translated from Spanish: Streamer dictionary: what the expressions “Nashe”, “Breo”, “insta”, “ido”, “Ndeah” and “arugula” mean

Nashe. “Breo”. Nascar. “Nice stay”. Thousands of young people use these expressions on a daily basis. Some, like the latter, are easier to identify because they are simple derivatives of words that we all use and that are in the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy. That’s why they also ran better “lucky” and reached a degree of popularity that practically makes them escape from their original ecosystem: the streamer. But what is a streamer? The word derives from the translation of “streaming”, which in Spanish means transmission. Users who showed, in real time, their performance in a video game, such as the League of Legends (LoL), Counter Strike (CS) or FIFA, were first named that way. However, over time, the definition also reached those who simply commented or reacted live to each other’s game. More here in time, the concept of streamer was amplified and today it is considered as such to any user who creates audiovisual content, that is, much more like a youtuber, but with the difference that everything happens live. So much grew the trend that every day thousands of young people are shown reacting to other videos, to the point of generating reactions, a loop that can be infinite. The isolation required by the advancement of COVID-19 influenced in different ways for these new terms used by streamers to break the barrier and transcend beyond their niche of origin. Those who already generated this content had more time to engage in the activity and, on the other hand, many began to take their first steps in the live broadcast. The most emblematic case is the “Kun” Aguero, which went from being just a world leader as a footballer to also becoming an eSports content generator via Twitch.

Martin Perez Disalvo (a.k.a. Coscu) and Sergio “Kun” Aguero.

The streamer community in Argentina is getting bigger and talking about a particular origin would be unfair. However, it is true that Martin Perez Disalvo, as head of the Coscu Army, was one of the forerunners in the activity, when streaming was still only linked to video game streaming. As a reference, he was forced on several occasions to clarify how and why in his environment they had begun to use certain terms that, when they crossed that border, generated repudiation. The clearest case is that of “Nazi,” which historically refers to the ideology of the regime that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945 with the coming to power of Adolf Hitler, a scorn of the Holocaust and World War II. However, among streamers, but mainly in the group that makes up the Coscu Army, it began to naturalize as a positive adjective. Sometimes they use it to claim that something is “too good”, but they can also apply it to say that an action is “risky”; for example, “that video is re Nazi” or “let’s do this re of Nazis.” It’s a very questionable and problematic thing. It’s a piece of shit we’re trying to stop using. But it all comes out of an anecdote from a friend, Momo’s. One day he told me in a streaming that he got into a fight with a guy on the street, who got off with a key. Then he said ‘he got off Nazis.’ She told it that way and people took the floor as very expressive, like saying that she had a German warrior attitude,” Perez Disalvio himself told in the interview he gave to Caja Negra. He clarified: “The truth is that it has nothing to do with anything, but people have repudiated it a lot. I’m not such an educated guy in terms of world history, but we all know what the Nazis were and who Hitler was, but they’ve come to say hello to me who tell me that in the house they fart them because they’re Jews and they say ‘Nazi’ too.”

The list of terms, or in any case expressions, is much larger and constantly updated. Most are born as a derivation of words that do appear in the dictionary, either to give it another meaning or to add expression – as with “goodness” – or simply to abbreviate them – as “insta”. Dictionary of words and expressions streamers

Afaert: express intensity. They usually add more vowels to give it more strength. Example: “This stream outputs until 5 afaeeeeerte”. 
Ban: is the expulsion of a user from a certain location. Most frequent use occurs in a video game, when someone is kicked out of a game with a restriction so that they can’t re-enter. However, the term was used in other areas: a user can be “banned” from a Twitch channel. Example: “I prefer Twitch to ban me before I lose all the videos.”
Baby: can be used to praise, pademonstrate attraction to someone or just to refer to someone close to you. Examples: “You came out of the photo,” “What a baby you are” or “I missed you, baby.” It can be understood as a “baby” deformation, mixed with “bebote”, that is, the way to act to get someone’s attention.
Breo: similar way of telling someone “friend”, but even closer. It’s a “brother” deformation, that is, “brother” in English. Examples: “You’re tremendous, breo” or “Come and stream home, breo.”
Buenardo: more colloquial way of saying that something is good. “We were playing counter with a friend named Rogel and he started saying ‘No, no, good aaardo, good aardo’. And from there I said, ‘That word is crazy,'” Coscu explained in Black Box.
Route or arugula: another way of saying something is too good. Examples: “This food is on the road” or “What arugula slippers”.
Dou: way to celebrate something. It is similar to the “route”, but is used to adjective a memorable action or event rather than an object. Example: “Doooooou, man, you were amazing.”
Duracell: how to describe when someone is under the effect of a narcotic or appears to be. It arises as a funny way to use the name of the battery brand. Example: “That guy is re duracell”.
F: to show respect, appear or ironize about it. It originates from the call Of Duty video game: when a character dies, the legend “Press F to show your respects” appears. Thus, it went from gaming to streaming as a way to be respectful of something, although it later deformed into an ironic expression. Example: “Grandpa died. F.”
Fornai: alternative way to refer to the video game “Fortnite”, popularized from the theme song of the same name, released by Duki.
Host: Twitch’s option so that when you finish a stream, all your viewers pass on to the person you host.
Gone: used to describe something that is at its best or gone out of hand, but with positive connotation. Examples: “This theme is gone” or “Noooo friend, you’re gone”.
Insta: abbreviated form of “instantly”, used to mention an action that occurred or is going to happen from one moment to the next. Variant of other expressions, such as “at the touch” or “of one”. Examples: “Food is insta” or “I will see the live of Coscu insta”.

INSTA WINE TO STAY…
IT WILL BE MORE FAMOUS THAN GOOD INSTA — Martin Perez Disalvo (@Martinpdisalvo)
July 19, 2020

Kjjjjjjjjjj: indicates a lot of laughter. It’s also often used to make fun of someone. Example: “I saw you making a fool of yourself in front of everyone, kjjjjjjj.”.
Level or lvl: parameter to qualify something. They are simply the translation and abbreviation of level, in English. Examples: “What level you are waning” or “You are already at the lvl of Coscu”.
Messirve: another way to claim that something is good or useful. He mixes three elements: Messi as a footballer, Messi for the name coscu gave to his dog and the simple union with the “serve” conjugation. Example: “This video messirve”. 
Backpack: synonymous with hump. Example: “I’m going to end quarantine with a backpack.”
Nascar, Nazi or Nashe: way to rate something that was very epic and suitable for the moment. Originally the expression used was “Nazi”, but over time and before the repudiate that it generated by its connection with Hitler’s regime it deformed into “nascar” or “de nashe”. Examples: “This stream is from nascar” or “Coscou played Nazi”.
Ndeeeeah: it comes from the “no idea”, but it is used as a synonym for “ahre”. They usually add consonants to give it more expression. It is used to demonstrate that an action or phrase made a funny or in certain cases sarcastic meaning. Examples: “I like the teacher so much that I’m going to go to all the classes, ndeahhhhhhh.”.
Nt: is an abbreviation for “nice try”, which in Spanish means “good try”. It is also used as a lament, similar to “bad there”. Example: “I didn’t last three rounds, nt.”
Eye to yjo: keep an eye out for everything that happens. Similar to the old “eye to lice”. Example: “Eye to yed, in one of those is cheating on you”.
Picantovich: equivalent to “spicy” or a variation of “it’s stung.” Example: “This CS game is picantovich”. From its popularity, the ending “vich” was incorporated into other words. Example: “He got redovich.”
Phite: like “vich” (for example, in “picantovich”), it is used as an additional ending for other words, without a specific meaning. It is often incorporated as a variant of the mode adverbs finished in “-mind”, such as “literally” or “obviously”. Examples: “Literalphite, this expression does not take off anymore”.
Trolling: when someone acts in a displicent way or to affect someone. It started to be used in gaming and then migrated to social media. Exemplor: “You became a troll”
Traveled: sometimes used as a simple “travel” deformation. In others, they apply it as synonymous with “old”. Examples: “I have a re-travel to Mendoza” or “I have class with a poorly traveled teacher”. 

The great unknown is whether these terms or expressions will cross the frontier of the streamer community to a more popular use. The truth is that through the networks that line is so thin that it is no longer strange to end up consuming many of them in everyday life, mainly through the platforms that are most used by streamers and that are not just niche. “Language is like a living organism, it is always evolving with the introduction of new words and the disappearance of others. There is no closed and strict set of words as is sometimes thought to be the dictionary,” explained Javier Bezos, orthotym specialist at the Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu) in an interview with the BBC. The specialist even spoke in favor of an attempt to generate a renewal in the language and states that anyone can create a word: “Yes, anyone can do it, although or not they can succeed.” Most of the words used by streamers arise as deformations of others already incorporated by the dictionary or from the translation and adaptation of English. Will their use expand wide enough to be popularly accepted? Time will tell.

Original source in Spanish

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