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12 New Slang Terms for the New Year 2013

and a few old dated slang to avoid.

Already the new

Roscoe rests after picking the top slang words

year has begun, and the question is what is cool, and what words are
out of style? After spending zillions of hours of raking through the data, talking to peeps, and watching stuff, we present the words you need to know for 2013, plus a bonus letter, and Google trend charts to back us up.

In Slang Terms for 2013

1. Spranqles
Winning the award for the number one word is quite an honor, it makes me want to say Spranqles, you should rise your voice at the last syllable. Sprankles is still in wide use, 2013 requires a new spelling however.
Sprankles and Spranqles will open so many doors for you will think your Carlos castenda. (Doors of perception)

2. Wavy
Ahh so relaxing just saying it, imagine being it.

—-Bonus Letter———-
Q – yes Q is the hottest letter you can say, change a C or K to Q for added effect in Facebook posts.
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3. Let’s Bounce
Why say goodbye when you can bounce away? Sometimes you must leave, and don’t have time for the still hip-
See you later Alligator.

4. Super-Sweet
Sweet and super-sweet show that you think something is awesome.

5. Fo Shizzle (ad “my nizzle” when appropriate)
Sure is not always enough.

6. Mreoow
Sometimes word’s just don’t do it. And people Meoww, mreoow is much more stylin.

7. Legit
legit is Making a comeback as peeps are just tired of lying douches. This word has varied uses, all are complimentary.

8. Chilling
Relaxing is important, the long form of this word is Chilling like a Villain.

9. Noob
Being a rookie a newcomer is a long-lasting concept in society which there will always be words for.
Use Noob and you will not sound like one.

10. Qrackling
I am going to a Qrackling New Years Party.

11. Bumping
This party is bumping.

12. Stylin
This can be a person or a thing.

Avoid-

LOL that is not a word meant to pronounce, some people trully seem annoyed by it.
Rookie- This isnt a football game so don;t use Rookie, use Noob

Way- just avoid it please.

Dont overuse-
Bro- so many words for friend and this one os often used when people are lecturing people so it is losing its luster.

Radical- Any word for good is OK, still rad and radical are quite dated.

K- K is short and sweet, and a word that can be beat.

Of course slang is always changing and we are working hard to make sense of it all. What slang is popular? What slang is out? This is tricky to figure, so we tapped Google trends to aid in our research. The first chart has some random new and old slang and as you can see cool is still cool a while hip is slipping.

In this chart we compared a few words for “good”

Now in such a wacky year we decied to see what words for crazy are trending.


Eros is one of my favorite employees and friends ever.
Enjoy the picture.


Multilingual Books today announces the launching of pay what you wish, for a number of quality language course and children’s books downloads.
The concept is simple, many people may want to try before they buy, or want to pay less or more than the stated price. This system allows people to use our best courses including the world renowned Platiquemos course for free. Courses that previously sold for as much as $600 in the physical editions are now free. The courses tyically have 5-15 hours of audio and a significant text for each level.

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With every donation Multilingual Books will produce and donate one copy of Sea Monsters to a children’s charity.

The course are listed and described on the Free Language Blog at
and on the main Multilingual Books download page


Tired of people complaining about how the new I-phone isn’t quite perfect? This spoof by Saturday Night Life (SNL)puts these complaints in perspective.


Happy Rosh Hashanah the Jewish New Year is upon us and so we have collected some videos to share including the viral rock anthem music version. For more information on this important holiday see wikopedia.