It's pretty suspect to me when someone takes particular offense at slang, even when it isn't vulgar or used in an inappropriate setting. Considering how slang directly reflects one's environment, demographic, and culture, any complaint about innocuous slang always has an air of prejudice to me. Like this person has pent up disdain toward a group of people, and this is a way they can indulge in it with less chance of blowback. If you write a tirade about the use of "wack" or it sticks out to you enough to get pissed about it, that's telling But what do you think?
I personally don't like slang, so I guess I don't think much one way or other. It totally depends on the context though. If you want to call stuff lit or whatever in a casual setting go for it. If you're trying to be taken seriously... good luck. It needs to be natural to. The general concept of slang is fine. An adult using the word "wack" in 2018 seems a little pathetic to me. I used to use a ton of NorCal slang as a kid (it took me a long while to wean myself off "hella"), but have dropped it. People my age still using slang that was popular when they were in high school sound childish. It's more interesting to talk to people who put some thought into how they communicate instead of trying to keep up with what the kids are saying.
Its human nature to gravitate towards people who talk, look and act like we do. Sometimes it's a race thing, sometimes it's one peer group chafing against a younger generation. Sometimes slang is objectively stupid.
It really depends on the slang. My bigger problem is people conflating English dialects with their preferred dialect spoken poorly.
Slang doesn't bother me, but I also acknowledge that a lot of slang sounds stupid a fuck. It's also usually pretty clear when the problem someone has is not with the slang but with the group of people using it.
Eh. I was against it in my late teens because I was an edgelord prick. I use slang all the time now. People who don't partake, or don't like it usually just don't care and don't say shit. It's the ones who are vocal about their distaste of slang I immediately assume have now gotten old and angry over their lost youth or are racist. Or both.
I don’t tend to think about slang much. I guess I use it sometimes because it’s in my vocabulary, sometimes jokingly with my brother or niece. As for people who hate slang it’s usually more telling of them than the person using it. I don’t think the motive is always hate though there is plenty of that but also language snobs, the out of touch, and the humorless also tend to have issues with it. Especially if they also add prejudice, racism, ignorance or hatred of a group to the mix.
I never met anyone against it except elderly authoritarian teachers in school. I love slang. Maybe a bit too much, like when I would go literal days in middleschool talking like an italian mafioso or cockney gangster lol.
I have no problem at all. Ever since I was a kid, I wondered what the culture of the future would look like, and now that we're here, I'm still interested in what the kids are into and doing. I may not be a participant in it, but I don't need to be. If I don't like it, then it's not like America is doomed because kids like something I didn't grow up with.
I gotta be honest, when someone uses all proper grammar, structure, punctuation and everything all of the time regardless of circumstance, I do get a certain impression of them it's kind of like jordan peterson wearing a suit everywhere. It does say something about you, but maybe not the thing you're hoping to come off as.
I think it's hella lame tbh. Honestly I imagine people who are bothered about slang to be the same types of people to complain about today's generations in general.
I'm not generally bothered by slang, but YAS has been ruined by exactly the people who you think ruined it
I dont know. Someone at work asked me about "getting tendies" and I said there ain't none of that in our workplace, mainly because it just sounds stupid. Personally don't care about most slang though.
All the side-eye. Because they’re usually not “generally against slang.” Even here (especially here), “slang I don’t like” translates to “words black people use.” And folks think they’re being clever but they’re not.
I'm cool with lasting slang, but the teenage Twitter slang that is in constant rotation is a bit obnoxious to me.
I use a ton of slang myself so don't mind it, but for some reason anyone who says totes or adorbs in an unironic manner goes straigh to my shit list.
Eh people who care so much about what others are saying or better yet how they are saying it are generally stuck up. This doesn't mean we should accept misogyny or racism but people who would attack you for using slang are just... yeah not the kind of people I want to hang around.
I grew up around a lot of people who are relatively obsessed with European-derived etiquette and have been raised thinking it's the "proper" or "correct" way to do things. Very bourgeois attitudes, if you will. I used to be like this as well in some regards; in terms of speaking I had it drilled in my head to enunciate, and that language is far less fluid/dynamic than it actually is. A lot of folks seem to not be able to function outside of a clearly written list of rules (you can see this also come out in them when they act like social dynamics don't exist and just resort to "is there a law against this thing I did?" to defend their actions). I also know some rednecks who mock any kind of slang that they aren't used to because they see it on the Internet and associate it with attention-seeking youth who "don't know what the real world is like" or some shit like that. Fortunately as I grew older and I started spending more time online and hanging around more people with varied dialects, and was introduced to their respective cultures, I dropped that shit. But a lot of others didn't, and still lord over other people because they see slang or dialects as "uneducated", "uncivilized", "classless", "immature", "thoughtless", or whatever other way you can word that kind of judgment. As I've learned more about dogwhistles this started becoming apparent as well. In my area I think it's both expressing a pre-existing disdain for a group of people, as well as expressing disdain for the slang because it's different/perceived as "not proper" (especially since there is little diversity where I grew up which encourages homogeny) which ends up being attributed to whatever group speaks it over time due to it being a product of the influences you described. And I think that latter part is an aspect of racism that a lot of privileged folks don't understand is racism because (again going back to the "clearly written list of rules" thing) it doesn't fit the dictionary definition of racism being personal prejudice. But looking down your nose at others' use of language because it's different than yours - assuming everyone should adopt your strict standards regardless of someone's culture or the internal consistency of their slang/dialect, refusing to acknowledge the dynamics of culture and language and all of that, and assuming someone is somehow lesser because of their different use of language - is thoughtless, needlessly dismissive, self-absorbed/self-righteous, and it contributes to negative stereotypes and carelessly marginalizes other peoples which in turn perpetuates prejudices including racism. It's just different ways of expressing one's self ffs So when I see someone who is bothered by slang, part of me assumes that they're either too stuck up to accept that their way isn't the only way, are extremely boring/vanilla people, or are simply prejudiced.
Hella has been around for over 40 years, it's time to admit that its opponents are the weird ones at this point.
And they’ve spent that time not only trying to trick people into thinking it’s ok, but also into thinking it’s California wide slang. I won’t be insulted like that.
What context are we talking about here? I wouldn’t accept slang in a school or business report, but in a face to face conversation, I don’t think I’ve even ever met someone who would object to slang. Why would you even care?
"woke" makes me wince a bit because it's so clearly gramatically incorrect. But I try not to judge because it's normally used in a worthwhile context.
As a warm-up for my classes, every blue moon I’ll give them a multiple choice worksheet for modern slang and what they think it means. It’s never a serious quiz, but I do let them know to prepare for it when they eventually travel to other countries when they are ready to study abroad.
Well... Not everyone know the slang you use and thus don't understand what you try to say. So yeah, it seem rather logical that they would be bothered by it. Especially if you continue using thoses words knowing they don't understand / like them.
It's a form of elitism that I sympathize with. Some slang just sounds stupid. I freely admit this is a subjective thing.
