Name: American Slang┃Learn American English Pronunciation On the Go
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Welcome to the Rachel's English Podcast. I'm glad to have you here. This is Rachel, and I'm here with my husband, David.

Adverbs of degree

And today, we're going to go over slang. If you need a transcript of this podcast, it's absolutely free to download.

Visit rachelsenglish.com slash podcast and look for this episode.

Let's get right into it. Now, the reason why David is here today is because he works in high school.

And high schools, there's a lot of slang happening in high school.

Younger people are really the ones who I think are playing with language and with slang the most.

And so David's always bringing home terms and phrases that I don't know.

So today, we're going to go over some current popular slang terms, what they mean, how to use them.

Before we get into it, though, let's talk about when it's appropriate and not appropriate to use slang.

The general rule of thumb I give people is use slang if the people around you are also using it.

You know, wait, you don't have to be the first one.

Yeah, that's a good, that's a good general rule.

Wait and see if, if you're hanging out with people and you notice that they're using a lot of slang and you're starting to pick up on those terms and you want to use those terms too, those people are a great bunch of people to use it around.

In general, we, we would not use it in the workplace.

It's more of a casual way of using language.

But again, depending on where you work and who you're working with, if you're seeing people using slang and it seems appropriate, it seems accepted and acceptable, then go ahead and try it out.

Okay, so David, have you heard the term slay?

And that means doing something really well?

I guess it would be related to killing it.

What else can we think of that means the same thing?

Oh, you might say, uh, he destroyed that.

And when you, when you're doing something really well, someone might say that.

Could I say, she's really slaying her YouTube channel?

You're saying I should use crushing it instead?

Well, I thought we just said they mean the same thing.

I'm just saying that's, for whatever reason, that comes to mind as being more fitting for that particular phrase.

Also, I said she's really slaying her YouTube channel.

Maybe I should have used a preposition, like, she's really slaying it on her YouTube channel.

I don't think that that one is maybe, maybe it's just as popular.

I just, I don't use that, so nothing's coming to mind.

You use more crushing it, killing it, destroying it.

I feel like sometimes, like David's a big cook.

I feel like sometimes if you cook something delicious and then you eat it, you'll say,

When you're saying that, are you referring to how well you cooked it or are you referring to how well you ate it?

But also maybe sometimes how well you ate it, right?

Like if you go to Joe's and you get a cheesesteak with whiz.

And you eat that entire cheesesteak, you might say, I destroyed that cheesesteak.

And if you're going to get a cheesesteak, you should order it with whiz.

No cheddar, no American, it should be whiz.

Just a side note for anyone visiting Philadelphia, getting a Philly cheesesteak, although we've seen Philly cheesesteaks all over.

Be wary if you're outside of Philly getting a Philly cheesesteak.

Now can you just quickly tell people what whiz is?

Whiz is a highly processed, melty, runny cheese.

It's delicious and salty and savory and wonderful.

And it's traditionally what you would get on your cheesesteak sandwich.

I've just done a little research on this one and I found that it means maybe annoyed, maybe angry.

People would say to another person, ooh, you're salty.

It's like, ooh, you're, um, wow, that's hard to describe.

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