Words and dialectal features I've invented/stolen
One of the neat things about being an amateur linguist is that I notice the (rapid!) change of my idiolect. Here's some words/features that I've picked up since I started noticing, (sort of) organized by source.
Self:
>Saying bloody instead of fucking. I actually got into the habit surprisingly fast - it took less than a week and now bloody is my default strong swear word.
>misuse of auxiliaries: "I know any music theory" instead of "I know some music theory" - this is fairly regular.
>Are you high?
>Apparently - I use this to mean "I got this from a source and I don't comment on the source's reliability". and I use this all the time. (Yay evidentialities!)
>Barf!
>nnnnngggh - annoyed interjection with variable spelling.
Other people:
>FTW (Jessi)
>"just a sex" as a (purposeful) typo of "just a sec" (Tyler)
>mrr, mrrfle, mrowr (just in IM/email, rarely spoken) (saizai)
>no worries (arujei)
>"mhm" instead of "mmhmm" (Tyler)
>ggeh - annoyed interjection (saizai)
>sok or s'ok "it's okay" (saizai, iirc)
>Love! - happy interjection (TN)
>squee(eeeeee....) - another happy interjection (saizai)
>shiny - cool in a particularly geeky/badass/awesome way (saizai)
>"[mildly unpleasant thing]! Oh boy!" (Doug)
>"Yeah, no, definitely!" (John)
>"The musical this year is South Pacific, which...yecch." - this particular usage of "which" (TN)
Self:
>Saying bloody instead of fucking. I actually got into the habit surprisingly fast - it took less than a week and now bloody is my default strong swear word.
>misuse of auxiliaries: "I know any music theory" instead of "I know some music theory" - this is fairly regular.
>Are you high?
>Apparently - I use this to mean "I got this from a source and I don't comment on the source's reliability". and I use this all the time. (Yay evidentialities!)
>Barf!
>nnnnngggh - annoyed interjection with variable spelling.
Other people:
>FTW (Jessi)
>"just a sex" as a (purposeful) typo of "just a sec" (Tyler)
>mrr, mrrfle, mrowr (just in IM/email, rarely spoken) (saizai)
>no worries (arujei)
>"mhm" instead of "mmhmm" (Tyler)
>ggeh - annoyed interjection (saizai)
>sok or s'ok "it's okay" (saizai, iirc)
>Love! - happy interjection (TN)
>squee(eeeeee....) - another happy interjection (saizai)
>shiny - cool in a particularly geeky/badass/awesome way (saizai)
>"[mildly unpleasant thing]! Oh boy!" (Doug)
>"Yeah, no, definitely!" (John)
>"The musical this year is South Pacific, which...yecch." - this particular usage of "which" (TN)