青少年网络秘语知多少？

爱思英语编者按：研究人员表示，青少年在某社交网站上创造出一种让大人看不懂他们想干什么，而只有他们自己能明白的秘密语言。

Ppl:People 人
cwl:Cool 好极了，棒极了
Lyk:Like 喜欢
Taken and Ownageeee:To be strongly attached to someone  已经有男、女朋友
Legal:Commonly used by girls to make it clear that they are of legal age to have sex  已经年满16岁（合法性行为的年龄）
Getting MWI:Getting mad with it (mwi) means getting very drunk, also known as "steaming" 喝醉酒
Ridneck:Pronounced redneck and is used to describe embarrassment--in that it will cause them to have a red neck. 感到困窘或难堪

Teenagers on social networking site Bebo have created a secret language to stop adults knowing what they are up to, researchers say.
研究人员表示，青少年在社交网站Bebo上创造出一种让大人看不懂他们想干什么，而只有他们自己能明白的秘密语言。

Youngsters are using slang words to keep parents and employers in the dark about their social activities such as partying and drinking.
青少年创造出这种新式表达方式，是为了不让父母和雇主看懂他们在网上发起的聚会和喝酒之类的活动。

Instead of writing they are drunk, teens post "Getting MWI"--or mad with it.
如果要说自己喝醉了，他们不说"getting drunk"，而是说"getting MWI"，或者"mad with it"。

Being in a relationship is known as "taken" or "Ownageeee", and "Ridneck", a corruption of redneck, means to feel embarrassed.
如果要表述自己正在谈恋爱，青少年会以"taken"或"ownageeee"来描述自己。而"ridneck"则是故意这么拼写来代替"redneck"，用来表达感到困窘或难堪。

Meanwhile, girls posting "Legal" are indicating that they are above 16 and legally allowed to have sex.
如果有女孩子以"legal"来描述自己的状况，意思是说她已经年满16岁，可以合法进行性行为。

Lisa Whittaker, a postgraduate student at the University of Stirling, who studied teens aged 16-18 in Scotland, said the slang had been created to keep their activities private, and cited the example of one young girl who was sacked after bosses found pictures of her drinking on the website.
苏格兰斯特灵大学的研究生丽莎·惠特克对16至18岁青少年在Bebo社交网站上的活动进行研究。她表示，曾经有一个年轻女孩在社交网站上张贴自己喝酒的照片而被雇主开除，所以现在的青少年为了保持自己网上活动的隐私，创造除了这种新的秘密语言。

She said: "Young people often distort the languages they use by making the pages difficult for those unfamiliar with the distortions and colloquialisms.  "
她说，“青少年扭曲语言的用法，这样看他们网页的人就很难了解这些词汇或口语表达的真正含义。”

"The language used on Bebo seems to go beyond abbreviations that are commonly used in text messaging, such as removing all the vowels."
“Bebo网站上的这些新词已经跳脱英语原有的缩写范畴。之前的缩写有规律可循，比如略去原音字母，它们常常出现在短信中。”

"This is not just bad spelling, but a deliberate attempt to creatively misspell words."
“而这些新词并不是拼写错误，而是刻意的，创造性的误拼。”更多信息请访问：http://www.24en.com/

"By doing this they are able to communicate with their in-group and conceal the content from the out-group."
“使用这些新词，青少年可以和自己团体里面的人交流，非自己团体里面的人就看不懂。”