This from a culture that refers to diapers as "nappies."
"That'll learn you" is an intentionally vulgar expression meant to mimic White Trash speech, or what i think the Brits call "chavs.
"Where it's at" is slang derived from African-American usage later adopted by whites seeking to be more "street." A good example of the barely-concealed elitism and rascism underlying many of these linguistic discussions.
Most of the rest are just terminologies that evolved in their own cultural aquariums and are of no consequence. Canadians call a garbage disposal a "garburator" fercrissakes...
"That'll learn you" is an intentionally vulgar expression meant to mimic White Trash speech, or what i think the Brits call "chavs.
"Where it's at" is slang derived from African-American usage later adopted by whites seeking to be more "street." A good example of the barely-concealed elitism and rascism underlying many of these linguistic discussions.
Most of the rest are just terminologies that evolved in their own cultural aquariums and are of no consequence. Canadians call a garbage disposal a "garburator" fercrissakes...