Beyond Lingo In Everyday Use

[James Harvey]

BB must be starting to rub of fon my, becuase I've been using the lingo a bit more frequently than usual. For example, I used the word "dreg" twice last nite at the party I attended. The first time I said "Watch it, dreg" when some drunk spilled beer on my pants. The second time I said "Back off, dreg", when a different drunk was trying to pick a fight in the middle of my chair wars (long story there). I saw "twip" quit a bit, and I say "slag it" basically everyday during work. I occasionally say "schway" everyone once and awhile. Anyone else?

[batboy2001]

Once in a while. Dreg is a word that is used today, like the dregs of the earth.

[Flying Grayson]

Originally posted by DickGrayson
BB must be starting to rub of fon my, becuase I've been using the lingo a bit more frequently than usual. For example, I used the word "dreg" twice last nite at the party I attended. The first time I said "Watch it, dreg" when some drunk spilled beer on my pants. The second time I said "Back off, dreg", when a different drunk was trying to pick a fight in the middle of my chair wars (long story there). I saw "twip" quit a bit, and I say "slag it" basically everyday during work. I occasionally say "schway" everyone once and awhile. Anyone else?

I think I have said "schway" before as well. Your not alone.

[Bird Boy]

I use it all of the time. example:

I use REM Deprived quite often

Dreg i use somtimes

Schway..occasionally.

Rips- Alot..hehe

But..sadly, I don't use it as much as the talk that Jar Jar Binks used in Star Wars: Episode 1..I was talking like "mesa, whosa" and such for months...and I still am..help mesa!!!!

-BB

[Nightwing]

I'm a frequent user of dreg, twip and slag it. And I'm found on occasion to say REM deprived, but not as much as the others I mentioned.

[Peace Keeper]

Actually, it's shway as in shoes, not schway as in school.

I've gotten "slag it" to catch on a little. However, the rest of the jargon has proven more difficult. A couple of days ago I caught myself using R.E.M. deprived in place of tired, and it sounded pretty unshway. I use shway and dreg alot.


This kind of reminds me of the episode of NEWS RADIO, where Mr. James made up buzz words and spread them around the internet. After coming up with the term "b*tchcake, he used it in chatrooms in hopes that the word would be spoken on tv or something. By the end of the episode, Beth started saying it b/c she saw it on the web. How long do you think it will take before we hear "shway" uttered on another show?

[Nightwing]

Oddly enough, I think you say shway but you spell it schway. Max typed it out in an email to the principal or something on an episode, but I forget the specific title. That's really weird. I mean, why make it so complicated. Anyway, apparently Ms. Gibson had to tell him/her that something was "very UN-schway."

What was the ep about? I dunno, some dreg probably.... :o

[James Harvey]

I think you spell it schway, too. It's poppe dup in the comics here and there, and I'm sure that's how they spell it.

[Peace Keeper]

not really. If you put closed captioning on, it clearly says shway. SLAG IT! Now I have to go look through the comics. How much to you guyz want to bet?

[James Harvey]

It is schway. In the episode The Last Resort, this is what Chelsea types out on her screen:

From the desk of Chelsea Cunningham:

Principal Nakamura...

UN-SCHWAY!

That's what I think of this new "solution".

So it's schway. And Closed-Captioning is never 100% correct all the time anyways.

[Peace Keeper]

I don't except that answer on the grounds that THE LAST RESORT was crap

[Peace Keeper]

who wrote that episode?

[James Harvey]

Whether the episode sucked or not, the proper spelling is schway. And the episode was written by Stan Berkowitz.

[Peace Keeper]

NO Way! That's retarded.

[James Harvey]

What other Batman lingo is there? Vid-screen. Vid-disc? What else?

[Peace Keeper]

I see "frag" in the comics. I think it means "injure." Like a joker will say "Frag him guyz"

[Peace Keeper]

slagged=tired
spiz-fit=freak out, I guess. As in, "Your dad's gonna have a spiz-fit"--I think Max said that to Chealse in SPLICERS

[Bird Boy]

Terry used "I'm so fragged" in "Eyewitness". I use that alot too, cuz it's also in the "Quake" series for the PC...
hehe. I can hear it now..

"4 frags left!!!"

*blam blam blam*
"3 frags left!!!"

:)

-BB

[oranthal]

i always thought frag is equivalent to the big F-bomb in english. i found the word frag in Shadowrun novels and shadowrun came out way BB. another common term in Shadowrun is drek which is equivalent to the S-word


Originally posted by Bird_Boy
Terry used "I'm so fragged" in "Eyewitness". I use that alot too, cuz it's also in the "Quake" series for the PC...
hehe. I can hear it now..

"4 frags left!!!"

*blam blam blam*
"3 frags left!!!"

:)

-BB

[The Mad Hatter]

Frag, believe it or not, comes from the U.S. military. Its common useage among first-person shooter fans is generally taken to mean "killed." Many shooters actually keep track of kills as "frags."

So there ya go.

[DR. BELCH]

SCHWAY. I won't use it and you can't make me. It's almost as annoying as the current "bling-bling" expression I've been hearing (heard my brother using it the other day, in fact). It sounds so--for lack of a better word--lower-class.

TWIP. I can't hear that one without thinking of these fake ads they used to run on Nick at Nite's TV Land for a nonexistant product called "Twip" that did everything from style hair to clean tile grout to make a delicious drink. The funniest part was how they tried to make the ads look dated, as if they'd been produced over a span of three decades since the '50s.

FRAGGED. Hatter is correct; "frag" has beeen around since the days of 'Nam. It's a rather reprehensible practice of murdering one's own troops or leader by throwing a gernade into his quarters/bunk/foxhole. Very useful for trimming the fat or disposing of an unliked superior. In the expression, "I'm fragged", it sounds almost like a euphamism for the f word....

SPIZ. A euphamism for the s-word, from its context.

DREG. Those nasty little brown leavings in the bottom of a teacup. Equivalent to modern "scum"- or "pusbag".

R.E.M-DEPRIVED. I'm afraid if I use this one in public folks will think of the band by that name. I have a feeling most people don't even know what the acronym means.

What? Am I the only one here who liked "Last Resort"? Maybe it's my psychological background talking...though I admit the ending sounded a little too preachy. "All mental institutions aren't this corrupt and brutal, kids. The psychiatrist is your friend. Don't fear his analysis or his needles full of happy juice." :eek: :rolleyes:

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by DickGrayson
BB must be starting to rub of fon my, becuase I've been using the lingo a bit more frequently than usual. For example, I used the word "dreg" twice last nite at the party I attended. The first time I said "Watch it, dreg" when some drunk spilled beer on my pants. The second time I said "Back off, dreg", when a different drunk was trying to pick a fight in the middle of my chair wars (long story there). I saw "twip" quit a bit, and I say "slag it" basically everyday during work. I occasionally say "schway" everyone once and awhile. Anyone else?

Slag and schway arrive more often in my vocab than others.

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by Bird_Boy
Terry used "I'm so fragged" in "Eyewitness". I use that alot too, cuz it's also in the "Quake" series for the PC...
hehe. I can hear it now..

"4 frags left!!!"

*blam blam blam*
"3 frags left!!!"

:)

-BB

I used to use frag quite a bit more (even before BB) but that has been replaced now by "feck." "Feck" is the word used in place of the more common f word in Father Ted. And you can get away with "feck" a whole lot easier! Feck off! Feck you! Feck it! Feckin twip! See how much fun it can be?

[The Mad Hatter]

Wait, normal people are starting to say 'bling bling" now? I thought that was just confined to pretentious Hollywood types? What the hell IS "bling bling," anyway?

I haven't picked up too much vocabulary from Batman Beyond... though I will say "schway" in a sarcastic way, when something that is "cool" is, in reality, stupid. Like saying "bling bling." Though come to think of it, I've used "R.E.M. deprived" in normal conversation a few times.

Though I'll always curse the day I got into the Earthworm Jim series... I STILL haven't stopped saying "groovy!"

[Peace Keeper]

bling-bling
Definition: shining, showy, sparkling
Example: See that ice he be rockin? That shiznits jus' like bling-bling!


ice
Definition: jewelry
Example: My ice ain't bootleg, foo'.


The definitions are from the DOLEMITE site. I kind of disagree with their definition of "ICE" though. Ice is a rapper's dimond jewlery that is set in platnium, as opposed to the gold chains worn in the 80s. They can also have ice in their fronts (teeth). "Bling Bling" sounds really retarded, and I havn't heard it used in a long time. The site claims it's an adjitive, but I've heard it used as a synonym for ICE.

[The Mad Hatter]

Ah, thankee. And it's nice to know that Belch and I (not exactly the hippest cats in the world) aren't the only ones who things "bling bling" sounds silly.

[Nightwing]

Originally posted by oranthal
i always thought frag is equivalent to the big F-bomb in english.


lol, "f-bomb". Very clever. :) And "in english" no less ;) Anyway, yeah I agree about frag, mostly because you just have to take it in context in BB. They don't expand the usage of the term, so it's not hard. Weird thing is, I didn't hear any of these BB terms elsewhere until after I heard them on BB, even though the other places had them first. Well, with the exception of Quake cuz that's a game everybody knows pretty much.

[James Harvey]

Lobo has been using frag for quite sometime...

[Flying Grayson]

Originally posted by DickGrayson
Lobo has been using frag for quite sometime...

And quite regularly.
(Dirty Fraggers)
Lobo, bet out of my concious and go to your dark corner in the recesses of my mind.

[killercroc]

Originally posted by The Mad Hatter
Frag, believe it or not, comes from the U.S. military. Its common useage among first-person shooter fans is generally taken to mean "killed." Many shooters actually keep track of kills as "frags."

So there ya go.

Yeah, I think it actually started out meaning to kill your commanding officer then mutated into to kill anyone.

And I'm almost sure I heard Schway in a rap song the other day!

[Mr. Obsession]

Originally posted by DR. BELCH
What? Am I the only one here who liked "Last Resort"? Maybe it's my psychological background talking...though I admit the ending sounded a little too preachy. "All mental institutions aren't this corrupt and brutal, kids. The psychiarist is your friend. Don't fear his analysis or his needles full of happy juice." :eek: :rolleyes:

You're not the only one, I also like "Last Resort". My only grip against it was that the ep screamed Spellbinder and they wasted it on a one-shot villain.

As for the slang, I've been known to say schway here and there, and twip sparingly. As for Slag/Slag it, I picked this one up back with Beast Wars. Sometimes I'll say "well that's just Prime" when thing's aren’t quite going my way. ;)

[JustWhelmed]

I have to agree with Peace Keeper on this one. It is Shway, not Schway. Shway is simply pronounced 'Sh-way'
while Schway is pronounced 'S-k-way' with the C in there.:mad:

[The Mad Hatter]

Oh dear, pointless grammatical argument ahoy.

I adhere to "schway" because the first part of the word is pronounced exactly like "schmuck." So there ya go.

[James Harvey]

It's schway. That's how it's typed out in the episode. What other proof is needed?

[joker]

Originally posted by DR. BELCH

[b]R.E.M-DEPRIVED. I'm afraid if I use this one in public folks will think of the band by that name. I have a feeling most people don't even know what the acronym means.


r.e.m. deprived? thats so dumb why cant you just say "im tired."

personally i think all the slang on batman beyond sounds reallystupid. it bugs me a whole bunch to when people use it every day conversation, to me they sound really stupid. sorry dont mean to offencsive to those of you how do use the slang. but to me it just sound so stupid

[DR. BELCH]

I've been known to say I'm sleepy, I want to grab a couple of Z's, or, to use a bit of computer lingo, that I need some down time. But that's about it. I suppose Hatter's right; we're both terminally unhip old devils. I'm more into coining expressions than borrowing them, although I do admit to having favorite words/expressions in several languages--yaoi from the Japanese, cojones from the Spanish, and, from English, my current new vocabulary word is "virago".
As for the Beyonder's use of slang...well, sometimes it gets to be a bit much, like the characters (or the writers?) try desperately to be hip and cute. I still can't hear someone say, "Yo, I'm goan give a shout out to all my peeps" without picturing some fool screaming at a box of those little marshmallow chickens the stores sell come Eastertime. :rolleyes:

[Shriek]

I say Dreg all the time. Like when I want to know something I will grab a guy and hold him up to the wall and say "Tell me Dreg" I used to say Greaseball and slimeball a lot from the A-Team. But I am a strong believer in twip and dreg.

[Peace Keeper]

Originally posted by DickGrayson
It is schway. In the episode The Last Resort, this is what Chelsea types out on her screen:

From the desk of Chelsea Cunningham:

UN-SCHWAY!

That's what I think of this new "solution".

Maybe Chealsea misspelled it, eh? She's not exactly the brightest girl

[The Mad Hatter]

....though probably not. I think I remember seeing "schway" in the comics, too. Not to mention that Chelsea's not really stupid, either.

This argument won't end till one of the show's creators shows up and tells us what idiots we're being, huh? :)

[Bird Boy]

oh come off of it PK...it's spelt "schway" and you know it!! :D

-BB