In an effort to save time I have started my own Shirley Ujest’s Dictionary of Compressed Words:
Obstetrics and Gynocology = Obstecology.
Spagetti - Sgetti
Naturally, this will not be a best seller or a mandatory book for all Freshman 101 Lit Classes unless I can come up with at least 10,000 more entries.
jeet? - Did you eat?
sup? - What’s up?
Sheeeeeeeee - Golly
(gosh, I always called it “groinacology”)
No, that’s 'tsup?
uhjeet=“What did you eat?” Sometimes accompanied by a head movement akin to a tiny forward jerk.
Y’goin’?=Where are you going? Same head jerk in some cases.
j’get=What did you get? Same head jerk.
Deoxyneicid=Deoxyribonucleic acid.
zomes=chromosomes
th’ro=H. D. Thoreau
chupto? - What are you up to?
waneet? - Want to eat?
iyt? - All right?
fruitile - Fruitless and futile
“FLUSTRATED” = Frustrated + Flustered
“IRREGARDLESS” = Regardless + Irrespective
“AFRICAN AMERICAN FROM SENEGAL” = Black person from Senegal
“RUSHEXPRESS” = Ruch + Express
“MOWSCOW” = Major city in Russia
“UNUSUALLY STRANGE” = Do I EVEN have to explain THAT redunancy?
“VERY UNIQUE” = Also redundant.
As well as dozens more… I used to shudder when I heard her speak to clients.
Life is better now.
nomesane - know what I’m saying?
prolly - probably
Wait right there, buster!! Being from Southern Maryland, “prolly” is proper speach!
Currently, I seem to be dropping: “PROZACLY”.
It’s a combo of Precisely and Exactly. I kinda like the soft ring and the sense of calmness it brings to both speaker and listener.
I think J.D. Salinger used that one years ago. Somone said “jeet jet?” in either Franny and Xooey or Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters.
Just Before the War With the Eskimos, from Nine Stories.
“Jeat yet?” (I believe the ‘jet’ was a typo)
“What?”
“Jeat lunch yet?”
tskweet: Let’s go eat.
Is it in the same spirit of Compression when I refer to dumb ideas as shitloadian? (When people raise eyebrows I pretend I said Sherlockian)
iuno - I don’t know
skonon - What’s going on?
shup - shut up
whozat - Who’s that?
smee - That’s me