wherw are slangs originated?
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when people didnt wanna have to say the whole proper thing so they kept shortening it
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There are many American slang words. They can vary in meaning depending on region. Try this site:\nhttp://www.manythings.org/slang/\nAlso, try http://www.urbandictionary.com/ though be warned that it's unfiltered, so a lot of it is rather unclean.
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There are many theories explaining the origin of the word. The debate is still open on that one.\n\nBritish troops gave new derogatroy meaning to the word when the played the song Yankee Doodle Dandy as an insult to the citizens of Boston ("doodle" was a slang word for 'dolt' or 'penis')\nThe version of the song we know today has been altered from the original.\n\nAfter the battles at Lexington and Concord, the Americans taunted the retreating British with the word, giving it a new complimentary sense.\n\nIt now generally refers to an American, without intending to insult.\nIt's most often used to describe residents of the New England states. It's simply a slang word no different than calling a Nova Scotian a "Bluenoser" (after the schooner), or someone from Ontario and "Upper Canuck". They are fun words that add colour to our speech.
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You have to use an Etymological Dictionary of English and look up the origin / etymology of the words. Nevertheless, you will find  many cases where words also originated from Latin, Greek and some other languages, currently dead or alive.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_slang
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which slang? american ? german? japanese?spanish?
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Most words of the type you have mentioned ARE rooted in either Greek (telephone, television, etc) or Latin 9bicycle0 though many others have come from other cultures (jodhpurs, ketchup), and some are just made up (Nylon comes from abbreviating New York & London), whilst a special few are named after the inventor (biro).
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It's a slang contraction.
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go to www.urbandictionary.com\n\nEvery slang word you ever wanted to know is there!\n\nHope this helped!!
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In what context was the word used?
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According to Mencken's 'American Language' and the 'Thesaurus of American Slang' by Berry and Van den Bark, 'lam, lammister' and 'on the lam' -- all referring to hasty departure -- were common in thieves' slang before the start of this century. Mencken quotes a newspaper report on the origin of 'lam' which actually traces it indirectly back to Shakespeare's time -- 'Its origin should be obvious to anyone who runs over several colloquial phrases for leavetaking, such as 'beat it' and 'hit the trail'...The allusion in 'lam' is to 'beat,' and 'beat it' is Old English, meaning 'to leave.' During the period of George Ade's 'Fables in Slang' (1900), cabaret society delight in talking slang, and 'lam' was current. Like many other terms, it went under in the flood of new usages of those days, but was preserved in criminal slang. A quarter of a century later it reappeared.' The Sage of Baltimore goes on to quote a story from the 'New York Herald Tribune' in 1938 which reported that 'one of the oldest police officers in New York said that he had heard 'on the lam' thirty years ago." From the "Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins" by William and Mary Morris (HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1977, 1988).
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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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Linguistic or social conventions involve the language and or ethnic order of the language spoken today. The study of words and their meanings involve so much more.  We learn where words originate and how those same words are taken and variations used to produce "slang" "idioms" and other forms of the language we speak today.  Some words originated in one form and over the years, have progressed into other meanings because of the social changes and growth in our society. For example - there was a time that the word "colored" was used in referenced to African American people. Socially, our society has progressed and changed and this word no longer is used for this definition. There are other words that have socially progressed because of laws, technology, geographic and socioeconmic challenges in our society.
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Never as far as I know.  It wasn't considered to be a language but a form of slang.  Everywhere it was proposed to be taught shot it down.
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do you mean rewrite it WITHOUT slang? as it is full of slang already
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Well not really on actual spellings, however some "Americanisations / Americanizations" come from the original English.  In fact the Word "Yankie" is a mis-nomer and actually was the ameri-indian word for "British Person".  Anyway, what i mean is Fawcet and Sidewalk were the original "English" words (amongst others), and the English Language changed with bastardisation from European Countries i.e Pavement being from the French etc
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Fax Monkey - What tha?\nSlang will always be around whether you like it or not, if you don't like it, go and sit in an igloo out in the antarctic.And don't watch TV, In fact why don't you just end the torture now. Every language has slang every person has words that they use a lot that others find irritating.\nLike 'For the record' and 'Honestly' at the begining of a sentence.\nThough I have to admit i'd be pissed if people actually wrote, exactly how they talk.\nLets not kid ourselves, we all speak a version of slang which we can turn on or off, as and when we choose.\nThe kids today have just added their own slang to what's gone on before.