classic or dud, yo? people who watch the wire and then start speaking like the characters from it

i've noticed this a lot lately on the forums that i lurk on. someone watches the wire (usually latecomers) and then they start speaking in baltimore street slang.

anyway, it's really annoying and imo should stop immediately.

you feel me?

"speaking"

is that not a word?

shiiiiiiiit

baltimore invented "you feel me?"

annoys me more when brits to it, tbh

buck naked

yo

yo is posting on the internet!

this thread is mad stupid yo

typing /= speaking

I was born wearing pinstripes.

memes ain't go no owners, son. only users.

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so what you're saying is you want them to type one way ... but it's the other way.

Cozen!

people who watch the wire and then start speaking like the characters from it

people who watch seinfeld and then start speaking like the characters from it

people who watch will ferrell's latest movie and then start speaking like the characters from it

(btw all of these hypothetical people are white)

and shit

and what?

and how!

17th-century bros probably thought yelling "get thee to a nunnery!" at each other was the funniest shit ever

do not understand how "yo" or "sheeit" or whatever is Baltimore slang

huzzah! mtv scats

I must admit: I replied "Oh, indeed." to a question from my boss the other day. He didn't even blink.

stevie: huh?

what is wire slang? hoppers, 5-0, burner, re-up, "good police"

anyway guardian writers are worst for this as already discussed

i started using the phrase "juke the stats" from watching the wire.

i started drinking heavily and crashing my car on purpose

"have suction", I guess

"redball"? they had those in homicide, I'm sure

wire slang >>>> Seinfeldisms

i started drinking heavily and crashing my car on purpose

In Baltimore, the shows WATCH YOU!

i never understood why people considered "yadda yadda yadda" a seinfeldism since people said that all the time already imo

origin of yadda yadda yadda

TV didn't invent language guys

do not understand how "yo" or "sheeit" or whatever is Baltimore slang

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^^^

but also wire does use "yo" as a noun and pronoun, which I guess is novel

"red tops", young'un (?)

Yeah, there is a way to say "Oh, indeed" that is very Omar-esque.

I have caught myself saying 5-0, but that was from hawai 5-0 and from PE saying "5-0 said freeze . . ." so it didn't start with the Wire, it was just re-popularized by it.

But hell I live in Baltimore so maybe I deserve some slack on this.

i was watching some spike lee movies and was amazed that dude says shiiiiiiit in She Hate Me AND 25th Hour

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I live in Brooklyn, but I don't talk like Clockers

"oh, indeed" and, e.g., "that shit was unseemly" I don't think falls into the "speaking like characters" from it that's so peeved buck naked, it's basically just quoting (the words and cadence)

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But hell I live in Baltimore so maybe I deserve some slack on this.

Maybe. I'm from the Baltimore area, and I can only pull of a Valcheck/ Colvin's Lieutenant accent.

And I totally intoned like Omar.

don't look at me...
my display name:wire::madeleines:Proust

Always love Bodie to referring to some guns he was supposed to toss as "them shits"

don't see any prob w/ typing stuff that people have said in the wire telly programme as long as you're not a latecomer

ya if you're a latecomer... forget about it

if me saying "sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit" and "shit was unseemly" is dud then so be it

i can drop the rest but "sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet" is locked

I'd just stopped with 're-up' but now you've reawakened it and made me want to take up 'parlay'.

"beer me"

ive started beverly hills 90210

i've started killing people but only ones who deserve it

(like in my two dads)

yo yo

I've started sleeping perfectly still on my back.

I've gotten a job with UPS, gained 40 pounds, and improbably married the hot resort chick from Saved By the Bell.

myself and my partner dee dee mccall keep the streets of l.a. safe

I get major points on my Acme rewards card trying to kill an annoying bird.

i am a fast-talking staffer in a liberal white house

this is boring. I'm bored now.

isn't 30 rock's "worldcom, yo, worldcom" tribute to Stringer Bell's worldcom scam?

the wire hasn't had too many references in other shows or films afaict.

"a NARCOTICS DEPARTMENT? in BALTIMORE? i'm already laughing"

what's the 'balmer' accent that McNulty does -- is that exaggerated baltimore or is there a county named 'balmer' where people talk like that?

McNulty's accent is inconsistent. From the DVD commentary, he says he was going for a generic Northeast accent.

i am in command of a large, intergalactic battleship

i refer to prepaid cell phones as burners but most i talk like deadwood, cocksuckers

i don't mean his regular fake american accent; the one where he's on the phone pretending to be a 'bawlmer' guy.

no wait i refer to prepaid cell phones as cocksuckers is what i meant to say, cocksuckers

i refer to prepaid cell phones and internet people as cocksuckers, cocksuckers

You can actually hear a number of different variants of the "bawlmer" accent on the show.

The ones that actually sound real to me are Valcheck, Bunny's Lt., Rawls (surprisingly), and Horse.

To be sure, there are others that come in and out - Ziggy's comes on blazing with certain words, and then its gone. Frank Sobotka, the same.

Then you have supposedly born and raised Baltimorians like Herc and Carcetti who sound more like Brooklyn.

For those of us raised around it, we can slip back into it pretty easily. I had a conversation with a woman from Wilmington, DE the other day and she sounded like she remembered seeing Mayor Schaefer swim in the Inner Harbor.

Bawlmer = local dialect pronunciation of "Baltimore"

if you ever want to hear what the bawlmer accent sounds like just read am0ns posts out loud

this, of course, completely doesn't address black Baltimorian accents on the show.

carcetti is somethin else

baltimore accent is super hilarious and awesome - its really hard to get tho - i cant even do a pretend bad version

xp BLAM: what about the assistant principal in Season 4? Hers sounds a lot like the real Landsman's. In one of the commentary tracks, David Simon wished he had more time to explain the circumstances of why Herc had a Bronx accent, how he came to Baltimore.

I can do a passable one. My older brother and one of my oldest friends can do masterful ones.

xp BLAM: what about the assistant principal in Season 4?

SHIT yeah. She sounds like half my teachers growing up.

I am an indignant detective btw

McNulty's worst attempt at the Baltimore accent occurs in the scene where he's awkwardly conversing with Daniels after he finds out him and Rhonda Pearlman are getting it on. He's all like "You ever been to the OWHcean"

Carcetti's accent is also bad, but not as bad as his bizarre arm-swinging walk

Carcetti's accent is at least consistent. Idris wins hands down in the UK dude playing American between him, Carcetti, and McNulty.

xp BLAM: what about the assistant principal in Season 4?

xp SHIT yeah. She sounds like half my teachers growing up.

Totally- that character nails the Baltimore accent. in terms of actors faking it, I was honestly pretty surprised at how well, er, John Travolta did it in that recent Hairspray re-do. I find it a very hard accent to imitate. There's certain vowel sounds that just come out of no-where. Like when a locally born and raised person says "Timonium" that make that "Tim-mowww-nee-yum" sound.

Some of these vowel sounds are similar to some Southern accents.

xps Didn't they eventually (like in the 4th or 5th season) have a throwaway line about Herc being from the Bronx?

Being Irish i am naturally compelled to say that Aidan Gillen isn't from the UK

what's up with that "ooo" sound?? it's so....tight, it's almost french sounding

there's a Muni driver here in SF with a strong accent who reminds me of the assistant principal in season 4.

McNulty's Brooklyn accent in Punisher: War Zone was the worst thing about that movie - and that is saying a LOT.

I think the assistant principal is from Baltimore.

carcetti is british?!?!?

Carcetti is Irish.

Think that's the first video interview I've seen of David Simon. Seems like a level bro.

I didn't even notice Carcetti's accent - surely he can't be that bad compared to, say, some of the off-the-radar bad British accents I've seen American actors pull on big budget US TV?

xpost well it's v brief

When asked how he felt about losing his job without any payout, Gordon Brown’s disgraced adviser Damian McBride is said to have responded “the game is the game”

NEWS FLASH THE WIRE HAS NO GOOD CHARACTERS NEWSFLASH IT IS WORSE THEN SEINFELD NEWSFLASH NOBODY LIKES TV OR POP. GOOD DAY.

i kinda wish that people used the term "gaping asshole" more often than they do.

Then you have supposedly born and raised Baltimorians like Herc and Carcetti who sound more like Brooklyn.

actually, Herc's character was born in the Bronx (which explains his accent). as for Carcetti, i presume that they were going for some sort of generic urban Italian-American thing (the same way Rocky and family sounded more like they were from South Brooklyn than South Philly) (and also factoring out the fact that Carcetti IRL is Irish and may have had a hard time w/ a Baltimore accent).

also, to my ears the Baltimore accent sounds a lot like a Southerner trying to imitate a Philly accent.