{"id":43,"date":"2005-08-30T20:36:07","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T03:36:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-09-02T15:41:04","modified_gmt":"2005-09-02T15:41:04","slug":"from_wicked_to_hella_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2005\/from_wicked_to_hella_1\/","title":{"rendered":"From &#8220;Wicked&#8221; to &#8220;Hella&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"juiz-outdated-message jodpm-top\">Heads up, this content is 21 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div><p>We can be grateful as Americans that a country as big as ours has a relatively consistent language.  While fast-paced Northerners may get annoyed at a slow Southern twang, at least they can understand each other (China&#8217;s situation, for example, is entirely different).There are a few regional quirks that one needs to be aware of, though.  In New Hampshire (my home state), it was <i>wicked<\/i>.  <i>Wicked<\/i> is an adverb, and it generally replaces the word &#8220;very.&#8221;  Examples:<b>That&#8217;s <i>wicked<\/i> cool.<\/b><b>He ran <i>wicked<\/i> fast. <\/b> <b>Please Note:<\/b>  This is not to be confused with the adjective use of <i>wicked<\/i>, which is found in other New England states.  New Hampshirites would call you a grammatical fool if you said, &#8220;That&#8217;s a <i>wicked<\/i> shirt you&#8217;ve got on today.&#8221;  I now live in the San Francisco Bay Area, though, and they have their own favorite phrase: <i>hella<\/i>.  <i>Hella<\/i> can be used everywhere a New Hampshirite says <i>wicked<\/i>, but it goes further than that.  Based on initial observations, it appears that <i>hella<\/i> can be used not only to replace <i>very<\/i>, but also to replace <i>really<\/i> and the adjective, <i>impressive<\/i>.  (As a side note, young San Franciscans sometimes PG version, <i>hecka<\/i>.)  Here are some examples:<b>I <i>hella<\/i> want to go to that show.<\/b>  (<i>really<\/i>)<b>Those are some <i>hella<\/i> shoes.<\/b> (<i>impressive<\/i>)<b>This day has been <i>hella<\/i> long. <\/b> (<i>very<\/i>)This evidence further supports my belief that San Franciscans are more relaxed and flexible than New Hampshirites.  Further anthropological studies might expose a geographic link between the word <i>wicked<\/i> and the Salem witch trials.  Such studies might also find a link between the liberal lifestyle of San Francisco and its likelihood, in the eyes of conservative Christians, of ending up in hell&#8230; but I digress.  Since moving here, I&#8217;ve caught myself saying <i>wicked<\/i> several times, and corrected myself.  Everytime I use <i>hella<\/i>, I wince, and then announce to my conversation partner how wicked cool I am that I can learn a new dialect.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up, this content is 21 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.We can be grateful as Americans that a country as big as ours has a relatively consistent language. While fast-paced Northerners may get annoyed at a slow Southern twang, at least they can understand each other (China&#8217;s situation, for example, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}