Modern slang of teenagers: importance and influence on speech

In any language there is a slang of teenagers. They are replete with films, music, media, social networks and the Internet. Slang words come to the lexicon of teenagers from the mouths of famous actors, pop artists, especially in the genre of "standup".

Posts in social networks and funny videos are also accompanied by slang inscriptions. It takes a long time for parents to decipher this language.

What is slang

Slang is called non-standard vocabulary, used in casual communication. They have almost all professions in their professional slang. Lawyers and doctors are even required to communicate on it in the presence of a client, so ethics are required. Moreover, in each family are transmitted from generation to generation their own words, the authors of which sometimes were children. They rewrite the words as they seem logical. Examples:

• String the beads (of course, on the thread).
• A pile (they are pounded).
• Mazelin (it is smeared).

Similar creativity of words is shown by slang of teenagers, examples:

• Krasava is a fine fellow. It looks like "handsome" and "ah, young man!", Joined together.
• Bratella is a brother or coeval. The root remains, and the word itself is Italian. And already something criminal looks through. Between members of the gang the word "brother" is used. In general, this word is used in the Mitkov community.
• The brake is stupid. The one who brakes, "does not catch up" the rest of the wit. Often used in relation to a computer or the Internet, when there is a slow rate of information transfer.

Slang teenagers do not arise from nowhere. He, like real languages, has the origin of words: borrowing from professional slang, New Russian and Blatnaya Fenya, anglicisms, newly formed words by combining two words or a root and a suffix.

Often, when there is no word in the literary language denoting this or that concept of a teenage subculture, a new word enters the language. It can even go into the literary category if it fully describes this concept.

There are many examples from the language of programmers. For example, the word "hang". At first it was used in relation to the disruption of the computer load. Later, the value of "staying in a place" was added. So the Wiktionary treats.

Whether we like it or not, teen slang has an impact on the Russian language. This is how it should be treated.

Slang as a medium of communication

The language of the teenage subculture is highly expressive, saturated with metaphors, it traces the tendency to reduce words (people, Inet, Comp). Intentional distortion of verbal forms is a protest and a way to get away from frankly foul language, covering the meaning of what was said by the slang cover.

Modern slang of teenagers is, in fact, a code language. Everything in it is subject to entanglement and obscuring a clear meaning. Teens would be burned out of shame if they learned that the teacher or parents understand their speech. Despite the seeming adulthood, they are not ready to take responsibility for their words.

Slang turns what was said into the game, something frivolous, the hobby of youth. Indeed, its use over time passes. There is no need to encrypt your actions, an adult calls things by their proper names. But for teenagers it is still important that adults "do not stick their noses into their affairs."

Consider the modern slang of adolescents: a dictionary of the most common expressions.

• Ava is an avatar, a picture under the user's name. There is a shortening of the word.
• Go - from the English "go," start, give, a call to action. Compare "let's go" - let's go. Explicit Anglicism.
• Zashkhvar - from the prison word "zashvaritsya", that is, use the dishes of a lowered (passive bugger), shake his hand, smoke his cigarette or just touch it. In teenage slang, this means "insanity," something unfashionable, not in accordance with generally accepted opinion.
• Why - why.
• The pal is a fake. Obviously, from "burned" - a fake.
• Nyashny - sweet, lovely.
• Mimiishny - extremely delicious.
• Top - from the English "top", something better.
• You drive - you deceive.
• Gam - from the English "game", to play.
• Prikol is a joke.
• Bummer - get into an unpleasant situation.
• Carrots are love.

Processes taking place in Russian

Language changes to the lives of one generation. And this despite the fact that each generation has its own teenage and youth slang. Publicism, modern literature and numerous blogs pick up and spread slang words.

The writer, putting on the stage of a teenager, studies his speech for realistic reflection. There is a gradation of terms and words are defined that are specific to certain social groups.

Obviously, more educated adolescents use less jargon, since they have a larger vocabulary. The dictionary of teenage slang of a rural and urban group is also different.

The philologists have the opinion that new words arise mainly in two capitals - Moscow and St. Petersburg. Within six months they extend to the periphery.

Causes of the origin of teenage slang

Each subculture has its own language. Teenager is not an exception. The sphere of its interests determines the vocabulary used to denote concepts:

• Study in school, college, technical school, university.
• Clothing.
• Music, popular bands, style of their clothes and behavior.
• Communication with friends, the opposite sex, parents, teachers.
• Leisure activities - discos, walks, meetings and visits, concerts of favorite groups, attending matches of favorite sports teams.

The reasons for the occurrence of new words in the lexicon of adolescents:

1. A game.
2. Search for yourself, your self.
3. Protest.
4. Poverty of the lexicon.

Youth slang as a form of self-affirmation of adolescents, it can be considered as a stage of growing up. Where do these words come from? They come up in passing, trying to explain something, choosing the right expression or comparison. If the new word finds a response, it has success in the team - it will almost certainly spread.

Replenishment of slang comes from professional jargon, for example computer:

• The broken link is error 404.
• Glitch - a glitch.
• Scratch vidosik - download the video file.
• Copy - "Copy" - copy, "Paste" - paste.
• A bug is an error.
• Fix - fix bugs.

Many words have roots in thieves' argot:

• Raise the bazaar - to initiate a serious conversation.
• Bulkotryas - dancing at the disco.
• To sit on treason is to be afraid of something.
• Shmont is a search.
• Cepushilo is a person who does not follow his speech.
• Kill the arrow - make an appointment.

The words of addicts are also reflected in teenage slang:

• Gertrude, white, main - heroin.
• Marusya, milk, plasticine - marijuana.
• Cupcake, flour, nose, accelerator - cocaine and crack.
• Rise-grass, dad, shnyaga - raw opium.
• Wheels - tablets.
• Wheel - take the pill.
• Blow, wipe, dummy - make an injection.
• Tap, shirnut - enter into a state of drug intoxication.

In time, the jargon heard will help to understand what the teenager is interested in and help the child when necessary.

Teenage slang of the 21st century comes also from the TV screen. Movies about gangsters, fighters, trailers fill up the luggage of new words. Unfortunately, negative characters imitate willingly. They are cool". Curses, formerly purely American, penetrate into the Russian language as well. Together with them come indecent gestures. All this is sad.

Adolescent slang and its meaning

It is worth noting that not all adolescents let slang into their speech. Some people use it as a joke. These guys are usually not considered "their", although they can be treated with respect.

Begins the use of slang words as a game: we do not understand, we can talk about anything. Then comes the transitional age, when a person looks for himself, accepts or rejects the generally accepted norms. As an alternative to the boring life path of parents, boring teachers and near neighbors comes a teenage subculture.

This limited world is not difficult to comprehend. The dictionary of teenage slang is small, anyone can master it. Here, all on an equal footing, you can talk about such topics, from which the parents would stand on end with horror. This apparent freedom is so beckoning the young heart!

It is worth mentioning the slang of teenagers, the list of everyday words:

• To score - came from prison jargon, discarding a swear word of three letters. Now they do not score something, but for something: to score on the homework - not to do homework.
• Damn - replacement swearing expression for the corresponding letter. It means annoyance.
• Kidalovo - out of the jargon of scammers-threw, changing money. Means deception.
• Left is the old Offen word. Means "good."
• Cool - funny, good, cool.
• Stremno - it's embarrassing, awkward, old-fashioned.
• A chip is a highlight, something that surprises, a feature.
• Chmoe is an outcast.
• Snyaga - something bad.
• Shuher - "run!", Also from the language of criminals.

Drawing the line, we can say that the meaning of using teenage slang is as follows:

1. The desire to stand out from the crowd, the gray mass. In this case, the teenage subculture is perceived as avant-garde.
2. The desire for freedom, the lifting of prohibitions. In such an extreme, as the replacement of the common language by slang, children rush out of the fingers of their parents. They even deliberately shock their behavior.
3. Protest against the hypocritical system of adults, when alone can do anything, while others are responsible for others' misconduct.
4. Slang saves the lexicon when it's poor, obscene speech helps express thoughts. Communication often happens with half-hints and jokes.

Youth slang, its influence on teenagers speech

It would be possible to treat slang as a phenomenon that is temporary and easy to pass, if its deep rooting did not take place. Starting to use slang speech, the teenager starts thinking the same way. In man, as is known, not imaginative thinking, as in animals. Thought is closely related to the word.

As a result, modern slang of teenagers begins to leak into the works. Soon such a teenager needs an interpreter. Yet slang is a limited language, without nuances, glare and subtle shades. To take it instead of literary means to impoverish not only one's life, but also the thoughts of life itself.

There is a mirror effect of the word: after introducing it into the lexicon, thoughts use it for their expression. Then, according to the principle "from the excess of the heart the mouth speaks," the tongue takes out the thought already in slang form. It's not easy to get rid of, conscious efforts will be required. If you leave the feeding, that is, communication on slang, it will be impossible to get rid of it.

Consequences of hobby slang

During the formation of personality, and this is just teenage years, there is also the installation of schemes of behavior or the solution of problems that will arise already in adulthood. The influence of slang on the speech of adolescents is very great.

Not having enough life experience, teenagers try to learn everything about life. And it seems to them that they can achieve this. Being in their circle, they can look wise in their eyes. But this wisdom is broken by the waves of adulthood.

It is impossible to use slang without accepting its ideology. He will necessarily influence the actions and decision-making. Bravada, which appears in slang phrases, only seems "cool".

Slang of teenagers, dictionary:

• Dose - homework;
• Jiak - thanks;
• Dostoevsky - the one who got everyone out;
• Emelya - the electronic address;
• Tin is horror;
• Fat - the highest class;
• Lighter - a girl who likes to have fun;
• Ambush - an unexpected obstacle in the case;
• Shy - quickly getting drunk;
• Zoo - insult;
• Bend - do something unusual;
• Imbitsil - retarded;
• Kachok - a man with a developed musculature;
• Kipish - disorder;
• Kiryuha - a lover of drink;
• Sausage - cool mouzon, cool music;
• Mowing under someone - to be like;
• A rat is a traitor;
• Ksiva - the document;
• The cake - the boy;
• Smoke bamboo - do nothing;
• Labat - play a musical instrument;
• Lava - money;
• Fox - a fan of the group "Alice";
• Lokhovoz - public transport;
• Loser is a loser;
• Burdock is a fool;
• Major - a boy with money;
• Mahalovka - fight;
• Frost - talking nonsense;
• Mulka - a cool little thing;
• Muddy - meet;
• Mersibo - thanks;
• To run into trouble;
• Nane - no (gypsy);
• Nishtyak - very good;
• The blade of the head is the highest degree of admiration;
• To call - to be afraid;
• Fall - sit down;
• It was driven by a nickname;
• Pepper - cool guy;
• To bathe - to worry;
• Turnip repetition;
• Steer - be the most-most;
• Ramsit - have fun;
• Session - concert, meeting;
• Banter - to joke, to mock;
• To leave the market - change the subject;
• A hundred poods - for sure;
• Jelly - student card;
• Type - like;
• Torch - pleasure;
• Trabl - a nuisance;
• Poke - addict;
• Type-top - everything is fine;
• Ugar - it's funny;
• Fact - swearing;
• Flood - chatter;
• Bullshit - bullshit;
• Hut - accommodation;
• Xs - hell knows;
• Hi-fi - hello;
• Tsivil - good conditions;
• Chika - dear girl;
• Chiksa - the girl;
• Spur - cheat sheet;
• User - the user of the computer;
• Yahoo - cheers.

This is only a small part of the slang of adolescents, the dictionary of expressions is far from complete. Exceptions are obscene and describe sexual acts, the departure of natural needs. Yes, the children talk about this. But this is enough to understand the dangers of adolescents' subculture for life.

What is fraught with the use of slang

If you do not get rid of this speech, the problems will not keep you waiting. It will be difficult to get a decent job, it's hard to stay on it because of the use of certain words. Suddenly, the teenager will feel that he can not explain what is happening to him, the doctor. Will find out that he does not understand the postman, social worker, salesman.

Living in a world of people and talking in a language that they do not understand is loneliness in the crowd. For a child who finds himself in a difficult situation, this can end badly. Depression is a frequent visitor in this case.

Parents can help by explaining that slang is a game. You can not play all your life. They will try to find contact with their child, together pass this period of growing up. Trust at this time can do much.

How to solve a problem

Parents are strongly irritated by slang teenagers. Especially when they do not understand what their own child said. In this case, parents often forget themselves at a young age. They also used fashionable words, and their parents were at a loss.

First of all, you should start with yourself to solve the problem. How often do informal words come from the lips of the older generation? They do not even notice at times. Surely you have heard (or even used) such expressions:

• Nafig.
• Zashibis.
• Die - do not get up.
• Otpad.
• Covered with a copper basin.
• Flying like plywood over Paris.

This is already released in circulation once fashionable words of the late twentieth century. If parents use such jargon - it's no wonder that their child will be looking for his time-appropriate lexicon. A teenager will not even understand that he is doing something wrong. He just wants to become modern. Do not talk to him "old slang"?

The trouble is that often a child uses words whose meaning is not fully understood. In the group of his communication, too, there is often no explanation. It's just that everyone says so. Here sensitive parents can help. They will try to convey to the adolescent the meaning of some jargon. Tell about their belonging to the criminal world, for example.

Some words can be used, the main thing is to know: when, where and with whom. The girl, calling the intriguing young man a goat, maybe does not know anything about this humiliating word for criminals. But in the code of honor of a thief - immediately hit the person who called the goat. Whether it's a girl or an old man - it does not matter.

Street Language

Unfortunately, in the society borders between literary and obscene expressions are blurred. From all sides attack obscene words: in public transport, in the store, on the street and even from the TV screen. If everyone says so, then this is the norm - so thinks the teenager.

In that case, it's time to sound an alarm. To inform the child that a free society is not a freedom of vice, but a conscious choice of actions. There is an elementary ethic when obscene language can not be pronounced in the presence of women, children and the elderly, in public places. So only the marginals act.

Like the cannibal Ellochka, there are people who operate in their lives with a few obscene words. They turn them into different parts of speech, incline and combine. This is enough that at the level of the language-trained hand gestures monkeys contact with their own kind.

Parents should not be afraid that their expression of contempt for profanity will offend, will force the child to be locked up. And, of course, it is inadmissible to use "salty words" yourself.

Set the goal to explore what words fly from the lips of literary characters during the extreme heat of passions. Share this with the children. In general, good literature is a vaccination against foul language.

Tell the child about the danger that lies in wait for those who use the words of drug addicts, homeless people, punks. What is the impression about a man who uses such words in social networks. Give examples of how the photos posted in the Internet and the signatures to them ruined the reputation of a young man or a girl.

Tell us that expressions of national, racial, social and religious intolerance are criminal acts. If the child advocates extreme views - it is necessary to find out who is their ideologue. Maybe a teenager imitates someone? In any case, measures should be taken to prevent the child from sinking into this subculture.