Slang

Sometimes I wonder where a lot of slang words come from. I'm pretty out of the loop sometimes. Like just a few years back I started hearing people use the phrase low key in their sentences when I swear I've never heard it before. Where did it come from??

Also I guess I'm not a cool guy as people always look at me funny when I use slang.

I'm Australian so a sizeable proportion of my vocabulary is slang words nobody else in the world understands.

Lots of my slang would be alien to anybody else, including people from different parts of the country.

Slang is definitely area specific. Even certain cities have their own slang. As for slang in general, I'm sure it goes way back.

everytime i see the word slang i think people start speaking Dutch

slang is Dutch for snake

Vol'jin said:

everytime i see the word slang i think people start speaking Dutch

slang is Dutch for snake

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Is there slang word for slang or is slang slang for anything else?

gimmepie said:

Is there slang word for slang or is slang slang for anything else?

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isn't slang slang for shortened language or st

I love slang, I think it's super fun. Southern USA slang and colloquialisms are the best.

Something fun is learning slang in a second language. It?s such a good way to learn how people of whatever culture think about things and then in turn form their words.

gimmepie said:

I'm Australian so a sizeable proportion of my vocabulary is slang words nobody else in the world understands.

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this but then a lot of my local friends can't understand me as well cos i throw in a bit of gaming slang here, a bit of lankan slang there, a little bit of malaysian/singaporean/colombian/indian/etc slang that i pick up from friends...

Charlie Brown said:

this but then a lot of my local friends can't understand me as well cos i throw in a bit of gaming slang here, a bit of lankan slang there, a little bit of malaysian/singaporean/colombian/indian/etc slang that i pick up from friends...

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Are you sure them not understanding you is a language thing and not a you problem?

oh it's definitely a me problem

On Australian slang I had dinner recently with a few Aussie?s and a couple of guys from the US. The conversation topic got onto slang and while the guys from the US had no clue I could understand the Aussie slang as well as the Aussie?s could understand British slang.

gimmepie said:

Is there slang word for slang or is slang slang for anything else?

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yes the slang for slang is gimmepie

but the slang for the slang of slang... is also gimmepie

I do throw a lot of gaming/spanish/english/brazillian portuguese slangs, and everyone understands it, i can understand british and american slangs too.

I work in a predominantly black work environment. Slang is rapidly making its way into my day-to-day life, and I'm often having to explain to other white people what something means when I say it.

There isn't any here that I'm aware? At least not in this part of the country.

im from the south so the only slang i really have is y'all. unfortunately as much as i told myself i was gonna not use it, i have started. bleh. i lived in new york for about.. 8 years i think? and we had some slang there that was mostly northern/new york-ish (not nyc). but i can't remember what it was exactly.