Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Hi,this 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 Yup,it's my glasses My glasses are different These are the ones I bought today...yesterday I've lost my old ones I don't know,maybe 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 Taipei,and you find a pair of glasses which I worn The frames on the side are made of wood and here,because 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...so,if you happen to see them please send me an email to the mailbox here Ok,so 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) Right,basic as well ( Aren't we teaching proper English here...) yup,so we'll bleep it out,we'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 like,between sisters Yeah,you 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 idea,It'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 good,stupid 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 example,my... 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 are 滴fam!!! 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 here,it 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 issues,like 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 OK,that'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 Ok,let'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 OK,we 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 OK,so those are the most popular English Slangs most popular English slangs doesn't sound so popular Top 5 !!! So,which 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 If you like this video give me a thumbs up and share it Don't forget to subscribe There'll be new videos every Mon and Thurs at 9 pm We also have Facebook and Instagram Just simply search Ray Du English And that's a wrap, thank you guys for watching, as always and I'll catch you guys next time! See ya!
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