Top Ten Global YouthSpeak Words for 2005

[G_j]

http://www.worldpress.org/2256.cfm

Global Language Monitor: Global YouthSpeak Words

1. Crunk
2. Mang
3. A'ight
4. Mad
5. Props
6. Bizznizzle
7. Fully
8. Fundoo
9. Brill!
10. S'up

[Clintmax]

1. Sounds like they all came from rap music.

:rofl:

[G_j]

2. which is probably why

I never heard most of them

no definitions were included

[Clintmax]

3. I've heard most of them...but don't know the definitions either.

I hate rap music. :rofl:

[Shine]

4. my 12 yr old uses "s'up".....as in: "What's up?"

:eyes:

funny.

[realisticphish]

10. s'up

thats been around for a LONG time

[Shine]

14. yeah, even I use it! dinosaur that I am.....

;)

[jpgray]

5. Aren't these all really old?

[SteppingRazor]

6. I thought the same thing...

A lot of these words are hardly "2005" words. More like 2001 or 2002. I mean, "a'ight?" That's, like, soooo 1998.

[imperialismispasse]

7. Definitions, I think

1. Crunk - used mainly by Southern rappers this word means a combination of crazy and drunk
2. Mang - Spanish accented "man"
3. A'ight - all right
4. Mad - very
5. Props - short for propers means giving someone their due
6. Bizznizzle - its "biotch" plus something else not sure
7. Fully - totally
8. Fundoo - I have no idea
9. Brill - brilliant
10. S'up - what's up

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

12. Fundoo probably just mean "fun" no?

[imperialismispasse]

13. Yeah like extra fun probably

[deadparrot]

8. As a 19 year old,

I've heard of four of those. And no one I know uses any of them. :shrug:

[Reverend_Smitty]

9. I've know 5 of them

but 2 don't count because they are just contractions, and therefore easy to determine what they mean. What the hell do Brill, fundoo and mang mean?

[realisticphish]

11. i must say

i'm 20, and the only word on there that I would EVER use is s'up (thats not even a new word)