Urban Slang Dictionary

Queen's speech, desi style

I was in Hampi last year with a group of college friends as part of our “let’s finally actually do the things we always talk about doing but never do” post-New Year josh. We were a diverse bunch, as far as backgrounds were concerned — Gujratis, Telugus, Mangloreans, Malayalis and Tamilians were well represented in our little group. We decided to take a walking tour of the ruins, with a guide who came highly recommended. Only one other lady (of Scandinavian origin, judging by her accent) was on the tour with us. Every time we spoke amongst ourselves, she shot us a peculiar look, and finally, when she could not hold it in any longer, she burst out to us, “So you all speak English to each other?” She seemed completely dumbfounded “And to the guide too?” The truth is that we have come a long way from speaking our native tongue on a day-to-day basis. So how do we justify the fact that the urban youth is more fluent in English than in any other regional language? Thus explains the birth of what we fondly call ‘Indian English’. True we wouldn’t have it, if it wasn’t for our colonial past, but the reality is that English, as we speak it, is not spoken in any other part of the world. Robert McCrum’s new book: Globish gets its title from a word coined by a French businessman, Jean-Paul Nerrière, in 1995, to refer to a globalised version of English, containing a vocabulary limited to no more than 1500 words. Short sentences, basic syntax, an absence of idiomatic expressions and extensive hand gestures to get the point across are other hallmarks of Nerrière’s Globish. McCrum’s book, through details of this travels to India, attempts to capture the lingo that Indians use. But the story of Indian English is a story that’s full of contradictions. The number of people in India, who can carry on a conversation in English, is estimated to be around 300 million. While this seems like a large number (and indeed it is), that’s still fewer than 30 per cent of the population. Less than a million Indian nationals speak English as their first language, but it is our official language and the language of our Constitution.  But in today’s young, urban and moving-like-a-freight-train-towards-globalisation India, the role of English is perhaps more at the forefront, than at any other time in our history.

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Greeting/question- What’s up?, What’s going on? This is a very new edition to Hebrew slang, it’s a phrase that became popular because of a funny ‘teenaged’ character on the T.V. sketch comedy show “Eretz Nehederet” on channel 2. It’s kind of a joke about how Israeli youth/young adults these days have slang words for everything (which is true…there are only 15 here but there are tons more!). verb- really in to me, going off on me (literally translated-“ flying on me”)

This one’s very popular but a little tricky; it can be used positively or negatively. You can say this about someone who is totally into you or is really enthusiastic about you (doesn’t necessarily have to be a sexual connotation, it can also be about your boss really liking your work for example) OR it can be used if someone really laid into you or is pissed off at you and gave you a piece of their mind.

NOW, bear with me here, you can also “AF” on other people (ex. Ani AF ALEIHA- I’m so into that girl). WARNING: this should be used only by those who speak conversational Hebrew, this is not a mix and match phrase. … but you’ll get the hang of it.

This is how you know im not black because all these slang words I see I always have to look up in the urban dictionary lmao

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Urban Dictionary : Piff ; pi)f ; slang for shit.

lol I knw! Doesn't plank have the same meaning?lol ths is some kinda urban slang bcuz I went to dictionary.com, dif meanings

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