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India for example uses worldwide slag, specially students that are in other countries. They use words like: Desi Belonging to India, Amru – American, Desh – India, Kallu - African American, Makku – Hispanic

Italian dialects remained the common parlance of the population until about the 1950s. With progressive increases in literacy, standard Italian became gradually accepted as the national language. Until World War II people of lower classes, who could not afford schooling or simply had no use for a national language, continued to use their own dialects in their daily lives. It is probably in this period that the stigma against using dialects in public arose, since it was a sign of low social status; later on, this trend to marginalize people using dialects subsided, however dialects were still not used in public because new generations, as well as immigrants from other parts of Italy, could not understand them

And Colombian slang varies among tehregion, the social class and the age of the people. For example: there exists too many definitions to the word “cool”, such as: “chevere”, Bacano, maximo, super.