Who else gets weirded-out when one of the guys says "Hell of" instead of "Hella"?

Does not bother me at all.

I'm more bothered by the term in general, I guess.

I hate "hella", so making a mockery of it by pronouncing it out is something I fully support.

"Hell of" is way better than "hella."

you need to find something better to do with your time dude

I say both so I don't mind in the least.

People who say "hella" need to be rounded up and put in work camps.

'Hella' and the people who use it are blights upon the English language and this planet.

Both of them are pretty fucking stupid, I'm bothered by both.

I've never noticed.

When I hear someone say "hella", the first thing I think of is "shut the hell up you left-coast NorCal asshole"

I can honestly say I've never heard anyone even utter the words "hell of" without saying it sarcastically.

When people say "Hella" I just look at them weird and walk away.

Ain't nothing wrong with hella. 'Hell of' is merely the formal version of it.

I hope when someone from Western PA refers to a group as 'yinz' you guys roll up on your anti-colloquial scooters of vengeance. Wearing your knit-caps/toques/toboggans/beanies.

"Hella" is wicked dumb.

we said it growing up in western Oregon plenty of times, not just a norcal thing.

@brodehouse said:

A toboggan is a sled. Otherwise, hilarious visual.

@Oldirtybearon Hey man, I'm Canadian, I know what a toboggan is. According to that dirty Carolinian Shoemaker, they call toques toboggans.

@Brodehouse Christ. Im in western PA and the "yinz" thing makes me want to punch kittens every time I hear it.

Yup. "Whoa, that's hella dank, maaaaan."

I'm pretty sure the guys only say "hella" when they are going for it, not in their everyday normal talk. Which doesn't mean they should stop saying hella. In fact, they should say it a bit more.

Hella is for retarded douche bags. No offense, but you sound like idiots when you say stuff like that.

"no offense"

"Hella" has literally been around since the 1970s. Anyone getting worked up about a forty year-old, mostly-logical contraction ("hell of a" or "hell of a lot of") in 2013, when we have YOLO growing from the dark corners of the internet like a rapidly-forming ass cancer, needs to have their head examined.

What kind of idiot says "hella" in a serious way?

I'm pretty sure they say it to be tongue in cheek and/or to troll people, in which case I guess it totally worked on you.

It'd be easier if you just turned Hayward into a work camp. That way you get 99% of the people in there that use the term. It's funny because I was just there 3 days ago and it was hella nice.

Yeah, I love that.

I thought 'hella' was a Sacramento thing.

The world is not Sacramento. Thankfully.

As another ambassador for Oregon, I can say this is not true. I definitely remember the first time I heard someone say the word "hella," and it pretty much made a room of Oregonians stop and stare.

Oregonians are a bunch of jockers.

Motherfucker is hella insincere.

Naw, I'm pretty secure in my ability to speak in a room full of my peers without them writing me off the second I open my mouth.

EDIT: haha I read "insecure".

I say "hella" all the time because it's cool and fun. I guess it now has the added benefit of making uptight weirdos totally mad.

"Hell of" is what you say when the word coming after it starts with a vowel. Like, "hella good" vs. "hell of awesome." At least that's the way I use it.

They both kinda weird me out. I come from a country where neither saying is used.

I can't stand the phrase "hella," but I've (subconsciously, perhaps) worked "hell of" into my regular vocabulary.

I mean if you say "hell of" then why are you even saying it? This is the real mystery. We all know it sounds fucking stupid but that's part of the charm.

Hell of odorous cannabis sativa you have in your possession my friend of darker skin than I.

e: If you are going to say that you read through the giant bomb forums and it was a hell of weird threads then its okay. These are different words they are just made up of the same letters.

People cry when someone says hella? Wow :/

They are both stupid. Lose/lose situation.

All the more reason to keep saying hella!

It's the only way you can use that phrase without being a terrible person.

My wife pointed out Hella and Hell of tends to have different uses.

Something is "hella cool" or "hella good" and usually not "the cake was hell of a good", the cake was infact "hella good".

'hella' is bad and you should feel bad.

This thread is hella bullshit.

That's hell of weird, duder.

Thats hella lame man.

I spent summers in NorCal, specifically in Lodi and Stockton, and the rest of the years in Oklahoma City growing up. I heard "hella" in California about seven or eight years before I heard it in Oklahoma. I've always thought of it as a California thing.

I also happen to enjoy how dumb "hell of" sounds.

You wouldn't say "hell of a good", certainly. "Hell of good", maybe, but probably not. I do think that I hear "Hell of" more frequently when the guys are discussing the amount of something rather than the degree of something, e.g. "There are hell of explosions in that movie," v.s. "That movie is hella sick."

I say hella now because I know it makes people's skin crawl and I find that hilarious.

Being from Southern California, I find both particularly repugnant. LEARN TO SPEAK YOU HIPPIES!