Slang you hate

TANTEADOR!

 

24/7.

 

chillax

whatev

^^^ I hate these terms like Mark Mangino hates diet coke.

 

Nobody has mentioned "killer stylo" yet?

 

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

 

Difference between stylo and "killer stylo."

 

What the fuck does "neway" mean?

 

But I'm just a hick from the plains, so I could be wrong.

 

neway = anyway. It just saves a letter for the morans who use it.

 

That is stunningly lazy. And trust me, I know lazy.

 

I am somewhat inconsistent in that while I loathe text-message abominations of the English language in general, I do find text-slang funny in the specific context of lolcat pidgin.

And no, I'm not trying to instigate a catjack! I intend to comply with the ban on lolcats. But as an amateur linguist, I find the strange mix of child-talk, text-message jargon, internet memes and other speech patterns to be funny and intriguing, even if it gets tiresome after a while.

My favorite slang is Jazz Age slang. Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis was brilliant. And George Herriman, who illustrated Archy and Mehitabel, was a blazing genius. His Krazy Kat totally changed comics and influenced graphic art in general. Krazy Kat's speech was a patois from the various cultures of Herriman's native New Orleans, with lots of jazz-age slang and a little baby talk thrown in. And the strip itself, in its later years, was like Louis Armstrong-meets-James Thurber on acid in the desert.