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Aug. 13th, 2002 03:16 amI'm reading through homelessweek.com and my eyes caught on one word:
tweaker.
This led me to think about one of the differences between the South and the Pacific Northwest.. the words used. Nobody knows what a "tweaker" is here; if they do have an idea, they think it's either Chris Vrenna or someone who's spastic in general. In the NW, a "tweaker" is a person that's addicted to/uses/is on crystal meth.
Everybody knows what "right on" means, but when I use it here (often), I get funny looks. One person even went so far as to mock me, "yeah, right on duuuuuuude!", offering himself up as a pristine example of the associations people have with phrases from different regions.
And another reaction to a word, "Oh my god, did you just say 'rad'? That is so 80's."
All of that is just observation, really, leading up to the real purpose of this post.
( life )
tweaker.
This led me to think about one of the differences between the South and the Pacific Northwest.. the words used. Nobody knows what a "tweaker" is here; if they do have an idea, they think it's either Chris Vrenna or someone who's spastic in general. In the NW, a "tweaker" is a person that's addicted to/uses/is on crystal meth.
Everybody knows what "right on" means, but when I use it here (often), I get funny looks. One person even went so far as to mock me, "yeah, right on duuuuuuude!", offering himself up as a pristine example of the associations people have with phrases from different regions.
And another reaction to a word, "Oh my god, did you just say 'rad'? That is so 80's."
All of that is just observation, really, leading up to the real purpose of this post.
( life )