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^ogus! Say that again? “trendy”, “valley girl”, “mod”, “punker”, or just English teach­

“B-O-G-U-S! Bogus, boGus, an American. er and jour­
bogussss, BOGUS!” What does it “My favorite slang word is cool. I use it like, nalism adviser.

mean, and in what language? ‘That’s Cool’. It’s kinda like saying neat,” said So it seems
The key to slang is the stress junior Donna Thompson. defining things

that is placed on the different “My favorite slang word is shoot, because we for the ’84-’85
syllables, when it is said, and can’t say ‘dirty words’ in gym class . . . you know school was not
with what intent. According to what I mean,” said senior Dan Traylor. as easy as it was

The Random House Dictionary, Slang is a good tool to use in place of ordinary first thought.
slang is 1) very informal usage so-called profane words. For example, in P.E. One good thing

in vocabulary and idiom that is class if a student is caught using profanity they about slang, it
characteristically more me­ must write a paper explaining why they said the says exactly

taphorical, playful, elliptical, word. This paper is given to the individual’s what you mean.
vivid, and ephemeral than ordin­ parents. If the offense is repeated, the student can

ary language. 2) (in English and suffer losing points.
some other languges) speech and It must have been quite a shock for some

writing characterized by the teachers when they heard just a few of these
vulgar and socially taboo modern slang words used in their classrooms.

vocabulary and idiomatic expres­ “I heard it in a movie, (gnarly) I remember
sions. In short, or in slang lingo, I couldn’t figure out how to spell it, so I went

a person who uses slang is a home and looked it up,” recalled Nancy Rice,