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*Repeat* 20 yrs old and younger please.?
Not necessarily the right section but this is the area in which most "youngins" reside.
As I read through some of these questions on Y!A I'm often re-reading a question five or six times to try and make sense as to what the person is even asking. It is almost as if my brain is hemorrhaging every time I get on here.
So, American youth, what language are you speaking and where did you learn to talk/type/write like that?! For the love of all that is holy please give the educated masses a Rosetta Stone!
Do today's K-12 teachers find it harder and harder to understand your students? Are they often very far behind on their language skills?
PS- I'm only 24 and know full well it wasn't this a** backwards a decade ago. I'm no road scholar either but sweet jesus what is happening?!
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- DaveLv 69 years ago
I feel your pain ! I'm 25, and English! We invented the language and to see it butchered in such a manner makes the language monster inside my head scream in absolute anger.
Especially idk... Just say I don't know!!!
And over use of the word"like" Not everything is a smilie!
- 9 years ago
Please, don't assume all young Americans talk/type like some hooligan without a book. I am excited though to see how my generation reponds to this.
Dace, and yet you use an acronym for 'I don't know'.