This is a response to an article by Isabelle Kerr about the slang words in the English dictionary. I am writing this report on behalf of the younger generation that Isabelle hasn’t represented. I’m talking about the younger generation who are not ‘ASBO- wielding yobs who can’t communicate properly’. As a 16 year old male, I feel glad to disagree with Kerr in her argument because slang is useful for our English language because it is use full to our generation it also feels more relaxing. When Kerr is trying to be sarcastic by saying ‘im so gonna unlike that selfie of her twerking srsly though, these words wanna make me vom’,i understand what she is trying to say, which means she successfully communicated.
Isabelle Kerr is 20 years old so she is still a young lady who has experienced being a teenager and should have experienced slang words depending on where she grew up her child hood. Recently, Kerr has found out about the word ‘twerking’ which means “dancing to a popular music in a sexually provocative manner; involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance”. She is against the word ‘twerking’ because she hasn’t heard of the word before so she looked it up and found out that it is not appropriate to be in the English dictionary. I think its just young people describing in there slang words.
April 22, 2015 at 1:05 am
This is a good start – currently you online her point in the article but you make no point of your own – Since you don’t agree with her, you now need to develop a set of examples of what you think instead and use examples to support this (quotes of the real things people say that you think are of value)
I suggest you list points from Kerr’s article that you disagree with and then use a quote of language that you believe proves her point wrong. One paragraph for each one. The article is still available on the class website.
Current grade: 14/40 + 4/10 – Band 6 – F2