Vocabulary Spotlight | Texting Slang

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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl tests Jack’s knowledge of common texting acronyms.

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00:00:00

Jack

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00:00:03

Jack

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Jack

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00:00:55

Jack

Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I’m here with my co-host social. And today we are under the vocabulary spotlight.

00:01:05

Jack

And social is going to test me on my knowledge of testing accurate and I’m sorry texting.

00:01:15

Xochitl

Excellent.

00:01:16

Jack

Acronyms like like.

00:01:17

Jack

Text.

00:01:18

Jack

Texting words or whatever I guess. Or texting language.

00:01:20

Xochitl

Yes, finally explaining in a way, it’s like you just you don’t use the whole phrase or the whole words. You just use like a few letters to represent the word. So that’s like what it is.

00:01:32

Jack

Exactly, yeah.

00:01:35

Xochitl

And I have a six here so.

00:01:38

Xochitl

So let’s get started. I’m ready to tear you up because you really got me with the Canadian one was that Aussie one wasn’t a total failure, the Canadian one.

00:01:39

Xochitl

OK.

00:01:46

Jack

No, you did better on the Aussie one than you did with the Canadian slang, which is kind of surprising.

00:01:51

Xochitl

I know and.

00:01:52

Xochitl

Canadian and I’ve been to Canada and I don’t even have any like Austin friends and I have Canadian friends as messy, but.

00:01:58

Jack

We share a border with Canada, you know.

00:02:01

Xochitl

And I have a a close Canadian friend or a couple maybe, and I don’t have like any Aussie friends I can think of, but I just ruined. I just ruined the Canadian one.

00:02:10

Jack

Well, I’ll give a I’ll.

00:02:11

Jack

Give a shout out to teacher Paul Paul the the the grammar detective.

00:02:17

Jack

If you don’t know his uh YouTube channel, check it out. For sure. The grammar detective best grammar teacher on the Internet. He sent me a message about that episode and said basically those Canadian terms are very like rural. You know, they’re not. It’s like.

00:02:35

Jack

OK.

00:02:37

Jack

And even most Canadian people don’t use those terms. It’s very much.

00:02:41

Jack

Like like hillbillies you know? Kind of like, yeah, people that live in the countryside might.

00:02:47

Xochitl

Without in the sticks as you say.

00:02:49

Jack

In the sticks, right? Yeah. Hillbillies is not a the right way to say that, but.

00:02:55

Xochitl

I think in sticks isn’t either, but in the sticks are just a term we use for people who.

00:02:59

Xochitl

Live out in the country.

00:03:00

Jack

Yeah.

00:03:02

Jack

Country folk, you know, country people that are not, you know, maybe college educated, you know, high school educated only use those kinds of terms.

00:03:12

Jack

And it’s it’s not very they’re not very common in in regular.

00:03:17

Jack

Right. But actually it’s not actually.

00:03:17

Xochitl

Speech in Sydney.

00:03:19

Xochitl

Has to do with the level of education. I think it’s more just like it’s kind of like colloquial language, like it’s a regional dialect kind of thing, right? Oh, yeah.

00:03:29

Jack

Yeah, yeah, yeah, very, very. You know, the central Canada, very rural farm farmers and things like that, so.

00:03:40

Jack

Don’t feel bad about that one. The Ozzy slaying is much more common. I think throughout the whole country, I would say from from, just from knowing Australian people that grew up in cities, they use a lot of those terms, all the.

00:03:52

Xochitl

Time so you know.

00:03:55

Xochitl

All right. Well, that makes me feel better and I’m ready to rip you up with these.

00:04:02

Xochitl

I, YK, YK what does that stand for?

00:04:08

Jack

IYKYK.

00:04:10

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:04:13

Jack

I, YK, YK.

00:04:18

Jack

Wait, you.

00:04:21

Jack

No, I I’m.

00:04:25

Jack

I’m keeping.

00:04:27

Xochitl

Thank you. I like it.

00:04:27

Xochitl

IYYK.

00:04:34

Jack

I’m your.

00:04:38

Xochitl

Kind.

00:04:40

Jack

OK, like bad, this is bad. You give up your.

00:04:44

Jack

I don’t. I’m gonna say uncle on this one. I have no idea. I’m. I give up.

00:04:49

Xochitl

Great. If you know you know.

00:04:52

Jack

Ohh if you know you know what? When? What’s the context for using that? Like give me give me like an example.

00:04:54

발표자

No.

00:05:00

Xochitl

Here’s an example. Let’s say that.

00:05:04

Xochitl

I use a specific product for people with curly hair and I post a picture of it online and say oh, this is the goat which remember is like the greatest one of all time. It’s a IYKYK if you know, you know. So if you use this product or if you also have curly hair, you know.

00:05:15

Jack

Yeah. The best. Yeah, yeah.

00:05:24

Xochitl

If you know you know.

00:05:26

Jack

OK.

00:05:28

Jack

Or like.

00:05:29

Jack

It sounds like another example like if you don’t know well now you know.

00:05:34

Jack

That’s uh from a song, OK?

00:05:34

발표자

No.

00:05:35

Xochitl

Like, yeah, if you know, you know, with is like, you’re talking to people who also know. So like your audience. So like or let’s say you post a picture of like slide chicken from a local place, but it looks a really certain way. And you’re like, this is the best fried chicken in Atlanta if you know, you.

00:05:38

Jack

Now.

00:05:52

Xochitl

No.

00:05:53

Jack

Ohh, so you’re you’re in the secret club basically.

00:05:56

Xochitl

Kinda. Yeah. Yeah, you’re.

00:05:57

Jack

OK, OK.

00:05:58

Jack

In the Super pub you’re talking to other people, no?

00:05:59

Jack

If you’re in the secret club, you know. Yeah. You know. You. OK OK. If you know, you know, and then you show a picture of, like a club, you know, like a the sign on the on the on the the dance club or something. And if you don’t know.

00:06:13

Jack

You’re not. You’re not in the group. You’re you’re kind of.

00:06:15

Xochitl

Right. You’re talking to other people who know if you know, you know, your audience is the other.

00:06:20

Xochitl

Oh no. And then everyone’s, like, laugh reacting and go. Yeah, that’s the best. And everyone who doesn’t know doesn’t know. So.

00:06:26

Jack

Yeah, they’re like, what’s that? Tell me about that. Like, sorry, secret, you know.

00:06:31

Xochitl

Mm-hmm. Alright, Jack. And next one, BFR, BFR.

00:06:31

Xochitl

OK.

00:06:39

Jack

But PSR best friends forever. Really.

00:06:45

Xochitl

No.

00:06:49

Jack

Use my.

00:06:49

Jack

I mean, that’s a big guess. That’s a good guess.

00:06:50

Jack

That’s my VFR, my best friend for forever. Really my best friend forever, really.

00:06:57

Xochitl

Well, I would have that. That’s good. I mean, I probably would have said best friend for real or something like that.

00:07:02

Xochitl

But that but.

00:07:04

Xochitl

That’s not what it means though. It means be for freaking real.

00:07:09

Jack

Ohh be for freaking.

00:07:10

Xochitl

So it’s like if someone says.

00:07:11

Xochitl

OK.

00:07:15

Xochitl

You know, I’m trying to think of a good example.

00:07:17

Jack

Like, stop, stop being fake. Stop, you know.

00:07:21

Xochitl

Not playing play G for real, you know, be real.

00:07:22

Jack

Stop playing.

00:07:24

Jack

Be for freaking real. Yeah, be honest. Like be be be real. Yeah. Be be for real. Yeah.

00:07:29

Xochitl

Right, these are freaking real. But so for our listeners, I would say just use either BFR to mean be for real or.

00:07:40

Xochitl

If you’re using BFR, make sure it’s like pure or whatever, because freaking can be replaced by a curse word. Yeah, so you don’t want to send to your professor B for freaking real. You know what I mean? That’s not what your boss hey B for freaking real man, that is not appropriate, but.

00:07:46

Jack

Yeah, that’s more.

00:07:57

Jack

Yeah, cause freaking is not the word. There’s another word that starts with F that’s a much more we we don’t use that in the ABC English podcast because we are we’re we’re child friendly here on the on the.

00:08:07

Xochitl

I’m sorry, right?

00:08:10

Xochitl

Gray.

00:08:10

Jack

The podcast. But yeah, it’s beautiful.

00:08:12

Xochitl

Also, be even be for real is kind of like uh, like a call out. So you don’t want to use it.

00:08:17

Xochitl

With anyone but you.

00:08:18

Jack

Yeah, I would.

00:08:18

Jack

Only use it with like you know like friends and yeah, for real.

00:08:21

Xochitl

Your friends or your peers, or someone that you like hate in a petty way and it’s like not that serious. Like, yeah, so be for real, be for freaking real. Alright, next 1LB S.

00:08:27

Jack

Yeah.

00:08:31

Jack

No.

00:08:37

Xochitl

Ohh yes.

00:08:41

Xochitl

I think I got a Jack on this. I’m I’m proud.

00:08:43

Jack

I’m getting. I’m getting smoked here. This is terrible. OB S.

00:08:51

Jack

Latter Day Saints.

00:08:56

Xochitl

That was terrible. No laughing but serious.

00:09:01

Jack

Ohh that what does that mean now? Why am I laughing but serious?

00:09:01

Xochitl

Laughing.

00:09:03

Jack

So then it will.

00:09:07

Xochitl

UM, let’s say you’re like, uh, oh man, your boss in Korea was terrible. And I’m I’m saying laughing but serious. Like I’m. I’m curious about it, but it’s so bad. It’s funny at this point.

00:09:20

Jack

So it’s like I don’t know what whether to laugh or cry, so I’m just going to laugh like that.

00:09:25

Xochitl

A little bit or like or you say.

00:09:31

Xochitl

Uh, I use this with one of my friends a lot, but let’s say she’s like, oh, man, that restaurant was terrible. And I’m like, I know that made me sick laughing but serious. Like, I’m kind of joking about it, but I’m for real. Like I’m being honest. So that was terrible. You know what? I.

00:09:46

Jack

Yeah, I can. I can.

00:09:46

Xochitl

Mean. I’m not kidding.

00:09:47

Jack

Chuckle about it, but it really did make me angry, you know, like, I’m serious about it.

00:09:52

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:09:54

Xochitl

Right, like uh, I’m joking, but I. But it’s true. Like I’m making a joke out of a real situation kind of laughing, but.

00:10:01

Jack

OK, OK.

00:10:02

Xochitl

Yeah. So that makes sense.

00:10:04

Xochitl

OK, TNT L.

00:10:09

Xochitl

2.

00:10:13

Xochitl

Too, too nice to learn, too, too too.

00:10:19

Xochitl

290 to to to to limbo 2.

00:10:25

Jack

That was bad. Oh my God.

00:10:27

Xochitl

That’s the worst. Two too. Too late No2 TN.

00:10:33

Xochitl

Yeah, yeah.

00:10:34

Xochitl

Too, too nice.

00:10:37

Xochitl

2.

00:10:43

Jack

Lie too nice to lie. She’s TNT L She’s too nice to lie.

00:10:48

Xochitl

Does not make any sense. No. Trying not to laugh.

00:10:52

발표자

Ohh God.

00:10:54

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:10:54

Jack

It’s so easy. What? What happened to me?

00:10:56

Xochitl

I was. I was in. I think you just over. I was going to tell you. You definitely were overcomplicating it for yourself. Like, say you had the principles you send your your friend a message. Like man I owe to the principal’s office. And I was in a lot of trouble.

00:11:08

Xochitl

But I was TNT L trying not to laugh because, like, maybe you pulled the prank and now you’re getting scolded and you’re trying to laugh about it.

00:11:15

Jack

OK. OK. Yeah. Yeah. So for example, something like UM.

00:11:23

Jack

You know my my roommate, my roommate spilled a a Diet Coke on his lap.

00:11:24

Jack

Oh man, did you see that girl?

00:11:30

Jack

Top.

00:11:31

Jack

And I’m sitting here in the living room, NTL, trying not to laugh you.

00:11:33

Jack

It’s funny.

00:11:37

Jack

Know something like that.

00:11:39

Xochitl

Yeah. Or like, say, someone falls, you know, in a funny way. And you’re like, man, I was worried about them. So I was TNT L trying not to laugh because it was funny after all.

00:11:47

Jack

Because if you laugh, it’s going to make them feel bad. But you’re just like you’re you’re holding it in. You’re biting your lip.

00:11:52

Xochitl

Or you don’t want to look like a jerk. You know what I mean? But you’re hoping it.

00:11:55

Xochitl

Didn’t cause it was funny, yeah.

00:11:59

Xochitl

Yeah. Alright, YANK.

00:12:06

Xochitl

OK.

00:12:10

Jack

Who?

00:12:12

Xochitl

Ynk.

00:12:13

Jack

Why? Why, why? OK. Sorry, sorry.

00:12:19

Xochitl

Y&K.

00:12:21

Xochitl

You’re not.

00:12:28

Jack

This is just a total fail. I’m such a fail. I’m so I’m so I’m so I’m so embarrassed that like my age is is just showing so obviously here.

00:12:31

Jack

In the Canada episode I got back, I got back.

00:12:43

Jack

I’m having good time though.

00:12:45

Jack

What year did join this TNT L?

00:12:50

Jack

I’m not even trying at this place.

00:12:51

Jack

He’s not even TTL. Yeah, she’s NT NTL.

00:12:56

Xochitl

Not not the last.

00:12:57

Jack

Let’s see. I’ve got no idea. I I know what Y2K was, but that happened in 2000. So before you were born.

00:13:04

Xochitl

Like he was after I was born. Yeah. You never know. You never know.

00:13:09

Jack

You never know, yeah.

00:13:11

Xochitl

No.

00:13:13

Jack

Is. Is Julie coming to the party? Ohh. You never know. She might show up, right?

00:13:20

Jack

Would would that work?

00:13:21

Jack

I think he well.

00:13:22

Xochitl

A little, maybe more like a.

00:13:24

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:13:26

Xochitl

Man, I don’t think I’m going to get into Harvard. And your friends like YNK. You never know you could.

00:13:33

Xochitl

You know anything is possible. You never know.

00:13:34

Xochitl

You.

00:13:37

Jack

Yeah, yeah. Bob isn’t gonna ask me to the prom.

00:13:42

Jack

Y&K. You never know. Yeah, OK.

00:13:43

Xochitl

1.

00:13:46

Xochitl

Yeah, alright. I’m gonna throw you a bone here. I think you’ll know this one and it’s going to be extradited.

00:13:48

Xochitl

Thanks.

00:13:52

Jack

Is it lol? I mean if it’s lol then I can get it I think right?

00:13:54

Jack

No.

00:13:58

Xochitl

IMHO.

00:14:01

Jack

Ohh I know this one. I know this one I.

00:14:07

Jack

What is it IMHO?

00:14:11

Jack

UM means uh.

00:14:14

Jack

IMHO I failed this test.

00:14:17

Jack

In my honest opinion, I failed this test.

00:14:22

Xochitl

Ohh, so close Jack so close in my humble opinion.

00:14:27

Jack

Ah, is that what you need? Humble. No.

00:14:30

Jack

Yes, this is my humble opinion.

00:14:34

Xochitl

What?

00:14:35

Jack

Why do I?

00:14:36

Jack

Why did I always think it was in?

00:14:37

Jack

My honest opinion.

00:14:38

Xochitl

I guess they weren’t. Either way, in my honest opinion, and well, it works either way, but yeah, it’s.

00:14:40

Jack

Yeah.

00:14:43

Jack

But it makes more.

00:14:44

Jack

Sense to say, in my humble opinion.

00:14:46

Jack

Like cause it makes you like more. It makes you humble. Like it’s better like you know, instead of just being honest, yeah.

00:14:50

Xochitl

Yeah, I’d say in my, yeah, it’s more like, you know, I’m not saying this is 100% right, but this is just my humble opinion.

00:14:59

Jack

It’s more protective of your of your.

00:14:59

Xochitl

So that’s why.

00:15:02

Jack

Like, yeah, it’s more protective of you. Like, if you’re saying, in my honest opinion, blah, blah, blah, then you’re wrong.

00:15:08

Jack

You might look.

00:15:08

Xochitl

Like more of a jerk also. But like in my humble opinion is like this is just what I’m humbly offering as my opinion. But I’m not saying I’m it’s right or wrong either way, yeah.

00:15:18

Jack

OK, OK. I get half point half credit for that one.

00:15:19

Jack

But I think they.

00:15:22

Xochitl

Yeah, you get half credit, alright, listeners, if you enjoyed watching me destroy Jack this time around, finally I got my venture. Then leave a comment down below. It really helps us with visibility at A-Z englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail. We love listening to listen your emails at azspodcast@gmail.com or join the WeChat.

00:15:42

Xochitl

Those groups to talk to Jack and I directly and we’ll see you next time. Bye.

00:15:47

Jack

Bye bye. LOL!

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