{"id":1789,"date":"2017-04-12T13:42:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T17:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2017-04-12T13:42:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T17:42:13","slug":"is-slang-taking-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/2017\/04\/12\/is-slang-taking-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Slang Taking Over?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Slang\u00a0stands for short language. When people speak in slang they are speaking English, but with many short cuts. People are verbally talking in slang, and text in slang which is affecting the English language. People are \u201cforgetting\u201d the English language and are speaking slang instead. Some say that it may affect people in the future and others don\u2019t.This is affecting not only children but adults too.<\/p>\n

To prove that the slang wasn\u2019t only affecting children but adults, Emily Matash,33 year old, and Steve Drinkert, 45 year old, both took a slang test to test how much slang words do they know. Also, there were four other teenagers Alirida Noureddine, and Zeinab Jouni both 8th graders. While,Houda Al-Bazzal and Hussein Saad both 7th graders. All of them had the same test, which not all passed but not all failed.Some expected their grade while others didn\u2019t.\u201dI am disappointed and surprised that I didn\u2019t get 11\/13 because that is what I was looking forward to get,\u201d states Hussein Saad sadly. While Emily Matash saw it coming,\u201cI thought I would get the 12\/13 because I had a feeling for most of the questions that I would get them correctly while others not so good, but all in all I was close with a 10\/13.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI speak slang probably a few times a day\u201d Houda Al-Bazzal states honestly. Houda also says that she speak slang to show \"\"<\/a>emotion or shock or give her words fun \u201cbounce\u201d. There are positive and negative effects towards slang. One positive effect is that it can help you express an emotion you won\u2019t be able with just words. Emily Matash states a negative effects she has noticed on her students ,\u201cChildren never know when the appropriate time is and when it isn\u2019t the appropriate time to speak slang.\u201d Steve Drinkert says agreeingly, \u201c Slang is effecting the english language in a negative way, because people are being extremely lazy-creative, but mostly lazy. People should learn the language correctly than speaking slang too often.\u201d<\/p>\n

As we get older we follow what we have been taught from a little age. Zeinab says,\u201c Yes, slang is affecting kids, because kids at a little age try find the easiest way to speak and as they start to age they will keep speaking the way they have been since they were little\u201d Others may disagree with Emily Matash, Steve Drinkert,and Zeinab Jouni. \u201cNo, it isn\u2019t effecting the English language because all they people are doing is changing up some words but not all the words which means they still know English but with some \u201ceasy cuts\u201d.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>People speak slang daily while others don\u2019t because they don\u2019t want to get used to it.\u201c I don\u2019t speak slang very often but one thing is for sure is that I hear it very often.\u201d Emily Matash says. There isn\u2019t a specific percentage of people in the world that speak slang, but one this is for sure that that percentage of slang use is increasing daily as new slangs are made-up. There are two major ways people use slang and that is texting and verbally talking. \u201cI use slang when I am talking to friends and when I\u2019m texting so I can let the person I\u2019m texting know how I feel,\u201d Zeinab Jouni says. Alirida Noureddine says \u201c I don\u2019t speak much slang when I talk, but surely do when I text.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSlang is a Language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on it\u2019s hands, and goes to work.\u201d \u00a0\u2013 American Writer<\/p>\n

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Suha Aldura<\/p>\n

Unis Middle School Journalist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Slang\u00a0stands for short language. When people speak in slang they are speaking English, but with many short cuts. People are verbally talking in slang, and text in slang which is affecting the English language. People are \u201cforgetting\u201d the English language and are speaking slang instead. Some say that it may affect people in the future …<\/p>\n

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