Episode 57: Slanguage

第57集:Slangue

Hidden Brain

社会科学

2017-01-10

24 分钟
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Young people have always used language in new and different ways, and it has pretty much always driven older people crazy. But the linguist John McWhorter says all the "likes" and LOLs are part of a natural – and inevitable –evolution of language. This week on Hidden Brain, why language can't "sit still."
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  • If you have teenagers or work closely with young people, chances are you've had mystifying conversations like this one.

  • Lit.

  • It means that it's going to be exciting or fun and that you should be there.

  • Like, that party's going to be lit.

  • My producer, Maggie Penman recently went on a slang finding mission in Washington, DC.

  • She ended up talking to a group of college students from american university.

  • Yeah, turn is another one.

  • Like, but like, I don't know what's turnt like, it's one of those words.

  • That you just can't really define.

  • You just have to use it in the context.

  • Turn.

  • It's gonna be lit.

  • Turn is used to describe lit.

  • So fun.

  • It'll be lit at 11:00 p.m.

  • and it'll be turnt at 01:00 a.m.

  • and then it'll be ratchet at 02:00 a.m.

  • what is the third one?

  • Ratchet.

  • Ratchet?