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fandomhigh2011-02-18 07:30 am
whitedeathpod.livejournal.com) wrote in fandomhigh2011-02-18 07:30 am
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Pop Culture 101 | Friday | Period 2
John's class was meeting in the computer lab today and John was at the front of the room, sitting on a desk, legs swinging while he waited for the class to file in and take their seats. Once they'd settled, he sat up a little straighter and got the lecture going.
"Happy Friday everyone," he said because it was a joyous occasion. "Looks like you're all getting ready for Spring Break so we'll have a light class today. Sorry, no movie, but I think this one won't be too hard. Today, we're gonna cover slang. I'm almost positive you've all heard this at one point in your life but if you haven't, slang is use of informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language. That make sense? No? Yeah, dictionary definitions never do."
John hopped off the desk and started walking around the front of the room. "Slang's kind of like a word or a phrase that's created or applied for the specific reason of describing something else in our society. For example, if you know someone that's no fun, you might call them a wet noodle. Doesn't make a lot of sense to call them a piece of pasta but the slang definition for wet noodle is person who doesn't have any fun, who might be limp and just lay there as a wet noodle does."
John was not a wet noodle, thank you very much. "Sometimes, new words are even created. For instance, ginormous. Has anyone heard this word before? Probably and if you look at the actual word, you can see that it's a combination of the words gigantic and enormous. So, it's a newly created word but it's also made up two already existing words. A little bit more understandable? Good. So, here's what I want you to do today. Using the computers in front of you, I want you all to find one slang word or phrase, research it and then tell me what the word or phrase is and tell me what it means. Easy right? Let's get to it then."
"Happy Friday everyone," he said because it was a joyous occasion. "Looks like you're all getting ready for Spring Break so we'll have a light class today. Sorry, no movie, but I think this one won't be too hard. Today, we're gonna cover slang. I'm almost positive you've all heard this at one point in your life but if you haven't, slang is use of informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language. That make sense? No? Yeah, dictionary definitions never do."
John hopped off the desk and started walking around the front of the room. "Slang's kind of like a word or a phrase that's created or applied for the specific reason of describing something else in our society. For example, if you know someone that's no fun, you might call them a wet noodle. Doesn't make a lot of sense to call them a piece of pasta but the slang definition for wet noodle is person who doesn't have any fun, who might be limp and just lay there as a wet noodle does."
John was not a wet noodle, thank you very much. "Sometimes, new words are even created. For instance, ginormous. Has anyone heard this word before? Probably and if you look at the actual word, you can see that it's a combination of the words gigantic and enormous. So, it's a newly created word but it's also made up two already existing words. A little bit more understandable? Good. So, here's what I want you to do today. Using the computers in front of you, I want you all to find one slang word or phrase, research it and then tell me what the word or phrase is and tell me what it means. Easy right? Let's get to it then."
OOC [PC 02/18]