Слайд 2ON LANGUAGE
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
Слайд 3Gifts of Gab
Published: August 19, 2007
Most popular female names: Maggie, Molly,
Daisy, Bailey and Abby. Males: Buddy, Jake, Max, Hunter and Cody. Both sexes, raining both cats and dogs, but probably mainly cats: Tiger.
What ever happened to Spot and Rover and Kitty? They went the way of yesterday’s kids named Jack and Jill.
Слайд 4Campuspeak Published: September 30, 2007
Ah-ite!
“Would you do this for me?” -
“Ah-ite.”
The meaning is “O.K.” The sound is an
amalgam of all and right, which used to sound
like “aw-rite” but now is compressed into a
sliding “a’ight,” as the teen-slanguist Fred
Lynch transcribes it
Слайд 5Campuspeak Published: September 30, 2007
humongous
huge and monstrous and/or tremendous
She lives in a
humongous house on the hill
ginormous
gigantic + enormous
Слайд 6Campuspeak Published: September 30, 2007
chillax
The new slang blend submitted by members
of
Professor Eble’s English 314 class only a few
months ago is chillax, from the adjective chill,
“easygoing,” and the verb relax, the combo
meaning “do nothing in particular,” an activity
widely practiced in centers of learning
throughout the nation.
Слайд 7Campuspeak Published: September 30, 2007
Butterface
“Great body, but her face. . . .”
Слайд 8Campuspeak Published: September 30, 2007
blockamore
nose wide open
thigh five
sketchy
Those
middle-aged men are so sketchy. They creep me
out.
all up in your grill