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used at your current or past workplace or in your personal life where others may not know
the meaning. Provide the words and the meaning of these words. How are these terms
useful to you? What do they add to the communication with your peers? Using the text
reading to support your points, explain the possible limitations of these words.
There has been not a single purpose to speak in jargon, slang and colloquialisms. Jargon,
slang along with colloquialisms has several other various reasons for their being. One feasible
reason has been just the simple language evolution such as words as well as its meanings change
over a period of time by context and also history and therefore slang has been the natural
progression of the language. Other feasible reason for slang has been to throw off intentionally
the other listeners, who have been outside some group of people.
academic and literary. Slang has been the slangy jargon, the colloquialism, the acronym, the
initialism, the vulgarism or the catchphrase. In each and every example, the entry imparts the
message beyond text along with literal meaning. Colloquialism has been the slang term, which
makes their way in mainstream. In other terms, this has been the subculture term, which has now
been in the wider usage. The instance would be word cool. You may also wait till cows come
home along with she will never call!" "We get smashed i.e. drunk on every Friday night." The
general instance of colloquialism has been word "cool''. Cool may also be found in dictionary
along with everybody knows what that means. But, the person should not use "cool" if writing