The slang American in English ) is a language commonly spoken in the United States, each region and each country's social environment (with some subtle differences in some major U.S. cities) has its own slang or at least his own words, At first glance incomprehensible.

Since the nineteenth century, residents of the United States as well as Irish and German immigrants changed American English, which now stands out from British English. Many groups contribute to the vocabulary of American slang: the workers of New York, farmers of the Old South, blacks campaigns (and later the big cities), but the Cubans Miami , the Chicano Californians or immigrants Italians of the early twentieth century.

Contractions of words

The American slang is recognized, first, by the contraction of certain words or assembling two words.

• Common expressions going to do (go to) and want to do (want to) become respectively gonna do and want to do.
  • What are you going to do Friday night? (What are you doing Friday night?) Becomes Whatcha gonna do Friday night? Or Watcha gon 'do Friday night?.
  • What do you want to do Friday night? (What do you do Friday night?) Becomes What you want to do Friday night? Whatcha Want to Do or Friday night?.

• In American English, Where "Is not"

  The expression not (appeared in England in the ^seventeenth century ^Expressions

  A multitude of familiar phrases are used by Americans and English, here is a list of examples with translations and connotations:

  • Damn that means curse or condemn is widely used, and in many ways. It is considered a very vulgar word. God Damn! "Damn! "You're god damn right translate by" You're damn right "and Damn it! With" Damn! ".
  • chill out to mean "to relax, unwind, yet the meaning of this word (chill) is" cold "," a chilling "or" cool. "

  Fouls trivial grammar

  Slang is a language spoken rather than written, it is common to find grammatical errors. For example, in English, to express the action in a sentence ("now ..."), we use the continuous (ending in"-ing "). So to say "I'm eating", it says: "I'm eating." This is to distinguish the practice of the action itself.
  In slang, this rule is often violated, either because the "g" of "-ing" is removed ("I'm eatin '") or because the ending in "-ing" will disappear and that "a "is added after the pronoun (" I'ma eat ") for the near future is the contraction of the already contracted gonna (" I'm gonna eat ").

  Invented words

  Many words have been invented, impossible to list them all because each city, each borough or district has an American palette of words incomprehensible to the tourist base, which is perfectly normal.
  Some words are nevertheless important to know, both by their frequent use by their meanings.

  Words of European origin

  European languages (other than English) are always more or less present, especially as regards the Irish and Italian. Consequently slang formed.

  In Italian

  The Italians have a strong presence in the U.S. (in New York to Chicago ...), they regrouped as Asians, in inner-city. These neighborhoods still exist, every major city in the United States of America has its " Little Italy ", new words are therefore appeared ...

  • "Bookyak" refers pejoratively a woman (bitch equivalent in English).
  • "Mooli" or "moulinyan" means a person skin color black (more pejorative than "black" but much less than "nigger").
  • "Giacalone" means a person who has very few flaws.
  • "Paglia" means a cigarette.

  In Irish

  The Irish Americans are very numerous, and those called the "potato eaters" (eaters of potatoes, see Irish Potato Famine ), are now highly integrated into American society because of the language (speak Irish mostly English). However, certain expressions have remained:

  • "Eejit" means "idiot". Very word used today in the U.S.
  • "What's the Story" (literally "what is history?") Means hello or what's up? ("What's new?").
  • "Ballicks" means "zero" or "irrelevant", the English say bollocks.
  • "Codswollop" means, roughly "it makes no sense."
  • "Yokes" stands for "cocaine".

  Words of Afro-American

  Community Afro-American is present everywhere in the United States, populations of cities like New Orleans , Philadelphia , Detroit or New York often consist of more than 30% of African Americans.
  Furthermore, this community has a history dating back to the birth of the United States as slaves, African Americans have invented dances as well as linguistic terms that only they could understand, given the atmosphere of oppression that exerted on them at that time.
  Today, the community mostly lives in ghettos, slums present in all U.S. cities over 100,000 inhabitants.
  

  • Often English words ending in "gold" or "-ure" is eventually simply "o" in African-American slang. This is due to the emphasis of West Africa that many African Americans were keen to keep.
    Thus, "for" ("for") becomes "foe" or "for" and "for sure" ("of course") becomes "For 'sho'.
  • Young African-Americans living in ghettos were also invented words such as "Chedi" and "scrilla" to refer to money, "dome" to say head ("head") or "homie" and "dawg" for tell friend ("friend").
  • Young people in these neighborhoods have also inserted the word "da", often used in oral (pronounced "deu"), it simply means the (determinants "the" and "la").

  Coined by Chicanos

  United States of America, the Hispanic community is extremely strong and is growing. This community is divided into several nationalities and geography is needed to define the various origins of this great community. In the north-eastern United States (regions of Chicago, New York, Boston , Washington ...), there is a majority of native Puerto Rico to the south-eastern U.S. (east of the Sun Belt : Florida mostly), there is a very strong community Cuban finally, in the western United States (in California , the Texas ...), we find most of the Hispanic population living in the States United: the Mexicans.
  Formerly, the southwestern part of the United States was Mexican. Activists of the Mexican community living in these lands call this place the "Aztlan Nacion".

  In the early ^twentieth century , a strong Mexican immigration to the south of California began. Immigrants settled in San Diego , in South Central Los Angeles and in East Los Angeles.
  This part of the population is nicknamed the Chicanos. Speaking English and Spanish, they invented the Spanglish and some slang terms (Cal language):

  • carucha means because (in English), coach (in Spanish) and "car" in French.
  • fusca gun means in English ("gun" in French).
  • "Trucha" is a term that means watch out ("watch out").
  • "Califas" results in California (California State).
  • "Borlo" means party ("party" in French).
  • "Calcos" or "chanclas" means shoes ("shoes" in French).
  • "Chamaco" translates kid ("boy" in French).
  • "Carnal" means brother ("Brother", "longtime friend").
  • "Frajo" means cigarette.
  • "Jaina" or "hyna" translates woman ("woman" in French).
  • "Jale" means job ("job", "work" in French).
  • "Varrio" means Neighborhood ("neighborhood", "dwelling place" in French) and comes from the Spanish word barrio (same meaning).
  • "Pinta" translates prison.
  • " ranfla "means bus or lowrider (a type of car).
  • "Vato" mean guy or dude ("dude", "guy" in French).
  • "Yeyo" a term popularized by the movie "Scarface" by Brian de Palma with Al Pacino and that means cocaine.

  The suffix "-izzle"

  This form of slang comes from the Bay Area (the San Francisco Bay ) and appeared very recently, popularized by rappers California E-40 and Snoop Dogg.
  This language is to keep the first or first two letters of a word and add to that the suffix "-izzle".
  Examples:

  • "For 'shizzle" for sure = ("course"), sour beginning with "su-" but taking its "sho-" ("Sheu" in French).
  • "My Nizzle" nigger = my ("my nigga" within the meaning of the term emotional: my friend, my brother).
  • "You my sizzle" = you're my sister ("You're my sister").
  • "I'll Be dressed in Wizzle, tonizzle" = I'll Be dressed in white, tonight ("I'll dress in white tonight").
  • "What a wide hizzle!" = What a large house! ("What a great house!").

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