Article on the adaptation of spoken language.

TEENAGERS ADAPTING ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEAVING PARENTS CONFUSED.

Parents around England are left baffled by the strange language choice spoken by their teenager children.

Lots of people are aware that English language is continually changing but it seems that the younger generation have the biggest influence on the rapid race of the language evolving, leaving the older people stuck behind on the language. 

Texting and social media has been identified as the main cause for this, as teens have been adapting common spoken clauses to written abbreviations. Parents are finding it hard to understand the things their child is saying or implying when they use the new shorted terms. Things like; ‘I don’t care’ has been changed to ‘idc’ which originally was just written but now it is starting to be used verbally as well. This is leaving parents worried as their children are going through or coming up to taking important ‘English Language’ exams, where they will need to be able to speak and write in ‘proper’ English. 

Parents are feeling left out in this as they are able to communicate with people ages 13-19 without being left behind in the conversation due to the misunderstandings. English language is evolving to adapt to the younger generation as they are going to be contributing most to society in the near future. The Oxford Dictionary has added over 1,000 new words to the dictionary which is believed to be over the heads of many parents. Words like ‘Hangry (angry due to hunger)… and rando (a stranger acting oddly)’ have been added to the dictionary meaning they are now part of the English language but how is that fair because any of the English population over the age of 20 are unaware of their meaning?

However some words for when the parents were children are coming back around, words like ‘banter’ are becoming reborn and used by the youths, which once the parents pick up on they will continue to use excessively.” beer o’clock, bants” is a new addition to the online dictionary too which I could image to be used by the older people in the population as a lot of the teenagers are unable to legally drink, but as it was entered online it is thought that it must be used more frequently in online social network sites.