I think that's why they give you an Airport Diagram in your Jepp's and good Airmanship would dictate that you study your "expected" taxi route... Don't expect to be lead by the nose... "I'm unfamiliar, requst progressive taxi." won't cut it...
Actually, it will.
Those guys would have been better off asking for help than try bull$hitting their way through that situation.
Remember, nothing wrong with admitting that you do not know/understand something.
That controller wasn't using slang, that's just the nuu yoaaahhk accent. It's no better, no worse than some other accents around the world.
And no, english is not my native language.