1. A history of modern
colloquial English
By Sainidinova Aidai
Group: LK 1 -21
2. In all cases, except for the literary and academic spheres, colloquial
English is used. Spoken English is much more difficult than literary
English, because it changes every year or merges in other words, it also
consists of different metaphors and abbreviated grammatical forms.
Colloquial
English
3. In the 16th century, the most
characteristic feature of live colloquial
speech is the absence of firmly
established norms both in the field of
word usage and in the field of
grammatical and phonetic forms of the
language.
With surprising ease, new phrases
appeared that gave different meanings.
A history of spoken
English
For example:
to come about = to be realized;
to come behind = to devise;
to come by = to take possession;
to come upon = to approach, etc.
4. Features of
spoken English
reduction
The accelerated speech of
spoken English causes the
merging of individual forms
of words.
For example:
because = ‘coz
Them = ‘em can’t = can’t
voicing
It is characterized by lexical
features, the main of which is
reduction and modification.
For example:
going to = gonna
let me = lemmi
want to = wanna
5. Slang
Slang is words and phrases that are used by certain age and social
groups of the population in certain situations, most often by
young people.
Slang is closely related to culture, history and other social aspects
of the life of the country.
Brevity. Often new colloquial phrases and words replace longer
and more difficult to pronounce constructions.
For example:
the popular slang word «Watcha» = how are you?
6. Lit When something is very good, enjoyable, or exciting, you can say it’s “lit”.
Dude, the party last night was lit!Where were you?
Sus Something that is questionable, dishonest or suspicious.
Ok, now you’re just sus. I don’t believe you!
Shook When someone is shook it means they are shocked or incredibly surprised.
- Did you see?The new season of Lucifer just landed on Netflix!
- OMG I’m shook! I need to watch itASAP!
7. Double
negative in
English
In literary English, one negation is enough.
for example: I don’t have anything.
I saw nobody.
In colloquial English, double negation is possible.
for example: I Didn’t kill nobody
8. Interjections make it possible to express feelings and motives, i.e. Give
speech an emotionally expressive coloring.
Interjection
Ok! Oh! Ah! Bravo! Hush! Hurrah!
And so on
For example:
Wow! Lisa is looking gorgeous.
Hurray! Our team has won the match.
Hey! Are you serious?
Alas! John’s father died yesterday.
Yippee!We are going on vacation.
