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  • Hithis is Ray

  • Today,I'll be introducing

  • 2016

  • Top 5 Most Popular English Slang

  • Before the film begins

  • I wanna talk about a lost and found

  • Have you noticed

  • there's something different on me

  • Yupit's my glasses

  • My glasses are different

  • These are the ones I bought today...yesterday

  • I've lost my old ones

  • I don't knowmaybe I last them on the Taxi

  • so if you're in Taipei city

  • and you find a pair of...

  • I'm serious

  • If you're in Taipeiand you find a pair of

  • glasses which I worn

  • The frames on the side are made of wood

  • and herebecause my ears aren't even

  • so here it has got

  • tapes wrapped around it

  • I'll put a pic over here

  • These are my what my old glasses

  • look like this

  • eh...soif you happen to see them

  • please send me an email

  • to the mailbox here

  • Okso today we'll talk about

  • 2016 Top 5 Most Popular English Slang

  • Language is a thing that keeps changing

  • and according to the habits of users

  • it will slowly evolve

  • so

  • Slang is something like is

  • Basically it is not a formal usage

  • but as more and more people start using it

  • It became accepted by people

  • Like in 2015

  • there are many popular slangs

  • for example

  • or

  • (basic)

  • Rightbasic as well

  • ( Aren't we teaching proper English here...)

  • yupso we'll bleep it outwe'll do that

  • 2016 has come to an end

  • so I've listed Top 5 Most Popular English Slang

  • of 2016

  • So what does hunty means?

  • It has nothing to do with hunting

  • It's actually a combination of two words

  • cunt and honey

  • put together

  • so..today we'll keep talking about

  • some inappropriate languages

  • cunt is used to describe a person

  • like if that person's a bitch

  • you can use cunt instead

  • and honey is exactly opposite

  • it's like bae and sweetheart

  • we can also use honey

  • so cunt plus honey is hunty

  • It's kinda like

  • You cute lil' bitch

  • It's real

  • So,I'll give you an example

  • It basically means that

  • There's a person eating

  • in the restaurant and she is flossing

  • So she called her...hunty

  • Can you not do that

  • I'm eating

  • It's likebetween sisters

  • Yeahyou can use it between sisters

  • like when you see someone that's kinda annoying but cute

  • You can call the person hunty

  • I think the best way to describe hunty

  • is

  • It's an English usage

  • which means that you're passive aggresive

  • You wanna keep a low profile while being aggresive

  • so..you can use the word hunty

  • As for yas

  • It started to be used in 2015

  • but in 2016,more and more people are using it

  • so we often see yas

  • so what exactly is yas

  • It is y-a-s

  • But you can also spell it

  • like

  • or

  • So it has two spellings

  • But the meaning basically means yes

  • so it's yes

  • It's yes but change the E into A

  • so why use yas instead of yes

  • No ideaIt's a slang

  • But the pronunciation

  • of yes sounds pretty positive right

  • but yaaaaaas ~~~

  • It kinda has a feeling

  • I don't know how to say

  • But it's a mixture of feeling goodstupid and lazy

  • yes!

  • yaaaaaaas~

  • Let's check out an example

  • So here she basically changed

  • hell yes into hell yaaas

  • She's a supporter of Hilary Clinton

  • and she's a radical woman

  • So under what circumstances would you say yaaas ?

  • leave a comment and let me know

  • When will you wanna use it

  • So what is fam

  • fam is actually family

  • You took the first three letters and you get fam

  • I think a lot of slangs appear

  • because people are lazy

  • We just wanna use the shortest word

  • and time to communicate

  • So we get rid of a lot of letters and words

  • So how to use fam

  • You can say

  • blah blah blah fam

  • He belongs to what kinda family

  • for examplemy...

  • So at a certain place

  • the family was formed

  • So for Ray and Crown

  • It's Drops

  • so how do we call them

  • You guys arefam!!!

  • Here's an example

  • It means that

  • She's feeling full

  • and going to be relaxed

  • spending Black Friday with fam

  • So if you wanna tell a person

  • You're more than my friend

  • You're like a family

  • You can tell him

  • you are my fam!!!

  • Woke it's already a word

  • It's the past tense of wake

  • You might often see

  • I woke up feeling sleepy today

  • the story of my life

  • But hereit doesn't refer to the past tense

  • It has become an adjective

  • Woke means that

  • You're really clear about something

  • and you have sense about something

  • for example

  • I care about global warming a lot

  • Or you can talk about some recent issueslike

  • Taiwan is woke about marriage equality

  • Let's check out an example

  • shout out to y'all for being so woke

  • or thank you guys for caring about this issue

  • but the context didn't provide what she's talking about

  • woke means you care about an issue anyways

  • or your brain is very clear

  • OKthat's check out the first place

  • the most popular slang of 2016

  • Which one is it?

  • Because it's everywhere

  • I am often asked about this word

  • which means a lot of people don't know what it means

  • Lit's original meaning means bright

  • but now it has a brand-new meaning

  • If you use lit now

  • it means you are really high

  • or you can say

  • which means you are lit af

  • It can be used to describe a party

  • or talked about anything

  • like if somebody did something awesome

  • you can also use lit

  • Oklet's check out an example

  • So she means that

  • The party last night

  • was super fun

  • We saw it in the example

  • that af often comes after lit

  • so what does af means?

  • It's an abbreviation

  • so it stands for

  • OKwe got a lot to bleep out

  • It's easy to understand

  • if you view af as very

  • but it comes after the adj

  • So can you say very lit

  • Yeah but it sounds lame

  • So you should say lit af

  • It's the most popular saying

  • OKso those are the most popular English Slangs

  • most popular English slangs

  • doesn't sound so popular

  • Top 5 !!!

  • Sowhich one do you enjoy most

  • or if you see some slangs

  • that I didn't introduce

  • You can leave a comment

  • So that's basically what we'll be talking bout' today

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