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Grammar and Linguistics > Are these clippings totes cray-cray or what?
Are these clippings totes cray-cray or what?
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almaz
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Are these clippings totes cray-cray or what?
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How much of a fewtch does "totes truncation" have? It�s not a partics new phenom, but here�s a recent Washington Post post on "The totes amazesh way millennials are changing the language": For some more examples from the researchers� site, see here. Totes infecsh. Alex
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31 Jan 2016
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kwsp
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My 17 year old grandson "totes" (totally) talks to me this way when we are texting to each other and I always have to make him explain to me what he is saying! fosho! (for sure!) |
31 Jan 2016
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almaz
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Exactly, kwsp  I should have taken a leaf out of your book and put a gloss on the abbrevs ( abbreviations). cray-cray = crazy fewtch = future phenom = phenomenon infecsh = infectious |
1 Feb 2016
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almaz
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And just to prove that clipping isn�t a particularly recent thing, here�s the introductory lyrics to �S Wonderful, written in 1927. Don�t mind telling you, in my humble fash
That you thrill me through, with a tender pash,
When you said you care, �magine my emoshe
I swore then and there, permanent devoshe,
You made all other men seem blah
Just you alone filled me with ahhhhhhhh�� You can catch Ella Fitzgerald singing it here. Alex
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1 Feb 2016
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