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Kudistos Megistos
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Ladies and gentlemen, some great British journalism :-D
There's a reward of over $9000* for anyone who can get some teenagers to actually say all of these words. :lol:
I'm familiar with chillax, dis, lush, noob, pwnage and uber, and I'm pretty sure that "gel" meaning "connect with" has been used in everyday speech for many years, but I've never heard of most of these words. It seems that the journalists and the "experts" (lol) have absolutely no idea of the context in which "noob" and "pwnage" are used either (which is no surprise, seeing as commentators on youth speech usually don't have any concept of context or register, as is evident from their belief that SMS language and internet slang are the same thing). Either that, or some idiots are using Internet slang IRL (that kind of thing makes me facepalm every time I hear it).
*Zimbabwean
There's a reward of over $9000* for anyone who can get some teenagers to actually say all of these words. :lol:
I'm familiar with chillax, dis, lush, noob, pwnage and uber, and I'm pretty sure that "gel" meaning "connect with" has been used in everyday speech for many years, but I've never heard of most of these words. It seems that the journalists and the "experts" (lol) have absolutely no idea of the context in which "noob" and "pwnage" are used either (which is no surprise, seeing as commentators on youth speech usually don't have any concept of context or register, as is evident from their belief that SMS language and internet slang are the same thing). Either that, or some idiots are using Internet slang IRL (that kind of thing makes me facepalm every time I hear it).
*Zimbabwean
