<hr/><div class="floatleft">(http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k183/Jefepato/tommyjpegedit_zps23c49e2e.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Tommy Nakamura<br/><strong>Nom De Guerre:</strong>Callout<br/><strong>Position/Grade:</strong>Student/Junior<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Wok Inn, or wherever sitting nearby in the food court<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Michael White<br/><br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/>"There's a website called Urban Dictionary.  Any user can add definitions, so one should be careful, but it does also have voting results.  If there are multiple definitions and they're too dissimilar, they might be true in different contexts, but I'd be worried that one was a prank or just an inside joke about a specific person, making it...unhelpful to include as a reference."<br/><br/>Tommy took a bite of his sandwich before proceeding.  "In terms of positive reaction, 'cool' is a useful adjective to describe something.  It's at least somewhat generic and it's lasted a lot longer than most slang..."  He went on to take a guess at a few more...starter slang words?  It was a little hard to know where to start, even for someone with an obvious interest in linguistics, but he could make a good try.  "Oh, and one thing.  It's fairly common, you may well have noticed, for people to exaggerate things in casual speech to the point of being alarming.  Someone who says his or her parents will 'kill' them doesn't mean anything even remotely as bad as that.  Although it's sort of difficult, because people also tend to misuse the word 'literally,' as though an intensifier."<br/><br/>"And I don't mind helping.  Doing the right thing is at least theoretically part of what we're learning here."