Not a member of Pastebin yet?
Sign Up,
it unlocks many cool features!
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk
- ---
- http://the-toast.net/2013/11/20/yes-you-can-even/view-all/
- Yiddish: old variety of German spoken by Eastern European Jews (some Hebrew vocabulary but mostly like German)
- Yinglish: a combination of Yiddish and English spoken by Jewish immigrants to the United States
- pidgin: a simplified way of communicating between people with different native languages; often has a lot of vocabulary from one language but grammar from another
- creole: what we call a pidgin when it starts to have native speakers
- ---
- b c k m r u 2 4
- ur, l8r, ne
- l33t (<- leet <- elite)
- lol = laughing out loud
- lololol = ?
- haha / hehe / ha ha
- jaja / jiji / jeje (Spanish)
- hhhhh (Arabic)
- kkkkkkkkk (Korean, Portuguese)
- 555555 (laughing in Thai, crying in Chinese)
- wwwww (Japanese)
- ---
- RSVP
- ASAP / asap (pronounced as letters or a word)
- memo = memorandum
- fyi = for your information
- omg = oh my God (1919)
- ---
- o.k. = "orl korrect" (jokingly misspelled)
- Boston Morning Post, 1839
- (o.w. = "orl wright", used around the same time)
- k.o. = knockout (e.g. in boxing or fighting)
- ---
- TLA = three-letter acronym
- ---
- p. 14 (listening 1.12)
Advertisement
Add Comment
Please, Sign In to add comment
