AND NOW! We bring you… a Leslie-ism.
eastling: Dan wrote this on his Facebook about Leslie, and it makes me sooo so so so happy.
Über. This word is derived from the German language. It is a cognate of both Latin “super” and Greek “hyper,” as well as English “over.” As a Leslie-ism, it is usually used in an uber excited, uber enthusiastic, uber irritating way.*
Usage: 1. I am uber excited to see BOY tonight!! Be excited for me! 2. You hung up on me! ÜBER LAME! #. That girl just ran by me wearing only a tank top and jogging shorts, covered in several colors of paint. Über weird.
Stay tuned for the upcoming event extraordinaire, where we dive into the pool of etymology and retrieve the jewel: sketch.
*Irritating only in the lovable way that Leslie alone can pull off.kalaleia: Did you see the first Leslie-ism he wrote? I’ll provide it:
And now for something new.
Leslie-isms: an exciting in-depth look into the words and phrases beloved by our own Leslie Kay.
Our first installment concerns itself with the word: LAME.
Typically, the word lame can be synonymous with words such as feeble, cripple, or square. As a Leslie-ism, the word becomes a multifaceted combination of all three of the above.
Usage: 1. You didn’t answer your phone! Lame. 2. The link didn’t work? Lame. 3. The boy that supposedly liked me hid his grin when I fell on my ass in the snow on the way back to my car. Lame.
Stay tuned for our next installment, a delicious morsel dedicated to the word: ÜBER, as in “ÜBER LAME.”I like that the examples in both definitions involved A) the phone, B) boys, and C) random things to complain about. THAT IS SO YOU.
I don’t think the third examples of usage are meant so much to be random complaints, but rather bizarre, wordy scenarios that would only ever come up in my life. Haha. He told me the third examples are henceforth always going to be ungodly long compared to the other ones, because he thinks they’re hilarious.
