What is your favorite slang term?  What does the lingo mean?  Why do you use it?
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I like the the phrase (command):  "Eschew obfuscation!"\n\nThe irony is that the phrase itself does not do what it commands!
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You can't really master slang. Slang is something that is created. It's almost like an art acutally. You just have to make it your own. It's all in the way you say it.
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Just a few of many:\n\nThe New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English \nSlang: The Topical Dictionary of Americanism\nThe Oxford Dictionary of Slang (Oxford Paperback Reference\nAmerican Slang Dictionary, 4E.\n\nOne of the problems is that slang evolves rapidly and the dictionary writers have a hard time keeping up.  An on-line dictionary might be more up-to-date. There are three links to web dictionaries below.  For more just search for "slang" on Yahoo! or Google.\n\nOne of the purposes of slang is to create a barrier to outsiders.  By having words and phrases that only the members of the group understand they can exclude everyone else.  When these slang words get into the mainstream the "in" groups have to invent new words to keep their identity.
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You might want to check out all the abbreviations of online lingo on this website....go down the webpage, and you'll see all the abbreviations.\n\nhttp://www.thirdage.com/features/tech/netglos/\n\nLOL is just one of hundreds, start learning!
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lots of love  :)  losers on laptops :))  linguistic option labeler :)))\n\n\n\n                              LAUGH OUT LOUD
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Laughing my a** off. Here are more abreviations for commonly used words in chat rooms:\nhttp://aimlingo.aimawaymessages.com/
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what the hell do you mean?
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Go to http://www.e-messenger.net/ and hit the lingo button there are too many to list.
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Me and my husband use the term Flocking to replace f***ing when we are in front of our kids. LOL\n\nMy dad is famous for making up his own words.  So when we are talking and we have nothing else to add to the conversation, we said "ska-hoo-ba-deep".  Yeah I know we are weird...
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Absolutely. Saying that slang terminology has no place in the dictionary is ridiculous. A hundred years from now someone reading a novel published in 2006 may see the phrase "drunk dialing" and not know exactly what it refers to. If it's in the dictionary, the answer is right there.\n\nThis is pretty much what lexicons are for.
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Don't settle for just one source! \nDon't Go Postal. \nGo Super Postal! \n\nCaution! Some of the sites from the link below may contain strong language, so please don't go if you are easily offended. The Internet’s Recommended Slang Links Portal (expanded edition) comes courtesy of Norsk Språkservice.\nHere is JUST the AMERICAN SLANG: US & CANADIAN SLANG part.\n\n>> College Slang Research Project: Dictionary >> College Slang Around the World (A-H) >> College Slang Around the World (I-Q) >> College Slang Around the World (R-Z) >> Mini-Dictionary from the Bomb >> Top 20 College Slang Terms >> Rap Dictionary (Hip-Hop Slang) >> Slang Search (organized by subject area) >> The Slur Database: Glossary of Racial Slurs/Names (Slur Count: 1207) >> Cultural & Ethnic Slurs >> Offensive Slang: Insults, Slams, Disparaging Words >> Yush Rap Slang (moved) >> Yush Dancehall Slanguage (moved) >> A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang (William Denton) >> Gangster Slang >> Shadowslang Glossary (Spy Slang, etc.) >> A Prisoner's Dictionary >> Police/Crime Slang: Prison Terms, Police Jargon >> PseudoDictionary: Slang, Webspeak, Colloquialisms >> BuzzWhack: Buzzwords Dictionary A thru Z >> The Online Slang Dictionary >> Slang Dictionary >> AmeriSpeak: Expressions of Our American Ancestors (Colonial Slang) >> 20’s Slang Words >> 60’s Slang >> American Youth Slang: Flappers 2 Rappers by Tom Dalzell >> The Word Spy Index: Recent Coinages & Neologisms >> M. Lerner: Selections from . Major’s Dictionary of Afro-American Slang >> Slang Dictionary Compilation >> Commonly Used American Slang (test your slang) >> Strafe’s Guide to Streetspeak >> Street Slang: Gang Slang & Hoodlum Terms >> Gang Terminology >> Tru Dat Mini-Dictionary of Slang
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baloo. cuz i can spell it like that. haha.
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It's a slang contraction.
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? What do you mean....
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It was a complete mystery to me for a while, & I didn't think to look it up. I have one friend who uses it all the time in text messages - so much that it's driven me a little crazy. For him it means "laugh out loud." I've heard other people say, "lot's of laughs," but that sounds a little hokey.\n\nThe thing that I like best about it - well, the only thing mildly amusing, to me at least - is that "lol" looks like an open mouth between the sides of a face, like someone saying, "OH!"\n\nStill, I wish it would disappear so I wouldn't have to be crazy anymore.\n\nAll the best.
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i'm an english geek - i have lots of fave words\n\nslobber-cloth (the one you use to clean your dog's face)\n\nflibbertygibbet\n\nloquacious\n\npernickety\n\nglobulous\n\nmellifluousness\n\nincandescent\n\negregious\n\nperspicacious\n\nand others but that's all i can think of for now.
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Shoo', lemme hit chu up with da coolbeenz infomation.\n\n- Cool kids make their sentences appear grammatically correct, or at least indicate they know how to use grammar by capitalizing the first letter of their sentence and ending it with a period.\n\n- Lol never really is acknowledged as the whole "laugh out loud" thing.. it's just indicating laughter in general. "Oh you're so funny. Lol." You can also say Lawl, Lollerskates, lool, kik. Don't ask why, people just assume those are kewl. Other forms of laughter can include "ROFL" Which is "rolling on the floor laughing" Or "LMAO" Which is "laughing my ass off". Could also always just say "Hehe" "haha". \n\n- Shortening words.. for example "Seriously" can either become "Srsly." Or "Serially." Again, don't ask why, people think it's kool.\n\n- Don't ask ASL anymore. ASL is so ghey. It means you're a horny bastard lookin' for some sorry cyb0rg seckz to give you more of a reason to touch yourself. Not cool. Just simply ask when you're curious.. "Oh, where do you live btw?" "And how old are you?" People tend to play it off as if those certain facts don't matter because they're not internet predators looking for cyb0rgz, but rather a nice conversation with whomever.\n\n- FTW. It's the newest acronym that I know of. I think it's pretty ghey, but other people like it. "For the win" is what it means. You usually say it after you've made a comment that defeats the previous comment relevant to topic. Say it's favorite cereal.. and someone says Froot loops.. you'd then proceed to say "Cinnamon Toast CRUNK, ftw." And thus.. you've pwned them.\n\n- Pwn is to "own" as in, defeat someone to silence.. usually when your witty remark has bested theirs. Pwning is something you should be proud of. How proud? As proud as someone could be for winning an intranet argument.\n\nThe rest is simply using the English language.. using too much internet lingo makes you look like a retard, so just stick to the above.\n\nOh.. don't forget the emotion icons.. or shall we say.. "Emoticons". =/, =), =D, =P, D=, and variations of eyes using colons ":" instead. Could also use more japanese-y ones ^-^ -_-; o_o ._. to name a few. Semi colons or apostrophes indicate some kind of sweat. Don't ask me why.\n\nTry not to get hooked onto emoticons though. I'm beginning to think they're lame although I can't stop using them.. and it sickens me to death.