[ SECRET POST #2122 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2122 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

01. http://oi50.tinypic.com/avj4fd.jpg

[creambun]

It probably would. However, this book looks interesting enough for me to put it on my list (a nice accomplishment considering I'm not a big YA reader), so thanks for this secret :>

OP

[(Anonymous)]

My pleasure. Prepare yourself for some horror, though.

[fingalsanteater]

Aw. That's cute. I use outdated slang sometimes just because that's what is in my vocabulary for some reason. I'd probably want to add 'pie face' in there too if I were you. Pie face. Heeee.

[tyger66]

I don't do 20's slang, but I've been using rad since I found out it was a word (which was a looong time after it fell out of use), so who cares, use the words YOU want to use!

[sondheimmcgeek]

Aw, I like '20s slang too :)

[forgottenjester]

I use slang from different time periods and countries on occasion. They just slip out and no one seems to mind.

Though if you called me pie face I would think you were calling me ugly. I may make an exception for pumpkin pie face simply because, come on, pumpkin pie.

[(Anonymous)]

Swell story, doll.

[brightblueink]

Haha, I've occasionally used 1920s slang ever since I got into Chrono Crusade. It's darb.

[elephantinegrace]

I'm only here to cheer that someone else likes Libba Bray.

[(Anonymous)]

I totally get you. I want to add "old sport" to my regular vocabulary and English is not even my native language xD

[la_petite_singe]

You should clearly join Boardwalk Empire fandom, stat.

what's your favorite dated slang?

[(Anonymous)]

What floats your boat, FS?

My personal favorites are kicks, swell, rad, the big cheese, spiffy, swanky, the boonies, wiggin', and damn skippy.

Re: what's your favorite dated slang?

[forgottenjester]

Wait, people don't use spiffy anymore?

Well shit, there's another one.

[(Anonymous)]

...isn't "pie face" a slur against asians?

[blueonblue]

You wouldn't sound like a hipster. Not at all.

[khronos_keeper]

Ah, I ran into something like this, so I feel you. I grew up saying things like, "Nifty-keen", "swell", "neat", calling guys I don't know, "joe", stuff like that. I successfully squelched most of it when I went to college.

But then I started reading Philip Marlowe books, and it jogged my speech quirks and saying stuff like "swell," and ended up getting some snorts from my more modern-inclined friends.

[alexi_lupin]

Now I wanna start saying 'jake' and 'the berries'. I reckon you should just go for it OP. If anyone asks, just say you read it in a book and liked the sound of it.

[(Anonymous)]

this book seriously made me wanna be a flapper and use the slang.

[(Anonymous)]

Ignoring the fact that pie face is actually a racist term for asians/native alaskians? Yeah, you probably would once people figured out what you were saying. Thing is a lot of people wouldn't actually get what you were saying. Face it, most people would think you were talking about a person if you used the term 'Jake', and people are going to assume you're calling someone a slutty girl if you say someone's a bimbo than calling someone a tough guy.

Sorry OP, but roughly 90 years have passed since most of those slang terms were really relevant so a lot of the words have changed meaning and connotation* since then, so most people just flat out what get what you're talking about a lot of the time.

*And generally they've changed to be more insults/slurs than not - plus, you might want to make *very* sure what you're saying means what you think it means, since standards for what was acceptable were vastly different at the time.

[broadwaybabe11.livejournal.com]

I'm reading this book right now! I haven't got very far into it, though, since I've been busy doing theatre /:

[rocks_not_dead]

Omg. I need to read this book.

[elialshadowpine]

... I didn't realize this was out yet! I've loved some of the other things I've read by her. *wanders off to library to put on hold since last she checked it was not even in the system*

[ladysugarquill]

Something that worked for me: you could start by picking one word, and using it. Everybody has verbal quirks, so most people will let it pass. Once our friends are so used to it they no longer notice it, add another. And another.

It worked for me, my non-English-speaking friends don't find the random English words I pepper the conversation with strange. They've even started using some of them.

(And if the meaning is not clear, you can repeat the equivalent in English after the word. I trained my parents to respond to simple fangirl!japanese using this method when I was younger.)

[(Anonymous)]

I tend to like some 1950s slang m'self :p