As you know, various subcultures, minorities and other groups of people united by common interests have their own slang. What it is? Slang is a group of words that is used by a limited circle of people (for example, adherents of the same profession, etc.). Why is it needed? Slang words are used to disguise the meaning of what has been said and, no matter how trite it sounds, to make vocabulary more diverse. In this article, we will talk about the so-called Internet jargon. More precisely, about the fairly common word "labor". What does "tru" mean? The answer to this burning question lies in this article.
Internet slang
Quite often on the Internet you can find strange and at first sight incomprehensible words. Such lexical units are called network jargon or simply Internet slang. As a rule, similar words have roots in the English language. For example, "flood" (from the English flood - "stream"), "heyt" (from the English hate - "hate"), "holivar" (from the English holy war - "holy war") and so on. Sometimes it is very difficult to understand the meaning of such words to uninitiated people. In this article, we will discuss one of the most popular Internet jargon - Tru. What is labor? What is the origin of the word? You can read about all this and much more below.
What is labor?
Some people have only recently begun to explore the vast expanses of the World Wide Web. Because of their inexperience, beginners begin to ask questions like: "What is" labor "?" This article is intended to answer such questions.
"Tru" (from English true - "real", "truth") is a word that can often be found while communicating on the Internet. What does "tru" mean? This expression denotes the elitism of an object, phenomenon or act. Most interestingly, “labor” also means national identity. For example, the phrase "tru-beer" will speak not only about the delicious taste of the drink, but also about its German origin.
In addition, this prefix can be used in order to emphasize brutality. For example, “true father” means a person who has reached the limit of mastery in a certain field (usually used in video games).
Origin history
For the first time this word - true - was noticed in the slang of metallers (lovers of heavy rock music). Then it was used with English black. In those days, “true black” meant real heavy music or artists originally from Norway. If "tru-black" was used in relation to a person, then this meant that he leads a loose-headed, like a real metalhead, way of life (sets fire to churches, hates Christians, participates in satanic or pagan rites and does other evil). In the course of the popularization of heavy music, the word came into the everyday life of American youth. After that, it went around the world and is now used even in the Russian segment of the Internet.
In addition, there is a version that the word "tru" as jargon first appeared in the famous beer advertisement from the famous company Bud. Then the main slogan of the video was True (used in relation to beer).
"Tru"
We understood what “labor” is. But often in the vastness of the Web you can find a word similar in spelling - "tru". What does it mean?
In fact, “tru” and “tru” are the same word with the same meaning. So why does the first option have an extra letter? This is done in order to distinguish Internet jargon from a similar one in writing the Russian verb. Indeed, due to the similarity of these two words, there is often a misunderstanding between Internet users (many anecdotes have even been invented on this basis). In addition, many believe that the capital letter "b" gives the word additional brutality.