I use my teenagers' slang to bridge the generational gap — sometimes it works, sometimes they beg me to stop.

"Fr", "IJBOL", "it's giving" are just some of the internet slang that university lecturer Kennedy Albar hears increasingly often in his classroom, but the use of such words is not necessarily bad. He ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author says slang is very much alive nowadays with kids.Courtesy of the author Slang's role is shifting as digital culture ...

Before we look at your book selection, could you tell us what slang is? Slang is difficult because everything about it defies simple classification. Nobody knows the etymology of the word slang. If ...

I know that when I begin talking about slang, I enter dangerous territory. Slang is a touchy subject. Often, the slang of a younger generation is considered an atrocity by the older generation.

From, "chucking a sickie" to "having a yarn," these Aussie slang terms deserve a global audience.

Until a few years ago, I couldn’t speak Spanish without sounding about half a century older—and much more religious—than I am. The language is the first one I learned, but I was taught it primarily by ...

Jaa’ii! Are you listening? Despite literally meaning “ears” in the Navajo language, jaa’ii refers to someone who hears but isn’t actively listening. That’s one of many colloquial terms unique to the ...