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LOL: Grading College Essays With a Computer Program?

Khanh Ho | Posted 06.06.2013 | College
Read More: Noam Chomsky, New York Times, English Novel, Moocs, Illiteracy, Grading, English Language, Internet Lingo, Internet Slang, Slang, Adrienne Rich, College News
Khanh Ho

The debates are all about drawing a line in the sand: a line of culture and merit and standards. This is all well and good until you realize that this line is constantly being redrawn, rubbed out, revisited.

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9 Words You Should Never Say Over 50

Shelley Emling | Posted 05.22.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Slang, Language, Aging, Words Never to Say, post50, Speech, Vernacular, Words You Should Never Say, Words Not to Say Over 50, Fifty News
Shelley Emling

There are a few words and phrases that -- according to some -- are just plain strange to hear coming out of the mouths of post 50s.

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Getting Hip With The Urban Dictionary

Ronna Benjamin | Posted 03.28.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Slang, Urban Dictionary, Better After 50, Humor, Boomer Humor, Ronna Benjamin, Urban Dictionary Slang, Fifty News
Ronna Benjamin

What I have not accepted is that not only do I not look the "look," I no longer talk the "talk." I am an outsider, a foreigner who does not understand or use the language of the young, hip and beautiful.

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Seriously Annoying Words, Like 'Fiscal Cliff' and Whatever

Tony Phillips | Posted 03.04.2013 | Weird News
Read More: Language, Arab Spring, Mark Lynch, Annoying Words, Worst Words, Slang, Opinion, Fiscal Cliff, Ben Bernanke, Marist College, Poll, 2012, Comedy, Open-Ended, Weird News News
Tony Phillips

The thing about annoying speech is that it comes in more than the adolescent variety. It's easy enough to pick on the youth, because for one thing, they're idiots. But idiocy knows no age.

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Enough With the Boobies and TaTas

Joyce McFadden | Posted 12.26.2012 | Parents
Read More: HPV Vaccine, Breast Cancer, Children's Health, Mothers, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Tatas, Boobies, Slang, Mothers and Daughters, Talking to Your Daughter About Sex, Sex Education, Parents News
Joyce McFadden

I remember picking up my daughter at middle school one afternoon years ago and watching the kids, both boys and girls, spill out of the front doors wearing rubber bracelets and waving shiny bumper stickers with "Save the TaTas" emblazoned on them.

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Banning the Word 'Penis?' Parenting Fail

Dr. Logan Levkoff | Posted 11.28.2012 | Parents
Read More: Motherhood, Parenting, Sex Education, Language, Vulva, Penis, Slang, Teaching Kids About Sex, Parents-Moms, Parents News
Dr. Logan Levkoff

When we deliberately or inadvertently support our children's use of slang, it's as if we tell them: Yes, there is something gross or silly or ugly about that body part. Don't ever call it by its real name.

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The True Definition Of Swagger

Elite Daily | Posted 10.28.2012 | College
Read More: Defintion, How to Be the Best, Swagger New York, Terms, Style, History-Behind-420, What Is Swagger, Slang, Best Swagger, Generation Y, What It Really Means, Truth, Style Audit, College News
Elite Daily

We all currently consent to a misconception of the term "swagger," or, better known in its current synchronic form, 'swag.' We might blame this...

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The Origins Of 7 Popular Slang Words

Professor Julie Coleman | Posted 07.22.2012 | Books
Read More: Book News, Slang Vocabulary, Etymology, Linguistics, Language Book, Slang, Linguistic History, Word History, Slang Words, Slidepollajax, Books News
Professor Julie Coleman

For me, slang is at the social interface of language. Slang words aren't linguistically different from other words, except that they keep on moving. It is my considered opinion that slang is a bag of snakes.

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Oversharing, Public vs. Private Behavior and What We Forgot to Teach Our Teens

Barbara Greenberg | Posted 06.02.2012 | Parents
Read More: Boyfriends, Relationships, Psychology, Drugs, Parenting, Emotional Expression, Sexuality, Emotions, Language, Hook-Up Culture, Romance, Sex, Teens, Dating, Slang, Break-Ups, Girlfriends, Parents News
Barbara Greenberg

Our over-emphasis on our children's feelings may have contributed to a current generation of teens who are too emotionally generous with their feelings and overshare personal details.

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"I Don't Disagree"

Seth Jaret | Posted 05.21.2012 | Los Angeles
Read More: Slang, Euphemisms, Language, Los Angeles Culture, Hollywood Culture, Double Negatives, Euphemism, Hollywood, Los Angeles News
Seth Jaret

Hollywood has a vernacular all its own. Among the town's most popular pieces of parlance is "I don't disagree." But is it an affirmation worth a damn or is it just another equivocation on the road to development hell?

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How 'Girl Talk' Like, Changes The Way We All Speak

The Huffington Post | Marissa Piazzola | Posted 03.08.2012 | Teen
Read More: Language Change, Linguistic Research, Teen Girls, Slang, Linguistics, Teenage Girls, Girl Talk, Teen Slang, Video, Teen News

When Beyonce said that girls "run the world," she may not have been referring to the way young women influence language, but she would've been right i...

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Why We Shouldn't Use The Word 'Rape' Casually

| Mari Cohen | Posted 01.09.2012 | Home
Read More: Video, Rape, High-School-Newspapers, Sexual Harassment, Slang, Power of Words, Rape-Legislation, High School News, Sexual Assault, Home News

This is a teen-written article from The Communicator, the student-run print and online newspaper of Community High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ...

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BRB, I'm Throwin' Down: A Survival Guide for Teenage Slang on the Internet

Hulu.com | Posted 10.30.2011 | Comedy
Read More: The Today Show, Jersey-Shore-Macking, Matt Lauer, Young Adult Books, I'm Chirpin' Her, Teenagers, Throwing Down, Reppin', Young Adults, Jitterpops, Totes Magotes, Chillin', Today Show, Slang, Word, Idk, Brb, Comedy News
Hulu.com

It appears teenagers have become sentient. They're infiltrating our society, they've learned how to walk upright (sort of), and they've even started to create their own cryptic language.

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Controversy Over Scrabble Admitting 3000 New Words

Slate Magazine | Stefan Fatsis | Posted 07.16.2011 | Books
Read More: Scrabble, Mattel, National Scrabble Association, Word Freak, Scrabble Trickster, North American Scrabble Players Association, The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, Slang, Adding Words to Scrabble, Collins English Dictionary, Books News

Here we go again, Scrabble fans. A year ago, the media went bonkers over news that the venerable word game, seeking to spice things up for the youn...

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MILFs Or 'MmmKays': American Slang Gets Lost In Translation

The Huffington Post | Chris C. Anderson, Senior Travel Editor | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Read More: Travel Advice, Heidi Klum, Milf, Philippines, Southpark, Slang, Milfs, Travel News

And you thought this was going to be about Heidi Klum. Shame. Slang may mean one thing here in the United States of America, but could land traveler...

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Divorce Slang: OMG! Your STBXH Did What?

First Wives World | Posted 05.25.2011 | Divorce
Read More: Slang, Omg, Facebook, Divorce, Online, Divorce News

STBXH, Wasband, OW, Himbo? Who knew online divorce slang was becoming such a growing second language? The conversational slang, acronyms and initiali...

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Is 'Hella' About To Become Legit? One UC Student Hopes So

The Huffington Post | Fernanda Diaz | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: Scientific Units, University of California, Science, Slang, Hella, Petition, College, San Francisco, The West, College News

The word "hella" is about to get some of its dignity back. Austin Sendek, a University of California Davis student studying physics, is lobbying to m...

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