Sometimes, the language and words they use from the internet are much more problematic.
I 100% agree with this. Kids see others say something, so they think it is okay to repeat it. Obviously, that is not always the case.
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- Feb 2025
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slate.com slate.com
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She wouldn’t use “chat” in a context like school, particularly concerning unfamiliar peers or authority figures. It’s simply derived from their pop culture, and adds a bit more humor and energy to the conversation. Advertisement Advertisement
I fully agree with Carter. The "iPad babies" are not doomed they are just forming a community without even realizing it. It adds humor to their community.
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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The younger generations get to build a language of their own, distinguished from the older norms, as they have always done throughout history.
I believe the slang they use sounds ridiculous at times. It is just like any other generation. We all come up and communicate with our own slang at some point.
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But what started as a way for people to connect eventually became a community overrun by violent men who blame women for their absence of a sex life.
This made me so incredibly sad. What was the purpose of making women feel this way?
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- Jan 2025
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aeon.co aeon.co
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What’s the difference? It’s that -ful and -ly are Germanic endings, while -ity came in with French.
I had no idea that either endings came from different languages. I guess I just assumed that they were already apart of the English language.
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Finally, as if all this wasn’t enough, English got hit by a firehose spray of words from yet more languages. After the Norse came the French. The Normans – descended from the same Vikings, as it happens – conquered England, ruled for several centuries and, before long, English had picked up 10,000 new words
I think it's really cool how the English language will pick up thousands of words from multiple different places.
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Crucially, their languages were quite unlike English. For one thing, the verb came first (came first the verb).
This is so odd to think about. It just sounds funny saying it out loud. It is fascinating how people learn differently.
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Anglophones
I had never heard of the word 'anglophone' before. Finding out that an anglophone is another term for an english-speaking person threw me off.
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