Because to add a slang in your talk is not the proper way to speak, If you use a slang in a speech some people may not understand what are you saying, just for the simple reason that they do not know the meaning of that word or phrase you will create a communication problem. One of the most common expressions in America is to "Hang out" you can hear all the time " Hey I am going to hang out with my friends" or "Do you want to hang out with me tonight" which means to go out with friends or…
Such a slang becomes offensive and frequently crosses the line, not to others who may hear it, but also to the groups that are being put down. In now’s workplace there 's no place where racist or sexist language is not inappropriate. The truth is, using such language…
that is spoken and the formal language that is used in writing and in formal speeches. The slang language and the formal language are quite different, almost two distinct languages and no one use the formal version to speak. When you read a poem that is one hundred years old, you find a hard time understanding the language and you see clearly how it is different than the modern language. Same is for the slang language which I feel is morphing even more rapidly. For example, every while my…
gender specific and sometimes age specific. This evolution can often be refered to as slang. Slang is often derived from old words with new meanings or completely new words with new meanings. Because of its unstructured nature, many linguists believe that slang is “lazy” English. Walt Whitman, the author of Slang in America, uses a variety of rhetoric devices to prove to the world, especially Americans, that slang is a useful and a necessary development to the English language by using an…
Outrage Culture is “When people play the victim card and bend over backwards to be as offended as possible when they really aren 't.” (Urban Dictionary) Basically it is a slang term describing when an individual or group displaying a special quality over dramatizes a situation in which that group of quality holders are offended when they really should not be. This term does not necessarily have to pertain to race, for example…
improper English is for children and therefore something we should have grown out of as we grew older. Yet, people in the south still use the word “y’all” and people who live in the north still use the phrase, “you guys”. In this day and age, these slang terms should be long forgotten from our language. There is only one thing that holds us back from letting them go. It is our heritage and our tradition. It is what makes us the people that we have grown to be. John Simon supports my claim when…
M.T Anderson uses the slang language that today’s cultures show to model the degradation of language and heavy use of slang and cursing. Not only does the youth do this but also Titus parents. M.T Anderson is also saying that the falling of this “feed society” is all because of the constant consumerist influence. His way of…
Slang, the way people of this world use daily to expressed how they feel. Slang allows words to have varies meanings; so many meanings that some become evanescent. Some people believe that slang is informal, sloppy, and ghetto,but slang is poetic and when used it connects with other people. Slang is America. The famous poets Walt Whitman and Gelt Burgess points of views are similar on slang and they way it is positively expressed. “Slang, profoundly consider’d, is the lawless germinal element…
students to communicate with each other over the internet, however due to its popularity; facebook is now open to everyone. The majority of its users are teenagers but there are also a lot of older people on facebook. What type of language is used on facebook and why? Facebook is a worldwide social networking site so I assume all languages are used. Most people I know of use a lot of slang. The following are some reasons I came up with as to why we use slang. Time- timing is important because…
minds, it has changed the way they think and mostly their lives. The internet is an essential resource in which you are informed of the latest news or stay connected to your love ones. Now children have a great impact in their use that gradually has expanded during the years. It is now common for children to use their devices to use the internet, this includes for school purposes or for personal use. Most agree that the internet plays an important role in children 's education but it can also…