03-04-2003, 03:50 AM
Mithrandir,Mar 4 2003, 02:29 PM Wrote:"Colloquialisms" will always develop, but since these young kids don't have the proper foundations, they don't stay in the vernacular and rather become the English language itself to these kids. They begin to think that "g2g" is something that's okay to say all the time and not just when you're with friends.Hehe. So true. :D
Last I went back into doing the student thing for a bit and a couple of the guys in about a 17, 18 age bracket decided they wanted access to the tutor's PC to set up their Counterstrike server over the class LAN while the tutor was away.
Sam: "Can you get into this thing?"
Me: "No"
Sam: "But you're a 'leet hack-sor'!"
Me: ". . ."
He talked like that constantly. It seemed much of his spoken English was derived from what he read on screen.
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