#english slang

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

native english speakers, what's your favorite (and preferably most obscure) piece of slang? like a weird word for an everyday thing, or a particularly strange expression that non-natives wouldn't know from the internet

#english #english language #language #idioms #english slang #slang

[suzypfonne]

My brain has chosen to plague me with this imaginary conversation between Aziraphale and Crowley. So I'm passing it on to you.

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It's evening. They're seated at the small table in the rear of the bookshop, drinking.

"Crowley? Might I ask you to interpret a phrase I heard earlier?"

"Sure. Wot? Was it in French or something?"

"No. I was out for my morning constitutional in St. James Park. I stopped to feed the ducks, frozen peas of course, darling. When two young ladies, walking hand-in-hand, passed by. One of them said to the other 'when we get home, I'm going to jump your bones'."

*Crowley coughs and sputters, choking on his drink*

"Only, it sounded rather violent, but it was said with such a-affection. I found it quite confusing."

*Crowley, wiping his mouth and finding his composure* "Angel, they were suggesting the two of them get frisky we they got home. Humans... very indirect creatures..."

"Oh... Oh! It was code for 'sexual congress'? Oh, how lovely. I do hope it went well. They were quite handsome together."

#Crowley #Aziraphale #conversations in my head #incorrect quotes #good omens #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #ineffable idiots #michael sheen #david tennant #gomens #bless him #gomens brainrot #brainrot #innocent angel #aziraphale #crowley #english slang #incorrect ineffable husbands #incorrect good omens

[mrsoulstice]

He’s got a point🤔

#english slang #black slang #black and white #white #black #how we talk

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

I THOUGHT GYATT MEANT GOD FOR MONTHS WHEN WERE Y'ALL GOING TO CORRECT ME

#gen alpha slang #gen z slang #IDK MAN #ENGLISH SLANG #good omens mascot #weirdly specific but ok #asmi #maggots #IVE BEEN BETRAYED #FUCK WHERE HAVE I USED IT #HOW MANY SITUATIONS HAVE I MISREAD #WHAT ABOUT FUCKING GYATT DAMN THEN #ARE YALL JUST GOING AROUND SAYING ASS DAMN

[coolseabird]

I was thinking about how Alastor didn’t know the term ace and I was like oh he’d probably use a more old fashioned/vague term like confirmed bachelor (this term didn’t always imply being gay btw, before WW2 it just meant a man who avoided marriage) and then I remembered “stag” used to be a common term for an unattached man or a man who went without female company. Fitting because he’s, ya know, a deer man.

#hazbin hotel #alastor #1920s #1930s #english slang #by company it implied romantic ofc #Alastor has lots of platonic female company haha

[4depressedfrogs]

i told my friend shag meant sleep and it was the best thing ive ever done in my entire life i will never top it. anyways heres wolfstar

Remus: sirius yk how you said you wana learn more muggle slang?

Sirius: yeah!!

Remus: well shagging means sleeping. like, if you wana sleep you wana shag.

Sirius (taking notes): cheers moony!

[later in the common room]

Sirius (loud and proud): ok im gona go shag, coming moony?

James:

Peter:

Lily:

the whole of gryffindor:

Remus (quietly flustered):....oh merlin

#marauders #wolfstar #remus lupin #sirius black #remus x sirius #dumb shit #english slang #remus' plan backfired #then they actually shagged #hur hur hur hur hur

[jumes-11]

Okay but what is the campers that still go to school just arrive at camp every summer and they start talking to each other and the campers that stay can’t understand them because they don’t know the new slang.

Just imagine Percy being like: Yooo it’s lit to be back guys

And Clarisse just starts looking around: what?! Where’s the fire???

#percy jackson #pjo hoo toa #pjo #anabeth chase #clarisse la rue #english slang

[touch-starved-lurker]

#poll #tumblr polls #poll time #my polls #polls #random polls #say in tags #slang #english slang #texting slang

[holespoles]

then, This year we will...

#english slang

[slangcards]

"Brew" = beer. ⠀ Example: Dan loves nothing more than a cold brew on a hot day. ⠀ Example: We've got nothing better to do than watch TV and have a couple of brews. ⠀ Learn slang in our app - https://onelink.to/ewf6kr

#slang #english slang #englishslang #slang expressions #english #english language #learn english #esl #toefl #efl #toeic

[dragonagitator]

If I were to time travel back to 2004, I think one of my biggest ongoing difficulties would be remembering to always speak in the formal register (which hasn't changed much in 20 years) lest I accidentally reveal myself as being not from around here now by slipping back into my casual register (which is full of 2024 colloquialisms and internet slang).

Imagine saying to someone in 2004, "My spoonie friend posted that YouTube clip of House's 'Life is Pain' rant on her Facebook and I was like, 'That slaps. Mood.'"

That's a perfectly understandable statement to almost anyone who might be reading this on Tumblr in 2024, but would sound like schizophrenic word salad to 2004 ears.

Even if I were able to keep up constantly speaking in the formal register despite how exhausting and unnatural it would feel, I'd still have communication difficulties. IRL I rarely speak to anyone in the formal register anymore, even at work -- my last couple of jobs were in very laid-back environments where everyone else was at least a decade younger than me -- and I've noticed recently that when I force myself to switch to the formal register, I always sound pissed off even when I'm not.

It finally clicked that the reason I've lost the ability to emote appropriately while speaking in the formal register is that for the past few years, there's been only one context in which I consistently speak in the formal register every single time: Leaving angry voicemails for US Senators.

It cracks me up that somewhere in the language part of my brain, I've apparently got a bit of code running that "Senators = teh oldz" and therefore I must address them using a register that feels frozen in time. Not only was this not a conscious decision, but it's also so hard-coded that I instinctively switch to the formal register even while drunk-dialing their constituent feedback lines at 3am.

(Pro tip: If you have never drunk-dialed your Senator at 3am, you're not Americaning hard enough. Get to it, kiddies.)

Thinking about time travel has made me realize just how much colloquial English has changed over the past 20 years and how it keeps getting weirder and weirder at an accelerating rate. Speaking in code to route around censorship algorithms. New slang spreading within days instead of years. Horrible new suffixes. An emerging fourth person pronoun. It's wild.

I lived through these changes. I was already a grown adult back in 2004. And even I would have to carefully mind my speech in order to blend in and be understood. Can you imagine what would happen if you sent an extremely online Zoomer back 20 years?

#time travel problems #old lady ramblings #english #english language #english slang #language #linguistics #sociolinguistics #register #slang #internet slang #neologisms #algospeak

[consistantscreaming]

I'm taking a class on forensic science and i can't take it seriously for one very specific reason

slay only became slang recently.

so we'll be researching a case. and i'll pull up a newspaper article on this 40 year old murder case

and the headline will be

"Three people slayed on Tuesday"

i'm fucknign crying PLEASE

#forensic science #high school #etymology #english slang #slay #slayed #murder

[malinastharlock]

Me (30+f): Yo gurl, takeing a fat strap in my glushy is poggers.

My partner (also 30+f): What the ever living fuck did you just say to me?

Me: oh I'm sorry one sec, it means, "Hey, a big strap-on would feel amazing in my ass right now."

Her: 😐

#me #random moments #trans #transgender #malina #lgbtq #transfem #transgirl #lgbtqia #trans woman #mtf #slang #english slang

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

hey maggots look i learned slang!

@orpiknight, @anadyomena and @thearoacemess kindly educated me today on the nature of modern slang, while laughing hysterically meanwhile at my ignorance. I accidentally called Vel's butt old fashioned and thick. BUT I HAVE LEARNED! SO BEHOLD:

YO MAGGOTS MY MANDEM Y'ALL GOT MAD DRIPS TODAY GYATT DAMN YOU'RE FUCKING BUSSIN' YOU AIN'T NO GUAP CHEUGY NO YOU LOADED AS YOU BUSS IT DOWN BET YOU'RE HITTING THE GRIDLOCKS AND WE'RE BUSSIN' IT DOWN IYKYK NO CAP

#good omens mascot #weirdly specific but ok #asmi #maggots #slang #english slang #internet slang #gen z slang #i learned #so so much #thanks vel and melly and ray #my slang edumacation

[learningfromlosing]

English class taught me to embellish my stories with adjectives to draw it out for a word count when I should've learned how to cut it down for clarity.

#english #english class #english student #english speaking #english slang #english paper #english homework helper #english teacher #english tutor near me #english tuition #english tudor #english education #english major #english language #public school

[iris-drawssandwiches]

Just played the song "War Crimes" and I just realized how big of a grammar shift English is going through. I am not sure how to explain it but like imagine speaking with someone heavy on grammar from the 2000s vs. now. If anyone knows how to explain it better then feel free to.

#grammar #english slang #english #language #linguistics #langblr