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Hello Carrie!

Thank you for writing such an interesting blog. I find teenagers using new words quite interesting but on some occasions I wish if they speak a bit formal language. I often notice my students use this new language in everyday speaking but I really don't like to see it in their writing as this takes the academic learning away from its standard of approval.

I think I can only answer one of the three words you have given to write the meanings of. I only know 'My bad' and I learnt it through Hanna Montana and now I also use it. So it's an interesting way to say my bad when you admit your mistake and apoligise for that. I am eagerly looking forward to learn the meanings of bounce and jars. Another word I have learnt in Keep your English up to date is 'Pants' which means rubbish or 'poor quality'.

Have a supertastic weekend!

Naheed

thanks for this intrestig blog . Sorry but i dont know the meaning of any these words > but these blog was realy helpful to me

Your post is very interesting!!

As Naheed I would guess that "my bad" has the same meaning as "my fault" or "my mistake".

As far I know "jar" has the same meaning as "dissonance" Therefore I think "It jars me" means the same as "I am offended" or "I am annoyed" or simply "I am angry". But this is just guessing.

I´ve found the expression "bounce" several times in the internet. When an email bounces, it is sent back. Despite of this "bounce" could have thousands of meanings, at least this is my impression. I like this word.

Hi Carrie,
Your blog is quite interesting. Sometimes, I surf around the net and meet many slang words, it's quite difficult for me to understand all of information. And I found that it seems the teenager now prefer to use slang to assert higher class in their friends' eyes. I don't like that.

Hi dear carrie ! How are you ? it 's too nice that we can hear from you times to time . most of the time I remember you in my mind and I say myself She is so busy to drop us some lines maybe some trips and so on . Please try to write more to us as you know it means a lot for us and they are so helpful as well ! Your latest blog we so interesting as you said teenagers use their own languages and they invent new words so rapidly ! thank you for the words meaning and keen on learn more about UK teenage language ! have a fab Sunday and bye !
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Hello Carrie,
I apprehended and rhetorical command over jargon. It replenished communicative work . I felt ur explanation well organised.Thanks for being with us.
Raghuram Boddeda.

Hello Carrie,
I absoultely agree with your points. Teens easily use several words in their convienent. for example: you-u, are-r,yes-s,be right back-brb,tomorrow-2morrow,before-b4,Tea-t.I'm seeing these words when I'm chatting with my cousins,friends.Sometime,I don't understand. I came to know that,one of the professors was opposing the practices in different manner which leads complication when evaluation.I read the judgment of Indian Supreme court,this type of practice not permitting when student answering question in any examination.
Carrie,thanks to be part of day to day usage and changes in the practices.
Raghuram Boddeda
Hemalatha Kandregula

Hello Carrie,

I'm a French teenager, I don't know any meanings of these words!
However, I totally agree with you when you say that the world and words change very fast ! That's our generation, it must due to the development of social networks, and the Internet!

Although , I can't bear when a person send me an email, whith abbreviation, or " LOL ", or "MDR in French " Mort de Rire" or anything else.

A very interesting blog at all.
Emilie, France

Hello Carrie,
To be honest, I think this is one of the most depressing aspects of learning a language and in particular, learning English. I mean, not the teenagers - they're perfectly okay! But slang in general, and especially the rapidly changing forms of it. It is something where I feel, no matter how hard you try, language is always ahead of you, moving faster than you can attempt to master it and, what is more, "behaving" in a different way on either side of the Atlantic Ocean (not to speak of Australia, New Zealand or South Africa, etc., of whose language I know next to nothing.)
Of course I have no idea what the expressions you mentioned mean. (Maybe I should have watched - what? Hanna Montana?) I don't even dare to guess - it would probably be ridiculously wrong. So, please tell us quickly!
CU
Elisabeth (Austria)

Hi Carrie,
I have no idea what these words mean but I think, "It jars me" could be something like "It annoys me". Or not? I don't know... The other two words are very mysterious for me.
Have a nice day,
Tereza (Czech republic)

Hi Carrie,

It is quite interesting your blog. Now I look those kind of short words in every language. My daughter always are using it, some times I can guess the meaning, and sometimes not. So, following the explanation I will try to guess:
It jars me, That make me nervous.
Bounce, great.

I don´t know. Please let me know.

Regards,
Mario

This is an interesting article. It also help us to [Unsuitable/Broken URL removed by Moderator] learn English. Thank you.

Dear Carrie,
Thank you so much for interesting story. I know the meaning of words because of you and now I can understand, use them. Lots of word is changing and for example, in Russian we have the same situation. Sometimes I cannot understand some words in Russian because our teenagers have changed the meanings. A lot of English words come to Russian and our older generations also have problems with the meaning. In Kyrgyzstan our citizens speak in Kyrgyz mixed with Russian and English but English they use less than Russian. It is because my ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½land was a part of the Soviet Union.

Hello, Carrie. What a interesting story. In every language young people change/create new words and older people (this is may case) have to take as own. I have no clue about the other words. By the way, "sick" also means "ill" , isn't? or may be I'm wrong.
Regards.
Marcelo from Argentina.

Hi carrie, tanks for this blog. i think that kind of topics are really important and are such a good complemnt. i don't have any idea what this words means.
I would dare to say that "it jars me", probably means something like "it affects me

Hi, Carrie!

It´s really interesting to know about others countries culture. Here in Brazil, specifically in Rio de Janeiro, where I'm from, teenagers invent a lot of slangs too.
Instead of LOL we use 'rsrsrs....' that means the sound of laughing.
It's well worth knowing what is changing around the world, in terms of language, although I think that is only for teenagers themselves, because as a not native English speaker, we shouldn't speak like them. In fact, we must speak a formal language just to be understood wherever we go.

Thanks for sharing these discoveries with us!!!

Kisses in your "tum-tum" (means the sound of heartbeat)!

Hi,

I've read through all the replies so far and found that I am not the only one not to know the slang words. Although, there were of course some, as I suppose, good suggestions: Naheed's and Nina's «Ìýadmit your mistake and apoligise for thatÌý» for «ÌýMy bad!Ìý», and Nina's and Tereza's "I am annoyed" for «Ìýit jars meÌý». As for «ÌýbounceÌý» the dictionary seems to use it as a slang term to mean «ÌýejectÌý», much more negative than mrf's «ÌýgreatÌý», and probably even Nina wouldn't like the word if she herself was fired.

Like other people here, I find the blog interesting. So thanks. But may I ask some grammar questions? Carrie, you write «ÌýI was trying to remember what words were in fashion when I was teenagerÌý». I wonder if «Ìýwhen I was teenagerÌý» instead of what I would have expected «Ìýwhen I was a teenagerÌý» is a typo, spoken English or even standard English? In Swedish I would use «ÌýtonÃ¥ringÌý», ~ «ÌýteenyearingÌý». That is a word that ends by an -ing, like stripling, youngling,
duckling, fledgeling. In Swedish I wouldn't use the indefinite article, so it does not shock me that you didn't use it. But I've learnt that the indefinite article should be used in many cases where it should not be used in Swedish, as in he is a teacher, a doctor, an actor etc.

My second question is also about an article or rather the lack of it. You write: «ÌýWhen today's teenagers use "sick" they mean "cool" - which is good thing!Ìý» Had you written «Ìýwhich is something goodÌý» I would have agreed with you, but «Ìýwhich is good thingÌý» sounds strange to me. Is it a typo, were you in a hurry, or is it correct English?