2006-08-07 18:06:33 · 22 answers · asked by posture 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
No, slang adds spice and culture to the English language.
2006-08-09 07:55:32 · answer #1 · answered by glow 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
yes and no. It ruins it from the point of view that it's nothing like the English that was spoken two or three hundred years ago, or even more recent than that. (Seriously watch Back to the Future for an example) On the other hand, it helps make dialects within the English language. So either way you looks at it, everyone's opinion is sort of right.
2006-08-07 18:11:27 · answer #2 · answered by crazylittlewriterchick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Realistically, any and all languages will generate at least some slang variations of various words. To more concretely answer the question, however, it is actually advantageous from a linguistic point-of-view, because it results in a greater number of ways to say something and imbues the language with some cultural color.
2006-08-07 18:11:22 · answer #3 · answered by giovanni9686 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't "ruin" a language -- just changes it. Language is in constant flux based on usage. It's just the way it is; it's not good or bad.
But yes, the use or lack of use of slang identifies someone culturally. People judge you based on how you speak, among other things. I agree with Socrates: "Be as you wish to seem." In other words, it's your choice. Just keep in mind that you have to decide the type of lifestyle you want & what you are willing to exchange for it.
2006-08-07 18:51:07 · answer #4 · answered by Genvieve 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Slang is part of any language. Each year hundreds of words that were considered to be slang are added to the dictionary which is proof that our language is constantly evolving - it has to. So, in essence, slang is imperative to sustaining the language.
2006-08-07 18:10:31 · answer #5 · answered by Melissa S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you overuse it you sound stupid and starved for attention. Slang in and of itself is good because it makes the language more colorful and some of the better new words get accepted into common usage. Just makes playing Scrabble a beeattchh.
2006-08-07 18:11:17 · answer #6 · answered by hipichick777 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Languages mutate over hundreds of years and slang is one of the things that mutates a language. So then new languages are born.
2006-08-07 18:10:13 · answer #7 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's text messaging that's ruining the english language
2006-08-07 18:10:29 · answer #8 · answered by Amy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to me texting is in hassle-free terms a place the place you maximum see a syptom. the genuine situation is undesirable training, and politicians/advertisers/media utilising a language in a fashion this is sloppy on the least, and newspeak at worst. If it have been evolution, words could be presented for issues which could not be without problems mentioned yet, language could develop into clearer, and the form could develop into greater generic. Like I heard approximately german: it lost ninety% of the words to undergo in strategies, yet grew to develop into 10 situations as precise and expressive (because you may combine wordparts into different words) i think of maximum "new" expressions in english are basically synonymous to latest ones
2016-09-29 00:55:22 · answer #9 · answered by blumenkrantz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. English is like a city laid out in a grid pattern. It is an angular, colorless language with little expression in its spoken or sung form.
Slang gives it a little color, a tiny bit of movement, like a diagonal street cut through the grid.
2006-08-07 18:10:29 · answer #10 · answered by nora22000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋