Teenage Urban 'slang'
Watch this postIs it me, or do teenagers today have a very confusing vocabulary? How can ‘sick’ mean ‘good’ and ‘pull’ mean ‘snog’! I think I need a dictionary! Does anyone else have the same challenge of interpretation that I do??
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We don't tolerate swearing, and reserve the right to remove any posts which we feel may offend others... let's keep it friendly!
At least in conversation you can query any word you don't understand.
But as we have managed to make sense of documents that are hundreds of years old I'm sure we will continue to do so especially with goggle at our fingertips.
Slang gives expression to our speech a sense of identity and is fun when it;s not causing
offence,
Think much of the txt speak originated from people trying to fit in as many words as possible into a set amount of characters - say 100 characters per text message then the provider would charge for another one. Would like to see more standard writing used again really. (Personally find the more annoying thing is the over the top use of these emoticon things - half the time I don't have a clue what people are trying to say!)
Perhaps my biggest current hate! Ironically I was looking for the "like" button when I read this 🙂 Many slang words and curse words annoy me. Like is really annoying because how can you say "and I was a like, yes I understand" so did you understand or were you just like someone who understood but you didn't have a clue what was said?
Oh my god, oh my days, etc you get the picture...just sounds pretentious. Mother F*******, speaks for itself, just not nice! But the youth of today do not have a stranglehold on useless or silly phrases, from my growing up in a housing estate in Edinburgh here is just a few
"Bag off" a one off date usually
"Barry" good, brilliant...eg That film was barry
"black man" that was what is now commonly known as a chocolate wafer in most places, and black man is totally politically incorrect nowadays
"slider" was just a 2 wafers with ice cream in middle like above but without the chocolate and fondant part.
Was plenty more but cant think right now