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Also unsettling, for the geezer-age viewer, is the dialogue of the show's young adults, which is drenched in slang of the moment, or perhaps it's slang that the writers just made up hoping that it would become slang of the moment by the time the show hit the air.
It's the way we talk, it's slang.
FOF stands for "friend of a friend" in the UK; use it in America and it's slang for an illegal immigrant ("fresh over the fence").
Do you know what I mean?' Lopez asks this question a lot: 'Do you know what I mean?', not because it's slang speech, but because she genuinely wants to know the answer, wants to be understood.
Apparently it's slang in Colombian teenager speak on Twitter for "expert".
It's slang for the bowls of gloopy, boiled oats that were once ladled out every morning at lockups across the country.
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While researchers were unable to find Mr. Malafaia's word in reference dictionaries, he said it was slang that roughly translated as "trounce".
Mr. Sharp noted that "bad," for instance, could mean bad, or it be slang for good.
Slang is now socially acceptable, not just because it is slang but because, when used with skill and discrimination, it adds a new and exciting dimension to language.
(Some suppose "noodlers" are named after this finger-waggling; others, many of them with scarred hands, admit it is slang for "idiot").
Since most slang is used on the spoken level, by persons who probably are unaware that it is slang, the choice of terms naturally follows a multiplicity of unconscious thought patterns.
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