Modern teen slang: meaning and impact on speech

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:46

Every language has its own slang for teenagers. Films, music, media, social networks and the Internet abound. Slang words come into the lexicon of teenagers from the lips of famous actors, pop artists, especially in the stand-up genre.

Social media posts and funny videos are also accompanied by slang inscriptions. It will take a long time for parents to decipher this language.

What is slang

Slang is a non-standard vocabulary used in casual communication. Almost all professions have their own professional slang. Lawyers and doctors are even required to communicate in it in the presence of a client, as ethics require. Moreover, in each family, their own words are passed from generation to generation, the authors of which were sometimes children. They twist words in a way that makes sense to them. Examples:

• Stringing beads (of course, on a string).
• Kolotok (they are also beaten).
• Mazeline (smeared).

Similar creativity of words is demonstrated by teen slang, examples:

• Krasava - well done. It's like "handsome" and "wow, well done!" put together.
• Bratella is a brother or peer. The root remainsthe word itself has an Italian connotation. And already something criminal looks through. The word "brother" is used between gang members. In general, this word is used in the Mitki community.
• Brake is stupid. The one who slows down "does not catch up" with the rest in quick wit. Often used in relation to a computer or the Internet when there is a slow transfer of information.

Teen slang doesn't come out of nowhere. It, like real languages, has the origin of words: borrowing from professional slang, new Russian and thieves Fenya, Anglicisms, newly formed words by combining two words or a root and a suffix.

Often, when the literary language does not have a word denoting a particular concept of teenage subculture, a new word enters the language. It can even go into the category of literary, if it describes this concept fully enough.

There are many examples of this from the language of programmers. For example, the word "hang". At first it was used in relation to the violation of the computer boot. Later, the meaning "stay somewhere" was added. This is how Wiktionary interprets.

Whether we like it or not, teenage slang is having an impact on the Russian language. That is how it should be viewed.

Slang as a means of communication

The language of the teenage subculture is highly expressive, saturated with metaphors, it tends to reduce words (people, inet, comp). Deliberate distortion of verbal forms is a protest and a way to get away from openly foul language,covering the meaning of what was said with a slang shell.

Modern teen slang is essentially a code language. Everything in it is subject to obfuscation and obscuration of a clear meaning. Teenagers would burn with shame if they knew that the teacher or parents understood their speech. Despite their apparent adulthood, they are not ready to take responsibility for their words.

Slang turns what is said into a game, something frivolous, a hobby of youth. In fact, it wears off over time. There is no need to encrypt your actions, an adult calls a spade a spade. But for teenagers, it is still relevant that adults “don’t poke your nose into their affairs.”

Let's look at modern teen slang: a dictionary of the most common expressions.

• Ava - avatar, picture under the username. There is an abbreviation of the word.
• Go - from the English "go", start, give, call to action. Compare "let's go" (English) - let's go. Explicit anglicism.
• Zashkvar - from the prison word "to sour", that is, to use the dishes of a lowered (passive bugger), shake his hand, smoke his cigarette or just touch him. In teenage slang, it means "crazy", something unfashionable, inconsistent with conventional wisdom.
• Poch - why.
• Pal is fake. Obviously, from "singed" - fake.
• Cute - cute, adorable.
• Cute - extremely adorable.
• Top - from the English "top", something better.
• You drive - you cheat.
• Gamat - from the English "game", to play.
• Funny -joke.
• A bummer - getting into trouble.
• Carrots are love.

Processes taking place in the Russian language

Language changes in the lifetime of one generation. And this despite the fact that each generation has its own teenage and youth slang. Journalism, modern literature and numerous blogs are now picking up and spreading slang words.

The writer, bringing a teenager on stage, studies his speech for a realistic reflection. Here there is a gradation of terms and the words characteristic of certain social groups are defined.

Clearly, more educated teenagers use less jargon because they have a larger vocabulary. The vocabulary of rural and urban teenage slang is also different.

Philologists have an opinion that new words appear mainly in two capitals - Moscow and St. Petersburg. Within six months, they are distributed to the periphery.

Reason for the origin of teenage slang

Each subculture has its own language. Teenagers are no exception. Her area of interest defines the vocabulary used to denote concepts:

• Study at school, college, college, university.
• Clothes.
• Music, popular bands, the style of their clothes and behavior.
• Chat with friends, opposite sex, parents, teachers.
• Leisure activities - discos, walks, meetings and dates, concerts of your favorite bands, attending matches of your favorite sports teams.

Reasonsentry of new words into the lexicon of adolescents:

1. Game.
2. Search for yourself, your I.
3. Protest.
4. Poverty of the lexicon.

Youth slang as a form of self-affirmation of adolescents, it can be considered as a stage of growing up. Where do these words come from? They are invented in passing, trying to explain something, choosing a suitable expression or comparison. If a new word resonates with the community, it will almost certainly spread.

Slang replenishment comes from professional jargon, such as computer jargon:

• Broken link - 404 error.
• Glitch - failure.
• Save a video - upload a video file.
• Copy-paste - "Copy" - copy, "Paste" - paste.
• A bug is a mistake.
• Fix - fix bugs.

Many words have roots in thieves' slang:

• To raise the market - to initiate a serious conversation.
• Bulkshaker - dancing in a disco.
• To sit on treason - to be afraid of something.
• Shmon - search.
• Chepushilo - a person who does not follow the speech.
• To score an arrow - make an appointment.

The words of drug addicts are also reflected in teenage slang:

• Gertrude, white, main heroin.
• Marusya, milk, plasticine - marijuana.
• Cupcake, flour, nose, accelerator - cocaine and crack.
• Get up-grass, dad, shnyaga - raw opium.
• Wheels are pills.
• To wheel - to acceptpills.
• Thump, rub yourself in, get stoned - inject.
• Chpknutsya, shirnutsya - enter into a state of drug intoxication.

Timely heard jargon will help to understand what a teenager is interested in and help the child if necessary.

21st century teenage slang comes from the TV screen. Movies about gangsters, action movies, trailers replenish the baggage of new words. Unfortunately, negative characters are imitated willingly. They are cool . Curses, which were previously purely American, penetrate into the Russian language. Along with them come obscene gestures. It's all sad.

Teenager slang and its meaning

It's worth noting that not all teenagers use slang in their speech. Some use it as a joke. These guys are usually not considered "their own", although they can be treated with respect.

The use of slang words begins like a game: they don't understand us, you can talk about anything. Then comes the transitional age, when a person seeks himself, accepts or rejects generally accepted norms. As an alternative to the boring life path of parents, boring teachers and narrow-minded neighbors, a teenage subculture comes.

This limited world is not difficult to comprehend. The vocabulary of teenage slang is small, anyone can master it. Here everyone is on an equal footing, you can talk about topics that would make parents' hair stand on end in horror. This seeming freedom so beckons the young heart!

It is worth bringing teen slang, a list of everyday words:

• To score - came from prison jargon, discarding the three-letter swear word. Now they score not something, but something: to score on homework is not to do homework.
• Damn - replacement of the obscene expression with the corresponding letter. Means annoyance.
• Kidalovo - from the jargon of scammers-scammers who change money. Means cheating.
• Cool is an old Offenian word. Means good.
• Cool - funny, good, cool.
• Shameful - embarrassing, embarrassing, old-fashioned.
• Trick is a highlight, something that surprises, a feature.
• Chmo is an outcast.
• Shnyaga - something bad.
• Shuher - "run!", Also from the language of criminals.

To sum up, the meaning of using teenage slang is as follows:

1. The desire to stand out from the crowd, the gray mass. In this case, the teenage subculture is perceived as avant-garde.
2. The desire for freedom, the abolition of prohibitions. To such an extreme as changing the common language to slang, children rush out of the tight grip of their parents. They even intentionally shock with their behavior.
3. Protest against the hypocritical system of adults, when some can do everything, while others are responsible for other people's misdeeds.
4. Slang helps with the poverty of the vocabulary, obscene speech helps to express thoughts. Communication often takes place in half hints and jokes.

Youth slang, its influence on the speech of teenagers

It would be possible to treat slang as a temporary and easily passing phenomenon, if it were not for its deep rooting. Having starteduse slang speech turns, a teenager begins to think the same way. As you know, a person does not have imaginative thinking, like animals. The thought is closely related to the word.

As a result, modern teenage slang is starting to seep into writing. Soon such a teenager needs an interpreter. Still, slang is a limited language, without nuances, highlights and the subtlest shades. To accept it instead of a literary one means to impoverish not only your life, but also the very thoughts about life.

There is a mirror effect of the word: after introducing it into the lexicon, thoughts use it to express themselves. Then, according to the principle “out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks”, the language brings out the thought already in slang form. Getting rid of is not easy, it will take conscious effort. If you leave nourishment, that is, communication in slang, it will become impossible to get rid of it.

Consequences of the passion for slang

During the formation of personality, and this is just the teenage years, there is also an installation of patterns of behavior or problem solving that will arise already in adulthood. The influence of slang on the speech of teenagers is very great.

Without enough life experience, teenagers try to learn everything about life. And they think they can do it. Being in their circle, they can look wise in their own eyes. But that wisdom is shattered by the waves of adulthood.

You can't use slang without adopting its ideology. He will definitely influence actions and decision-making. The bravado that comes through in the slang only seems to be "cool".

Teenager slang, dictionary:

• dose - homework;
• dzyak - thank you;
• Dostoevsky - the one who got everyone;
• emelya - email address;
• tough - horror;
• fat is the highest class;
• lighter - a girl who likes to have fun;
• ambush - an unexpected obstacle in business;
• shy - quick to get drunk;
• zoo - insult;
• bend - do something unusual;
• imbicil - retarded;
• kachok - a man with developed muscles;
• kipish - mess;
• kiryuha is a drinker;
• sausage - cool Mouzon, cool music;
• mow under someone - to be like;
• traitor rat;
• ksiva - document;
• cupcake - boy;
• smoke bamboo - do nothing;
• labat - play a musical instrument;
• lave - money;
• Fox is a fan of the Alisa group;
• lokhovoz - public transport;
• loser is a loser;
• burdock is a fool;
• major - boy with money;
• makhalovka - fight;
• frost - talking nonsense;
• cartoon is a cool little thing;
• stir up - meet;
• mercibo - thank you;
• run up - ask for trouble;
• nane - no (Gypsy);
• nishtyak - very good;
• blank head - the highest degree of admiration;
• point - be afraid;
• fall - sit down;
• drive - nickname;
• pepper is coolguy;
• steam - worry;
• turnip - rehearsal;
• to steer - to be the best;
• ramsit - have fun;
• session - concert, meeting;
• banter - to joke, scoff;
• leave the market - change the topic of conversation;
• one hundred pounds - exactly;
• student - student card;
• like - like;
• torch - pleasure;
• trouble - trouble;
• junkie - drug addict;
• tip-top - everything is fine;
• fumes - funny;
• fak - curse word;
• flood - chatter;
• bullshit - nonsense;
• hut - housing;
• xs - hell knows;
• hi-fi - hello;
• civil - good conditions;
• chika - dear girl;
• chick - girl;
• spur - cheat sheet;
• user - computer user;
• yahu - cheers.

This is just a small part of teenage slang, the vocabulary is far from complete. Excluded obscene expressions and describing sexual activities, the administration of natural needs. Yes, the kids talk about it too. But this is enough to understand the danger of accepting the subculture of teenagers for life.

What else is fraught with the use of slang

If you do not get rid of this speech, problems will not keep you waiting. It will be difficult to get a decent job, it will be difficult to hold on to it because of the use of certain words. Suddenly, the teenager will feel that he cannot explain what is happening to him to the doctor. Will find that the postman does not understand him,social worker, salesperson.

To live in the world of people and speak a language that they do not understand is loneliness in the crowd. For a child in a difficult situation, this can end badly. Depression is a frequent visitor in this case.

Parents can help by explaining that slang is a game. You can't play all your life. They will try to find contact with their child, go through this period of growing up together. Trust at this time can do a lot.

How to solve the problem

Parents are very annoyed by teenage slang. Especially when they don't understand what their own child said. At the same time, parents often forget themselves at a young age. They also used buzzwords, and their parents were at a loss.

First of all, to solve the problem, you should start with yourself. How often do informal words fall from the lips of the older generation? They are sometimes not noticed. Surely you have heard (or even used) such expressions:

• Fuck
• Shut up.
• To die is not to get up.
• Departure.
• Covered with a copper basin.
• Flew like plywood over Paris.

These are once fashionable words of the end of the 20th century that have already been put into circulation. If parents use such jargon, it is not surprising that their child will look for their own vocabulary that matches the time. A teenager will not even understand that he is doing something wrong. He just wants to be modern. Shouldn't he use "old slang"?

The trouble is that often a child uses words whose meaning is not completely clear to him. In the group of his communication oftencan't find an explanation either. It's just that everyone says it. This is where sensitive parents can help. They will try to convey to the teenager the meaning of some jargon. Tell about their belonging to the criminal world, for example.

Some words can be used, the main thing is to know: when, where and with whom. The girl, having called the molesting young man a goat, may not know anything about this humiliating word for criminals. But in the code of honor of a thief - immediately hit the person who called the goat. Whether it's a girl or an old man, it doesn't matter.

Street language

Unfortunately, the boundaries between literary and obscene expressions are blurred in society. Swear words are attacked from all sides: in public transport, in a store, on the street, and even from the TV screen. If everyone says so, then this is the norm - this is what a teenager thinks.

In that case, it's time to sound the alarm. To bring to the attention of the child that a free society is not the freedom of vice, but a conscious choice of actions. There is an elementary ethic when foul language cannot be uttered in the presence of women, children and the elderly, in public places. Only marginals do this.

Like the cannibal Ellochka, there are people who operate in their lives with a few swear words. They turn them into different parts of speech, decline and combine. This is enough to communicate with their own kind at the level of a monkey trained in sign language.

Parents should not be afraid that their expression of contempt for profanity will offend, makeshut up child. And, of course, it is not permissible to use "s alty words" yourself.

Challenge to explore what words come out of the mouths of literary characters during extreme heat of passion. Share this with your children. In general, good literature is an inoculation against obscene language.

Tell your child about the danger that awaits those who use the words of drug addicts, homeless people, punks. What impression is created about a person who uses such words in social networks. Give examples of how photos posted on the Internet and captions to them ruined the reputation of a young man or girl.

Tell us that expressions of national, racial, social and religious intolerance are criminal acts. If a child promotes extreme views, it is necessary to find out who their ideologue is. Maybe a teenager imitates someone? In any case, steps should be taken to prevent the child from being immersed in this subculture.