I have made on the Facebook page of a survey Slow German. There, I've asked you what topic I should address next. With a large majority did you decide to use language.

I must say that it is not easy to talk about the slang! What is actually slang? Of course, each region has certain words that you never wrote, but heard only spoken. But then that's more of an accent, right? I did not really do so here on, it will go to dialects in another episode. Then there are Anglicisms, which also occur in ordinary language - but there is already the result of Denglish.

After much reflection, I thought to myself, I'll call you just a few examples of ordinary language. So for words, sentences or phrases that appear in the written language actually never heard that one but if you listened to people in Germany. Suppose we are in a subway. It's Saturday, late evening, and many people are traveling. As a young woman says: "I'm not old anymore." It sounds as if she would commit suicide, right? But no, do not worry. What they want is to say: I'm tired, I go to bed soon, I do not think long by today.

Then we listen to two teenagers. One says: "Do you want Daddeln another round?" He wants to ask his buddy if he wants to play a little computer. The other says: "Nope. What comes on the box today? "Nee is slang for Yes. And the telly is the television. "Today I want to stare evening" means: "I want to watch TV today evening." In some regions, people say the way, do not watch television watch television, but. Or worse: watching TV.

We continue to listen to the people in the subway. A drunk man sits in a corner. As we hear a young woman say to her friend: "Look, that is totally blue." Although his complexion course, quite normal looking. If the girlfriend does not understand what this means, says the young woman: "You are standing on the hose but pretty." That is, it takes too long to understand it. The woman is not that nice, she holds her friend was crazy and said, "You have a tit". But if they had only a bad mood for no reason, then they may be on the wrong foot. This they say. That is a saying - but we have to talk about it in a different time sequence in more detail.

There are a few exclamations, which are typical of the vernacular. Whoa hey, for example. This is an expression of surprise, which is mainly to hear from young people. Well educated or wise this does not sound the way. As reinforcement can say: "I like that eh not." The "eh" stands for anyway. Or a question word which is used primarily in southern Germany often: "It's nice today, is not it" The "eh" is as much as or "You do not even mean?" "Is not it?".

Typically, in the vernacular, it is also to find new words. From the dog is a mutt or a Fußhupe. From the cat a house cat. From breasts boobs are out of money is coal. Who needs to learn the cramming. Although this has nothing to do with the drum, that is a big drum. Anyone who eats a lot quickly, the munches. This is a nice word, I think, because it sounds so like someone who chews with mouth full. Munch.

And because you are too lazy in the vernacular to speak long words, they are abbreviated. The locomotive is the locomotive, the high school to Abi and the math to math

Of course, the spoken language changed over the years. Who earlier, 50 years ago, something good was that commented Far out, great or splendid. All of these words used today, unfortunately, no one. A teenager was then a teenager. Nice, huh? Today there is something rather cool or great. Or cool. This is a word, use the all the young people - the elderly cringe but because it previously had a sexual context. What? You must read this yourself.

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I have made ​​on the Facebook page of a survey Slow German. There, I've asked you what topic I should address next. With a large majority of you have your ...