• FrowingFostek@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I disagree, I think the slang does convey rich meaning to the correct informal audience.

    I would like to believe the slang is important code for another demographic that people can switch to.

    As crazy as it may sound, I think depriving or deminishing the slang creates a divide culturally.

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      You’re mixing up kids slang with code switching. I don’t find them to be equivalent at all. That’s the greater point I was making. We use the word slang pretty broadly, but in kids it’s quite shallow. They rely heavily on context because they don’t really have the vocabulary to do otherwise.