National Slang...

[Quain]

Aiight.. this may be weird.. but what the funniest word everyone heard at nationals? Like.. with everyone from so many different regions, theres different words for stuff and different slang, etc... I think definitely any time someone from like the southern half of the said y'all, i cracked up. I couldn't help it.. it sounds so weird. Then I learn about the word, "Donk" that a kid from South Carolina had said... Then there was "saccer" which is supposed to be soccer from a girl from Long Island... haha.. thats just the few i heard, theres probably a lot more!!

[purplehaze357]

you cant forget about hackey now....its actually supposed to be hockey

[emilywll]

The greatest part of the national competition is hearing all the different accents and slang words from around the country, or rather the world.

I have never really thought of myself as having an accent, being from upstate New York. Turns out I had quite a few people tell me that I spoke funny! Kids from the South, Midwest, Canada, even Long Island and the Northeast all told me how nasal my voice was. Upon consideration, I really can tell how different we all sound even though we all speak the same language. None of us talk funny, or weird or strange, just different.

But I do have to say that the Canadian accent had to have been the most entertaining (aboot and aye being my personal favorites).

FIRST is all about acceptence and I am glad that I learned to accept and enjoy people's differences.

[purplehaze357]

yeah i think theacceptance is unmatched...and meeting new ppl is interesting because you pick their acccent up while at the same time they're trying to figure out where your from....

Its kinda funny that people ask me where im from because ive gotten everything from Texas to New York....i went to Texas for 3 ays and apparently i picked up the accent...

what else is funny is the fact that people think im ghetto....cuz im not....at all and people think because i wore UFO's im ghetto...haha...

[SkitzoSmurf]

I caught my self saying some stuff, and peoplelooked at me weird. I use the word wikked alot, which is a Rhode Island thing I guess. I also used shibby, alot. Watch "Dude Where's My Car" if you haven't heard it yet. My friend got a pair of fake oakleys, and we were arguing over whether they were foakleys, or fakely's. Also I noticed the way Woodie says again. It's like agayn.

[Digo]

Since I'm from Brazil, all your accents sound the same to me.
But now that you started this subject, I remember a guy who used to say "wadda amma?" and "wadda ula?".

It took us a long time to find out that he was looking for the hammer and the ruler.

[Katie Reynolds]

Lol there were some survey people that came to our pit area asking about the team party and whether it was worthwhile to have or not. The guy surveying kept saying "party" like 'Pahtee". It was pretty amusing!

Our team stayed until Monday so on Sunday we had a free day. We went go karting at FunSpot and I asked one of the people working there where the bubbler was. I got a really weird look. People at the competition kept asking me where I was from too. Most thought I was from Michigan or Minnesota which isn't too far off...

- Katie

PS: "Bubbler" is Wisconsin slang for drinking fountain

[fast frank]

Originally posted by SkitzoSmurf
Also I noticed the way Woodie says again. It's like agayn.

yea, he does say it funny. anyone notice how much he says it though? he uses it all the time and it really stands out when he says it

i think its funny seeing the difference team to team in terms of reference to certain things
a few examples are, in the drive station there are two operators, the first one is almost always called the driver, the second one on my team is called the manipulator, ive heard a lot of other stuff
also the "tether device" i heard many different things that people called that..... extenders, "mini me"

[srawls]

mini-me is my favorite! I officially named our tether device 'mini me' (this was in the design phase, we don't actually have one), and it cought on in our team. I did get a few wierd looks when I asked people if they had a mini-me on their robot, though

Stephen

[Kristina]

Although I didn't go to nationals, when I went to a law forum in DC this fall there was ongoing argument on what to call carbonated beverages since everyone was around the country...is it pop...is it coke...is it soda?

I'm from california so I call it soda but I was born in Minnesota where they call it pop.

[Jnadke]

Anyone who was at the party remember the above, "hey!"

Hehe... but, as Katie said, we had fun going around asking people where the nearest bubbler is. Seems to be a Wisconsin-only thing. We were at MOSI in tampa and one of our girls asked where the bubbler is, the lady went to her collegue and was asking if he knew what a bubbler was. We eventually told them that bubbler = water fountain, but it was funny.

[Elgin Clock]

Don't forget us; the newly appointed Robo-teers as dubbed by the V.P. of Epcot.

Also for all who know this one.... W.W.D.T.?


Oh one more How can I forget the All American Gun Show that was a team 237 prodigy!

[Jeff Rodriguez]

is it prononced "beetee" (that's how i say it) or "beeahtee", team 71 that is

[Jordan A.]

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