Episode 73: Slinging the Slang

Are you a hepcat, a skibidi rizzler, an NPC, or a square? In this episode, The Two Humans wrap their tongues around the latest lingo. You dig, Daddy-o? Episode 73: Slinging the Slang An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human. http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 IG @introtoanthrowith2humans Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=136195011   Resources:   Behrens, Cole 2024   Did You Just Get Mogged by a Skibidi Rizzler? Gen Alpha Slang Explained. The Columbus Dispatch, August 17, 2024, www.dispatch.com/story/ news/local/2024/08/17/skibidi-toilet-ohio-rizz-gen-alpha-slang-terms-meaning/74702923007/   Cassidy, Daniel 2007   How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads. CounterPunch, Petrolia, CA.   Coleman, Julie 2012   The Life of Slang. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.   Cook, Tim 2013   Fighting Words: Canadian Soldiers’ Slang and Swearing in the Great War. War in History, July 2013, Vol. 20, No. 3 (July 2013), pp. 323-344.   Gates, Shivonne M. and Christian Idbury 2019   Standard Language Ideology and the Non-Standard Adolescent Speaker. Voices and Practices in Applied Linguistics: Diversifying a Discipline (ed. C. Wright, L. Harvey, and J. Simpson), White Rose University Press, York, UK, pp. 109-125.   Green, Jonathon 2015   The Vulgar Tongue: Green’s History of Slang. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.   Holmes, Janet and Nick Wilson 2017   An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Fifth Edition). Routledge, Abingdon, UK.   Kipfer, Barbara Ann (ed.) 2008   American Slang (Fourth Edition). HarperCollins, New York, NY.   Mathews, Sr., Michael R. 2025   Slang Through the Ages. Michael R. Mathews, Sr. (self-published), January 9, 2025.   McPhee, M. C. 1927   College Slang. American Speech, Dec., 1927, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Dec., 1927), pp. 131-133.   McRae, Rick 2001   ‘What Is Hip?’ and Other Inquiries in Jazz Slang Lexicography. Notes, Mar., 2001, Second Series, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Mar., 2001), pp. 574-584.   Morin, Amy 2025   Parents, Here’s the 2025 Teen Slang You Need to Know. Parents, January 9, 2025, www.parents.com/teen-slang-dictionary-for-parents-8547711.   Puchner, Martin 2020   The Language of Thieves. W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY.   Rizzler, Ohio 2024   Brainrot: The Gen-A Slang Lexicon. Elevated Publishing, Coppell, TX.   Rodrigues, Isabelle and Ted Neather 2007   Streetwise French: Speak and Understand Everyday French. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.   Sullivan, Joseph M 1921   Criminal Slang. The Virginia Law Review, May, 1921, New Series, Vol. 7, No. 1 (May, 1921), pp. 9-17.   Tanner, Jeremy 2024   The 10 Most Searched for Slang Words of 2024. MSN.com, November 3, 2024, www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/see-the-10-most-searched-for-slang-words-of-2024/ar-AA1tqIvC.   Thrush, Catherine 2015   A New Look at Old Words: Street Slang from the 1600s to 1800s. Urban Realms, urbanrealms.com.   Whitman, Walt 1885   Slang in America. The North American Review, Nov., 1885, Vol. 141, No. 348 (Nov., 1885), pp. 431-435.