Microsoft Word 23 ig muhartoyo ok docx
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Slang Words
Respondents Slang Words Respondents ASAP 1
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A total of 38 English slang words are compiled from the respondents who wrote other English slang words that they know and they use besides the slang words in the eight question. The slang words consist of 16 acronyms (42,10%), 15 the new insight of the pre-existing words (39,48%), 3 apocope (7,90%), 4 mixing words (10,52%). From all respondents’ answer, the most frequently written slang word in the questionnaire is OTW with six respondents. It is followed by BRB, Fuck,
and WTF with four respondents in each word. After that, there are BTW and FYI with three respondents who wrote them and then bollock, bro, crap, creepy, gimme, IDC, LOL, nuts, and
with two respondents in each word. The other words written by one respondent for each word can be seen in the table above.
The result of respondents’ answer from this ninth question shows that respondents mostly know and use acronym. Besides, the new insight of the pre-existing words is the second most common kind of English slang words written by the respondents. There are also respondent who wrote apocope words, apocope is the omission of a syllable or letter at the end of a word. Apocope is the opposite of aphaeresis, where aphaeresis is the omission of a syllable or letter at the beggining of a word. The term aphaeresis is often use but not always limited to the loss of an unstressed vowel in historical phonetics. Example of the apocope is freakin’ from freaking word. Beside that, there are some respondents who wrote clipping words. Clipping is to create words by omitting syllables, for example bro in brother. So, the ninth question answered the last problem formulation that the most type of slang word which is most frequently used by the respondents is acronym.
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