who uses the phrase "hella"?

[Phat_Pat]

i hella use it.

nor-cal anyone?

[FunkyMonkey]

The wanna-be cool kids. I'm not saying that's you, but it's like that where I live.

[bassproguy07]

my cousins use it, A LOT yes they are from nor cal...Yay area lol

[PlaceofDis]

never have, and i rarely hear it said here. kinda gets on my nerves when i do hear it.

[Surely]

Cartman?

[decksnap]

Everybody... Like five years ago.

[Schtumple]

I've heard hellavu, I really dislike people that use it, hella just seems like a small corruption on that...

[ErikCLDR]

Never ever except when referring to the automotive lighting company which isn't very often.

[InvalidUserID]

Since I'm a valley girl (silicon valley, ha!), I used to use "hella" quite often back in the day.

When I left and lived in NY, I started replacing "hella" with "mad".

Now that I'm back and back with my friends I grew up with, "hella" has made a comeback.

:D

[Schnebar]

Yep it's definately a nor cal saying. I am from so cal but am going to college in the south. So if I go back to Cali and say y'all, I will be angry. Same goes for all of my friends who went to like Berkeley, if they start saying hella.

[CalBoy]

i hella use it.

nor-cal anyone?
I used to use it a lot in junior high/high school.

Since college not so much (except when I'm being intentionally sarcastic).

It really is a Bay Area thing, just like "pop" is used in lieu of "soda" in some parts of the US.
Same goes for all of my friends who went to like Berkeley, if they start saying hella.

A bit ironic, no? ;)

[aznxternityd]

I hear people say hella all the time. Maybe because I live in the bay area. :D

[bassproguy07]

yall are making me depressed, its been a year and a half since I have visited the bay area!! If only I could afford to live there! Oh well maybe this summer I will get to come out there and visit the family.

[CalBoy]

Wow, the Bay Area MR group is out in force tonight!

This is hella rad.

Or something...:p

[RITZFit]

lol, just talked about this phrase w/ some a friends alittle while ago. I'll say it just to piss people off :D

[Galvatron]

The wanna-be cool kids. I'm not saying that's you, but it's like that where I live.

same here. The people who say this tend to where backpacks...EVERYWHERE!

[apfhex]

Me and my friends used to... about 10 years ago.

[EricNau]

Not personally, but I certainly hear it.

It really is a Bay Area thing. . .
Ahem. ;)

[CalBoy]

Ahem. ;)

Can't hide my colors man, I can't! :D

[richard.mac]

hella useless thread :D

never heard of "nor-cal" though… probs becuase im not from the States.

[Prof.]

No I don't and I hate it when ppl use it. I just want to hit them with my car.

PLUS! it doesn't make sense. "i hella use it" = "I hell use it"

See? makes no sense.
The wanna-be cool kids. I'm not saying that's you, but it's like that where I live.
if it truly is a Nor-Cal thing, then yes, it's stupid when non-californians use it. However, I'm from Chicago and I use "Y'all".:o:D

[lostfan916]

Yup... used a lot here in Sac, what can I say. But I don't use it a lot, just when talking informally to friends and what not. It's kind of a subconscious thing, I don't even realize I'm using it haha. :D

[richard.mac]

its kind of like how us Australians say "but" at the end of our sentence while conversing like we are going to say something again, but dont.

"I was gonna go to the shop, but…" and then you allow someone else to talk.

if you try and explain it and give an example sentence it sounds odd and stupid. same with "hella" and other colloquialisms.

[siurpeeman]

what's more annoying than hella is hecka. makes me want to tear my hair out.

[EricNau]

never heard of "nor-cal" though… probs becuase im not from the States.
Nor-Cal, short for Northern California. Yes, "hella" is definitely a Northern California term; even those from Southern California are rarely familiar with the expression.

In case it's not already clear, the term is short for "hell of a lot of."

[BittenApple]

I hella <3 Oakland!

[SMDrew]

I only ever use it to describe the temperature when it is hot out. And even then only when the temperature reaches the "hella" range.

[ich1ban]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5G77 Safari/525.20)

I stopped saying that in middle school. :p

[Counterfit]

It's hella lame.



"Goddammit Cartman! Stop saying hella!"

[Phat_Pat]

Can't hide my colors man, I can't! :D

hella baydestrian

[Dagless]

I only use it with another middleclass English friend o' mine who enjoys a spot of the South Park, pippip.

Dr. P - Oh did you book the tickets for Turandot?
Sir. J- Is it coming to town?
Dr. P - Why of course, it'll be at the royal Opera house.
Sir. J- Marvellous, that'll be hella fantastic.

[toolbox]

Cartman?

Yep he does a lot lol just to annoy Kyle

[Mord]

Occasionally, my lingo is just so totally mondo.

:cool:

:P

[rdowns]

Never. I prefer the term "stunna".

[OutThere]

Being from new england I say "mad" (big in Connecticut) and "wicked" (big in Mass). "Hella" is for wicked lame kids. :p

[zachplaysguitar]

I just say really. Unless you're in an area where it's popular, people look at you like an you're an idiot when you use it. I guess the same goes for most slang though...

[jensepollense]

I just say really. Unless you're in an area where it's popular, people look at you like an you're an idiot when you use it. I guess the same goes for most slang though...

yea same here

[mcnicks]

My posh aunt says it when she answers the phone.

[bradl]

what's more annoying than hella is hecka. makes me want to tear my hair out.

Glad it isn't just me, and it must be a NorCal thing (I'm in Sacramento as well). No-one back home (Nebraska) uses it, nor back at home (Las Vegas) uses it either. Certainly none of my relative back home (Oklahoma) use it, let alone heard of it..

But I feel like going up to whoever is saying it.. and slapping the smeg out of them.

BL.

[leekohler]

Gwen Stefani says it. I can't stand her or No Doubt. The answer is NO.

[Macaddicttt]

No.

I don't mind other regional expressions (eg. "wicked" or "mad") but "hella" is really irritating.

[bradl]

No.

I don't mind other regional expressions (eg. "wicked" or "mad") but "hella" is really irritating.

True.. but 'wicked' and 'mad' have been around for a while; Too many a time have you heard them in some Public Enemy rap.

BL.

[Dagless]

Mad has always been used in Manchester though so you're still allowed to say that here.

[nevisbound]

When I hear hella these days it's usually a deliberate anachronism at least here around NYC.

[CalBoy]

hella baydestrian

No better place. ;) :)

[ErikCLDR]

Being from new england I say "mad" (big in Connecticut) and "wicked" (big in Mass). "Hella" is for wicked lame kids. :p

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I am from Connecticut too. I suppose "mad" is pretty popular. You have to go up to worcester-boston-cape cod to get the "wicked" and I don't hear anyone say "hella".

We do say "package store" when referring to a place that sells alcohol which no one else says.

[Bfat567]

Guilty as well as Gnarly,Balls Out

[decksnap]

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I am from Connecticut too. I suppose "mad" is pretty popular. You have to go up to worcester-boston-cape cod to get the "wicked" and I don't hear anyone say "hella".

We do say "package store" when referring to a place that sells alcohol which no one else says.

You mean 'packy'?

Wicked is New England-wide, and I don't think it's going anywhere as it's been around forever. 'Mad' on the other hand I would file with things like 'izzle/shizzle/fizzle', 'hella' and 'tight.' Only said for ironic intent at this point.

[Ropie]

My posh aunt says it when she answers the phone.

Haha! I have never heard of 'hella' but I do hear the word 'like' an awful lot more than is really necessary. What amazes me is that people, like, even type it when they write!

[OutThere]

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I am from Connecticut too. I suppose "mad" is pretty popular. You have to go up to worcester-boston-cape cod to get the "wicked" and I don't hear anyone say "hella".

We do say "package store" when referring to a place that sells alcohol which no one else says.

I'm from litchfield county...a good number of people say wicked, though I'd say we're more a real part of new england than, say fairfield county. I also went to boarding school/go to college with a lot of people from the Boston area, also. I did grow up with a bit of a New England accent as well...which my parents don't have (they're not from NE), I say 'lahhg'/log and 'fahhg'/fog, among others.

I do like 'package store'...I'm pretty sure that's something completely Connecticut, nobody knows what I'm talking about if I mention one.

[sfh]

nor cal whoot whoot! hella sic

[MattG]

Cartman?

That's what I came here to say!

[iMpathetic]

i hella use it.

nor-cal anyone?

GNARCAL!!!

God, I'm going to have to chop the next person who says that to me up into little pieces and then sprinkle him in a field where a waiting pack of starving hyenas will puree him with their jaws to the point that there are no longer any individual cells, just tattered DNA masquerading as flesh.

:eek:

Sorry.

[Bfat567]

GNARCAL!!!

God, I'm going to have to chop the next person who says that to me up into little pieces and then sprinkle him in a field where a waiting pack of starving hyenas will puree him with their jaws to the point that there are no longer any individual cells, just tattered DNA masquerading as flesh.

:eek:

Sorry.

Thats a hella morbid thought man.

[Phat_Pat]

Thats a hella morbid thought man.

yeah man that was hella crazy
:p

[starbabyc]

I don't use it, but I know a lot of people from the bay do.

[iMpathetic]

yeah man that was hella crazy
:p

Aren't you cool.




:D

[Phat_Pat]

Aren't you cool.




:D

hella cool:p:D

[roylikeswaffles]

i hella use it.

[richard.mac]

hella stop saying hella in a thread about hella.

[Pixellated]

Count me in. I hella like using hella too.

[iObama]

I hella use hella hellas like every day. HELLLLLLLLA!

I do though haha.

[yoppie]

I've heard it a few times in South Florida. I use it here and there.