I have a 16 yr old son and a 14yr daughter i have noticed that they and the mojority of their friends talk in a different language to the rest of us its all "yeah blood" "my bredwin" "untold" etc im sure i didnt talk like that when younger why now? any ideas?
2007-02-27 01:54:31 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Adolescent
Fashion. That's all it is. When I was a teenager it was fashionable to talk like that film Clueless. It was all "Oh My God's" and "loser"s Times and fashions change. I can pretty much guarantee you that adolescents in Shakespearian times were all "Forsooth" and "doth"s.
It doesn't stop it being irritating though!
2007-02-27 01:59:02 · answer #1 · answered by lululaluau 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Every generation has it's own slang terms. If you want to know what's destroying the english language however you need to look at the media outlets. The music and television industry is really degrading it, but hey... That's the wonderful thing about freedom of speech. It's just a phase and it will pass for most of them. Whenever you get out of school and enter the professional workforce, you adapt to being a professional. Speech and all.
2007-02-27 02:03:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Teenagers speak bad language because they spend more time outside than they do at home. Parents are also to blame because they are too shy and scared to discipline their kids thinking that it's gonna make him or her a bad person but yes for minutes and after that they have forgotten all about it. Parents assume that talking to their children with stuff like drugs, sex etc is going to drive them into them but instead it's protecting them and making them wiser. Children most special youth have a tendency of when they don't get the information they need at home they go to their friends to ask and they end up getting the wrong message and make a mistake that will stick to them for the rest of their lives.
2007-02-27 02:09:28 · answer #3 · answered by Leystar 001 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think what bothers me the most is the spelling some of these people have. I cannot understand some sentences because of the spelling and just the words they put together don't make sense because it's just jumbled up. Sometimes when I am texting on a phone with limited space I will abbreviate alot but that's it. Here's an excerpt of a guy trying to get with my sister on Myspace....
"he i like yo pics u so cute hit me when u free k uno"
AMAZING!
2007-02-27 03:15:54 · answer #4 · answered by Cristina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the eighties... all that I could say was DUDE... WHOA... Like how cool is that... Party Time-Excellent! It's a part of growing up and a way for teenagers to express themselves and differentiate themselves from grownups. I myself am partially disgusted by what teens are saying these days... but once I look back to my own teenage years I realize that YES it's true... I'm turning into my Mother!
:o)
2007-02-27 02:30:54 · answer #5 · answered by I Ain't Your Momma 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a teen code..it's a teens way of separating themselves from their parents and all the rest of the adults...a way of asserting independence. For years, their parents have been in control and they discover a way to know things we don't!
As soon as parents catch on to these phrases, they change them.
If you think back, we had our phrases too that our parents wouldn't get, 'yeah man - hip' etc.
It's part of language development...then when they become adults, they no longer have a need to PROVE they know something you don't know!
I have a job keeping up with it all too!
2007-02-27 02:05:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think they talk like that now because they think it sounds cool(I'm sure you too had some street slang you used as a teenager just different than the teens today) and do not realize to everyone else that it sounds ignorant.
2007-02-27 01:58:46 · answer #7 · answered by mom2ace 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
because many teenagers like to speak in a way that adults cant understnd them because they have major privacy issues and want to become their own person and that is the only way they can think of to still be mature yet a growing child at the same time so it is all about the privacy
2007-02-27 07:25:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose that it is all apart of youth culture, teenagers a very impressionable so if they here there Friends or someone on TV always saying it there bound to start saying it, i reckon that they'll probably grow out of it.
2007-02-27 01:59:49 · answer #9 · answered by Naomi B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look, your parents prob'ly thought you sounded really dumb when you were young too. What was it, like "groovy," and that stuff? It's just the way they talk from what they've picked up in their enviroment. Don't worry about it- they don't hold onto language like that once they're adults. I speak from experience.
2007-02-27 02:20:57 · answer #10 · answered by whoops! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋