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TEENSPEAK

TEENSPEAK. Sup with the wak playstation sup!. Lexical Variation. Clearly there are miles between the way teens speak today to the way older generations spoke when they were young. Your grandparents may have used words or expressions such as:

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TEENSPEAK

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  1. TEENSPEAK Sup with the wakplaystation sup!

  2. Lexical Variation • Clearly there are miles between the way teens speak today to the way older generations spoke when they were young. • Your grandparents may have used words or expressions such as: • Baby - Cute girl, term of address for either sex Back seat bingo - Necking in a car Bad news - Depressing person Bash - Great party Cast an eyeball - To lookCat - A hip person (Beats) Hang - As in "hang out" which means to do very little Haul ass - Drive very fast (hot-rodders) • Hip, Swell or Jazzed.

  3. Lexical Variations • Your parents may have used words like: • 3rd Base The bases, known from their dating origins She is totally 3rd base You would totally get to third base with her. information (get the 411) • Ace The best; awesome; terrific. When something was even better than that it was deemed "Bulk ace" (I'm not sure if this was just an Australian term.) • Get Bent • Get lost,or leave me alone • Get Real • Disbelief or disdain.

  4. Current TEENSPEAK: Is this you? • A Minute • In teen slang, a minute actually means the opposite of what it suggests. You may hear this in phrases such as "Man, he's been gone for a minute" or "I haven't seen you in a minute." It's used to suggest that a long time has passed. • Bounce • When you call your teen away from talking on the phone, you may hear him say "I gotta bounce." Bounce means leave. • Butter • The word butter is typically combined with the word "like." When a teen says something is "like butter," it means it's smooth, or it is easy. For example, "My mackin' skills are like butter." • Chillaxin' • Chillaxin' combines the words "chillin'" and "relaxin'." You may have heard your teen use this when a friend asks what he's doing, as in, "I'm just chillaxin'." • Cray Cray • When a teen uses the word craycray, she means that something is really crazy or not cool. If you hear a teen say "that party was craycray," it means that it was a really awesome party and a lot happened, but if your teen says "don't get craycray," it means someone is going too far and not being cool anymore. • Do Me • When a teen says he's "gonna do me" it means that he's going to be himself and not worry about what other people say. • Fo Sho • Saying fo sho is just another way to say "for sure," "of course" or "definitely." Your teen may respond to yes/no questions that you ask using fo sho. Another variation of this phrase is "foshizzle." • Freaking • The word freaking is used in place of the word really. For example, a party may have been "freaking awesome." Often teens will use this word in place of a curse word.

  5. Pronunciation and mistake of an v a • Sometimes teens mix up the use of indefinite articles a and an. • We know that: "A" comes before a consonant/consonant sound:A birdA kiteA helicopterA horse"An" comes before a vowel/vowel sound:An antAn ostrichAn elevator • Sometimes these get mixed up as teens usually don’t understand the variation. • They also vary the pronunciation of it. For example A with a short uh sound or long A sound. An as is a long ‘aan’ sound or the drop of ‘a’ all together with the ‘n’ sounds coming through.

  6. Pronunciation in Melbourne • Here a study shows that: • A common usage is of teens merging vowels in words like shell and shall. There becomes no distinction between SHALL and SHELL. • The same as Celery and Salary. • Ellen and Allen • Full and Fool

  7. Grammatical Variation • Free variation: Where there is no disctinction in semantics between sayings, questions or expressions. For example: You didn’t do that is basically the same as saying Why didn’t you do that? You didn’t clean your room? Is virtually the same as Why didn’t you clean your room? I did so is the same as I so did. Negation: Using the word NOT at the end of a statement in the form of mockery. That’s a great shirt- not. You a fantastic writer- not. However this tends to be more of a fad then anything else. Acronyms are used in sentences these days and change the grammatical structure of a sentence. LOL il BBL. What? That is so YOLO.

  8. Discourse Makers • These indicate their solidarity with other members of the group. Words like kinda, sorta, like are all indicators of generation. • Like so random. Like yesterday I went shopping at southland and there was like no good fashion anywhere, I'm like so over this seasons looks, its like so overrated. • Using Like instead of said. Eg and then she was like ‘omg I cant stand that bitch’ in stead of and then she said. • I have to admit I say LIKE a lot. Take notice of how often you actually say this and in what contexts you do.

  9. TEENSPEAK STORY • Take a look at this photo: • We are going to write a mini story where every person writes 1 line each and does so using teen speak only. • Be creative!

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