“Slang is the poetry of everyday life and it vividly expresses people’s feelings about life, and about the things they encounter.”(Hayahawa, 1941)
There was a time when one wrote passages or pages to express how one feels about something or someone. The beauty was in the praises that were endowed soon after. There was happiness in the flow of honest appreciations whether to praise the good or condemn the bad. Unfortunately, everything these days have narrowed down to “awesome”, “cool”, “bad”, or “sad”. There are expressions one uses that they are not even sure of while communicating to the others. There are a millions of different slangs that people use in everyday for various purposes. It is a version of the language variation that finds its way to the cultural mainstream in numerous ways. They are the result of unconscious needs to describe others and social conditions ironically. The ironic intellect is the key ingredient in the formulation of a slang used. Slangs are …show more content…
They mix slang up and add a personalized touch to it. There are terms that are unique to particular generations. In the same way, there are “youth slang” words unique to the life of slang. It depends on the fact where it is adopted by the mainstream or a dominant culture. This is sparked by the interaction between a dominant culture and a subculture that coined the slang term. Innovation is a very important feature to the character of slang. It is central to the idea. The youth slang in itself forms a category, which is specific to the youth culture. It is very rare that they have mundane activities like homework or household work included in these. It is mostly an extension of the particular subculture he or she identifies with. Mostly they refer to the parties, music, as well as certain activities involving a lot of risk or certain anti-social activities like drinking, drug taking, fighting,
There was a time when one wrote passages or pages to express how one feels about something or someone. The beauty was in the praises that were endowed soon after. There was happiness in the flow of honest appreciations whether to praise the good or condemn the bad. Unfortunately, everything these days have narrowed down to “awesome”, “cool”, “bad”, or “sad”. There are expressions one uses that they are not even sure of while communicating to the others. There are a millions of different slangs that people use in everyday for various purposes. It is a version of the language variation that finds its way to the cultural mainstream in numerous ways. They are the result of unconscious needs to describe others and social conditions ironically. The ironic intellect is the key ingredient in the formulation of a slang used. Slangs are …show more content…
They mix slang up and add a personalized touch to it. There are terms that are unique to particular generations. In the same way, there are “youth slang” words unique to the life of slang. It depends on the fact where it is adopted by the mainstream or a dominant culture. This is sparked by the interaction between a dominant culture and a subculture that coined the slang term. Innovation is a very important feature to the character of slang. It is central to the idea. The youth slang in itself forms a category, which is specific to the youth culture. It is very rare that they have mundane activities like homework or household work included in these. It is mostly an extension of the particular subculture he or she identifies with. Mostly they refer to the parties, music, as well as certain activities involving a lot of risk or certain anti-social activities like drinking, drug taking, fighting,