Slang uses referred to modernity, language assimilation, and language variety in socialdiscourses; that underlined the background to the reason of young generation toassimilate and modification, as a tool for communicating also socialization. Importantly,slang even the outer level of young ages, will interpret as negative meanings, but theygoing to acquire in variety moment. That culture or we can appeal as language behave,promoting their boundaries as independent language user. In further slang became thesymbol of freedom of speech, the popularity of zoom generation, a group of human classentity, and modern life. All perspective above, that grounded and interrelated to slanguses, was implicating to the use of Anjay word [as the representative or reflection of thevarious slang in Indonesia]. A word such Anjay, transported from negative meaningswhich rooting of [dog-word; in Bahasa Indonesia as Anjing] became one of popular slangthat expressed of enthusiasm, adore, joke, love, and friendship to one object.Unpredictable and unthinkable, why, today, as researcher try to describe this topic, thatword was problematic to the outer ages of young generation. We have to notice that,Anjay popularity have been using for years, and Indonesian known as one of our Prokemor in English call Slang. Besides that, the highest trend of the uses of that word wasachieving in period of YouTube golden age likes in the mid of pandemic. There hasnumerous user of Anjay word in the moment of speaking. To adhere that issue, researcherwas in purpose to describe from scientific attention, in short the interchangeable oflanguage scope to the Anjay word in depth, the method was literature study that compiledof journal-thesis-and bachelor paper. Result showed that slang in general studies, wereseveral of type. So that, we have to consider not also the root of word, but the locus,segment of the user, the reason behind the slang used, and the other language studiesfactor, such as semantic, lexicon, sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic. Shortly, Anjay wordinterpretation or description, considered as various slang that not only simply to relate fornegative meanings as its viral discussion, but as the language expression to the entitygroup such young ages.
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