The Problem with Today's Youth Language

Have you noticed something wrong with the vocabulary that the young people of the modern world have been using? If not, I suggest you take another look. The words and sentence structure has become lazy and lost its rightful rank of importance, falling into the youths’ view of boring and tedious. The vast amount of words are slowing decaying to the last of their lives, soon to be un- or misused by the masses, some even becoming extinct out of malpractice or ignorance of the current existence. Sadly, definitions have even been altered due to being wrongly used in everyday speak, mainly misused by the youth of today. I will talk about how some or most young adults speak, how it can carry into adulthood, the cons of using the language, ways to encourage the use of proper and advanced language in speaking and in writing and more.

The tone that many young people take on that is informal, and that is all right, especially if it is around friends or family. The problem is that some of them do not understand the appropriate times to change their tone and slang language to fit a more proper or formal setting. Instead, they continue to use the slang and inappropriate tones that are normal for their everyday conversations. This can cause complications for the youth in certain situation, such as, job interviews or when talking to an adult who is not familiar with them. The speaking mannerisms may also show up in writings, causing hardship on students in classes that require essays.

If a teen has improper speech or cannot tell when to shift their mannerisms will likely not develop the skill in adulthood. This is a problem because once in the position of being seen as an adult, it means that you must behave in a certain way and give off a ce...

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...onvicted. This method has also been used to avoid telling the entire truth or withhold information. I don’t see possessing the ability to manipulate words for a purpose as a bad trait, as personality traits aren’t good or bad, but are used for the reasons of good or bad.

Instead, I consider it more on the intelligent side, or something of a good thing to have as long as you do not use it for selfish gain or to harm anyone. I, myself, use word manipulation in everyday life, as most people tend to do subconsciously. Speaking from experience, the way we talk to different people changes depending on a wide variety of factors, such as age or rank difference, relationship, and formal or informal setting. It’s simply something we do to switch between dialects and the proper way of speaking in each situation to adapt to the ever changing society and environment around us.