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The Internet TESL Journal

For Teachers of English as a Second Language An Internet periodical devoted to English language teaching. However it will be very useful both for teachers and students. Judge yourself! The […] www.english-slang.com

wot, wut

[wot, wut] "What", predates Internet Internet slang

W/O

[W/O] "Without", predates Internet Internet slang

AKA

[AKA] "Also known as", predates the Internet. Internet slang

Slang is

"very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid and ephemeral than ordinary language" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary) - learn ~600 slang expressions

An idiom is

an expression "whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements… or from the general grammatical rules of a language"

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Condorcet

"Enjoy your life without comparing it to that of others."

cheapskate

[cheapskate] {n.}, {informal} A selfish or stingy person; a person who will not spend much. - An insulting term. * /None of […]

pipe dream

[pipe dream] {n.}, {informal} An unrealizable, financially unsound, wishful way of thinking; an unrealistic plan. * /Joe […]

boil down

[boil down] {v.} 1. To boil away some of the water from; make less by boiling. * /She boiled down the maple sap to a thick […]

child's play

[child's play] {adj.} Easy; requiring no effort. * /Mary's work as a volunteer social worker is so agreeable to her that she […]

Mark Twain

(1835-1910) Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.