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    Jim Nixon Guadalajara, Jalisco.

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    Should slang be taught in the

    English classrooms.

    Presented by:

    Jim Nixon

    ( [email protected])

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    Introduction

    Hows it going?

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    Policeman found dead drunk.

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    Cop.

    Flatfoot

    Fuzz.

    Pig.

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    Wasted.

    Toasted.

    Tipsy.

    Hugging the throne.

    Stoned.

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    Flatfoot found wasted

    Cop found hugging the throne.

    Fuzz found stoned man.

    Pig grabbed a peek at a typsy homeboy.

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    What is the definition of slang?

    Nonstandard vocabulary of a given culture

    or subculture.

    It is usually a nonstandard word.

    In many cases it isMADE UP.

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    Pooped.

    Threads.

    Hogwash.

    Boob-tube.

    Bonkers.

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    Idioms

    A phrase that is commontly understood in

    a culture or subculture to have a meaning

    different from its literal meaning.

    To bendover backwards.

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    Different usages of slang.

    Initials:

    FYI

    CEO BLT

    DJ

    OJ

    VP

    ASAP

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    Some forms of slangs are acronyms:

    LASER

    SCUBA

    TIP

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    LASER: lightamplification by stimulated

    emission ofradiation.

    SCUBA:selfcontained underwater

    breathingapparatus.

    TIP: toinsure promptness.

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    TEENS

    Our home-ec teacher is really phat and her

    class is the bomb.

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    RAPPERS

    Hey, homie! Why you wallin! Instead a

    bustia movie to that def jam?

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    SURFERS

    The big mamas fully mackinsome gnarly

    grinders with corduroy to the horizon.

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    DINER WAITERS/

    WAITRESSES Gimme a cold pig on a green sea, burn 50

    and put shoes on em; theyre going for a

    walk.

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    DOCTORS

    We need to gork the patience before

    calling in the blade.

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    SOME SOUTHERNERS

    Im more scared than a long-tailed cat in a

    room full a rockinchairs or Im more

    scared than porcupine in a balloon factory.

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    Sports.

    To

    pitchideas. to be in the ballpark.

    togo down withthe ship.

    totake the windoutofones sails. tohitbelow the belt.

    totake the balland run withit.

    to win by a nose, togetones feetwet. to clear a hurdle.

    to pace oneself.

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    DIRTYWORDS