sábado, 14 de agosto de 2010

Story on the use of slang in the United States and Britain






Every country has a history and culture that makes them different from other countries, all part of their cultural identity within it we can find food, dance, costumes, political, religious, and language among others, which we call folklore.
Exist different types of slangs make reference to sex, violence, drugs, or crime; the use of slang is often seen by many people as an indicator of the speaker `s lower social status. In ethnic groups usually every day its very common and this is a form that communication.
This expression use in old countries and this is you’re particularly and form the edification, for example in Costa Rica uses many types of slangs, “pura vida”, “mae”, etc. In the United State are common use slangs, and they are not definition a person is polite or not polite exits many word the person use in your daily vocabulary.
This is a better form to communicate with the society, are a few examples slang use in America:

Props - "respect, recognition" (example. Gotta give that girl props for her web site...) Off the hinges - "similar to off the hook, something is outstanding, great" (example. "Yo, that concert was off the hinges!")
Wares - The de facto standard term for a piece of pirated software/music/movies copied from a friend or downloaded from the Internet. (Example. This website has a huge abundance of wares on it!) dot gone - unsuccessful internet company (example. ex. pets.com)
In Britain the history are similar use slang language related sites, is a particularly that person use and identification where do you live.

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