.
"Smeg" from Red Dwarf, means an infinate number of swear words.

k_rafftry:
My favourite slangs are the period (as in a womans period) slangs. I use these to ask girls if it's that time of the month without them knowing if they're a little cranky.

My favourite slang for a heavy period is "Jam on Toast"

It came from a friend who'se missus was heavy one month, and he commented that it looked like "Jam on burnt toast", which got shortened.

My slang isn't so much as something I just came up with but that far too common occasion when my mind is somewhere else and I say two words mixed together. Instead of Oh Boy! I said Oh Doy! once and no one will let me live it down. I have others but I'd really not get going on it..lol >.<' I get enough slack here for it.

^_^

I don't really have a slang so much as I curse in languages I don't speak, like Greek and Japanese and German and... you get it. The only slang I have is a bit of a surfer dude speak, and no-one knows why, since I hate the ocean.

I tend to work a lot of British swear words and the like into my conversations, mainly because I've watched the complete series of Monty Python's Flying Circus more times than is strictly healthy. I also occasionally slip in a German word or two, because it's just a fun language to get angry in, and I spent four years learning it in high school. My favorite english swear word is either "Fuck" or "Godsdammit," the latter because it brings all of the various pantheons and divine beings that have ever existed against the thing that has earned my wrath, rather than just one measly god.

I tend to use slang from the north of England, seeing as how that's where I'm from.

Stuff like:

Nowt -Nothing
Owt -Anything
Reet -Alright
Eyup -Hello

I also tend to use "Y'wot?" rather a lot, favorite exclamation is: "Ecky thump!"

I like 'Surfing the crimson tide' for period slang.

i use

'i beg to differ' instead of no and 'indeed' instead of any affirmative word

'hey ultrajoe'
'indeed'
'indeed? thats weird dude'
'i beg to differ'

and i grunt, alot, 50% of my vocabulary is very information-rich grunts.

MRMIdAS2k:

"AHOY" means, well, hello. Used in greeting, the louder the volume the better.

also the term we were going to use when answering the phone but alexander graham bell chose the dutch version of hello

hello wasn't a greeting until the phone came around and even then it was just a way to test that the line was clear and properly made. it was originally used to judge the distance from shore when it was dark and/or foggy

this is also why mr burns says "ahoy hoy" when answering the phone in the simpsons, it's a nod to "ahoy hoy" being the phone greeting instead of hello.

cleverlymadeup:
this is also why mr burns says "ahoy hoy" when answering the phone in the simpsons, it's a nod to "ahoy hoy" being the phone greeting instead of hello.

I always wondered what the hell was going on whenever he said that! Thanks!

boob/tit
gay
50p ((instead of bollocks)blame the swear box)
Oh Muh Guh
PWNED!
OWNED!
Fuck-tard
*laughing* that's not funny
hobo/homo
dirty germ(an)
badword
*random spluttering*

I tend to say Blimey and Kinell to state my exasperation or surprise about something. I also use the words daft, boyo, AWE-SOME (said in a fairly high tone and almost musically) and joker a hell of a lot.

HOWEVER, I do not refer to my hometown as G-Town unlike half of the town's population (who need to be shot most of the time)

No offence to anyone on this board who lives there but, most of you would think the same anyway.

I have a tendancy to add unnessecary endings to words, and I haven't the foggiest idea why.

"Indeedy", "Neatorama", etc.

"Monkeyflipper"