"What you saying?" -- How do you answer to that?

[GraphicMatt]

Don't worry - I was kidding! I actually really like Wheel of Fortune.

 

[sungs]

Proposal to rename site UrbanTdot.

 

[afransen]

Sorry folks if you think it makes me an old man to not acknowledge a silly greeting I've never heard before that isn't even grammatically correct. It makes the person using it look like a poseur in my book. Usually when I use that kind of slang it's ironic, to mock poseurs.

 

[jn_12]

again I ask, do you respond when someone says "how's it goin?" or "what's up?" Neither of those make sense in any way, but we've come to understand them as terms that are synonymous with "How are you?"

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

[video=youtube;7vmknnXoOJk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vmknnXoOJk[/video]

 

[detroitbootybass]

This thread got a bit ugly and uncomfortable really quickly - eek!

 

[MetroMan]

Yeah.. it was an honest question lol

 

[afransen]

again I ask, do you respond when someone says "how's it goin?" or "what's up?" Neither of those make sense in any way, but we've come to understand them as terms that are synonymous with "How are you?"

Fair enough. At least these make some grammatical sense and aren't missing a verb. "How's it going?" isn't nonsense--'it' is ambiguous, sure, but it doesn't literally mean something completely different than the slang.

I suppose I don't see the need to use a grammatically incorrect, nonsense greeting when a simple 'hi' would do. Sorry, you're not going to convince me. Might as well greet people with "Elephant farts tree".

 

[MetroMan]

Looks like this is getting into a generational argument.

While some slang does make me cringe (dis, dat, da instead of this, that, the... grrrr!!), I understand that it's perfectly normal to the younger generation just like "cool" was normal to us in the 80's. Back then, I bet older folks wondered what the temperature had to do with something being great.... yet we used (and still use) the term.

 

[khris]

That sounded like a jab towards me GraphicMatt. I'm not complaining, I'm looking to keep up so I don't end up like the old man on my street that we all wondered if he had been a kid before.

Khristopher: the reason why I wanted to know more about this term is because I've seen regular people use it, not just "ghetto people or teenagers" like you say. The person who asked me "What you saying?" in the elevator was a twenty something guy in a suit.

You can be ghetto and still wear a suit. When I say ghetto, I usually mean the stereotypical rap listening people who smoke weed and like fast cars and chicks who look like they make porn.
None of my friends talk like this. I don't think it's a generational thing if you ask me. I think it's more of a cultural thing. If you take people from the time that this phrase came about, the majority in that age group probably don't say it, and probably never have.

 

[adma]

What you talking about, Willis?

 

[Urban Shocker]

person: "What you sayin'?"

me: "`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe."

 

[Cast_Member]

I may be showing my age (I'm 30) but I seriously don't know what to reply to that.

You actually think you are old? You are not.

 

[jn_12]

You can be ghetto and still wear a suit. When I say ghetto, I usually mean the stereotypical rap listening people who smoke weed and like fast cars and chicks who look like they make porn.
None of my friends talk like this. I don't think it's a generational thing if you ask me. I think it's more of a cultural thing. If you take people from the time that this phrase came about, the majority in that age group probably don't say it, and probably never have.

no wonder you spell your name with a K.

 

[khris]

no wonder you spell your name with a K.

My parents did, not me. And can you try not to be personal? It's not going to get you anywhere.