Slang does not sabotage or damage teenagers vocabulary but give them another way of communicating.
Slang does not sabotage or damage teenagers vocabulary. Slang does not create teen’s language to become saturated and not 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 us teenagers learn to speak another language. That is saturating their vocabulary. What irritates me is that when “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 anything good to say, don’t say it behind our back, in fact don’t say it at all. Have the consideration to talk to us face to face. 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’.
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. When people listen in they won’t understand because, they don’t know our 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. People try to speak slang and say something that has been changed overtime that might be something bad and could turn out unacceptable.
When I am with my friends I change the way I talk to them compared to the way I speak with my family. When I’m talking to my friend sometimes we overlap each other or interrupt each other when they are just about to speak, not because we are being rude or ignorant or we are arguing. But if we interrupt it is because, we are talking about a topic that is normally heard and we like to hear about. When I am with my family such as my parents there is no overlapping or interruption and all my words are emphasized, I mean we say our t’s in ‘that’ and we pronounce our ‘th’ in ‘them or the’ instead of not pronouncing them correctly. When I am with my friends they understand we don’t pronounce most words correctly, but with adults they like to hear all the corrections and see that we show intelligence.
Teenagers today say that English is ‘Too long!’ boring or dull.The reason why teens use slang is to be creative, so they thought lets simplify English.When texting of putting ‘what are you up to?’ you can put ‘Wuu2’, they also abbreviated short words;
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, 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 as developed as it is now, for example Texas, when it was just sands cottages and cowboys, they spoke differently to how they do now, Hello was ‘Howdy’, ‘fixin’ta’ was I’m ready and ‘Dag nab it!’ was an expression of swearing without cursing. Adults only notice it now because some of the words we use sound ridiculous and out of this world, like we come from a different planet.
To conclude that slang is not sabotaging teenager language or vocabulary because everyone has used it before, even before the mobile phone developed 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. When we get older we will lose it because we are becoming more mature in life, we’re not 12 or 16 any more we are 25 with a girlfriend and a job, that pays the bills living in a decent apartment. So let the younger people use colloquialism “slang” to be in their lives and let them choose the option of having their youth 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?