Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Gergo social

Ratio. "Get more replies than retweets or likes on a post on social 
media (most commonly Twitter), which likely implies that the post 
should get more dislikes."
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ratio
 
 
Based. "A word used when you agree with something; or when you want to 
recognize someone for being themselves, i.e. courageous and unique or 
not caring what others think. Especially common in online political 
slang.
The opposite of cringe, some times the opposite of biased."
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=based
 
 
Cringe. "When someone acts/ or is so embarrassing or awkward , it makes 
you feel extemely ashamed and/or embarrassed."
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cringe
 
 
Boomer. "A person from the baby boomer generation or really anyone who 
is older than the person using the word, usually used if said person is 
being annoying or talking shit about a younger generation. Sometimes 
used in a joking way among friends. Can also describe someone who is 
out of touch, typically with technology."
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=boomer
 

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Just a friendly warning, 
urbandictionary.com
 is notoriously unreliable.
 
Many of the descriptions are "idolectic" in quality.

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idiolectal?
 
Ciao,
Wolfgang

After serious thinking Tony the Ice Man wrote :
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It's unfortunate that mainstream dictionaries do not seem to include 
new slang terms such as "ratio" and the like. Sometimes you have to 
rely on user-generated contents, because they are the only available 
source (still I would be happpy to be wrong and be informed of other, 
more reliable, sources for new slang terms).
 I agree that many of the descriptions in 
urbandictionary.com
 are 
garbage, but I did not just quote random entries. I handpicked a few 
that seem to matcht the usage I noticed myself. Of course that's no 
guarantee of anything. If you feel that some of the descriptions are 
not accurate, please do correct them.

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You can say that, too.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/idiolectal
 
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/idiolectic
 
 
I began using the term many years ago when reading about Semiotics, but 
perhaps if I had been reading about Semiotals (scherzo) instead my 
choice for usage would have been different.

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OK, I'll add my thoughts.
 
Slang terms take a while to codify and dictionaries consider which merit 
inclusion and which are just transitory, or confined to a particular 
locale or venue, such as Twitter and "ratioed."
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-were-watching-ratio-ratioed-ratioing
 
 
I think that the definition of "based" is more accurately described here.
https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/based/
 
Note the use by the alt-right which makes it not mainstream but part of 
a transitory (let's hope) fringe group.
 
"Cringe" is not a slang word. It's a mainstream verb found in all 
dictionaries. It can be transformed into another form of speech but it 
retains its original meaning.
 
"Boomer" comes from the term "Baby Boomer" which describes the 
generation born after the end of World War II. Evey generation is 
perceived by other generations through the lens of stereotypes. The 
urbandictionary.com
 description appears to be the invention of someone 
from one of the more recent generations who sometimes use the term to 
deprecate a target. In this case, someone with too little experience in 
critical thinking to recognize that Baby Boomers invented the technology 
that they are described as as out-of-touch with. The prejudicial use of 
the term, as in the famous line, "OK, Boomer" is one of those marvelous 
hypocrisies uttered by a generation who eschews every discrimination 
based on race, gender, sexual or pronoun preference except ageism which 
comes as easily to them as does white supremacy to the "based."
 
If you are interested in slang words, one of my favorites is the now 
relatively mainstream term (I've heard it used by newscasters, even in 
the South) from the New York metropolitan area "skeeve (verb form)," or 
"skeevy (adjective form)." My intuition about the etymology which was 
informed by growing up in the U.S. as a person of Italian descent is 
supported by this dictionary description. I knew it as an English word 
and only recognized its Italian origins when I began to study Italian.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/skeevy-meaning-origin
 

 my choice for usage would have been different.
 
But anyway, the topic was Semiotics, not "Semotics".
 
Mi sa che tutto il nostro malinteso è dovuto a uno stupido refuso.
 
Ciao,
Wolfgang

 Mi sa che tutto il nostro malinteso è dovuto a uno stupido refuso.
 
Non esitare a chiedere errori anche in inglese. Non vorrei perpetuare 
falsi esempi.
 
 

>>>>> 
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cringe
 
 
extremely... guarda, il lupo è vicino.
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Meno male CHE non abbia scritto... non manchi

 Meno male CHE non abbia scritto... non manchi
 
Per illogico che sembri, secondo le mie esperienze l'espressione 
«meno male che» si usa con l'indicativo. Non ne capisco il perché, 
ma non l'ho mai vista con il congiuntivo.
 
Ciao,
Wolfgang

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Hai ragione, grazie. C`è stata una volta in cui l'ho imparato ma oggi la 
memoria mi tradisce.

 
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/skeevy-meaning-origin
 
 
Looks like that as a verb it's used with "out".

 Anyone for "who"?
 
Better: who/whom

ma non l'ho mai vista con il congiuntivo.
 
Il motivo, probabilmente, è che indica una constatazione con certezza.
 
 
-- 
Ci sono 10 tipi di persone al mondo: quelle che capiscono il sistema binario
e quelle che non lo capiscono.

 Il motivo, probabilmente, è che indica una constatazione con certezza.
 
Il congiuntivo non è il tempo dell'incertezza. Lo si mette semplicemente 
dove suona bene e serve a ben poco. E' giusto utile come esortativo (v. 
firma).
 
-- 
Kiuhnm
 
Il fine giustifichi i mezzi.
 

 Il fine giustifichi i mezzi.
 
Per l'inglese vale senz'altro ("God save the Queen"), ma per quanto 
riguarda l'italiano, la tua costatazione mi sembra un po' troppo 
apodittica. Meglio dedicarci un filone su 
i.c.l.it
.
 
Ciao,
Wolfgang

Wolfgang laid this down on his screen :
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Dato l'argomento, ho risposto sul gruppo 
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