Slang

black slang. You walk through a predominately black neighborhood all you will hear the common slang. To a white person its broken English and the African American would be watched as if they are uneducated. Nonetheless, when a white person comes along and starts using the same slang, they are not even looked at in a weird way. The slang then is turned into something it’s not meant be and far played out. White people also love to try and use our own slang against us: they take simple slang words…

in college, I hear infinite of different words with different meanings to it. Meanings that mean something different to each and every individual. When I was in high school, there were tons of different slangs teenagers would use to abbreviate a word or to simply substitute the word with a slang. My vocabulary at school was at times extraordinary in my household and sometimes it still is. It is bittersweet to think that one day I will also grow up and take my mother's place, and my future son or…

all over the world and people have now started using this term to define when someone is about to do something idiotic. I used this word because I knew my sister would be acquainted with it since the majority of teenagers have basic understanding of slang and abbreviations being used at the moment. I regularly speak to my mother in a more official and basic way thus the variation in spoken language between my sister and my mother is due to me wanting to adapt to the way my friends and the…

One of the many favored tool of communication today is social networking. Social networking has blossomed over the years with the help of the Internet. Today, millions of people get on their phones, tablets, or computers to access their social networking accounts, whether it is to keep up with friends, family members, or just get to up-to-date news from around the world. Social networking has allowed people to communicate with others in a way that was not possible in the past. Social networking…

In this essay I will explain what has caused the English spoken today is different from the English spoken in earlier century. three reasons it has changed is other languages around us, then electronics and finally made up words or slang. One reason it has changed is that French changed is right after the English was form Germany. This happen when Germanic tribes invaded England. By 900 CE people of England spoke Old English.If other country come we learn from them. In 1066 William of Normandy…

I am a student, so I have opportunity to write academic writing. Also, I am young, so I use slang when I write to friends. I learned that my writing style tend to simple, and formal, but sometimes casual. My writing style commonality is simple. In the Facebook post, sentences are very simple and I did not use emoji and other marks. I just focused to tell people what I did, how I though about the place, and pictures explanation. The text message is a same thing as the Facebook post, sentences…

The 1920’s was given the nickname “The Roaring Twenties” for several reasons: this decade was a turning point in entertainment, economics, women’s rights, and other subcategories of American culture. Many of these changes were positive, but financially, Americans began spending money they did not have, as credit was introduced. The Twenties offered new freedoms that many took great advantage of, but with that freedom came responsibility. Like the old saying states, Americans were give a yard and…

In the WW1/WW2 era(1900-1940’s not that long ago) the way people would talk was different. Their pronunciation was different than today’s, but back then that was the right way to pronounce words, if you go back in time, you’ll notice that even their accents might be a little different. Language changes when time changes, so many new words are created over the years. New things are invented, like for example during WW2 the first computer was invented, before that nobody knew what the word…

was awesome.” He looked at me horrified, to which I questioned “what the matter?” He responded with, “How can you sit there and say such an event is awesome?” he stormed out of the room. I thought to myself and realized that my brother only knew the slang definition of the word. He was unaware of the negative connotation of the word. Today, many of the people of the world see awesome with a positive connotation. “The party last night was awesome”, this is a common use of the word awesome as many…

The Maze Runner by James Dashner is a book you should read. It’s a book about teenagers being sent up in an elevator box (one every month), placed into the middle of a huge maze that changes every night, only remembering one thing, their name. The main character, Thomas, enters this place and becomes friends with Chuck. In this book, survival was on the minds of all the characters and allies needed to be made. By making friends, it allows the teenagers to have reliance on others to fill certain…