Mind Your Slanguage, And Don’t Be An Erk. YOLO
March 28 2014 , Written by Ola Fagbohun Published on #Language, #Slan, #Social Media
Mind your slanguage, and don’t be an erk. YOLO | Mind your language http://t.co/PVMoe4IYU8 via @guardian
Ola Fagbohun (@DiverseTraveler)March 28, 2014
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Mind your slanguage, and don't be an erk. YOLO
The borderline-cult film Mean Girls contains an amusing insight into young people's eagerness to leave their linguistic trademark on the world. Schoolgirl Gretchen Wieners describes any pleasant situation as "fetch" in an attempt to coin a new term for cool: "It's, like, slang from ... England."
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