The Most Popular Street Slangs in Lango Through The Years!
“Senior, tin itye dead! Yamo tye ikomi bo?” “Ahh, atye bao-bao kitoro. Bisma tin pe ikoma omio yala ogoa oko. Opia aman pe tye agena atwali. Boc ikoma ni anwongo i style. Alonyo na pwod owoto oko”. If you were walking on the streets of Lira and you over heard the conversation above between two youthful friends, would you have understood what they are talking about? I don’t know when the last time it was when you were in Lira city. And what the street slangs in the city were. But the street culture in Lira is as vibrant as it ever was. Am reckoning that almost every five years, there is a new set of slangs that hits the streets. Some of them are quite enduring while others can be too localized and disappear as quickly as they come. Lately I have been keeping an open ear to them and I have been trying to catch up with really cool ones. In this article am trying to chronicle for you some of the street slangs from the 1980s to the 2020s. Besides, there is one slang that ha...
