• Glytch@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Because some adults feel out of touch and must crush the new slang while forgetting that the same thing happened to them as kids until their slang became common parlance. Eventually this current crop of kids will do the same to the next generation and the cycle will continue.

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      2 hours ago

      Because schools are supposed to be raising up people who speak in a way that can be understood and indicates some intelligence.

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        1 hour ago

        You literally used the term “dunk on” like three comments ago. A bit hypocritical to criticize the use of slang, don’t you think?

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          I mean, fair enough. But have you heard kids these days? Between the algorithmic feedback loop that is the modern internet, the disinterest of parents in actually parenting their kids, and chatgpt… I don’t think it’s unreasonable to be a bit concerned about how uneducated the children in our education system are coming off. It’s not me being classist, it’s valid criticism of a systemic failing.