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All blondes are dumb

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Cheerleaders are stuck up & date jocks

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Mr McCrindle advises parents against adopting the language themselves to try to appear 'coo'.

"Observe their language and I guess understand and relate to it. Don 't be dismissive or condescending of it," he says.

"We tend to put on the adult hat and say it lacks proper grammar and structure, but it does show incredible innovation and creativity."

Professor of Applied Languages Studies at The University of Queensland, Roly Sussex, agrees and doesn't believe such creativity should be stifled.

Professor Sussex says text messaging and emailing are encouraging this generation of young people to write.

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It is so hard to keep up with teen-speak and the desecration of the English language, that sometimes I just want to give up. - Kate Ginnivan 2013

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"People seem to have swallowed whole the stories that youngsters use nothing else but abbreviations when they text, such as the reports in 2003 that a teenager had written an essay so full of textspeak that her teacher was unable to understand it."

"Research has made it clear that the early media hysteria about the novelty (and thus the dangers) of text messaging was misplaced. In one American study, less than 20% of the text messages looked at showed abbreviated forms of any kind - about three per message. And in a Norwegian study, the proportion was even lower, with just 6% using abbreviations. " --David Crystal

(http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jul/05/saturdayreviewsfeatres.guardianreview )

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A salient feature of teenspeak, discourse particles, is often lambasted by older speakers. Taylor Mali criticises it as being a major contributor to 'the most aggressively inarticulate generation'.tut and lampooned to be ...

All speakers, in fact, resort to discourse particles because of the 'inadequacy of our language to satisfactorily express our thoughts'. Further, as linguistic Suzanne Fleischman has discovered, there is an equivalent of English 'like' in a myriad of other languages, such as Japanese, Russian, Finnish, Hebrew, Lahu, Swedish and Bislama. This includes 'genre' in French, 'como' in Spanish, 'tipo' in Italian and 'so' in German, and even Ancient Greek is thought to have a 'quotative like'.'

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The prevalence of discourse particles and HRT in teenspeak has contributed to the stereotype that young people are inarticulate and lack conviction. In addition, there is a stereotype that young people have limited vocabularies and that their skills of self-expression are lacking due to their frequent usage of slang.

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touch down!

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Teenagers are depicted as inarticulate with limited vocabulary.

David Crystal said '“The real issue here is that people object to kids having a good vocabulary for hip-hop and not for politics.

They have an articulate vocabulary for the kind of things they want to talk about. Few academics get anywhere near measuring that vocabulary.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/6960745/Teenagers-only-use-800-different-words-a-day.html

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The stereotypical features of youth speak have been used to great effect in parodies and satire (think Ja'mie, The  Bedroom Philosopher, Armstrong and Miller etc.). These parodies are, in part, a way of poking fun at the language of this age-based social group, but in highlighting its unique linguistic features it also helps to strengthen the identity of the group.

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The stereotypical features of youth speak have been used to great effect in parodies and satire (think Ja'mie, The  Bedroom Philosopher, Armstrong and Miller etc.). These parodies are, in part, a way of poking fun at the language of this age-based social group, but in highlighting its unique linguistic features it also helps to strengthen the identity of the group.

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"Unintelligible verbal discharge" - Mike Bruce, Herald Sun 2007

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It's not necessarily a poverty of speech or vocabulary unless it's used in

lieu of an adjective or noun. Generally it can be quite expressive or emotive.

- Mulder

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Slang
terms like (insert
examples here) are
largely
confined to the
language varieties of young people or teens. Those from older generations who try
using this sort of slang to show an affinity with young people risk sounding
phony.

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Slang
terms like (insert
examples here) are
largely
confined to the
language varieties of young people or teens. Those from older generations who try
using this sort of slang to show an affinity with young people risk sounding
phony.