Slang Words

     Slang words are often used in high schools and are popular throughout the world. However they are most commonly used with teenagers. Many of the slang words, an average high schooler starts off not knowing. If I were to create a new slang word which has a meaning with nothing to do with what it actually means and then started to use it in casual conversations, what do you think would happen? Would people pretend they know what it means and start using it? I believe that this would happen because it would seem possible since no one wants to be the person that is not up to date with their slang words/phrases. This would mean that people would just play "Follow the leader" and they would just go along with what other people say. No one wants to be the person that has to awkwardly ask their friends what somethings means (Which is usually me, unfortunately). Sometimes the person who doesn't know the word would look the word up on the Internet after hearing it (Urban Dictionary, I think people use...) and they would try to avoid asking a friend. By asking a friend, it means that you are not 'cool' or it could just be that your friends are trying to trick you into using it because you don't know the real meaning. Plus for all you know it could be a) not a universal slang word or b) a made up word used to mock you if you use it without knowing what it really is, and since you don't ask someone you embarrass yourself...so the lesson gathered from all of this, would be to not degrade the English language any further by using slang terms, or to at least find out what the actual meaning of the word is, before you start using it.