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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!
Exactly this. Bunch of adults that forgot they too were kids once
Because schools are supposed to be raising up people who speak in a way that can be understood and indicates some intelligence.
You literally used the term "dunk on" like three comments ago. A bit hypocritical to criticize the use of slang, don't you think?
I mean, fair enough. But have you heard kids these days? Between the algorithmic feedback loop that is the modern internet, the disinterest of parents in actually parenting their kids, and chatgpt... I don't think it's unreasonable to be a bit concerned about how uneducated the children in our education system are coming off. It's not me being classist, it's valid criticism of a systemic failing.
You do know that you sound exactly like your parents, right? And their parents said the same too. Every friggin next generation does this, this is not news, man.
Look you guys are valid. Every generation has pioneered slang that sticks. I get it. The problem in my estimation is that we are seeing kids come of age who were born, raised, and will die in a comment section or discord room. I have a sister in middle school in the house with me right now. The generations coming up have no clue how to behave offline. The ideas of real inflexible consequences and speaking seriously so you will be taken seriously are just completely nonexistent on their radar.
Again, a lot of your descriptions sound like kids being kids. Let them. It's their generation, they have to figure things out just like we did
On the "can't be offline anymore" I'd agree, but that is a different problem altogether
It's actually you being ageist and not understanding how languages work. Your complaint is identical to Boomers complaining about how Gen Xers and Millennials talk just with updated tech. It's a cycle that goes back many generations. The lack of funding for education actually has little to do with it .
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.