Wotcher (was: Chapter Discussions: Chapter 3, the Advance Guard and I move

annemehr annemehr at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 21 18:01:06 UTC 2003


Tonya wrote:

> I am from Texas and I would love to use the word "wotcher" in RL.
 <snip>
> Tonya (who is having too much fun using the language in RL, I know I
> need to get a life but I have been able to use "Budge up there", "Nick"
> (Sp??) and "Oy".  Of course I have had to explain the meanings of these
> but way fun to increase the vocabulary!!)


You're much braver than I am!

I haven't been *trying* to use Britspeak in RL, but I seem to keep
running into situations where "snarky" or "squicked" would be a
perfect word to use.  I don't use them, though, because people would
look at me funny (not that they couldn't be doing that already).

Annemehr
amused by the image of British slang being used in Texas  :)





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