Name: 美语发音 (AMERICAN SLANG: CRISP, LIT, EPIC) ()
Uploaded: 2017-07-28T14:10:26.000Z
Duration: 5 min 24 s
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It’s the summer of slang and today we’re getting down with crisp, lit, and epic!

I can’t wait for you to start using these words.

So this is the summer of slang in American English.

If you’re not sure what slang is, watch the first video from the series

where we go over the difference between slang and idioms.

Today we’re going to learn some positive slang.

So be prepared to use these and feel good and make other people feel good.

When I was planning this video, I posted on Facebook

asking my friends and family what slang terms  they’ve been hearing recently

and my cousin, who works at a high school, mentioned ‘crisp’.

Lots of slang that is current is happening in high schools

so I went and looked up ‘crisp’ and I found a posting on it on urban dictionary

So sometimes a term will be used and then it’ll die for a couple years and then it’ll be revived again.

and then it takes a while to reach the US or a different region in the US.

So my cousin, who is a math teacher, said she recently heard this term.

One of her students said it after a very compelling solution

Crisp means cool, awesome, hot, amazing, well done.

What do you think of Emily’s new haircut?

This is a common word outside of its slang meaning.

As an adjective it means, dry, brittle in a good way,

For example, crisp bacon, crisp lettuce.  Yummy.

As a noun, in American English it’s a baked desert, some sort of fruit with a crumble on top,

In British English, it’s a potato chip.

I’ve heard that an alternative pronunciation is ‘crasp’.

A play on pronunciation on top of the play of the slang meaning.

This word also means ‘amazing’, ‘excellent’.

This is how it’s really being used a lot by the younger crowd at the moment.

which has actually been around for a long time,

So someone can be lit at a party, and the party can be lit.

Non-slang meaning:  it’s the past tense of light:

added as an adjective before anything, to mean ‘great’, ‘huge’, ‘awesome’, 'the best'.

An epic movie, an epic sandwich, and epic sunset, and epic story or experience.

We drove south on the Pacific Coast Highway.  It was epic.

A couple years ago, I took an epic road trip across America.

Remember mom’s 70’s outfit at her high school graduation?

to describe something that has gone very wrong.

Well, this cake is an epic fail. I totally forgot about it and left it in the oven for two hours.

The KR cluster can be hard for some people,

make sure your tongue tip isn’t touching anything, crrrr-- crrrr--.

You don’t want to make it a True T, lit.

But then you don't need to release it. That’s what Americans do.

So the second syllable will be low in pitch, flat, very quick.  Pic, pic, pic, pic.

Come up  with a sentence with one of these terms and put it in the comments below.

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美语发音 (AMERICAN SLANG: CRISP, LIT, EPIC) ()

pronunciation

awesome

present

compelling