Welcome to the Rachel's English podcast. I'm glad to have you here. This is Rachel, and I'm here with my husband, David.

Hey, everybody. And today we're going to go over slang. If you need a transcript of this podcast, it's absolutely free to download.

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episode. Let's get right into it. Now, the reason why David is here today is because he works in

high school. And high schools, there's a lot of slang happening in high school. Younger people are really the ones who I think are playing with language and with slang the most.

And so David's always bringing home terms and phrases that I don't know.

That's right.

So today we're going to go over some current popular slang terms, what they mean, how to use them.

Before we get into it, though, let's talk about when it's appropriate and not appropriate to use slang.

The general rule of thumb I give people is use slang if the people around you are also using it.

You know, wait, you don't have to be the first one.

Yeah, that's a good, that's a good general rule.

Wait and see if you're hanging out with people and you notice that they're using a lot of slang and

you're starting to pick up on those terms and you want to use those terms too, those people are a great

bunch of people to use it around.

In general, we would not use it in the workplace.

It's more of a casual way of using language.

But again, depending on where you work and who you're working with, if you're seeing

people using slang and it seems appropriate, it seems accepted and

acceptable, then go ahead and try it out.

Okay, so David, have you heard the term slay?

Yeah, I've heard that.

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