Saturday, June 23, 2012

Slang & Jargon

When people communicate they usually use some special language to refer for certain things, the most common example is Doctors why? well because when they talk about work they will use technical words that talk about diseases, etc. This is called Jargon this type of Language is accepted by the society because it inquires high culture, there are three specific Jargon Language: Language in Sports, Scientific Language and Legal Language.

But theres also the Slang which is informal and it's used by communities on informal cases such as Twitter and Facebook chats, a good example of slang would be the word Swag which is used by Gangsters, rappers, etc. It talks about putting your "bling" on.


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