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The Internet TESL Journal

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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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blind date

[blind date] {n.} An engagement or date arranged by friends for people who have not previously known one another. * /A blind […]

level best

[level best] {adj. phr.} One's utmost; one's very best. * /Eric refused to stay in school although his parents did their […]

Russell Baker

(1925 - ), US columnist & journalist Americans like fat books and thin women.

Albert Einstein

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

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URT

[URT] "Urban Terror"; A mod for Quake III

be set on

[be set on] or [upon] {v. phr.} To be determined about something. * /Tow is set upon leaving his Chicago job for Tokyo, […]

sell short

[sell short] {v.} To think (a person or thing) less good or valuable than is true; underestimate. * /Don't sell the team […]