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    Have you ever.....

    ...come across a phrase/word on TV, books, or on-line which you then found had worked its way into your normal vocabulary?

    I have. A few weeks after rereading The Moon is a Harsh Mistress I found myself using the Loonie phrase "Ja Da" in place of "yes".
    Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
    -Richard Dawkins
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    All I can say is never read A Clockwork Orange and anything by James Joyce in the same week. If your brain assimilates vocabulary no one will ever be able to understand you ever again.
    A witty quote proves nothing. - Voltaire

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      **** me! Really killed this thread! Even by my standards I think this might be a record. Dead, only 2 minutes after creation. Definately a personal best....
      A witty quote proves nothing. - Voltaire

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      • #4
        I find myself using a lot of phrases from the internet for comic effect; all those leet speak expressions and stuff like that.
        "Paul Hanson, you should give Gibraltar back to the Spanish" - Paiktis, dramatically over-estimating my influence in diplomatic circles.

        Eyewerks - you know you want to visit. No really, you do. Go on, click me.

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        • #5
          It's difficult to say. I often find new words popping into my vocabulary, and I usually don't know where they came from.
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          • #6
            A Long Island woman in my office always, when telling stories, uses the phrase "Well, P.S...." before going on a slight tangent or explaining a detail. Now other people have started to use it, including the company president. I am resisting as much as possible! Must...not...give...in...!
            Tutto nel mondo è burla

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            • #7
              Originally posted by loinburger

              ....I usually don't know where they came from.
              Good! The experiments can continue then....
              A witty quote proves nothing. - Voltaire

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              • #8
                You mean like:

                You blockhead!

                D'oh!

                Sorry about that, Chief.

                Whatzzup?

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                • #9
                  i've been using 'wutang' alot lately. just got done with the new discworld novel, and i'm sure 'crivens!' is a candidate for assimilation. that or any of the feegle's rather ... extensive vocabulary.
                  I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.
                  [Brandon Roderick? You mean Brock's Toadie?][Hanged from Yggdrasil]

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                  • #10
                    Not really, though I have picked up words and phrases from a Yorkshire mate.
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                    • #11
                      Sweety-Darling (from Absolutely Fabulous)

                      D'Oh! (Simpsons)

                      It is hot, hot, hot, just like Rudolfo. (Simpsons - great episode, by the way)
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                      • #12
                        Catch-22.

                        That's in addition to ones such as DMZ, SAP, ERP, CRM, Gigabit Ethernet, etc.

                        Why are you looking at me like that?
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                        (='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
                        (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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                        • #13
                          Sweety-Darling (from Absolutely Fabulous)
                          you are so gay.

                          living in wales for a year hasn't changed my accent at all (thank christ!), but i have picked up a few expressions, the most obvious of these is saying 'is it?' instead of 'really?' or 'ah, ok'.
                          "The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.

                          "The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton

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                          • #14
                            Re. the first post: 'Ja da' actually means of course/sure in Danish.



                            We're all loonies, I guess.

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                            • #15
                              C'mon Tim Tim, let's cap us some punk-ass bloods (Jimmy from South Park)

                              Hiya doin'! (any Italian mob movie or tv show)

                              fuhggettaboutit (Donnie Brasco)

                              I f*cking hate pikeys! (Snatch)
                              To us, it is the BEAST.

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