Evolution Of Slang In The 1930's

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Since the 1930’s until now, studies show that about 64% of kids and teens have been using slang terms in their school work. It is amazing what some of them are. Slang is used all of the time by almost all people and has changed a lot over the past decades. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses a child’s perspective to show how slang has changed from the 1930’s until today. Slang within the 1930’s was very prevalent and unique. During the 1930’s there were many different slang words used by children that are no longer used today. Early in the book the main character Scout said, “…and threw it jubilantly at the car house” (Lee 131). The main character Scout refers to a garage as a car house. If someone were to say car house today, people would react as if it was a foreign language. Another example of slang used in the 1930’s is when the term “moseyin’” was used in …show more content…

The current decade’s slang is very important to the teen culture. Teens often use slang to speak only to one another and not to adults as said in the following article, “Every generation has its slang — new words that allow kids to communicate without their parents understanding”(53 Slang… 1). Kids will use slang terms to communicate without adults being able to comprehend what exactly kids are saying, it is basically a secret code. Since the 1930’s slang has evolved in countless ways. These words will constantly be changing, even within the same decade as said in this Huffington Post article, “words change all the time and overtime”(“These 12…” 1). Words within the English language can constantly have little tweaks added to them; sometimes this will create an entire new word. Slang terms can change throughout decades and era’s rapidly even though it is within a short time span, and this article supports the fact that words do not need decades to change it can take as little time as a few

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