Everything I said sounded weird to them. None of the new slang became permanent fixtures in her vocabulary, though. Senior Michael Morgan remembers coming to a realization, in third or fourth grade, that he was using slang. I was at school, with my friends around, getting ready to say something in slang and hoping it would sound cool. Thus defining the fatal difference between cool and uncool.
Slang is addictive.
Slang enjoys a high rank in the annals of popular culture, until it fades from the fickle spotlight like an aging beauty queen. You may understand the definitions of several words simply because they are abbreviations of longer, more familiar words. It begins with dialect, according to Linda Coleman and Janice Hornyak, respectively associate professor and instructor of English and our unofficial yet vastly experienced tour guides through the history of language. Dialect is an integral part of language. Language is in a constant state of flux based on changing geographical and social circumstances.