Bitter, sloppy elocution. Same as the following:
asterik instead of asterisk
vinugurret instead of vinuhgret
oooo, don't get me started or I'll have to click over to the Friday Rants post.

Marilyn, how about F instead of TH as in boFe(both) of my arms are sore? My mum and dad told me to put my Fings(things) away..

Wow, Scarlett, that sounds almost Cockney to me! Where did you say they were from? South....London?

how about..

I would of done it, but my truck wouldn't start.

She would of baked a cake, if she'da known you would of stopped by.

ARGH!

and is it just me, or is everyone using 'like' now? I was in a ladies room earlier today and a couple of women, 50s maybe, were talking about how they were 'like' something when something happened. it isn't just teenagers anymore.

it drives me nuts, but what makes me more nuts is that I slip up and use it too sometimes! I am like, so mad when I do that!

how about "go" when the person means "said, replied, stated, etc etc." or even better.. WENT when you mean the past tense of the above. is this in m-w.com now?

man, didn't know my little bored query would get everyone going!

flygirl, when I was about 18, a college friend and I vowed we were going to stop saying "like" and "you know" all the time. Our pact had to be abandoned after only a few hours when we found we simply couldn't speak! Fortunately, the habit disappeared somewhere in the maturing process.

Marilyn

sadly enough, "like" and "go" are in Websters now, as I've defined them above. gargh.

yeah, it's an occasional slip up and never in polite company. kinda like swearing!

who else has slang they'd like to share, favorite or reviled?

Okay, everybody follow along:

"Bling, bling, bling went my heartstrings"

Quite honestly, I would far rather hear someone swear eloquently, 4-letter words and all, than sound like an idiot.

On the other hand, bling bling (to return to your original post) is quite a wonderful and descriptive expression.

You need mucho cha-ching for the bling bling, so gizzle the fazizzle.

Marilyn: Was your most recent post tongue in cheek? If not, I guess I don't agree. I don't "get" "bling bling." I don't think it is descriptive, creative or colorful. It sounds like something a two year old would call his/her stuffed animal. Maybe that's the point! [Then, again, I am fatally un-hip.] But somewhat seriously: I like slang if it is creative, cute, clever, etc. But when it is just gibberish or laziness or arbitrary I find it a depreciation of our already deteriorating language. It is odd how (myself sometimes included) our pop. culture readily absorbs the new phrases. I can see us all talking in a few years in single syllables.

Bitter - don't get me started on how emails/IMs are really causing the deterioration of our language too. (u instead of you, your instead of you're, etc)

and I can't stand how companies will purposely misspell a word to name their product - do they think it is cute? or are they trying to make a generation of stupid people who can't spell correctly. unless you already know the difference, your brian absorbs the wrong spelling almost subconsciously. (the mazda milennia for instance. or do they spell it millenia? they drop one double letter...)

for a real howl, go to www.engrish.com

Right on the mark, Bitter! Here are 2 more that drive me crazy:

tree instead of three, ie. one, two, tree.

I could care less instead of I couldn't care less.

Bitter, not tongue in cheek at all. I think "bling bling" is very descriptive. "Bling" sounds a bit like "blink" and a bit like "blind" and a bit like "ring" as in the sound, all suggesting huge, bright, glittering, gaudy jewelry that makes you squeeze your eyes shut. It's a natural extension to any sort of material ostentation.

Plus it's so much fun to say -- always a plus where slang is concerned.

flygirl, I got addicted to texting in England last spring. It was a lot of fun, but it did strike me that it will change the English language, and <i>not</i> for the better. Take a generation already infamous for its poor spelling, combine with texting (&quot;R u going 2 w8 4 me?&quot, and nothing less than the decimation of the mother tongue is the result.

Marilyn, Cockney and just urban lazyspeak

All you ever wanted to know about bling bling

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3192258.stm

very interesting Jody!

We're right on the cutting edge, folks.

Yesterday's New York Times had its usual advertisement placed by venerable jewelry house Harry Winston.
The ad pictured a pair of rather ornate dangly earrings.
The caption: bling bling

Be careful: Sometimes we try to be on the cutting edge, but are instead blindly following the sometimes imbecilic whims of pop culture. Not that pop culture doesn't have its moments of brilliance, but not all pop culture is something to admire or emulate.

Oh c'mon, Bitter, we're talking about a bit of harmless slang here! It's not exactly gangsta rap.

And I would respectfully point out that by the time you see anything in a print ad or on television, it's way past cutting edge.