Weekly English Words with Alisha Internet Lingo
Hi, everybody. Welcome back to Weekly Words.
I’m Alisha, and this week we are going to
talk
about internet lingo. Internet lingo is a
fun topic.
The first word that we’re going to talk about,
or the first phrase, or first acronym, I suppose,
is “SMH,” which means “shaking my head” or
it’s some way to explain that you are disapproving
of whatever you’ve just seen or whatever you’ve
just read. So it’s not really used so much
in a sentence, as it is at, like, the end
of a sentence. For example, “Did you see that
recent news story? SMH.”
The next word is “BTW.” Uh, this also notes
that people will also say “beeteedubs,” where
“dubs” is a sort of casual short version of
“W.” This means “by the way,” so when you’re
speaking to somebody and you want to change
the topic to something that might be a little
bit related to whatever you’re talking about
at the moment, you can use “BTW.” You might
say, “Hey, yeah, I heard about that new job
that you got. BTW, how’s the salary?” That
might be a little bit too direct of an example,
but you kind of get the idea. Anyplace you
would use “by the way,” you can use “BTW.”
Next is… Really? Spelled “YOLO,” but it’s
usually read as a new word. It’s it’s pronounced
“YO-LO,” and it stands for “you only live
once.” People who usually say it, and it tends
to be, at least from what I’ve seen, young
people. They will usually say this before
they do something crazy. You see a video of
somebody who’s had too much to drink, and
they decide they’re going to, I dunno, jump
off a house and right before
they do it they scream, “YOLO!,” meaning “you
only live once,” so I’d better do this now.
That’s kind of the implied meaning of it.
Okay, the next one is “TBH.” “To be honest.”
Aw, this is great. I can use this in relation
to the last word we just talked about. “TBH.
I don’t think particularly highly of people
who use the word YOLO. BTW, it’s my IRL (‘in
real life') day off today.” He’s, um, the
failure…
Okay, the next word is “TTYL.” It means “talk
to you later.” You can use this at the end
of a conversation, whether you’re using Skype
or an instant message program when it’s time
for you to leave or maybe when it’s time for
the other person to leave. They might type
“TTYL,” meaning just, I’ll see you later or
I’ll talk to you later. “Okay, I have to go
to class now. TTYL.” Talk to you later. that’s
the situation where you might use something
like this. Any time you have to leave a conversation,
it’s good.
And that’s the end of internet lingo. I hope
that you learned a few things. You can try
out a few of them right away because you’re
watching this on the internet, and you can
leave a comment. Thanks for watching. TTYL!