Slang words that make you cringe...

So you're denying that society associates the Queen's English with whiteness and class? Also:

'What is undeniable is that street slang is linked to identity and a sense of belonging. Idris Alasi, 17, from Peckham, agrees that slang is central to the assertion of teenage identity. "I feel slang is a tool used by us as young people to give us a greater sense of self and belonging." For Lewis, the use of street slang by teenagers can be empowering, and is more about a desire to fit in. "As a young black man growing up in inner-city London, slang made me feel part of something. It fostered a sense of belonging."'

http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/the-secret-world-of-gang-slang-6530868.html

Yeah. Go and say that to an employer or university. That's if the person who's peaks slang has the necessary qualifications.


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All you're giving me is two opinions and a link to a shitty newspaper. Why should you have to use made up words to "fit in"? Using slang is a great way to show you aren't educated enough in the language you speak that you can't even express yourself properly.

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OK genius, let's hear you express the entire semantic set - denotations, connotations etc - of "moist" or "peak" in "the Queen's English".

I accidentally clicked submit before finishing my post. I just finished editing it so I recommend you read the rest of it.

Pagan.

I don't even understand it?? Everyone says it and I'm just there like ???

Mine stands: slang words are not superfluous, as you will realise when you try to express the same thing in Standard English.

If they add something to the language then there is no argument whatsoever for arbitrarily drawing a line around Standard English - otherwise why speakest thou not the tongue of Shakespeare, Chaucer, Beowulf or even before English itself existed? Because semantic shift and linguistic innovation has continued steadily down the millennia depending entirely on what people feel they need words for.

lush

Though I do rather like Lush bath bombs ngl

You're comparing "peak" and "bare" to "addiction" and "inaudible". The last two words were ones Shakespeare made. The difference is there are already words for what "peak" and "bare" mean, and they have no etymological origin (except those two words already exist as two very different things).

Why are peak and bare lesser than inaudible and addiction? You have not explained this.

And of course they have an etymology (in this case, sense evolution): every word does.

Express the entire semantic content of those words using standard English then. I'm waiting...

No, they don't.

For me it has to be 'Alie' - yes people STILL say it.