Podcast Transcript
[Fiona Maloney] 10:58:57
Okay for our podcast we will be speaking about the influence social media can have on language, particularly slang words, social media introduces people to new slang terms that have often become a normalized form of communication with others.
[Fiona Maloney] 10:59:13
All languages have their own sling, but American slang words are said to have the biggest influence on people, in other parts of the world.
[Fiona Maloney] 10:59:20
For example, the students in Sevilla understood many of the slang words we use every day. Slang words are used by many people when telling jokes, but they are also considered by many as improper language.
[Autumn Majorana] 10:59:35
So we chose to do our podcast on slang words as a core part of a language and the spotlight social media has shined on slang words adding personality to language, that are not so by the book.
[Autumn Majorana] 10:59:48
We decided to teach our students about slang words specifically from New York and the part they play in language.
[Autumn Majorana] 10:59:53
It was very interesting to find out that they already knew the words we were telling them about, and they told us they knew all these words from Tiktok.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:00:00
So what do you guys think your favorite experience was about meeting with these kids from Spain?
[Joseph garofalo] 11:00:07
I'm gonna be straightforward. I really liked our last conversation, especially I know it's a topic that we're speaking about now but I feel like they were able to speak with us.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:00:17
Once we got them contactable enough to speak with us, to have, like a regular normal conversation, instead of us being like teachers and like teaching them a topic.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:00:25
I feel like it was a lot more fun. Then it's then like the first few weeks, not saying the first few weeks weren't fun, but I felt like when we were able to.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:00:35
I feel like, get closer with them and make them comfortable like we were also students with them, or friends with them.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:00:44
I felt like the conversation flowed better, I guess if that's the word, or it flowed better so.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:00:53
I feel like our last meeting, especially just because it was just so close to home for us, and it was just easy we didn't have any research really.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:01:02
It was just great, off the tip of our tounge, and they even knew most of the words we were talking about. I thought that was pretty cool.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:01:08
Yeah.
[Hussein Rifath] 11:01:08
Yeah, I found that surprising. I found that they already knew a lot of our slang because of popular culture, because of the media.
[Hussein Rifath] 11:01:21
And some of them mentioned that they learned a lot of our New York's slang from Tiktok.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:01:11
I also like that they were just comfortable with us at that time, because we already met, so I think we chose a good topic for the last meeting because they were comfortable, just like laughing with us.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:01:39
About it and stuff like that I think altogether we had a really great experience with these kids.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:01:45
So now I wanna kind of go into detail about how New York's slang evolved over the years.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:01:51
I think we all can come from experience, especially in high school and stuff.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:01:55
The ones we talked about, particularly in class, were, like cap, which is lie. Okay, what else? We said..
[Fiona Maloney] 11:02:01
Oh!
[Autumn Majorana] 11:02:05
Bacon, egg, and cheese at one point.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:02:07
I think bacon egg and cheese is my favorite, because it's so common for us that for them that was the one where the one phrase that yeah.
[Hussein Rifath] 11:02:14
That was funny. They didn't even know.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:02:16
Yeah, I forgot the rest. I think.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:02:19
But we talked about brick outside. It's cold.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:02:22
Yeah.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:02:25
Mad brick man. Oh, you also said like, we do stuff like, “yeah, no”, “no, yeah.”
[Joseph garofalo] 11:02:32
Yeah. The opposite.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:02:34
Yeah, I didn't realize we did that until I was having a conversation with my friend.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:02:39
And I did that. And I was like, Oh, wow! I think like, over the years there's been new kinds of slang words coming in.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:02:47
But from high school I can remember “lit” being one and I think that's not one anymore.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:02:52
Kinda I feel like that was because of social media.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:02:55
So it's kind of crazy how they kind of evolve.
[Fiona Maloney] 11:02:59
Or like betting.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:03:02
Yeah, I'm trying to. Hmm.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:03:04
I feel like social media has a very big influence on how our generation is getting slang.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:03:12
Because, like you said, we had a lot of like different slang when we were younger, going into elementary school taught like us, getting Snapchats or Instagram, or even just Iphones.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:03:23
or androids whatever. And as we progressed through high school, I feel like our vocabulary definitely expanded with more slang than anything as a main influence for social media.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:03:33
Yeah, do you remember, Vine? I feel like we got a lot of words too.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:03:36
Yup, vine too.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:03:39
So the fact that the students knew slang was honestly crazy to me, and they all said it was because of Tiktok, and I feel like I can relate to this, because I always said my name like Autumn.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:03:55
Like it doesn't sound like how its spelt it 'cause my parents are like Italian from Brooklyn, so like.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:04:00
That's how they always said it, and I saw Tiktok that this girl from Brooklyn was saying, it like autumn, and like she was saying it, the way I say
[Autumn Majorana] 11:04:10
And now all my friends say it like that because of the Tiktok, so it's kind of crazy how one word can blow up and they can change.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:04:17
Everyone's way of saying it. If that makes sense.
[Fiona Maloney] 11:04:19
Yeah, that's crazy.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:04:21
Yeah.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:04:26
I think that caught me off guard the most for the kids that we were expecting these kids not to know a thing about New York slag, and they were just they got right back at us.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:04:34
They were giving us New York slang that we didn't even know. Like, I feel like that was pretty funny and pretty cool just to see that through Tik Tok and all other apps that they were able to like. I don't know like read our minds basically.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:04:46
Yeah.
[Fiona Maloney] 11:04:46
Yeah, it's just crazy. Because if they didn't all have social media, they wouldn't understand the things we say like that.
[Hussein Rifath] 11:04:47
Facts.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:04:56
Cause. I feel like there's not that many, you know, like movies or TV shows that like, say, slang like specifically about that, like they had to have gotten from like Tiktok.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:05:07
Yeah, it was. Honestly, it was surreal, just because it was so off the top of our heads like we did it I don't think, did you guys do like a lot of research on New York slang like, I know, I had my phone out looking for some words that we could like, explain.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:05:18
Yeah.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:05:23
But even then these kids knew New York slang a little bit better than we did even, and it was like low key, like pretty crazy.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:05:31
So.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:05:32
Yeah, and they lowkey led us on first
[Autumn Majorana] 11:05:37
because we were teaching them new words. And at the end they were like, Yeah, we knew all that, like.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:05:39
Yup!
[Hussein Rifath] 11:05:41
Yeah, it made me feel kind of silly.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:05:45
So that's just crazy. How tiktok is teaching these students language wise and I think it's honestly a good thing, because this is how we can get more comfortable with other languages, or even just like ways of speaking a specific language like English, because obviously, that's not like correct English, like its own form and it was really cool that like
[Autumn Majorana] 11:06:07
they were used to it already. It's like they weren't surprised or making fun of it.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:06:10
They knew already.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:06:13
I thought that was pretty cool, just because, yeah, like you said they did know, but they also, at the end of our meeting they also tried teaching us some of theirs like their Spanish slang, which I forgot.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:06:25
I forgot who was actually understanding it. I know I didn't.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:06:27
But one of us. I know one of us was like understanding what they were saying, even before they were able to explain it.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:06:34
So I thought that was pretty cool, because obviously New York media is a pretty big media source throughout the globe.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:06:41
A lot of people know about New York and New York City, and especially even how we talk so I feel like it was pretty cool coming from New York.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:06:48
One of those hotspots being able to speak to somebody from a different country, and them being able to teach us their slang.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:06:54
That's not really as popular as, say, as our slang. So I thought it was just a pretty cool experience just for them towards the end of the meeting, to explain what they were saying and what they do with their friends, and how they speak to their friends instead of like the formal status that we learned in high school.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:07:09
Yeah. I remember one of them, I think, was like tio, like, I think, like uncle, but like they just like to call each other.
[Fiona Maloney] 11:07:10
Yeah.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:07:17
That.
[Hussein Rifath] 11:07:17
Yeah, yeah. So I knew that because I watch a lot of Spanish films from Spain, and that's their slang.
[Hussein Rifath] 11:07:25
It's like the way we say bro. You know, and that's the power of mass media and popular culture.
[Hussein Rifath] 11:07:32
If you go on, consume another country another cultures' media, you're gonna be able to understand that much better.
[Hussein Rifath] 11:07:40
That's how I understood what they were saying.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:07:45
That's awesome and like that's how they knew what we were saying because of social media.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:07:49
If, like you tried that like 30 years ago, they would have no idea.
[Fiona Maloney] 11:07:54
Oh, yeah, definitely.
[Hussein Rifath] 11:07:55
That's true.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:07:57
Oh, 30 years ago the slang was also a lot different than what it is now.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:08:00
I feel like I want to say, 30 years ago, slang actually made sense, whereas we use words that shouldn't make sense and make it make sense.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:08:07
Yeah, I don't remember slang from, from 30 years ago.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:08:13
I have to ask my parents, but I'm sure it was not as crazy
[Autumn Majorana] 11:08:16
Alright, so any final thoughts about this whole experience.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:08:25
I mean. I thought completely a hundred percent. This whole experience was pretty cool.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:08:31
A, definitely opened my eyes about how different society is in different parts of the globe.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:08:36
And how social media can influence both negatively and positively where we were able to see that these kids were able to speak full conversation with us.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:08:48
Like stuff we know thats social media
[Joseph garofalo] 11:08:52
Our trending videos or music, We even played music in one of our classes that day with popular music, and they were able to dance, which I thought was pretty cool.
[Hussein Rifath] 11:09:02
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:09:06
Yeah, it was really a really fun experience. And it was cool getting to know them, especially by the last meeting.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:09:13
Like. They were comfortable with us, and like they kind of just joined in.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:09:16
It was kind of like a discussion almost with them, and I think they liked that a lot, especially because it was on a fun topic.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:09:24
And like I said, social media can let languages be learned without anyone thinking that they're weird or wrong like it can show the whole community's language.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:09:36
And like, in a positive way, if that makes sense and like, it's not like they're laughing at it like they're laughing at it like we were just like all shocked.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:09:43
But they knew it already, and they weren't like that's weird, like they just knew.
[Fiona Maloney] 11:09:48
Yeah, I agree. It's really cool to see how much of an influence social media has on them, and that they understand, like all of these terms that we use, it's crazy.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:10:02
Any last minute. Comments.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:10:06
I think we got all the points with the meetings.
[Joseph garofalo] 11:10:09
I thought that was, everything we said just captivated our experience as a group so.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:10:14
Yeah. Alright. So that's the end of our podcast.
[Autumn Majorana] 11:10:19
We hope you enjoyed.