remotelove@lemmy.catoNews@lemmy.world•NC governor candidate cries AI fabrication as defense for racist porn forum posts
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3 hours agoThat is what my kids call me… old-timey.
That is what my kids call me… old-timey.
I am in my 40’s, so it’s around the same era. All I am saying is that I have heard all of that slang before and it isn’t made up. (I even occasionally use “gag a maggot”, actually.)
Much of that slang is just old and none is made up by him. The consistency of application is something that should be noted though.
I know “gag a maggot” is at least +30 years old from when I was a kid. It could be older. I also grew up in NC, so the slang could have even been regional.
Yeah, so it’s probably regional. My family from your part of the world doesn’t use the colorful language I learned in NC. In many ways, it’s it’s more than just a dialect difference, it’s an entirely different language. Idioms are much more common, or at least, more colorful.