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It’s the summer of slang and today we’re
going over the terms ‘extra’, ‘cringey’, and ‘basic’.
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This summer, we’re exploring American slang.
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Today we’re going over some terms that you
don’t want anyone saying when they’re
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referring to you.
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‘Extra’ means trying too hard, over the
top, excessive,
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maybe a little dramatic.
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Doing more than what the situation calls for.
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Often inappropriate.
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Like, if someone’s laughing really hard
at all your jokes, and it’s unnatural and
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too much, your jokes aren’t that funny,
you might say, ‘He’s so extra’.
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Or, if someone wants to go to the doctor because
she has a little cough, she’s so extra.
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She doesn't need to go to the doctor.
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It’s a criticism.
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Okay, cringey.
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Like ‘on fleek’, which we went over in
video 1,
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this is not a real word in American English.
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Cringe is, cringed, cringes.
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But ‘cringey’, turning this verb into
and adjective, is not in most dictionaries yet.
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Cringey, which can be spelled one of two ways,
means, embarrassing to look at or see.
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Full of awkwardness.
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An adjective describing something at which
you might cringe.
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Ughh
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For example, if there is someone who is very
awkward hard to carry on a conversation with,
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and you’re trying to talk to them, your
friend my say, I saw you trying to talk to John.
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Cringey.
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Or, she tripped in the hallway and then started
crying.
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It was so cringey.
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Or, if someone's really nervous and doing
a terrible job with his presentation,
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you might say, 'This is cringey.'
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And, finally, basic.
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If someone or something is basic, it’s uninteresting,
uncool, boring, very mainstream.
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Should I come to the party?
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No, it’s basic.
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I’m leaving.
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What do you think of Megan’s new boyfriend?
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He’s kind of basic.
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Hopefully no one calls my videos basic.
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If they do, I know I need to start thinking
of something more interesting,
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a better approach to teaching English.
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These are all two-syllable words with stress
on the first syllable.
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Extra. DA-da.
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Cringey.
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Basic.
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They all have that DA-da feel.
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Have you ever heard these terms used?
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Challenge: put one of them in a sentence and
put it in the comments below.
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Don’t be basic.
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Try it!
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Want to learn lots more slang?
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Click here to see all my Summer of Slang videos.
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