Slangs In The English Language
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For hundreds of years, English has been continuously changing.
Words that were unacceptable 300 years ago are now commonplace. English
has always had a trademark of being a comfortable language, the language of
the common people (MacNeil 143). Change in the grammar and diction of a
language is na ....
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.... words do. Slang is usually created by children or teens who seek
social status (Morrow 137). Because kids are the source of new slang, some
adults look down on it with the assumption that kids are unintelligent and
simply rebelling against established English grammar and diction. However,
most of the adults did the same thing when they were children. Adults have
been frowning on slang for generations (Crystal 104).
Conservatives also look down upon slang because slang is not used ....
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