Slang does not sabotage or damage teenager’s vocabulary, slang does not create teen’s language to become saturated and teens to not be able to survive in the real world. If saying that another language is sabotaging their English language and vocabulary, that means you’re saying that when they learn to speak Spanish or French, that is saturating their vocabulary. What annoys me is that when we “Youths” speak to each other, in the way we do it’s different to the way we speak normally with our parents, so please don’t judge us by our cover, if you have nothing good to say, don’t say it behind our back, in fact don’t say it at all, if you don’t have the consideration to talk face to face to us. That we want to speak the way how we want to, you might as well take the freedom to talk and stand up for ourselves, I’m speaking for the teenagers of today, why we should be able to talk how we want to or speak slang or ‘colloquialism’ if that’s the real name for it.
Some adults and teenagers say that slang is not sabotaging their language and vocabulary because, they are trying to be different, and they don’t want to be like their parents. When teens use slang they feel different and unique. So when people listen in they won’t understand because, they don’t know of slang or their slang is different from where they’re from because slang is varied from different countries like; Spain; America; Ireland. Another reason why adults that used slang when they were young because all the words they used have now been developed over time from ‘u alrigh’ to ‘cool’ or even a nod of the head or sometimes a pat on the back, it changes from time to time, so people try to speak slang and say something that has been changed to something different that might be something bad and could turn out really bad.
When I am with my mates or friends I change the way I talk to them compared to the way I speak with my friends. When I’m talking to my friend sometimes with overlap each other or interrupt each other when they are just about to speak. But when I am with family such as my parents there is no overlapping or just a little bit of interruption and all my words are emphasized instead of not pronouncing them correctly.
Teenagers today say that English is ‘Too long!’ boring or dull, the reason why teens use slang is because that it’s not boring but creative, so they thought lets simplify English so when texting of putting ‘what are you up to?’ you can put ‘Wuu2’, they also abbreviated short words like;
You – u
Why – y
To or too – 2
They made talking so much more creative and fun not boring, dull or grey.
Why do you adults only notice now that is used or as you say ‘teenagers that are ill-equipped to survive in the real world’ or ‘slang is sabotaging teenager’s vocabulary’. When my dad was my was younger, as a teenager he was speaking slang like it was his first language which is of course English but they treated it differently to be unique and not to be like adults. He got colloquialism from his friends and might of got some from his parents so it means that slang, was used long before he was born is well. When North America was not a developed as it is now, for example Texas, when it was just sands cottages and cowboys, they spoke differently how we do now, Hello was ‘Howdy’, ‘fixin’ta’ was I’m ready and ‘dag nab it!’ was an expression of swearing without cursing. So why do adults only notice now is because some of the words we use sound so ridiculous and out of this world like we came from a different planet.
To conclude that slang is not sabotaging teenager language or vocabulary because everyone has used it before even, when texting. So Wuu2, lol, R u awake it still counts as slang or not proper English because; it is not the Queens English. If you take slang away from us now you are rewriting history, you might as well take your teenage life away because everyone in the world has used slang, but when we get older we will lose it because we are becoming more serious in life, we’re not 12 or 16 anymore we are 25 with a girlfriend and a job, that pays the bills. So let colloquialism “slangs” correct name for the younger’s to live with and let them choose the right option of having their youth life and then grow up and be mature or become a boring adult before they even leave school, and that is why teenagers should use slang or why teenagers use slang?
React!