slangs

[alice-5]

Do english language people use slangs regularly?

 

[teechar]

Do (native) speakers of English language people use slang s regularly?

Slang is part and parcel of everyday casual/informal conversations, so yes, the answer is they do. Is that not the case with Persian?

 

[alice-5]

Name some of the most commonly used .

 

[5jj]

Do english language people use slangs regularly?

Note that slang is uncountable.

 

[Annabel Lee]

Name some of the most commonly used .

That depends on factors like where you live, how old you are, and who(m) you hang out with.

I think the phrasal verb "hang out with" qualifies as slang. It's very commonly used in the U.S.

Surely you've heard of "cool," as in "That was a cool trick." It has nothing to do with temperature in that usage.

When I was a teenager in the 1980s, "bad" could be used to mean "good." Michael Jackson helped to popularize that usage.

One of my personal favorites is "majorly" as an intensifier, as in "Dude, that was majorly cool." It means "really" or "very."

("Dude" is another one, but I'm not very fond of it any more. I overused it in the 1980s.)

I draw a blank when it comes to British slang. Maybe the British moderators can tell us whether "bloody" is still common.

 

[emsr2d2]

Please name tell me some of the most commonly used.

Please note my changes above. Your request came across more like an order because you used the imperative. Remember that we don't put a space before a full stop.

That's a very wide-ranging request. I suggest you simply Google "most commonly used slang in British English" and then the same for American English (and again for any other variants you're interested in).

 

[alice-5]

That depends on factors like where you live, how old you are, and who(m) you hang out with.

I think the phrasal verb "hang out with" qualifies as slang. It's very commonly used in the U.S.

Surely you've heard of "cool," as in "That was a cool trick." It has nothing to do with temperature in that usage.

When I was a teenager in the 1980s, "bad" could be used to mean "good." Michael Jackson helped to popularize that usage.

One of my personal favorites is "majorly" as an intensifier, as in "Dude, that was majorly cool." It means "really" or "very."

("Dude" is another one, but I'm not very fond of it any more. I overused it in the 1980s.)

I draw a blank when it comes to British slang. Maybe the British moderators can tell us whether "bloody" is still common.

Is there a slang dictionary?

 

[probus]

Try urbandictionary.com but use caution because not everything on that site is correct.

 

[jutfrank]

Other than Urban Dictionary, this from Oxford is pretty good:

The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang

"The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang" published on by Oxford University Press.

www.oxfordreference.com

 

[Annabel Lee]

Another personal favorite of mine is "chow down," meaning "eat quickly and enthusiastically."

They're really chowing down on that pizza.

Then there's "chew someone out" for "scold harshly":

The little boy got chewed out for making such a mess.

One that I hear a lot but do not like is "kill it" to mean "do something well."

When the trumpet player played the solo in the "Hallelujah" chorus, he killed it.

The slang terms "swell" and "groovy" were used when my parents were youngsters but have faded from popular usage.

"Slow down, you move too fast
You got to make the morning last
Just kicking down the cobblestones
Looking for fun and feeling groovy" (Simon and Garfunkel, 1966)

For what it's worth, in 1885, Walt Whitman (one of the most famous poets in American history) published a very interesting article titled "Slang in America." It discusses slang not only as authentically communicative and delightfully creative but also as an important force in the development of language. Many of his examples feature coined names.

 

[jutfrank]

Surely you've heard of "cool," as in "That was a cool trick."

I personally use this one a lot, as do other members of my age/peer group. Not too many Millennials and even fewer Gen-Zers use it, I've noticed.

("Dude" is another one, but I'm not very fond of it any more. I overused it in the 1980s.)

I don't like 'dude' one bit. Young Brits do use it too now, though it still feels distinctly American to me. 'Bro' for me is just as bad, and equally common on this side of the Pond as it is over there.

I draw a blank when it comes to British slang. Maybe the British moderators can tell us whether "bloody" is still common.

Like 'cool', 'bloody' is still very common among people my age and above, but it's fairly hard to imagine a young person saying it.

With the increasing popularity of social media, young people all around the world are beginning to speak more and more alike. The US is dominant in determining which slang words spread among Generation Alpha. This baffling 'Alpha slang' that has appeared in the last few years has properly taken hold over here now.

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