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Can You Translate These Modern-Day Slang Words?
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By: Jonnathan Chadwick
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The earliest known writings are pictographs from Sumer that date back to 3500 BC. For thousands of years, picture writing was the only form of writing. Pictographs and hieroglyphs served as the precursor to early writing systems like the Phoenician, Greek and Latin alphabets and the written word eventually became an essential part of life. It exploded when the printing press was invented. Finally, common people could learn to read and write as easily as nobility, and knowledge and news spread across the world. Civilizations rose and fell, revolution spread, society evolved, technology advanced, individuals became more powerful and millions and millions of words were created. So many words were created that in 2015, the Oxford Dictionaries decided to go back to the basics and crown the "Face with Tears of Joy" emoji its Word of the Year.
Millennials are people who came of age through the millennium. They're commonly specified as those born between the early 1980s and mid-1990s and they've seen thousands of words and emojis enter the lexicon since then. Cryptocurrency, subtweet and infodump are all words added to the dictionary after the millennium and every millennial knows what they mean. But just because you know what they mean doesn't mean you know how to spell them. How well do you know millennial words?
Let's find out.
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