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Welcome to the A to Z English Podcast.
My name is Jack, and I'm here with my co -host, Sochal.
And today we are under the vocabulary spotlight.
And Sochal is going to test me on my knowledge of texting acronyms, like texting words or whatever, I guess.
Yes, it's kind of like slang in a way.
It's like you don't use the whole phrase or the whole words.
you just use like a few letters to represent the word so that's like what it is yeah um and i have a six here so okay let's get started i'm ready to tear you up because you really got me in with the canadian one was bad aussie one wasn't a total failure the canadian you did better on the aussie one
than you did with the canadian slang which is kind of surprising and i've been to canada and i don't even have any like aussie friends and i have canadian friends it was a mess but share a border with canada you know and i have a close canadian friend or a couple maybe and i don't have like any aussie
friends i can think of but i just ruined i just ruined the canadian well i'll give it i'll give a shout out to uh teacher paul paul the the the grammar detective um if you don't know his uh youtube channel check it out for sure the grammar detective best grammar teacher on the internet um he sent me
a message about that episode and said basically those canadian terms are very like rural you know they're not it's like even most canadian people don't use those terms it's very much like like hillbillies you know kind of like uh yeah people that live in the countryside might live out in the sticks
as in the sticks right yeah yeah hillbillies is not a uh the right way to say that but i think in the sticks probably isn't either but in the sticks is just a term we use for people who live out in the country yeah yeah country folk you know country people that are not you know maybe college educated
you know high school educated only use those kinds of terms and um it's it's not very they're not very common in in regular right speech i say it's not necessarily has to do with their level of education i think it's more just like it's kind of like colloquial language like it's a regional dialect kind
of thing yeah yeah yeah very very you know the essential canada very rural farm farmers and things like that so don't feel bad about that one the aussie slang is much more common i think throughout the whole country i would say from just from knowing australian people that grew up in cities they used
a lot of those terms all the time so yeah all right well that makes me feel better and i'm ready to rip you up with these so yeah i y k y k what does that stand for i y k y k yeah i y k y k wait in no i i'm i'm keeping i yk i like it i'm i'm your kind this is bad this is bad do you give up yet or i'm
gonna say uncle on this one i have no idea i'm i give up if you know you know oh if you know you know what when what's the context for using that like give me give me like an example uh here's an example let's say that i use a specific product for people with curly hair and i post a picture of it online
and say oh this is the goat which remember is like the greatest one of all time it's the best yeah i y k y k if you know you know so if you use this product or if you also have curly hair you know if you know you know okay it sounds like another example like if you don't know well now you know that's
a no it's kind of more like okay yeah because if you know you know with is like you're talking to people who also know so like your audience so like or let's say you post a picture of like fried chicken from a local place but it looks a really certain way and you're like this is the best fried chicken
in atlanta if you know you know oh so you're you're in the secret club basically kinda yeah yeah if you're in the secret club you know yeah you know okay okay if you know you know and then you show a picture of like a club you know like the sign on the on the on the dance club or something and if you
don't know you're you're not in the group you're you're kind of right you're talking to other people who know if you know you know your audience is the other people who know and then everyone's like laugh reacting and go yeah that's the best or whatever and everyone who doesn't know doesn't know yeah
they're like what's that tell me about that and they're like sorry secret yeah mm -hmm okay all right jack next one bffr bffr bffr best friends forever really no yes that's my bffr my best friend for forever really my best friend forever really well i would have that that's good i mean i probably would have said
best friend for real or something like that but that's not what it means though it means be for freaking real oh be for free so it's like if someone says um you know i'm trying to think of a good example like stop stop being fake stop you know not playing like be for freaking real be for real yeah be
honest like be be real yeah be freaking real yeah but um so for our listeners i would say just use either bfr which can mean be for real or if you're using bffr make sure it's with like peers or whatever because freaking can be replaced by a f word yes so you don't want to send to your professor be
for freaking real you know what i mean that's not or your boss hey be for freaking real man And that is not appropriate.
Yeah, because freaking is not the word.
There's another word that starts with F that's a much.
We don't use that in the A to C English podcast because we are.
We're child friendly here on the on the podcast.
But also be even be for real is kind of like a like a call out.
So you don't want to use it.
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Yeah, I would only use it with, like, you know, like friends.
your friends or your peers or someone that you like hate in a petty way and it's like not that serious like yeah yeah so be for real be for freaking real all right next one lbs lbs i think i got jack on this i'm i'm proud i'm getting i'm getting smoked here this is terrible um lbs yes ladder bay saints
that was terrible no laughing but serious laughing what does that mean why am i laughing but serious um let's say you're like uh oh man your boss in korea was terrible and i'm i'm saying laughing but serious like i'm curious about it but it's so bad it's funny at this point so it's like i don't know
whether to laugh or cry so i'm just gonna laugh like that a little bit or like or you say um uh i use this with one of my friends a lot but let's say she's like oh man that restaurant was terrible and i'm like i know uh that made me sick laughing but serious like i'm kind of joking about it but i'm
for real like i'm being honest that was terrible you know what i mean i'm not i can i can chuckle about it but it really did make me angry you know like i'm serious about it right like uh i'm joking but i but it's true like i'm making a joke out of a real situation kind of laughing but yeah yeah okay
tntl too too nice to learn too too naughty to to limbo too that was bad oh my god that was the worst too late to end no to too nice to lie too nice to lie she's tntl she's too nice to lie that does not make any sense no trying not to laugh oh god that's so easy what happened to me I was gonna tell you
you definitely were over complicating it for yourself like say you're at the principles you send your your friend a message like man i was at the principal's office and i was in a lot of trouble but i was tntl trying not to laugh because like maybe you pulled a prank and now you're getting scolded oh
okay okay yeah yeah so for example something like um you know uh My roommate spilled a Diet Coke on his laptop.
And I'm sitting here in the living room, TNTL, trying not to laugh.
You know, something like that.
Yeah, or like say someone falls, you know, in a funny way.
And you're like, man, I was worried about them.
So I was TNTL trying not to laugh because it was funny after all.
Because if you laugh, it's going to make them feel bad.
But you're just like, you're holding it in.
You're biting your lip.
You don't want to look like a jerk.
you know what i mean but you're holding it in because it was funny yeah yeah all right ynk nk who ynk ynk sorry sorry ynk you're not this is just a total fail i'm such a fail i'm so i'm so embarrassed like my age is is just showing so obviously here i'm having a good time though you're enjoying this tntl
i'm not even trying at this point she's not even tntl yeah she's n -tntl um let's see i've got no idea i know what y2k was but that happened in 2000 so before you were born like a few years after i was born yeah you never know you never know oh you never know yeah um is is julie coming to the party i
don't know you never know she might show up right would that work well a little maybe more like uh man i don't think i'm gonna get into harvard and your friends like ynk you never know you could You know, anything is possible.
You never know. Yeah, yeah.
Bob isn't going to ask me to the prom.
Y -N -K, you never know.
Yeah, okay. Yeah. All right, I'm going to throw you a bone here.
I think you'll know this one.
It's going to be extra.
Is it L -O -L? I mean, if it's L -O -L, then I can get it, I think, right?
I -M -H -O. oh i know this one i know this one um i what is it i am ho um means uh i am ho i failed this test in my honest opinion i failed this test oh so close jack so close in my humble opinion oh is that what it means humble yes in my humble opinion what why do i why did i always think it was in my
honest opinion i guess it works either way in my honest opinion and it works either way but yeah it's but it makes more sense to say in my humble opinion like because it makes you like more it makes you humble like it's better yeah yeah it's more like you know i'm not saying this is 100 right but this is just
my humble opinion um it's more protective of your of your like yeah it's more protective of you like if you're saying in my honest opinion blah blah blah and you're wrong you might look like more of a jerk also right but like in my humble opinion is like this is just what i'm humbly offering as my opinion but i'm
not saying i'm it's right or wrong either way okay okay i get half point half credit for that one yeah you get half credit all right listeners if you enjoyed watching me destroy jack this time finally i got my
