Vocabulary Spotlight | Texting Slang
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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl tests Jack's knowledge of common texting acronyms.
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00:00:00
Jack
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00:00:03
Jack
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Jack
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00:00:55
Jack
Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are under the vocabulary spotlight.
00:01:05
Jack
And social is going to test me on my knowledge of testing accurate and I'm sorry texting.
00:01:15
Xochitl
Excellent.
00:01:16
Jack
Acronyms like like.
00:01:17
Jack
Text.
00:01:18
Jack
Texting words or whatever I guess. Or texting language.
00:01:20
Xochitl
Yes, finally explaining in a way, it's like you just you don't use the whole phrase or the whole words. You just use like a few letters to represent the word. So that's like what it is.
00:01:32
Jack
Exactly, yeah.
00:01:35
Xochitl
And I have a six here so.
00:01:38
Xochitl
So let's get started. I'm ready to tear you up because you really got me with the Canadian one was that Aussie one wasn't a total failure, the Canadian one.
00:01:39
Xochitl
OK.
00:01:46
Jack
No, you did better on the Aussie one than you did with the Canadian slang, which is kind of surprising.
00:01:51
Xochitl
I know and.
00:01:52
Xochitl
Canadian and I've been to Canada and I don't even have any like Austin friends and I have Canadian friends as messy, but.
00:01:58
Jack
We share a border with Canada, you know.
00:02:01
Xochitl
And I have a a close Canadian friend or a couple maybe, and I don't have like any Aussie friends I can think of, but I just ruined. I just ruined the Canadian one.
00:02:10
Jack
Well, I'll give a I'll.
00:02:11
Jack
Give a shout out to teacher Paul Paul the the the grammar detective.
00:02:17
Jack
If you don't know his uh YouTube channel, check it out. For sure. The grammar detective best grammar teacher on the Internet. He sent me a message about that episode and said basically those Canadian terms are very like rural. You know, they're not. It's like.
00:02:35
Jack
OK.
00:02:37
Jack
And even most Canadian people don't use those terms. It's very much.
00:02:41
Jack
Like like hillbillies you know? Kind of like, yeah, people that live in the countryside might.
00:02:47
Xochitl
Without in the sticks as you say.
00:02:49
Jack
In the sticks, right? Yeah. Hillbillies is not a the right way to say that, but.
00:02:55
Xochitl
I think in sticks isn't either, but in the sticks are just a term we use for people who.
00:02:59
Xochitl
Live out in the country.
00:03:00
Jack
Yeah.
00:03:02
Jack
Country folk, you know, country people that are not, you know, maybe college educated, you know, high school educated only use those kinds of terms.
00:03:12
Jack
And it's it's not very they're not very common in in regular.
00:03:17
Jack
Right. But actually it's not actually.
00:03:17
Xochitl
Speech in Sydney.
00:03:19
Xochitl
Has to do with the level of education. I think it's more just like it's kind of like colloquial language, like it's a regional dialect kind of thing, right? Oh, yeah.
00:03:29
Jack
Yeah, yeah, yeah, very, very. You know, the central Canada, very rural farm farmers and things like that, so.
00:03:40
Jack
Don't feel bad about that one. The Ozzy slaying is much more common. I think throughout the whole country, I would say from from, just from knowing Australian people that grew up in cities, they use a lot of those terms, all the.
00:03:52
Xochitl
Time so you know.
00:03:55
Xochitl
All right. Well, that makes me feel better and I'm ready to rip you up with these.
00:04:02
Xochitl
I, YK, YK what does that stand for?
00:04:08
Jack
IYKYK.
00:04:10
Xochitl
Yeah.
00:04:13
Jack
I, YK, YK.
00:04:18
Jack
Wait, you.
00:04:21
Jack
No, I I'm.
00:04:25
Jack
I'm keeping.
00:04:27
Xochitl
Thank you. I like it.
00:04:27
Xochitl
IYYK.
00:04:34
Jack
I'm your.
00:04:38
Xochitl
Kind.
00:04:40
Jack
OK, like bad, this is bad. You give up your.
00:04:44
Jack
I don't. I'm gonna say uncle on this one. I have no idea. I'm. I give up.
00:04:49
Xochitl
Great. If you know you know.
00:04:52
Jack
Ohh if you know you know what? When? What's the context for using that? Like give me give me like an example.
00:04:54
발표자
No.
00:05:00
Xochitl
Here's an example. Let's say that.
00:05:04
Xochitl
I use a specific product for people with curly hair and I post a picture of it online and say oh, this is the goat which remember is like the greatest one of all time. It's a IYKYK if you know, you know. So if you use this product or if you also have curly hair, you know.
00:05:15
Jack
Yeah. The best. Yeah, yeah.
00:05:24
Xochitl
If you know you know.
00:05:26
Jack
OK.
00:05:28
Jack
Or like.
00:05:29
Jack
It sounds like another example like if you don't know well now you know.
00:05:34
Jack
That's uh from a song, OK?
00:05:34
발표자
No.
00:05:35
Xochitl
Like, yeah, if you know, you know, with is like, you're talking to people who also know. So like your audience. So like or let's say you post a picture of like slide chicken from a local place, but it looks a really certain way. And you're like, this is the best fried chicken in Atlanta if you know, you.
00:05:38
Jack
Now.
00:05:52
Xochitl
No.
00:05:53
Jack
Ohh, so you're you're in the secret club basically.
00:05:56
Xochitl
Kinda. Yeah. Yeah, you're.
00:05:57
Jack
OK, OK.
00:05:58
Jack
In the Super pub you're talking to other people, no?
00:05:59
Jack
If you're in the secret club, you know. Yeah. You know. You. OK OK. If you know, you know, and then you show a picture of, like a club, you know, like a the sign on the on the on the the dance club or something. And if you don't know.
00:06:13
Jack
You're not. You're not in the group. You're you're kind of.
00:06:15
Xochitl
Right. You're talking to other people who know if you know, you know, your audience is the other.
00:06:20
Xochitl
Oh no. And then everyone's, like, laugh reacting and go. Yeah, that's the best. And everyone who doesn't know doesn't know. So.
00:06:26
Jack
Yeah, they're like, what's that? Tell me about that. Like, sorry, secret, you know.
00:06:31
Xochitl
Mm-hmm. Alright, Jack. And next one, BFR, BFR.
00:06:31
Xochitl
OK.
00:06:39
Jack
But PSR best friends forever. Really.
00:06:45
Xochitl
No.
00:06:49
Jack
Use my.
00:06:49
Jack
I mean, that's a big guess. That's a good guess.
00:06:50
Jack
That's my VFR, my best friend for forever. Really my best friend forever, really.
00:06:57
Xochitl
Well, I would have that. That's good. I mean, I probably would have said best friend for real or something like that.
00:07:02
Xochitl
But that but.
00:07:04
Xochitl
That's not what it means though. It means be for freaking real.
00:07:09
Jack
Ohh be for freaking.
00:07:10
Xochitl
So it's like if someone says.
00:07:11
Xochitl
OK.
00:07:15
Xochitl
You know, I'm trying to think of a good example.
00:07:17
Jack
Like, stop, stop being fake. Stop, you know.
00:07:21
Xochitl
Not playing play G for real, you know, be real.
00:07:22
Jack
Stop playing.
00:07:24
Jack
Be for freaking real. Yeah, be honest. Like be be be real. Yeah. Be be for real. Yeah.
00:07:29
Xochitl
Right, these are freaking real. But so for our listeners, I would say just use either BFR to mean be for real or.
00:07:40
Xochitl
If you're using BFR, make sure it's like pure or whatever, because freaking can be replaced by a curse word. Yeah, so you don't want to send to your professor B for freaking real. You know what I mean? That's not what your boss hey B for freaking real man, that is not appropriate, but.
00:07:46
Jack
Yeah, that's more.
00:07:57
Jack
Yeah, cause freaking is not the word. There's another word that starts with F that's a much more we we don't use that in the ABC English podcast because we are we're we're child friendly here on the on the.
00:08:07
Xochitl
I'm sorry, right?
00:08:10
Xochitl
Gray.
00:08:10
Jack
The podcast. But yeah, it's beautiful.
00:08:12
Xochitl
Also, be even be for real is kind of like uh, like a call out. So you don't want to use it.
00:08:17
Xochitl
With anyone but you.
00:08:18
Jack
Yeah, I would.
00:08:18
Jack
Only use it with like you know like friends and yeah, for real.
00:08:21
Xochitl
Your friends or your peers, or someone that you like hate in a petty way and it's like not that serious. Like, yeah, so be for real, be for freaking real. Alright, next 1LB S.
00:08:27
Jack
Yeah.
00:08:31
Jack
No.
00:08:37
Xochitl
Ohh yes.
00:08:41
Xochitl
I think I got a Jack on this. I'm I'm proud.
00:08:43
Jack
I'm getting. I'm getting smoked here. This is terrible. OB S.
00:08:51
Jack
Latter Day Saints.
00:08:56
Xochitl
That was terrible. No laughing but serious.
00:09:01
Jack
Ohh that what does that mean now? Why am I laughing but serious?
00:09:01
Xochitl
Laughing.
00:09:03
Jack
So then it will.
00:09:07
Xochitl
UM, let's say you're like, uh, oh man, your boss in Korea was terrible. And I'm I'm saying laughing but serious. Like I'm. I'm curious about it, but it's so bad. It's funny at this point.
00:09:20
Jack
So it's like I don't know what whether to laugh or cry, so I'm just going to laugh like that.
00:09:25
Xochitl
A little bit or like or you say.
00:09:31
Xochitl
Uh, I use this with one of my friends a lot, but let's say she's like, oh, man, that restaurant was terrible. And I'm like, I know that made me sick laughing but serious. Like, I'm kind of joking about it, but I'm for real. Like I'm being honest. So that was terrible. You know what? I.
00:09:46
Jack
Yeah, I can. I can.
00:09:46
Xochitl
Mean. I'm not kidding.
00:09:47
Jack
Chuckle about it, but it really did make me angry, you know, like, I'm serious about it.
00:09:52
Xochitl
Yeah.
00:09:54
Xochitl
Right, like uh, I'm joking, but I. But it's true. Like I'm making a joke out of a real situation kind of laughing, but.
00:10:01
Jack
OK, OK.
00:10:02
Xochitl
Yeah. So that makes sense.
00:10:04
Xochitl
OK, TNT L.
00:10:09
Xochitl
2.
00:10:13
Xochitl
Too, too nice to learn, too, too too.
00:10:19
Xochitl
290 to to to to limbo 2.
00:10:25
Jack
That was bad. Oh my God.
00:10:27
Xochitl
That's the worst. Two too. Too late No2 TN.
00:10:33
Xochitl
Yeah, yeah.
00:10:34
Xochitl
Too, too nice.
00:10:37
Xochitl
2.
00:10:43
Jack
Lie too nice to lie. She's TNT L She's too nice to lie.
00:10:48
Xochitl
Does not make any sense. No. Trying not to laugh.
00:10:52
발표자
Ohh God.
00:10:54
Xochitl
Yeah.
00:10:54
Jack
It's so easy. What? What happened to me?
00:10:56
Xochitl
I was. I was in. I think you just over. I was going to tell you. You definitely were overcomplicating it for yourself. Like, say you had the principles you send your your friend a message. Like man I owe to the principal's office. And I was in a lot of trouble.
00:11:08
Xochitl
But I was TNT L trying not to laugh because, like, maybe you pulled the prank and now you're getting scolded and you're trying to laugh about it.
00:11:15
Jack
OK. OK. Yeah. Yeah. So for example, something like UM.
00:11:23
Jack
You know my my roommate, my roommate spilled a a Diet Coke on his lap.
00:11:24
Jack
Oh man, did you see that girl?
00:11:30
Jack
Top.
00:11:31
Jack
And I'm sitting here in the living room, NTL, trying not to laugh you.
00:11:33
Jack
It's funny.
00:11:37
Jack
Know something like that.
00:11:39
Xochitl
Yeah. Or like, say, someone falls, you know, in a funny way. And you're like, man, I was worried about them. So I was TNT L trying not to laugh because it was funny after all.
00:11:47
Jack
Because if you laugh, it's going to make them feel bad. But you're just like you're you're holding it in. You're biting your lip.
00:11:52
Xochitl
Or you don't want to look like a jerk. You know what I mean? But you're hoping it.
00:11:55
Xochitl
Didn't cause it was funny, yeah.
00:11:59
Xochitl
Yeah. Alright, YANK.
00:12:06
Xochitl
OK.
00:12:10
Jack
Who?
00:12:12
Xochitl
Ynk.
00:12:13
Jack
Why? Why, why? OK. Sorry, sorry.
00:12:19
Xochitl
Y&K.
00:12:21
Xochitl
You're not.
00:12:28
Jack
This is just a total fail. I'm such a fail. I'm so I'm so I'm so I'm so embarrassed that like my age is is just showing so obviously here.
00:12:31
Jack
In the Canada episode I got back, I got back.
00:12:43
Jack
I'm having good time though.
00:12:45
Jack
What year did join this TNT L?
00:12:50
Jack
I'm not even trying at this place.
00:12:51
Jack
He's not even TTL. Yeah, she's NT NTL.
00:12:56
Xochitl
Not not the last.
00:12:57
Jack
Let's see. I've got no idea. I I know what Y2K was, but that happened in 2000. So before you were born.
00:13:04
Xochitl
Like he was after I was born. Yeah. You never know. You never know.
00:13:09
Jack
You never know, yeah.
00:13:11
Xochitl
No.
00:13:13
Jack
Is. Is Julie coming to the party? Ohh. You never know. She might show up, right?
00:13:20
Jack
Would would that work?
00:13:21
Jack
I think he well.
00:13:22
Xochitl
A little, maybe more like a.
00:13:24
Xochitl
Yeah.
00:13:26
Xochitl
Man, I don't think I'm going to get into Harvard. And your friends like YNK. You never know you could.
00:13:33
Xochitl
You know anything is possible. You never know.
00:13:34
Xochitl
You.
00:13:37
Jack
Yeah, yeah. Bob isn't gonna ask me to the prom.
00:13:42
Jack
Y&K. You never know. Yeah, OK.
00:13:43
Xochitl
1.
00:13:46
Xochitl
Yeah, alright. I'm gonna throw you a bone here. I think you'll know this one and it's going to be extradited.
00:13:48
Xochitl
Thanks.
00:13:52
Jack
Is it lol? I mean if it's lol then I can get it I think right?
00:13:54
Jack
No.
00:13:58
Xochitl
IMHO.
00:14:01
Jack
Ohh I know this one. I know this one I.
00:14:07
Jack
What is it IMHO?
00:14:11
Jack
UM means uh.
00:14:14
Jack
IMHO I failed this test.
00:14:17
Jack
In my honest opinion, I failed this test.
00:14:22
Xochitl
Ohh, so close Jack so close in my humble opinion.
00:14:27
Jack
Ah, is that what you need? Humble. No.
00:14:30
Jack
Yes, this is my humble opinion.
00:14:34
Xochitl
What?
00:14:35
Jack
Why do I?
00:14:36
Jack
Why did I always think it was in?
00:14:37
Jack
My honest opinion.
00:14:38
Xochitl
I guess they weren't. Either way, in my honest opinion, and well, it works either way, but yeah, it's.
00:14:40
Jack
Yeah.
00:14:43
Jack
But it makes more.
00:14:44
Jack
Sense to say, in my humble opinion.
00:14:46
Jack
Like cause it makes you like more. It makes you humble. Like it's better like you know, instead of just being honest, yeah.
00:14:50
Xochitl
Yeah, I'd say in my, yeah, it's more like, you know, I'm not saying this is 100% right, but this is just my humble opinion.
00:14:59
Jack
It's more protective of your of your.
00:14:59
Xochitl
So that's why.
00:15:02
Jack
Like, yeah, it's more protective of you. Like, if you're saying, in my honest opinion, blah, blah, blah, then you're wrong.
00:15:08
Jack
You might look.
00:15:08
Xochitl
Like more of a jerk also. But like in my humble opinion is like this is just what I'm humbly offering as my opinion. But I'm not saying I'm it's right or wrong either way, yeah.
00:15:18
Jack
OK, OK. I get half point half credit for that one.
00:15:19
Jack
But I think they.
00:15:22
Xochitl
Yeah, you get half credit, alright, listeners, if you enjoyed watching me destroy Jack this time around, finally I got my venture. Then leave a comment down below. It really helps us with visibility at A-Z englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail. We love listening to listen your emails at azspodcast@gmail.com or join the WeChat.
00:15:42
Xochitl
Those groups to talk to Jack and I directly and we'll see you next time. Bye.
00:15:47
Jack
Bye bye. LOL!
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