Lesson 2 — Activity 1: Kids Talking to Each Other
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Lesson 2 — Activity 1: Kids Talking to Each Other
Think about communicating daily with your friends or brothers and
sisters. What kind of communication is it? Is it face-to-face visiting?
Online chatting? Or is it mostly e-mailing or texting?
When you talk to your friends or your family members, you probably find that you use certain words and phrases that other people, like parents and other adults, may not. These words are called slang.
Slang:
When you talk to your friends or your family members, you probably find that you use certain words and phrases that other people, like parents and other adults, may not. These words are called slang.
Slang:
- are words that are used informally by a particular group of people
- refers to popular new ways to express ideas and feelings
Slang can be used by groups of people to set them apart. It certainly can be used to express ideas and feelings in a different way. It might even be used to keep messages from other groups of people. Slang words are not found in a dictionary. Slang words are used in informal situations. When you are writing or speaking in formal situations, slang should be avoided.
Sometimes slang words allow people to say things that cannot be said by using traditional words. These new words and expressions may join regular language if a lot of other groups of people start to use them and they become popular. Many words that we use every day and can find in the dictionary began as slang.
If the slang words are not accepted by most people, slang expressions become quickly outdated. Then they are replaced by new slang.
Sometimes slang words allow people to say things that cannot be said by using traditional words. These new words and expressions may join regular language if a lot of other groups of people start to use them and they become popular. Many words that we use every day and can find in the dictionary began as slang.
If the slang words are not accepted by most people, slang expressions become quickly outdated. Then they are replaced by new slang.
Here are some examples of "current" slang expressions:
- "Bae": This stands for "Before Anyone Else." It's a way to describe someone who is very important to you.
- "Doe": This is the shorter and cooler way to say the word though.
- "Squad": This term refers to your group of friends.
You may know and use many more words that could be thought of as slang.