alright fuckers, listen up.
it's "holla!" when you're expressing excitement over something, you say "holla!" not "holler", not "holler if you hear me" or anything else that sounds stupid like that obviously does.
"holler" is what people in the south do when they need to get each other's attention. you need to understand that what you are doing when you say "holler" is attempting to emulate a construction borne from rap music and african-american pop culture. as such, it behooves you to actually emulate correctly, instead of in your nails-on-a-chalkboard whitebread way.
urbandictionary.com agrees with me. amidst all the definitions of "holler" that have nothing to do with the usage described above, there is one that does, and it is quick to point out that this is the "caucasian" form of "holla", aka the "wrong" form. the OED also agrees with my gloss of "holler".
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okay, here's my problem: if "holler" was just a random word that was accidentally getting made up/thrown around in place of "holla", it would be no big deal. however, generally, people around here use "holler" to seem hip or cool, when in reality it actually indicates the complete opposite of such (considering our culture's stance towards "rednecks"). the guys i used to work with in the redneck warehouse would "holler at you" when they needed something. you "holler" when someone fires off a particularly good fiddle solo at your down-home family picnic in the appalachians. you "holla" when you're freaking ja-rule.
i don't know much of anything, but i've lived in places that have been heavily populated by rednecks and places that have been heavily populated by not-snazzy-hip-white-college kids. so i think that lends my vernacular-critiquing at least a little credibility. this rampant "hollering" in washington amongst people who think the dude who fixes their car is scary because he has a bandanna in his back pocket and he drives a dodge pickup with a calvin-urinating-on-whatever sticker on the back window needs to stop. for no other reason than that the irony is killing me. slowly.
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