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Kory STAMPER is a lexicographer and editor for the Merriam-Webster dictionaries, and in her first book, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, which was released in March 2017, she documents the difficulties she faces as a lexicographer. In this article, the author tracks how the slang words “swag”, “fubar” and “bae” have changed over time.

Millennials are known for coming up with slang words, that they frequently use, eventually get tired

Slang terms have been a prominent part of society for many years. Slang terms have also changed from generation to generation. This paper will discuss some common slang terms and see if there is a significant difference between the generations. Two hypotheses were used for this research project. The reason that there are two is explained in the paper.

“Ugh, she so ratchet,” a common phrase when hitting the club or scrolling through any social media site. No, they’re not referring to the mechanical tool or the beloved Transformers character, their inferring to the new slang term that has established itself within a generation’s vocabulary. But how exactly does an everyday term such as ratchet become so twisted to the point where it’s new meaning no longer resembles it’s old one? As it once was mainly known as a mechanical tool used to repair clocks and roller coasters, it now has a entirely different definition. Although words may have an established meaning, as time goes by, that meaning may change,

In our current generation, the youth has used a myriad amount of slang. Different levels of society have their own slang. Different cultures have their own slang. Different races have their own slang. In Tom Dalzell’s view, he believes that this is due to the youth wanting to act rebellious, or as to represent their identity. Our generation correlates exactly with Dalzell’s view.

The book Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream, by Jennifer Ackerman, follows through the many biological patterns the body performs in a twenty-four hour period. Beginning from the early morning to late at night, the body will perform these functions and formed habits through many chemical processes. How you remember and learn new things, what you decide to eat every day, and when you feel you are full or famished is all dependent on one thing, the brain and the chemical messages it sends and

The English language shows a sense of beauty in its own right through its myriad of words that can be used to paint a picture in the mind of its user. Some concede that the language is declining as older words are replaced by newer slang and the media spreads such colloquialisms to its viewers. Even the writer Thomas Lounsbury claimed that “the English tongue is always in the condition approaching collapse” (Bauer and Trudgill 15). In reality, workers in the media reflect the changing language to keep up with the common speech of their readers and viewers. This is clearly evinced in the common practices of newspapers and television as they adapt their speech in order to fit that of their target audience.

There is no doubt that people use slang almost every day. These people might be just using it for fun and mocking others, while some may use it to protest the use of standard English. The book, How English Works, by Curzan and Adams talks about how slang is used in everyday life and thrives in places that involve pop-music, athletics, narcotics, and other various factors (Curzan and Adams, 2012). I feel that Curzan and Adams are right on point when they say slang thrives on these main ideas. For example, my roommates listen to music that has slang involved in it. My roommates and I normally sing to some of the songs while they are playing or even after they are done playing and use slang without consciously knowing because it is in a song. Normally these songs get stuck in our heads and we end up singing the lyrics out loud using slang almost every day. Most of the songs that we

Capino begins his article by claiming that the “proliferation of hard-core [porn]” in the 1970s "intensified the production of sexual fantasies and sexualities through [ . . . ] cinema.” He goes on to cite a “famous series” of blow jobs given by Linda Lovelace, drawing a relationship between cinema and how talk of girls “with no gag reflex” became the prominent in college dorms, through what he calls “rehearsing offscreen.” He goes onto state that “porn movies [ . . . ] consist of much than just filmed sex acts,” and how they are “[encoding] and [disseminating] practices of sexuality” into our society using film as a medium.

The words that we use to communicate with others are nothing more than symbols that we have all agreed on to represent a specific object or idea. It can be any word used to specify something, making it arbitrary, but it has gained a popular vote, therefore, it has been used. For example, the reason why we call a cup a cup is because society has agreed on that word to symbolize a cup, even if there is no correlation or logically reason why a cup is called a cup. Since language is arbitrary, it changes over time and according to places. A couple of decades back, out term “soda” for the carbonated drink used to called “pop” or “coke”, nowadays, in the East, the word “soda” is more popular, while in the South or Midwest, the word “pop” or “coke” is more popular. Another example is the use of the word “you all”. The South developed into using “y’all” instead while the North continues to use “you all”. Our communication with others is dependent on the fact that language is arbitrary,

There are thousands of slang terms usage out there that dated way back in the day. Slang terms tend to be out of date as time continue. Even though the terms doesn’t live very long, there are people of different generations who still use them or at least have heard of them. After analyzing the thirty terms I have come up, I noticed that the bigger the age gap between generations, the less knowledge they have about the current slang terms. I am twenty-one year old so I chose three other people to take the survey range from eighteen, twenty-five, and forty-five years old to see their knowledge about the terms. Different age group do have different perception of the word and its meaning. For example the term “beat”, in my definition on how I use

As you can see slang is overpopulated and spreading across locations. Just like broadcasting through the radio. The history of slang people had used slang it at the past as

While reading through some of the words that LSSU wants to ban, I realized that American language has turned into what we like to call, "slang." Take 2015 for example, there is words like, bae, cray-cray, foodie, and swag. You can also see words like this in previous years. The American language has been taken for granted for years and is just getting worse. There are very few people you could have an intelligent conversation with using words that are actually in the English dictionary. It's a sad truth and with the new generations it is going to get worse.

(Saylor.org, n.d.) In our family household slang was not allowed. If my sister or I used any form of slang, we were made to retrieve our family dictionary, (a massive tome), and look up the correct term, and recite the definition. My most common transgression was to use the word “ain’t”. To this day I make every attempt to eliminate slang from my vocabulary. Dictionary.com states that the term ain’t: is more common in uneducated speech than in educated. I’m surprised to see the text didn’t mention swearing. Most swearing is a form of slang and most commonly used in a rebellious way or to emphasize a statement. I find that people, who frequently swear, do so because they have a limited

Namely, the internet provides millions of people access to nearly every inch of the world, thus exposing gamers, bloggers, and mere web browers to foreign sources. As a result, English, whether intentionally or not, borrows words from these sources to the point that dictionaries struggle to keep up. For example, an American online poker player explained how his opponent, a Romanian, used the term fish ‘a bad poker player who gets lucky’. Donkey already held the same meaning in English, but this American player began to use fish with other American players, therefore spreading its use (Millward 325-326). Furthermore, heavy immigration prevents English purification efforts as well. In the 19th century, German immigration to the United States increased, contributing educational loanwords such as semester and kindergarten, food and beverage terms like pretzel and lager, and accordion and yodel for music. An influx of Yiddish-speaking Jews also introduced familiar words like bagel, pastrami, and matzo (Millward 326-327). Immigrants continue to flock to the United States from all over the world, bringing their vocabulary with them and consequently squelching purification attempts. Finally, the constant “exchanges of products, information, and research” have contributed to certain cultures gaining recognition for their successes, leading English to adopt words that reflect such achievements. For example, France is famous for its so-called superiority in fashion and food, so we see loanwords such as chef, gourmet, and restaurant, as well as blouse, lingerie, and suede in English (Millward 325). Therefore, modern global communication prevents English purification and renders any attempt ineffective, for loanwords continue to enter the language at significant