Hi there, my name is Ronnie, and today I'm going to teach you one very beautiful special
word in English, and how we use it kind of like an idiom.
The word is "freak".
This is another lesson by request.
The person that wrote in and requested this lesson is actually living in the fine city
of Toronto, and that's actually where I am right now.
Where are you?
Do you know?
So this is probably a word that this person has heard on the street.
So we like to call this "slang".
And slang means basically words that are not in your dictionary, or that we've taken from
the dictionary, we've changed the meaning of.
Slang, you can think of it like an idiom, but it's more used by younger generation people,
and people who make new words and make them fun.
So let's go through some of the slang fun we can have with the word "freak".
I think Michael Jackson did a song about being a freak.
Super freak.
No.
Who was that?
I'll get it.
Grandmaster Flash.
So if someone says to you, "You are a freak", you think this has a good meaning or a bad
meaning?
We need a capital on every sentence.
We begin in English, by the way.
Bad teacher.
If someone says, "You are a freak", it's not a good thing.
It kind of means you're a little crazy.
So this might have a bad meaning to it.
If it's your friend, and he says, "You're a freak", then that's okay.
But if it's someone that you don't know, and they call you a freak, not very good.
If you hear someone say that another person was or is freaking out, so we can use he is,
or if you want to use the past, he was freaking out.
That meant that the person was going crazy.
Maybe they had something wrong with them, or something bad happened, and they lost their
minds, not literally again, and they started slamming things and just going freaking out
like that.
Some people can freak out on the dance floor, which is dancing in a crazy style, but generally
freaking out means going crazy, jumping around, and all the fun things associated with going
crazy.
Not literally, of course.
Now, if you just use the word "freaking" on its own, this is a nice way that teenagers
have changed a very naughty word in English and used it so that their mommies and daddies
don't get mad at them.
You might hear people say, "He is a freaking idiot."
So, this, good meaning, bad meaning, bad meaning.
And what the person is really wanting to say instead of freaking is fucking.
This is used as an adjective, yay.
So this word in English, fucking, is very, very, very naughty.
Once again, if I said that word, my mom would get angry at me.
So we've changed it to freaking.
You might hear something like people say, "Freaking."
This is the same idea, we're replacing this bad word with a word that doesn't make sense
and everyone thinks is cool, or alright to say in front of children.
So if someone says, "He is freaking," "He is," uh-oh, "a," oh, forgot the "a," "He is a freaking
idiot," or "a freaking idiot," they really want to say this, but they can't, okay?
That's about all I can think of.
The last one is, as I mentioned before, on the dance floor.
Somebody can be a super freak.
If I have my musical history correct, super freak was used in the early 1970s with the
first rapper, Grandmaster Flash, calling himself a super freak.
Now, I could have that information wrong, so it's your job to go and Google that, or
Yahoo that, whatever you'd like, I think Google's better, and see who, what artist, sang the
song "Super Freak."
That's all for now, folks.
Bye-bye.