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Author Topic: I know right? Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 11-28-2005 12:51 AM                     Just curious, is this stupid saying popular only in the south, or is it everywhere? Here is an example of such a conversation... ME - The sound in that auditorium was phenomenal! HIM - I know right? The bass was totally thumpin'. ME - So what did you think of the movie? I thought it was great. HIM - Yeah I know right? ME - Ummmm, yeah. I'm going to have to give that one a second viewing. HIM - I know right? ME - Yeah, right, pretty cool? HIM - I know right? ME - I know right? (saying this at this point out of curiosity to his response) HIM - I know right? Is there something about this saying that turns someone into a brainless vegetable? What exactly is this supposed to mean anyway? I know people who can't make it through 5 minutes without saying "I know right?" at least 20 times. The whole 1980s overuse of the word "like" was bad enough. (Example - "I like went to like the store to like pick up some cool like fresh tomatoes like yummmmm.") Where did this come from???  |  IP: Logged Shane Cooper Expert Film Handler Posts: 232 From: Little Rock, Arkansas Registered: Jun 2004 posted 11-28-2005 01:07 AM                     When I was managing in the Chicagoland area, I had an entire management team that used this constantly! For this reason I would not say that it is exclusive to the South. Pop phrases are like fashion, Afros and most movies these days - they may go away for a little while, but they always find a way to be recycled.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 11-28-2005 01:21 AM                     ...kinda like saying "n'stuff" practically at the end of every other sentence. I called it, more or less, a nervous, subconscious reaction - probably something like "baby blabber." -Monte  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 11-28-2005 02:08 AM                        I haven't heard that one here. And I'm around lots of young people daily on five campuses.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 11-28-2005 02:10 AM                        Usually when someone agrees 'round these parts it's just "I know!". We drop the "right" for sake of speed and efficiency. But we don't use it after every sentence we agree with. Other phrases we use in the same situation to mix things up are "Hell yeah!", "No shit!", "Oh totally!", and "I had sex with your mom last night".  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-28-2005 02:22 AM                        Maybe it hasn't made it east of Texas. "Yeah you rite!" <- Louisiana "A'ight now" <- TX, LA, MS, AL, GA, FL "I hear you" or "I heard that!" <- midwest, southeast "Uh huh" <- universal  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 11-28-2005 02:37 AM                        The kiddies who are into hard rock/metal around here like to say 'Thats SICK!' when something is good. I have a bad habit of saying 'sweet', but not in a stoner 'Dude Where's My Car' type of way. And the oldie but goodie "cool". But thats as far as I go when it comes to slang terms. Probably because I'm not cool.  |  IP: Logged Dan Lyons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 698 From: Seal Beach, CA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 11-28-2005 03:38 AM                     Never heard it around here.  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 11-28-2005 04:15 AM                     Only place I heard it before was in the movie 'Mean Girls'.  |  IP: Logged Brian Michael Weidemann Expert cat molester Posts: 944 From: Costa Mesa, CA United States Registered: Feb 2004 posted 11-28-2005 04:45 AM                        Not that I've paid it much mind, but "I know, right?" is sometimes heard in these here parts. I'm boggled at how much the "Valley Girl" use of the superfluous "like" is still everywhere in this state today. Or maybe it's just the OC. It was hardly an eighties thing. Ooh, and how about the ever-popular two-syllable contraction of the query, "Do you know what I am saying?" I can't hear that one enough! Know'm'sayin'?  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 11-28-2005 04:54 AM                     Must be South Texas. I dont ever hear that phrase in the deep south. KnowwhutI'msayn?  |  IP: Logged Don Furr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 509 From: Sun City, Ca USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 11-28-2005 06:45 AM                     I've been in Atlanta since 1991 and have never heard that before. Spent a lot of time in Florida and don't remember hearing that expression down there either. On the other hand, I have heard...."I know that's right"....in Georiga for several years. Does that count???? Don  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 11-28-2005 06:53 AM                        What really gets on my nerve is "I am not sure" or even worse, "I am not exactly sure". People say that here all the time. What? Yes or no? Do you know or don't you?  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 11-28-2005 11:17 AM                        I think there's a definite distinction between knowing something "yes", not knowing "no", and having an answer/opinion/idea but not being sure whether it's the best response or not "I'm not [exactly] sure". Now, if the person is saying "I'm not sure" and then from the rest of the conversation it's obvious that it's just one of their "phrases" (in fact s/he IS sure, one way or the other) then ... yes I could see that being annoying. As for "I know, right?" ... I remember that from my high school days (class of 1994 - in the Chicago 'burbs), but I can't say that I've heard it all that much lately.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Fuentes Mmmm, Dr. Pepper! Posts: 1168 From: Corpus Christi, TX United States Registered: Jan 2004 posted 11-28-2005 11:59 AM                     People use it all the time down here. My wife says it alot. Brad, are you calling my wife stupid? If you are, I'll let it slide until she walks up behind me one day reading this thread, then I have to defend her. Till then, carry on.  |  IP: Logged

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