Lately, I have realized that even slang terms within teens and young adults have tons of polysemy, which basically means words that have more than one definition.Sometimes cutting a long story short...makes the story longer when you find out the friend you're talking to has a completely different definition of things you did, or said.
For example:
Person 1: "...and i found out that Sarah and Jimmy are talking now"
Person 2: "you mean talking-talking or just talking?"
it's funny to me how that is almost always the question after someone says that word, "talking". When Person 2 says "talking-talking" they mean "talking" as in getting to know each other in hopes that it will turn into dating or a relationship.
another example:
Person 1: "They hooked up!"
Person 2: "when they hooked up do you mean all the way, or just rated PG stuff?"
hooking up is different to each person. to some it may just be a smooch or two...or it may involve baby-making music.
moral of the story: be careful what you say and who you say it to.
Hahaha you are so right. So many words have more than one meaning, but see thats where we can start getting into Innuendos.
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ReplyDeletemoral: so true.
ReplyDeleteand we were talking then we hooked uppp. whaaaat. what what in the butt.