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"What up today?" - is this sentence correct
  

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It has to be "what's up" where the apostrophe and s are showing that the verb "is" . Also, you don't really hear "what's up" teamed with "today" it is more commonly teamed with: what's up now? what's up with you?

  • It has to be "what's up" where the apostrophe and s are showing that the verb "is" .
  • Also, you don't really hear "what's up" teamed with "today" it is more commonly teamed with: what's up now?
  • what's up with you?
  • - which is not very polite!
  • what's going on?
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It has to be "what's up" where the apostrophe and s are showing that the verb "is" . Also, you don't really hear "what's up" teamed with "today"

it is more commonly teamed with:
what's up now?
what's up with you? - which is not very polite!
what's going on?
what's the score? - which means what's going on / happening / as well as a sports score
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"What up?" is American urban ghetto slang. See "dawg", "peeps", and "nizzle".
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if the original poster is interested in ghetto talk!

In the UK black community you hear something that sounds like "wag-wan" which can be expanded to "what is going on"

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