Because some adults feel out of touch and must crush the new slang while forgetting that the same thing happened to them as kids until their slang became common parlance. Eventually this current crop of kids will do the same to the next generation and the cycle will continue.
Languages are primarily created and evolved by teenagers. It’s always been this way. Each new generation finds new ways of contextualizing the world, and new ways of explaining aspects of it. Teenagers create tons of new experimental words. Most have short half-lives and peter out over time. Some turn out to be genuinely linguistically useful and survive the test of time.
It’s a safe bet that the vast majority of words you use on a daily basis were first uttered by a teenager somewhere in the recent or distant past.
It’s funny how true it is. I speak completely differently than before I was a teen, and then after being a teen, and now that I have teenage kids, I don’t speak like when I was a teen either. then entire language I use on a daily basis has shifted at least twice in significant ways.
until it’s boring again, it’s very funny. which is disruptive, unfortunately kids gotta focus. playground? yeah who care, but there’s kids in classrooms that really can’t deal with a full blown case of the giggles, were a poor small town, we need our kids to actually get somewhere.
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Making lists like that is authoritarian and won’t work. Making the words worthless works
Why is it even a goal to stop kids saying these words
Because some adults feel out of touch and must crush the new slang while forgetting that the same thing happened to them as kids until their slang became common parlance. Eventually this current crop of kids will do the same to the next generation and the cycle will continue.
What? You mean language changes? I can’t take it, that’s literally insane!
Because schools are supposed to be raising up people who speak in a way that can be understood and indicates some intelligence.
Languages are primarily created and evolved by teenagers. It’s always been this way. Each new generation finds new ways of contextualizing the world, and new ways of explaining aspects of it. Teenagers create tons of new experimental words. Most have short half-lives and peter out over time. Some turn out to be genuinely linguistically useful and survive the test of time.
It’s a safe bet that the vast majority of words you use on a daily basis were first uttered by a teenager somewhere in the recent or distant past.
Language evolves through teens.
It’s funny how true it is. I speak completely differently than before I was a teen, and then after being a teen, and now that I have teenage kids, I don’t speak like when I was a teen either. then entire language I use on a daily basis has shifted at least twice in significant ways.
until it’s boring again, it’s very funny. which is disruptive, unfortunately kids gotta focus. playground? yeah who care, but there’s kids in classrooms that really can’t deal with a full blown case of the giggles, were a poor small town, we need our kids to actually get somewhere.