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Hernandez
Hi, everyone
I have a question for US English speakers. In the US, do you (especially the younger generation) use all of these following verbs? Drag, Rip, Roast, Troll, Diss. . With the exception of “Rip, do they all mean “mock”, “taunt”?
Could I say something like “My wife roasted/dissed/trolled me a lot because I had my pants on backwards this morning”
“Their rival football fans roasted/dissed/trolled them all week about their latest loss”
“This father is funny. He’s always trolling/roasting his children in the most unbelievable ways”
Thank you!
15 apr. 2021 22:03
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Well, sorry but I have to give you the older guy’s opinion. First of all, all of those expressions are extreme slang, and probably used very rarely, if at all. The easiest is troll. That’s an internet expression (either as a verb or noun) for a person who is on a social media platform to disrupt the forum. You might say, “Ignore him. He’s just a troll trolling the board.” The word probably comes from the fairytale troll under the bridge, and those sorts of stories.
I’ve not heard to drag/drag in anything but its usual meaning.
A roast is sometimes used when a group of well-known people get together and each stands up an makes a joke about one of the the others in the group. That’s the only slang use of a roast I’ve ever heard.
To diss someone is to put someone down. That word is fairly common and used as a verb. To rip (usually into someone) is to go on a verbal assault of another. That’s fairly commonly used, but always as a verb, like to diss.
I’m not familiar with any other slang uses of those words. If you are a learner of English, I’d recommend mastering standard English first before venturing into rare (and probably regional) slang English.
16 april 2021
Hi I’m an 18 year old in America!
In your first sentence the word trolled is out of place. Trolled means to joke. So in your first example, if you intentionally put your pants on backwards then you were “trolling” your wife.
For the same reason troll doesn’t work in the second sentence.
In the third sentence, trolled definitely works and so does dissed. However, dissed - to me at least - seems a little do aggressive and not like something a parents would actually do to their children. These words are more appropriate for younger children than for adults but it still works.
Drag and rip are words that I’ve never heard from kids. They sound outdated.
roast diss and insult are all synonyms
troll and joke are synonyms
15 april 2021
I’m an 18 year old native English speaker in Canada (US English and CAN English are really similar in pronunciation and vocabulary). I don’t think I’ve ever used ‘drag’ in my life, but troll, diss, roast I’ve all heard and used before. Though you can take my word with a grain of salt, I’m not a super slang-y person, or even really considered that cool.
A diss and a roast are more like direct insults, I would say, while trolling usually is a more general term for provocation. Sometimes it’s an insult, but it could also be done by saying anything that intends to get an emotional response. For example, if I lied to my friend that her crush, the person she liked, was standing right behind her, she might get annoyed at me when she figured out I lied. I was trolling her.
Out of those phrases, I would say that roast is the most appropriate in the backwards-pants context, haha, but I suppose diss would work too. In my mind, maybe others think differently, a diss is an even more direct insult, whereas a roast is used to expose someone or to call them out on something embarrassing or abnormal. Roasting is usually more humorous, if that makes sense.
As for RIP, which stands for Rest In Peace, a phrase typically said to or about a dead person, i.e. “King Richard, may he rest in peace,” I have used in the past, but the usage kind of comes and goes (my 13 year old sister started using it again recently). Usually it’s used to express embarrassment (“I can’t believe I said that - rip me”) or hopelessness/despair (He said he had a chemistry test tomorrow that he hadn’t studied for, so I told him, “rip.”) It’s pretty cheesy. Other things I’ve heard people say in similar circumstances are “dead.” or “oof,”both of which are also cheesy.
Hope that helps some.
15 april 2021
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