English Slang - Text messaging: LOL WTF BRB and more!

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English with Ronnie


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Hi there, my name's Ronnie and I'm going to teach you some crazy slang, new age computer
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English.
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You probably already know this, maybe you do, ASAP, do you know what that means?
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It means as soon as possible.
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We use this a lot for letters or memos in offices.
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The other one that is probably almost universal by now is this, I O U.
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When you think about this, you just read out the letters and it's I O U, but do you know
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what it really means in English?
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I'll tell you, I is obviously I, meaning myself, O is you have to pay someone, and this letter
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is the same as you.
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So if someone gives you an I O U, this means that they have to give you money.
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Good thing, good thing.
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These are basic ones that you maybe already know, but there's more complicated things
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as we get into more technology, as you can see on this side of the board.
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This is actually called text message.
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We take out the vowels and we're left with the words.
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I'm going to teach you the basics of them, so maybe you can decipher them for yourself.
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Let's start with this one.
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You, as I said, refers to yourself.
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This word or this letter R, can you tell me the English word that has the same pronunciation?
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It is R. So you will see variations on this in English, like you are, crazy.
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The next thing we have is a number.
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What is a number doing here?
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How strange.
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Don't worry, we're not doing math.
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Eight is the past verb of eat, and it is spelt A T E, but it's pronounced exactly the same
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as the number in English eight, which is spelt like this.
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So eat, past tense is eight.
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The next one is another number.
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Who can say this number?
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It is number two.
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We have two, three, four, ten, two different spellings of this word in English.
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The first one is the actual number, which is spelt T W O.
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Then we have two, and when you're comparing something, we use two with two O's.
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The pronunciation of these are all the same.
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And the next one is the letter, that's a number, four.
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If I was going to spell this as a number, it would be F O U R, but in English, when
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we say the word, it's four.
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Maybe you get a package or a letter from one of your English-speaking friends, and it says
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"Four you."
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For me.
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Thank you.
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You sent me a present.
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I love presents.
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So these are the basics, or the easiest ones that I grew up with, but the new computer
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age has made a whole new, crazy, thousands upon thousands upon thousands of short forms.
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I'm going to go through the most basic ones with you very easily.
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This one, I think, is the most popular.
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My friends use this a lot.
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It's called L O L. What does L O L mean?
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It means "laugh out loud."
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This pronunciation is very strange.
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It's not "la-ha-ga-ha."
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It's actually "laugh."
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Ha-ha.
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Laugh out loud.
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This one, B R B, is actually "be, write, back."
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So if you are typing at your computer, you're on Messenger or on Skype or you're text messaging
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with your friends, and you have to go to the toilet really badly, you can just write "BRB,"
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and you can go away from your computer, and then come back and continue typing, and your
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friend will know, "Ah, they're taking a break," instead of just leaving, and they start to
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cry.
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Where'd they go?
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The next one is PLEASE, also known as PLEASE, very, very polite, short form PLEASE.
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I've told you already that this is "ate."
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"Later, later, later, see you later."
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This is a common greeting that we say to people, "See you later?"
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Check this out, "See you later."
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So if someone writes, "See you later," now you don't have to say, "Kill a R."
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"Ah, great, bye."
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So this is what this means.
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The next one is QUESTION MARK.
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So any time in English you see a question mark, it means a question, "For you."
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So this means someone wants to ask you, you, a question.
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"Question, for you."
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OMG, this is one that a lot of people say, usually young girls, anyone out there that
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is very, very fanatic about something, "Oh my God!" or "Oh my God!"
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There are very different variations, there's different variations on this, but it basically
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means, "Oh my God!"
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Now some people might get offended if you say, "Oh my God!"
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So you can also say, "Oh my goodness!" or "Oh my gosh!"
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But OMG actually stands for, "Oh my God!"
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And the very last one, one of my favorite ones, WTF.
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Does anyone know what this means?
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It means if you are talking to your friend and they have a question for you, and they
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ask you like, "Oh my God!"
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Maybe it was a very strange question and you do not want to answer the question, you can
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say, "What the fuck?
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What are you talking about?
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WTF?"
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So this word is, "What the fuck?"
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Now in English, this is a bad word.
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So instead of saying a bad word, you can type, "WTF?"
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Your mom won't even know that you're swearing, how lovely.
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So the next time you get a text message from your friend that says, "For you, please write
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me later."
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You can now figure out what they are trying to say.
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For more information and crazy other lessons like this, please go to www.engvid.ca and
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there might even be a quiz on this for you.
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Goodbye.
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Actually I said www.engvid.ca, it's www.engvid.com.
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