Wa gwan?
Dyslexic Native American for tent? Nope, it’s normal speech among my 18 year old’s friends. It means What’s going on, silly.
Here are a few more, gathered by listening to one side of mobile conversations – not trying to, I promise, just next to me as I drive the phone’s owner about. I can’t understand most of it but here is what I am in the progress of learning. Probably best not to use it though, unless you want to hear the boom of guffaws as you leave the room…
rents – parents, unsurprisingly
Bare means lots – I think.
Butters is perjorative.
They still chill. Chillaxing may be ironic, but is along the same lines. And you know about wicked (fantastic etc)and sick (ditto), I expect?
There will be more…
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