Besides music, TV programs and movies can also be the source of the English slang words
It has popular synonyms with massive, huge, incredible and awesome. So, the tagline means that the
final part of hangover movie is awesome. The tagline makes people curious and can’t wait to watch
Last but not least, social media. Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr,
microblogging service that enables users to send and read messages of up to 140 characters which is
known as tweets) and one picture from 9gag (a social media website by image-based which centres
around user-uploaded) that contain English slang words were selected as examples.
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Tweet by autocorrects that contains a slang word
OMFG in tweet:
“*Phone falls* OMFG NOO! PLEASE STILL WORK! I LOVE YOU! *Friends falls*
HAHAHA!”
(OMFG is an acronym of Oh My Fuckin God)
Tweet by autocorrects that contains another slang word nerd in his tweet:
“Dear girls who take a pic in slutty clothing & glasses & label the caption “nerddd lol”
You’re not a nerd, you’re a whore who found glasses.”
(Nerd is a new insight of the pre-
existing word which means an individual persecuted for his superior skills or intellect, most
often people who fear and envy him/her)
Tweet by funnyhumors that contains a slang word lame in his tweet:
“That fake laugh you have to pull when an old person tells a lame joke!”
(Lame is a new
insight of the pre-existing words which means stupid or foolish)
Tweet by funnyhumors that contains another slang words dude and LOL in is tweet:
“Why didn’t you reply to my text?” “Dude! How am I supposed to reply to LOL?” (Dude is a
new insight of the pre-existing words of chummy call for brother or it has same meaning with
another slang word (kind of clipping) which is bro. LOL is an acronym of Laugh Out Loud).
Tweet by funnyhumors that contains slang word IDK in his tweet:
“Ever want to say IDKwithout sounding stupid? Say this: I hesitate to articulate in fear I may
deviate upon the highest degree of accuracy”
(IDK is an acronym of I Don’t Know).
The picture below contains slang words “bitch” and “shit”. Bitch here means annoying female
and
shit is the most popular swear according to urban dictionary. So, the sentence “that bitch ain’t
getting shit!!!” means she swear that annoying female will not get it.
Figure 1 “No she ain’t!”
(Source: 9gag.com)
METHOD
To achieve the objectives mentioned, qualitative method with the paradigm of experimental
design to obtain quantitative data and interpretative analysis was applied. The study was conducted in
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several steps. First, literature retrieval in the library to select and collect relevant theories related to
English slang. Second, the questionnaires were designed and tested as the instrument for data
collection. Third, the questionnaires were then distributed to respondents. Fourth, the answers from
respondents were collected in the form of qualitative data. The data gathered were then analyzed and
interpreted based on relevant theories about sociolinguistic study, and about language variation
especially English slang. These data were carefully classified and interpretatively analyzed. The result
of the analysis was descriptively presented. To make it easier to read the result of the analysis, bar
charts are also presented.
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