Quite an education
Can you believe there is a website that helps you understand what today’s ‘hip’ people are saying? It’s called Urban Dictionary. It’s a user contributed website, a little like the Wikipedia idea, where they throw up a word or a phrase and the users write in with the definition plus use it in a sentence or two to help clarify the meaning. They have a “word of the day” so you can stay on top of the newest slang.
Why? Why do we have to learn all of this when we are already having to learn Spanish to appease that sector of our country. Now we have to appease the ‘gangster rap’ or skateboard society. I don’t think so. I’m amazed to find that people actually talk like this every day. Sure I want to distinguish myself from the pack but I want others to be able to understand what I’m saying otherwise how are they going to know I have said something utterly brilliant. It’s not very brilliant if no one can understand, now is it? Absolutely amazing!!
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