Being in a relationship is known as "taken" or "Ownageeee", and "Ridneck", a corruption of redneck, means to feel embarrassed.
如果要表述自己正在談戀愛(ài),青少年會(huì)以"taken"或"ownageeee"來(lái)描述自己。而"ridneck"則是故意這么拼寫(xiě)來(lái)代替"redneck",用來(lái)表達(dá)感到困窘或難堪。
Meanwhile, girls posting "Legal" are indicating that they are above 16 and legally allowed to have sex.
如果有女孩子以"legal"來(lái)描述自己的狀況,意思是說(shuō)她已經(jīng)年滿16歲,可以合法進(jìn)行性行為。
Lisa Whittaker, a postgraduate student at the University of Stirling, who studied teens aged 16-18 in Scotland, said the slang had been created to keep their activities private, and cited the example of one young girl who was sacked after bosses found pictures of her drinking on the website.
蘇格蘭斯特靈大學(xué)的研究生(論壇) 麗莎·惠特克對(duì)16至18歲青少年在Bebo社交網(wǎng)站上的活動(dòng)進(jìn)行研究。她表示,曾經(jīng)有一個(gè)年輕女孩在社交網(wǎng)站上張貼自己喝酒的照片而被雇主開(kāi)除,所以現(xiàn)在的青少年為了保持自己網(wǎng)上活動(dòng)的隱私,創(chuàng)造除了這種新的秘密語(yǔ)言。