THE LANGUAGE OF VINE

WHAT IS VINE?

• 6 second videos with captions
• Connected to twitter
• A new form of video social media
• Meant to be funny and humorous

IN GENERAL...

• Viners use a lot of expletives to sound funnier
• Almost always use an informal tone
• Lots of slang is used
• Words can be both said in the videos or written as a caption
• Example of social context, people use curse words because of the situation

OUR FINDINGS

• We found that there were several phrases or words repeated on vine
• "be like"
• "or nah"
• "Bae"
• "Do it for the vine"

BE LIKE

• Using the unconjugated form of the verb "to be"
• Ex. Boys be like dogs
• Correct grammar: Boys are like dogs

WHO USES IT?

• The phrase "be like" can be related back to ebonics
• African Americans are often taught incorrect tenses
• This is an example of dialects that have spead due to social media
• People who did not grow up in that culture are now using the dialect
• This is an example of contact with other cultures, affecting our speech

OR NAH?

• An alerternative slang word for the words no or not.
• Written and said as a question but meant to be a statement
• Ex. Is this the best vine or nah?
• Essentailly saying Is this the best vine or not.

Bae

• Bae is another slang word found on many social media sites
• Term of endearment
• Kind of like babe or baby
• Before. Anyone. Else

DO IT FOR THE VINE

• A common phrase in vine these days
• Said to get people to do outrageous things for vines
• The more outrageous the better
• Revines and likes is what people use this phrase for

IMPRESSIONS

• Another popular type of vine
• People do impressions of celebrities, cartoons, etc
• Forces people to alter their voice to sound like someone else
• Can bring out different accents and dialects based on the person

SOCIOLINGUISTIC CONNECTIONS

• All of these words and phrases came from somewhere
• This "vine slang" was spread through social media
• Displays different dialects, languages and accents
• This app is different because we can actually hear people instead of reading
• The contact with different cultures represented on vine has caused slang to spread