English Lesson to learn Tech Slang Words used in English speaking (Practice English Vocabulary)

Hello, thank you for clicking on this video; I am Niharika back with a new lesson for you.
Now have you noticed some strange technical slang words that most of these English speakers
use it on a daily basis? And then you keep wondering what it really means? Well this
lesson will tell you what exactly it means. In this lesson, we are gonna look at some
slang terms, in fact some technical slang words that belong to the world of photography,
camera or phone.
so, let's get started. The first one that we have over here is selfie. So are you selfie obsessed?
Well many of my friends on Facebook, they are selfie obsessed. So what exactly does
this word mean? Well selfie is a self-picture that is taken by extending your arm and then
clicking with the help of a digital camera or may be your camera phone. So most of the
youngsters these days, hey will you take a selfie for me? Or let's take a selfie. So
what is exactly a selfie is, that you extend your arm, take a picture of yourself, so you
pout, you smile but you're talking a picture of yourself. Okay so that is a selfie, a self-picture.
Now as I said, that it's typically taken by extending your arm but you can also take a
self-picture of yourself by clicking it or pointing your camera phone at a mirror okay.
So many of you might have come across pictures that are uploaded on Facebook or twitter.
So these pictures are taken, they are selfies but they are taken by pointing at the mirror.
So that is also a selfie.
Okay another word over here is groupie. Now groupie is pretty much like a selfie. Well
the only difference is that a groupie is taken by a couple of people. So basically by two
or more members wherein one of the member extends their arm and takes a picture. So
that all other group members are covered in the picture. Okay so that's a groupie. Everybody
is doing it these days, it's pretty much in. at the awards, at any functions, at any parties.
There are these groups of friends who get together and they love taking groupies. So
that's a groupie. Self-picture or a picture of lot of members but again taken by extending
your arm. Okay, so it's a group picture.
Another word over here is belfie. Strange, have you ever heard this before? Well it has
a very funny meaning to it well belfie means again a self-picture but a self-picture of
not yourself but your buttocks, that is funny. Are there people around who really take a
belfie? Well apparently, yes and that's exactly the reason why we have word here, that's belfie.
So belfie is a self-picture, it's a selfie of your buttocks. So the next time you come
across that kind of a picture, you can say, hey that's a belfie. Okay so you know it.
What exactly it means and what it is called.
The next word over here is photo bomb. now when you are taking a picture with your loved
one, okay you're smiling and your posing for a picture with your loved one and there goes
your friend how just hops in, he's definitely uninvited but hops into the picture, the moment
it's taken. So this means that he photo bombed your picture. Okay so when uninvited, an uninvited
person who just pops into your picture. Okay while it's being clicked. So basically, he's
called a photo bomber. So a person who does that will be called a photo bomber and if
you see someone doing that, you would say, hey would you please stop photo bombing my
picture? Okay so that's the word.
The next one is shutterbug and if you see there's another one here shutter nutter. Now
shutterbug is an American slang, okay which is used for a photographer who just eats,
sleeps, drinks photography. All that loves to do is take pictures of anything and everything.
So that kind of a photographer, we call them as shutterbugs. Okay so that's an American
term, American term for a photographer, who loves taking pictures all day long. Okay and
shutter nutter, it's a British slang and again with the same meaning, who eats, sleep,
drinks photography. Okay so hope you got this.
Let’s move on to here, we have Uncle Bob. Uncle Bob, well this is a slang term used
by wedding photographers for a person how keeps distracting every picture or who keeps
distracting the wedding photographers. We all have uncle bobs in our weddings. You go
to a wedding, you would always see a person who is carrying a camera and clicking pictures
as if he's been hired for the photography. so that's uncle bob for you who keeps annoying
these wedding photographers because wedding photographers love to be perfect. They love
to their job and if someone just keeps popping in, comes into their way, they get really
annoyed. so that person who keeps clicking pictures and kind of distracts these wedding
photographers, wedding photographers like to call him or her as uncle bob. Okay so someone
who keeps disturbing the wedding photographers. Okay so someone who keeps disturbing the photographer.
Then we have paparazzi. Well I'm sure you have come across this word especially in glamour
magazines or the newspapers. Well paparazzi are the media people who love, they are media
photographers rather who love taking pictures of the celebrities. Okay and especially when
the celebrities are busy living their routine life. So they kind of invade their privacy.
So they are paparazzi and trust me, the celebrities do not like to be papped. I'll come to that
but they do not like to be papped by the paparazzis so which means they hate to share their pictures
to the media when they are leading their normal life. So paparazzi are the photographers
who click celebrities. It’s like they keep stalking them and they really invade their
privacy, not good. But yes that's paparazzi for you. Then the next word is phablet. Now
phablet, this technical slang word is related to a phone. Well a phablet is something which
is a phone plus a tablet. Well these days, we love to buy new phones and especially people
love to buy phablets. So they are these phones which can be used as a phone and as a tablet.
Okay so it has all the features. Okay so that's a phablet for you.
The next one is, pap. Well the word pap means to click. But then again. It’s not just
to click, to click celebrities. So when I said, that the celebrities do not like to
be papped, papped means they do not like to be clicked by the paparazzi. okay so that's
the slang word that you can use that, ahh poor celebrities can't even step out of their
house without being papped, which means without being clicked by the paparazzis, okay. So
that's the word for you.
The next one is, blower. Now blower is another technical slang word that is used for a telephone.
Get on the blower, so which means get on the telephone. Okay so that's a slang word for
telephone.
Okay then we have hot spot. Now hotspot is a wireless network that you find in coffee
shops or restaurants. So it's a local wireless connection that you can connect your laptops
or your phone to. So it's basically a wireless network connection. So like when you go for
a cup of coffee to Starbucks, they have, they offer hotspot, they offer wireless connection.
So that's a slang word used for a wireless connection. Okay, that's hotspot. Okay, the
next one in fact the last one that I have for you is brick. Well brick, what do you
think it means, well brick means a big huge phone. Well these days, there are phone companies
that are introducing these huge phones. Most of them are phablets, okay. So these phablets
are huge. So when you are talking, it just feels like you're holding a brick to your
ear. So many people say, that oh my God look at your phone, it's a brick. So which means
that your phone is huge, it's big and most probably it's a phablet. So brick is a big
phone but I like using big phones. I like using the brick, okay, that's how I can say
it.
So these are some technical slang words that are now turned into plain English which means
that English speakers use these words on daily basis. So start using them and hope this lesson
is useful to you. I'll be back with a new lesson soon, thank you watching this video,
till then you take care.

English Lesson to learn Tech Slang Words used in English speaking (Practice English Vocabulary)

Latest Posts