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You know what I hate more than people from Newfoundland using NFLD catch phrases? People who spent most of their lives in Halifax who use them.
“I missed your call bye”,”just givin’ you shit bye”… Bye?
… Shut up, stupid.—Stay where you are
This article appears in May 20-26, 2010.
18 Comments
wrongo, it’s stay where you’re to old bye. and even if they were never born there, who really fucking cares anyhoo.
Laaaaard t’underin’ Jaysus, it’s “stay where you’re to ’til I comes where you’re at, b’ys.” And yes, I’m a Newfoundlander who is quite fluent in Newfoundland English and vernacular!
oceanlady has it, it’s spelled “b’y”
Well now, it jest so ‘appens dey talk like dat in Cape Breton to b’y . plain ya ain’t never bin dare.
I just watched 2 hours of Ron James and miss the east coast already.
It’s “b’y” as in “boy.”
And I fear a world in which nobody uses local vernaculars and everyone has the same accent.
it’s deja vu all over again 🙂
I dated a Newfoundland girl in college. She was blind in one eye and had “Happy Father’s Day” tattooed on the small of her back.
She was fun, but she had some issues.
but ivan, i bet she gave you the best socket job ever.and a tat is really nothing. a happy mother’s day one would have been more fucked up. but i digress, again, just be glad that you can at least understand her, not like some puffy british accents i have come across. cockney is cool, but the huff n puff brit shit tat they use in camden is really fucking hard to get. a lot of gaelic shit is bad too. be thankful for what you has got.
Thanks Oceanlady for the correction, Gez Op, if your going to insult at least do it correctly.
I think your just jealous of NFLD’s coolness, that or maybe you just have a g-string up your ass, who knows.
SocketJob? Love it!. And as for accents, give me Yorkshire every time. Sean Bean in Sharpe. Aye-oop, that bloke were a lad’s lad.
love the bean man colonel…and this bitch has been done already. piss orf ya feckin wanker
actually 1fallingangels1 if i must say, the editor did a number on that bitch. It is “By” or “B’y” but apparently the editor did not agree with the spelling. Which i really can’t argue with, or even attempt to defend the horrid language errors of newfieland
And “more” no one is talking about cape breton, so fuck off stupid. 🙂
Also the quotes were directly copy and pasted from a certain someones fb. Just pointing out people i dislike talking like fucking morons.
Actually, GGKid, Newfoundland has no ‘horrid language errors’. Newfoundland English is a legitimate language complete with it’s own dictionary. Newfoundland English is middles ages english preserved in it’s isolated island environment. Newfoundland English is no more ‘horrid’ than Australian English or Jamaican English all of which evolved in isolated island settings. The truly ignorant are those who fail to recognize the reasons for this diversity. I’m some glad, b’y, for the regional differnces in language that make life more interesting.
go get ’em me b’y’s, or whatever you want to call themselves on ere.
I don’t speak Newfoundland English, but I have
developed a dialect of my own which I use sometimes. It makes things fun because people don’t know what I’m saying half of the time.
I have family in newf. I really enjoy it and 90% of the people there.
The bitch is the equivalent to trashing a white kid from spryfield who talks like snoop dog.
Just because you sound like a douche. Doesn’t mean i agree with it.
Don’t come outside cause no one wants admit they know you. We all say alot of stupid shit that gets on peoples nerves. So what move on.