A note of explanation: no, you're not nuts. Nor are you stupid. There are funky words popping up on this site. All part of the wonderful chewy-sweet-nuttiness of QueenAlpo.
I used to do my peers' vocabulary homework on the bus in the mornings because it was the only way I could make or keep "friends." And because I actually like doing vocabulary homework. Later in life I discovered the crossword puzzle, which was both good and bad. Good because my word fetish didn't channel itself into tattooing every square centimenter of my body with polysyllabics. Bad because I then had to find a new way to make "friends." But even better because as I gained a sense of goddess-like control over the written word, I found it was even more fun to misuse or make them up!
My first language is English, but I eventually learned ASL as I found a home in the Deaf community. And ASL isn't (yet?) a written language, sure, but many of us deafies are avid writers and lather at the jowls every time we want to say something in ASL in print. So we take what linguists call glossing to a whole new level as we strive to express our Deaf personalities in written form.
Without further ado:
*25-on-chest*: ASL-gloss for "touching," "aww!" "melt my heart," and other gooey stuff.
Bisk-bisk: ASL-gloss: I'm all that, I'm so smart, I rock, I'm so adept.
CODA: Child of Deaf Adult.
Foo: ASL-gloss for cute. A friend of mine who is an ASL teacher uses "fute." No! Wrong! Bad! I "for-bedd!"
Me do-do: ASL-gloss for "What should I do?" or "What did I do then?" "You do-do" has similar meaning. Just switch out the pronoun: "What are you doing," "What did you do," or "What are you going to do now?"
NSFE: You've seen those internet slangy acronyms thrown around onto links to pictures of people's penises and stuff, right? NSFW? Otherwise known as Not Safe for Work? Well, take the Work part and replace it with Eating. Yayyy! 'Cause apparently while my blogs are (usually) safe for work, I make people throw up.
Point-what: common ASL-gloss for "the point is..."
Shishkedarn - a quasi-swear word. Used when I'm experiencing one of my good little girl days, but I really, really, really, need to express an emotion more accurately conveyed using the proletarian "shit!" After all, it's a lot more Mickey Mouse than what my friend Ocean sometimes says in similar situations: "Damnashit."
Tadpoles - One of my favorite euphemisms for the little fishies that go do the naughty dance with the big beach ball and help make a baby.
VP: Videophone.
Wamarva - A portmanteau indicating the Washington, Maryland, and Virginia area.
