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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:31 pm
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Slang is a touchy subject.
I don't like the last implication, that slang helps to dehumanize people and not care about them.
(Like using the word retard too casually. I avoid that word. Dip, feeb, etc. It is worse than bad when such things end up making a person uncaring about those different from them. You end up lumping anyone by one term and you'll forget to look at them as individuals, which helps no one.)
On the other hand, invented slang does take some creativity, and being fluent at it can slap you in with the "in crowd". Problem is: Do you WANT to be with the incrowd? Or be your own person?
Yes, I do occassionally let slip a slang word here and there; I am from central Iowa and just imagine what kinds of words are part of our vocabulary that are not found in New York or San Francisco. Being a stickler for good grammer, though, I never got too far into "slangspeak".
...Well, not unless you count the kind of talk that evolves in restaraunts. They tend to invent their own terms, and I've worked in fast food places that use words I don't hear elsewhere.
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:06 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:06 am
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:54 am
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:34 am
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:04 am
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 1:35 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:30 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:32 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:17 pm
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:36 am
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:56 am
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:32 pm
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greenrider_calidar I think that there are different kinds of slang: the slang people use to make themselves look tough (ghetto slang), the slang that refers to a certain trade or profession which lets you take less time to get your message to people who need to know and also understand (trade slang), the slang that people use with their friends because everyone knows what you're talking about already (selective slang), and the slang that people use because they don't know what else to say and can't use good grammar (illiterate slang). Basically, in my mind trade slang and selective slang are okay and useful when used in the proper setting and with the proper knowledge of what everything means. Ghetto slang and illiterate slang just make people look stupid and serves no purpose whatever. Whenever people use ghetto and illiterate slang, they are just proving how stupid and ignorant they really are. If you can't talk right then don't talk at all. There is a time and place for everything, including slang, but there is also a time and place for you to use the English language (or whatever your native language is) correctly. I think this says what I was trying to get at. And I think that what really needs to be remembered is what you are using slang for. It is partially cultural. And while most of us will swear by never using "gangsta talk", how how many of us were raised saing "cool", "sweet", "nice", or any other regional accepted slang. There are kinds of slang that sound better than others. Casual speech is alright in the proper situations.
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 11:28 am
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One can't argue that slang in general is bad. There are words we don't think twice about using that were once slang, but have now become so ingrained in modern culture that they're impossible to avoid. As Anye5 mentioned, "cool" is one of those words. Most of us use it regularly, but never really stop to think "Wow, that's slang." It's something most Americans, at least, grew up hearing. In most instances, a person wouldn't be faulted for tossing "cool" into a sentence, even if it's frowned upon in an educated setting such as a speech or term paper. But contractions aren't supposed to be used in term papers, either, and I know of no one who would argue that contractions are slang or incorrect grammar.
Some slang grows out of a regional dialect. I'm sure there are some words I use that other people would be confused be, simply because the words are common for my region. Tell most people I'm a Hoosier, and all I'll get for my trouble is a blank stare. Foreign people can't even pronounce it, let alone understand or define it!
I personally have nothing against slang except when used in the extreme, such as the ridiculous "ghetto" language. Half that is made-up words because the people who speak it just aren't educated, often through no fault of their own, but occasionally--such as the ghetto-talkers in my school--they are willfully ignorant. There is no excuse for why students at a four-star school in the suburbs speak "ghetto." That's just plain laziness and, in my opinion, inexcusable.
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