Beijingismns

哥们儿 is also a term of affection between guys, like "dude" or "bro" in (American) English.

What about "mir2" for tomorrow?!

(1) Also, want about "ber4" to mean "very", I think it comes from "bei4" (as in "times", so "several times over")...for e.g., I used to hear "ber4 bang4" which I translate as "awesome!"

(2) I think "guai3" for "turn" is very Beijing or maybe just Mainland???

(3) "Pi2 shi" meaning something like "to be tough" or "to be thickskinned" (as in: ni bu yao ku, yao pishi yi diar) is something I had in a Beijing textbook and NO ONE outside of that place new what the heck that meant.

(4) "Yin1wei2" instead of "Yin1wei4" for "because", or even worse, "yin1vei2"...what's with the "v"-like "w's" in the north?

The Beijing dialect is fascinating. Really, really old people sometimes say "tan1" (which is written as "ta" [he/she] with a "heart" on the bottom) to mean polite he or she. It is the "he/she" analog of "nin2." Few know this word though.

I think I have a Taiwan bias. :-) In Mainland China every other tone is unpronounced...I mean, what's up with that??

This might or might not be a Beijingism, but I hear it all the time and it hasn't appeared in any lesson yet:

"什么之类的"

which is synonymous to

"什么的" or "等等"

and means "etc." "and so forth"

My wife (东北人) says 怎么着 all the time, so I don't think it's just Beijing.

I like 今儿 as a replacement for 今天.

I liked 你多儿岁。I always use to get that from the taxi drivers in tuar li.

Definitely not used around here in Sichuan

A phrase I hear all the time here is:

你怎么着?

nǐzěnmezhāo

for: "So what?"

This is either Beijing vernacular or has just been neglected soi far at CPod.

I told you you'd be hearing/saying "R"'s all over the place !

I think the sailor captain from the Simpsons was from Beijing. All those "arrrrrr" that he put after every sentences couldn't have come from anywhere else.

I'm pretty sure everything in that city ends with an 儿.