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Teen Slang

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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2012 Word Trends -- So, Like and WhaaAAAaahhhh-T?

Bonni Brodnick | Posted 04.16.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Life After 50, Word Trends, Parenting, Love Post50, Lingo, Slang Terms, Kid Slang, Slang Words, Teen Slang, Fifty News
Bonni Brodnick

With uncanny adroitness, my husband and I bantered in perfect 2012 lingo. And with no Gen Xers or millennials in the vicinity to ridicule my retro-linguistics, I'll tell you (and don't tell the children), it was a totally tubular moment.

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Teen Slang: Are Young People Reinventing English?

www.bbc.co.uk | Posted 12.23.2011 | Home
Read More: Teenager Language, Fun Stuff, High School News, Teen Slang, English Language, Home News

Ex-gang members were used as script advisers on a new British film about girl gangs so that the language would be authentic. How hard is it to write i...

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