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Webspeak: The Secret Language of Teens - ABC News - 0 views

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The use of language in a new way is really a good thing," said Deborah Tannen, Ph.D., linguistics professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
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  Not everyone thinks the slang is a bad thing. Deborah Tannen Ph.D. thinks that the adolescent population's slang means that they are adapting.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Not everyone thinks the slang is a bad thing. Deborah Tannen Ph.D. thinks that the adolescent population's slang means that they are adapting.</div>
  
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"I've been texting so much that I wrote the letters 'u-r' instead of 'y-o-u-r' and the letter 'r' instead of the word 'are,'" said Michelle Sloan, a Clarksburg High freshman, of a paper she wrote for school. "My teacher came up to me and told me my mistake, and I felt kind of stupid."
- Stephanie dore on 11 Mar 11
  
  Coming from a teen herself, she can see how IM is effecting her vocabulary and grammar. She seems to think that this is because of the technology used for socializing. This is a problem that is coming to the classroom and is not just saying on the outside.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Coming from a teen herself, she can see how IM is effecting her vocabulary and grammar. She seems to think that this is because of the technology used for socializing. This is a problem that is coming to the classroom and is not just saying on the outside. </div>
  
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BBC - Gloucestershire Get Fresh - Teen Talk: Can You Hang With the Slang? - 0 views

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ony Thorne, head of the language centre at King's College, London says: "Their language is very important to teenagers, because it's another kind of badge of identity.
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  Because language plays a role in their identity, it is definitely apart of their culture, and becasue its so different from traditional english it seems to be even more for them to keep up on. If lingo and slang are more important to the youth culture then proper English, there starts the decline of the traditional language
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Because language plays a role in their identity, it is definitely apart of their culture, and becasue its so different from traditional english it seems to be even more for them to keep up on. If lingo and slang are more important to the youth culture then proper English, there starts the decline of the traditional language</div>
  
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