Become a monthly subscriber for just $1.99 per month and receive an additional two to three episodes per week! https://app.redcircle.com/shows/9472af5c-8580-45e1-b0dd-ff211db08a90/exclusive-content In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl tests Jack's knowledge of common texting acronyms. Transcript: 00:00:00 Jack Hey A-Z listeners, this is Jack here. 00:00:03 Jack And if you would like to become a an exclusive subscriber to the show, you can hit the link in the description and that will take you to our Red Circle page, where for $1.99 a month you will get access to an extra two or three episodes each week. 00:00:23 Jack And be careful, don't hit that donation button if you want to become an exclusive subscriber because the donation button is just a one time donation. However, the exclusive subscriber button will give you access to the extra two or three episodes. 00:00:42 Jack Each week. 00:00:44 Jack So make sure you hit that exclusive subscriber button if you want access to the extra episodes. 00:00:52 Jack Now let's get on with the show. 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 farm
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Welcome to the A to Z English podcast.
My name is Jack and I'm here with my co host, Sochil.
And today we are under the vocabulary spotlight.
And social is going to test me on my knowledge of testing.
Acronym.
I'm sorry?
Texting acronyms, like texting words or whatever, I guess.
Or text like slang in a way.
It's like you just.
You don't use the whole phrase or the whole word.
You just use like a few letters to represent the word.
So that's like, what?
And I have a six here, so let's get started.
I'm ready to tear you up because you really got me with.