Help with wording questions on forums

"Colloquialisms," maybe. (As in, "I'm interested in [name of language here] colloquialisms.")

I think street and college slang are pretty different.

What is your interest, btw?

I understand that, more like, why? What are you going for? For what purpose?

To use it in those countries, for example? In what circumstances, if so?

Your answer would help me advise you. From previous questions I've seen you ask, I definitely think that you could be more precise.

If I said, "I'm interested in slang in general", which I think is better way to rephrase my question, wouldn't that cover youth, street and college slang?

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If I said, "I'm interested in slang in general", which I think is better way to rephrase my question, wouldn't that cover youth, street and college slang?

Nope. If you used street slang in the context of a college student speaking, for instance, to the reader it would stick out like a sore thumb.

This is not the same as what you are discussing, but related. I once watched a British film where one of the characters was playing an American. To a British audience he probably sounded fine, but to me, his inaccurate accent was very grating.

"Youth slang" sounds like it's the closest to what you're going for.

Or "street slang."

Either would do, I think the repetition is confusing rather than clarifying. "College slang," especially, in that context, seems like it would be need to be college-specific to be set off that way.

Some college kids use street slang -- but they're using street slang. I don't think you're going for, like, nicknames for the really bad economics prof.

"Youth slang" sounds like it's the closest to what you're going for.

Or "street slang."

Either would do, I think the repetition is confusing rather than clarifying. "College slang," especially, in that context, seems like it would be need to be college-specific to be set off that way.

Some college kids use street slang -- but they're using street slang. I don't think you're going for, like, nicknames for the really bad economics prof.

Hmm... what do you think "college slang" means?

"Youth slang" sounds like it's the closest to what you're going for.

Or "street slang."

Either would do, I think the repetition is confusing rather than clarifying. "College slang," especially, in that context, seems like it would be need to be college-specific to be set off that way.

Some college kids use street slang -- but they're using street slang. I don't think you're going for, like, nicknames for the really bad economics prof.

"Youth slang" sounds like it's the closest to what you're going for.

Or "street slang."

Either would do, I think the repetition is confusing rather than clarifying. "College slang," especially, in that context, seems like it would be need to be college-specific to be set off that way.

Some college kids use street slang -- but they're using street slang. I don't think you're going for, like, nicknames for the really bad economics prof.

There's a big difference in the slang a 14-year old uses and the slang you hear in a college-age bar. Street slang is trickling into both groups via the hiphop culture, but college kids don't talk like street kids and neither do younger teens.

Do a little research on slang in general. I think you'll find that kids start using a lot of slang as they move into adolescence, as part of the breaking-away they're doing. They'd tend to keep those words as part of their vocabularies, while younger kids will develop new slang to set their age group apart.

I was a hippie child -- neither my older cousins nor my younger siblings (we're talking about approximately a 10-year span) used the same slang I did. What was hip to my cousins was groovy to me, and bitchin' to my sister's friends.

Young people are not one entitiy.

There's a big difference in the slang a 14-year old uses and the slang you hear in a college-age bar. Street slang is trickling into both groups via the hiphop culture, but college kids don't talk like street kids and neither do younger teens.

Do a little research on slang in general. I think you'll find that kids start using a lot of slang as they move into adolescence, as part of the breaking-away they're doing. They'd tend to keep those words as part of their vocabularies, while younger kids will develop new slang to set their age group apart.

I was a hippie child -- neither my older cousins nor my younger siblings (we're talking about approximately a 10-year span) used the same slang I did. What was hip to my cousins was groovy to me, and bitchin' to my sister's friends.