speech patterns? Well, I think we urban folks need some of them too. So I'd like to propose some folks-sounding urban phrases and expressions.
The first one, by the way, harkens back to my high school days. There was some guy I vaguely knew (he was two grades ahead of me) who used it as the quote under his picture in the yearbook. I think I know what it meant, but I'm not sure. Anyway, After that one, the rest are from my fertile mind. I am open to suggestions for more expressions.
- If you can't get a seat at Roosevelt Avenue, you're not really trying.
- Even Times Square gets snow.
- Don't open a bodega and call it Whole Foods.
- He couldn't get mugged if he tried.
- Don't snatch my purse and then say you have no ID.
- Like homeless to an E train.
- If you'r crossing sixth, watch out for the roaches.
Someone clearly misses the crime-ridden, urban decay version of New York!
ReplyDeleteHow about some new ones to reflect the better place New York is today:
"You can go to the Hudson on the 7? YES!"
"Times Square is Disneyland East!"
"There's a subway up the East Side that King Kong will never find!"
Everyone, try some of your own...
Not that I miss the "crime-ridden, urban decay version of New York."
DeleteBut that's the version I knew when I was a teenager going to high school in Manhattan.
Besides...With Bill the Incompetent running things, the shitty has been going downhill.