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10:09am December 1, 2013
feliscorvus: dendriforming: tedtheodorelogan: officialbrostrider: EVERYONE STOP USING “HELLA” WRONG I HAVE HAD CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ‘HELLA’ LONGER THAN AN EPISODE OF YOUR FAVORITE SHOW LET ME BREAK IT DOWN FURTHER ‘HELLA’ HAS ITS ROOTS AS A CONTRACTION OF 'A HELL OF A’, LIKE “WE HAD A HELL OF A GOOD TIME” BECOMING “WE HAD A HELLA GOOD TIME” HOWEVER IF YOU WERE TO SAY “THE STORE HAS A HELL OF A LOT OF CLOTHES” YOU DON’T SAY “THE STORE HAS HELLA LOT OF CLOTHES” BECAUSE IN THIS INCARNATION HELLA IS A QUANTIFIER AND SAYING ‘HELLA LOT OF’ MAKES AS MUCH SENSE AS ‘MUCH LOT OF’ IT’S ALSO VERY CONTEXT DEPENDENT IN THAT IT’S BEST USED IN A CLAUSE THAT’S NOT INTERROGATIVE IE A SENTENCE OR STATEMENT THAT’S NOT ASKING A THING SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PEOPLE WILL LOOK AT YOU WEIRD FOR SAYING ‘WHERE ARE THE HELLA BUSES’ BUT GENERALLY NOT BAT AN EYE IF YOU SAY ‘GOD DAMN THERE’S USUALLY HELLA BUSES WHERE THE FUCK ARE THEY’ SOURCE: MY FAMILY HAS LIVED IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA FOR A HELLA LONG TIME AND BY THAT I MEAN OVER A CENTURY  Does anyone know about the inland progression of “Hella?” I grew up in a rich suburb of Sacramento. Went to a tiny alternative private elementary school — never ran into the word there, but that’s no surprise. I don’t remember hearing it at the public middle school either. I do distinctly remember  hearing somebody in my freshman biology class talking about “hella people” and wondering where the quantifier was. It was everywhere at the high school in general. I just don’t know whether the thing that changed was my awareness or if there was an actual shift in the language other people were using. I’m tumblr-old (born in 1978!) and first encountered “hella” in around 1997, when I moved out to northern California from Connecticut. I attended high school in a fairly affluent suburb of San Jose (or at least, one often considered affluent; my parents were renting from relatives there but anyway), FWIW. I had never heard it at all in CT, but it was everywhere in CA.  I grew up in San Jose and I heard it in the early nineties in a school full of people much more affluent than we were.

feliscorvus:

dendriforming:

tedtheodorelogan:

officialbrostrider:

EVERYONE STOP USING “HELLA” WRONG

I HAVE HAD CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ‘HELLA’ LONGER THAN AN EPISODE OF YOUR FAVORITE SHOW LET ME BREAK IT DOWN FURTHER

‘HELLA’ HAS ITS ROOTS AS A CONTRACTION OF 'A HELL OF A’, LIKE “WE HAD A HELL OF A GOOD TIME” BECOMING “WE HAD A HELLA GOOD TIME”

HOWEVER IF YOU WERE TO SAY “THE STORE HAS A HELL OF A LOT OF CLOTHES” YOU DON’T SAY “THE STORE HAS HELLA LOT OF CLOTHES” BECAUSE IN THIS INCARNATION HELLA IS A QUANTIFIER AND SAYING ‘HELLA LOT OF’ MAKES AS MUCH SENSE AS ‘MUCH LOT OF’

IT’S ALSO VERY CONTEXT DEPENDENT IN THAT IT’S BEST USED IN A CLAUSE THAT’S NOT INTERROGATIVE IE A SENTENCE OR STATEMENT THAT’S NOT ASKING A THING

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PEOPLE WILL LOOK AT YOU WEIRD FOR SAYING ‘WHERE ARE THE HELLA BUSES’ BUT GENERALLY NOT BAT AN EYE IF YOU SAY ‘GOD DAMN THERE’S USUALLY HELLA BUSES WHERE THE FUCK ARE THEY’

SOURCE: MY FAMILY HAS LIVED IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA FOR A HELLA LONG TIME AND BY THAT I MEAN OVER A CENTURY 

Does anyone know about the inland progression of “Hella?”

I grew up in a rich suburb of Sacramento. Went to a tiny alternative private elementary school — never ran into the word there, but that’s no surprise. I don’t remember hearing it at the public middle school either.

I do distinctly remember  hearing somebody in my freshman biology class talking about “hella people” and wondering where the quantifier was. It was everywhere at the high school in general. I just don’t know whether the thing that changed was my awareness or if there was an actual shift in the language other people were using.

I’m tumblr-old (born in 1978!) and first encountered “hella” in around 1997, when I moved out to northern California from Connecticut. I attended high school in a fairly affluent suburb of San Jose (or at least, one often considered affluent; my parents were renting from relatives there but anyway), FWIW. I had never heard it at all in CT, but it was everywhere in CA. 

I grew up in San Jose and I heard it in the early nineties in a school full of people much more affluent than we were.

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