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Double Bass Made Up words.
- Thread starter Petebass
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or 'new and improved'
hmm
if its new then there was no previous version, yet for something to be improved there obviously has to be something to be improved upon?!
hmm
if its new then there was no previous version, yet for something to be improved there obviously has to be something to be improved upon?!
All this making up of words is just recockulous.
I deal with emergency dipatchers at my job. It always irks me to hear someone refer to "premise" as the singular of premises.
I deal with emergency dipatchers at my job. It always irks me to hear someone refer to "premise" as the singular of premises.
"Misunderestimated" = a George W. Bush-ism (like "nucular," except he shares that one with nine-year-olds everywhere), so it's really sad if we actually see that popping up in usage.
"Hella" isn't just a contraction, right? It doesn't really mean "helluva" but is more like "very" or " super" or "really", is that correct? (Spearhead, 1995: "The way to my heart/is through a garlic clove/it smells hella sexy/when it's cookin on the stove.") Kind of like "wicked" amongst the Boston locals: an adverbial intensifier ("the brawl in the Sox/Yankees game was wicked cool!")
After moving back to my hometown recently, I was reminded of southern Indiana's version of the South's "y'all:" a contraction of "you ones" (or something) that comes out "you'uns." As in "You'uns have a good time at the Speedway this weekend." Pair it with another local favorite, the construction "had went" instead of the correct "had gone," and throw in some awkward prepositions, and you're in Hoosier Heaven!
"If you'uns had went to the quarries to swim at instead of the lake, we would've known where you was at!"
"Hella" isn't just a contraction, right? It doesn't really mean "helluva" but is more like "very" or " super" or "really", is that correct? (Spearhead, 1995: "The way to my heart/is through a garlic clove/it smells hella sexy/when it's cookin on the stove.") Kind of like "wicked" amongst the Boston locals: an adverbial intensifier ("the brawl in the Sox/Yankees game was wicked cool!")
After moving back to my hometown recently, I was reminded of southern Indiana's version of the South's "y'all:" a contraction of "you ones" (or something) that comes out "you'uns." As in "You'uns have a good time at the Speedway this weekend." Pair it with another local favorite, the construction "had went" instead of the correct "had gone," and throw in some awkward prepositions, and you're in Hoosier Heaven!
"If you'uns had went to the quarries to swim at instead of the lake, we would've known where you was at!"
"Nucular" was used by both Lyndon Johnson, and Jimmy Carter- who, you may recall, described hisself as a "nucular engineer" ;-)
