#Yes in surfer lingo mac

The term surfing refers to a person riding a wave using a board, regardless of the stance. Waves suitable for surfing are primarily found on ocean shores, but can also be found in standing waves in the open ocean, in lakes, in rivers in the form of a tidal bore, or in wave pools. Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore. You can learn more about surfer lingo from David Burke by surfing the Web to his Internet homepage: RS: And you can reach us by e-mail our address is or write to VOA Wordmaster, Washington DC 20547 USA.ĪA: With Rosanne Skirble, I'm Avi Arditti.World Surf League (WSL), International Surfing Association (ISA) Years ago they used say `see you later alligator' then they changed it to `later gator' then the teens started saying `later' and `lates', but the surfers say latronic.'ĪA: David 'Slangman' Burke, speaking to us from Los Angeles. Now when a surfer leaves they don't say goodbye, they actually have taken an older expression and really updated it. So to go scrut some grunts, that's very popular in surfer lingo. Now grunts of course - a pig grunts - is food. And when you scrut you usually scrut some grunts. RS: 'So there's not much hope for any of us unless you enter as you say the club.' BURKE: 'If a surfer heard what you just said, Rosanne, that surfer would say `yes, exactly what we want'- they don't want us to know their lingo, unless you become a surfer.'ĪA: David Burke isn't a surfer, but he learned the slang from some teen-age California surfers he met at the beach and at his local surfing shop.īURKE: 'Now at the end of the interview of these surfer teens, one of them said he had to go scrut - do you have any idea what that means?'īURKE: 'No actually it means to go eat. That one is used in surfer lingo and in teen lingo - but oddly enough, or to the credit of surfers, they've created their own lingo and they've really kept it? in their club so it really has not gone out there yet.' Out of all these words the one that's a teen slang word is `styling.' You'll say `ooh we're styling now,' which means we are doing great now. RS: 'Have any of these words crossed over into our vocabulary so even someone who may live by a river and not an ocean may be using them?'īURKE: 'I want you to know that I went through probably 500 words to answer that question that I figured you would ask me, and I found only one.

And if it's wave after wave after wave, you would add to that sentence that it is `fully macking some gnarly grinders with corduroy to the horizon,' like corduroy pants, line after line after line.' So `the big mama is fully mackin' some gnarly grinders' simply means the ocean is fully producing some very large waves. 'Gnarly is a really popular adjective meaning impressive, so a gnarly grinder is a big huge wave that grinds down.

#Yes in surfer lingo mac

So if the ocean is `fully macking' then it's producing something as big as a Mac truck. Mackin' is short for macking, which a Mac truck a Mac truck is huge. RS: 'Could you take that sentence, say it slowly then dissect it?'īURKE: 'OK, the line in normal everyday English is, `the ocean is producing large waves.' But a surfer would say `the big mama is fully mackin' some gnarly grinders.' The big mama is what a surfer calls the ocean. So a lot of (American) surfers would say the phrase `the ocean is producing large waves,'that would become if you use the slang and the delivery,`the big mama is fully mackin' some gnarly grinders.'' TAPE: CUT ONE - DAVID BURKE/SKIRBLE/ARDITTIīURKE: 'Now the surfer style, that is something you'll hear that is more breathy. RS: You really hear it with vowels: a-e-i-o-u. RS: Our expert on slang, David Burke, didn't have to go far to check out surfer talk - he lives near the beach in Southern California.ĪA: David Burke says California surfers not only have their own language, but also their own delivery. So it's not surprising that surfers have their own slang. For many people who live near the beach, surfing is a way of life. INTRO: Forget 'surfing the Web' or 'channel surfing' - today our Wordmasters talk about some of the lingo used by real surfers in Southern California.ĪA: And I'm Avi Arditti.