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What’s the best slang in english in your opinion? And why?

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AussieInBg profile picture AussieInBgOctober 2020
The best slang in English in my opinion is Australian slang. But I guess I’m a bit biased about this

I like how we shorten words, e.g

relative - rellie
journalist - journo (this Australian word has now become ”international” during the last few years!!!)
self-portrait - selfie (yet another Australian word everyone uses now!)
arvo - afternoon

Also, a lot of our slang is like a small joke, particularly when we explain to non-Australians where the word or term comes from.

Some are quite obvious, e.g.

”Cop Shop” = police station.

some need a bit of explanation, e.g.

”Mystery Bag” = sausage (we also call sausages which we fry or barbeque ”snags”).

They are called ”mystery bags” because it is often a mystery what is actually put inside a sausage!

Other terms require some time to explain. For example:

”No wuckers” = no problems / no worries (but usually when you really want to stress this).

This term initially started out as:

”no worries” - ”don’t mention it”, the Australian version which is becoming also used worldwide.

Now, the emphatic version in Australia adds the word ”f*” - ”no f*ing worries!” Australians are also extremely creative about swearing - another topic and perhaps not for an open forum

Of course, it’s not possible to swear everywhere (even in Australia!), so we changed it a little to make it sound more ”polite”:

”no wucking furries”. We do know what we were saying here

Saying something like ”no wucking furries” was too long, so, like many terms before, we shortened it to ”no wuckers”.
  • AussieInBg profile picture AussieInBgJanuary 2021
    Each to their own. After all, British, Australian, Jamaican, American, Canadian and Indian English are just dialects of English.
  • exRanger profile picture exRangerNovember 2020
    I was subjected to a lot of Aussie, along with British, slang during my time in US Army Special Forces. I came to detest Aussie slang but am quite fond of British slang.