Bare Vexed

Isabelle Kerr published an article about young ‘youths’ using ‘slang ‘ these days and pointing out the finger to the young generation saying that  ‘as a member of the young generation, partly responsible for these linguistic calamities, I can only apologies. I am embarrassed and ashamed.’  Isabelle clearly does not agree with the words the young generation uses (slang). At one point Isabelle used William Shakespeare, saying that he would be ashamed with today’s society, but that does not add up as William Shakespeare invented and brought slang to this world, without him there would be no ‘Slang’ or words that we now DO NOT consider as slang such as ‘Assassination’.

Assassination would be a superb example to use because not as much people would think that assassination was a slang word made by William Shakespere but as it became more common to use, it eventually evolved and not considered as slang as it just felt and sounded like a normal word, and that’s the beauty of slang it evolves the worlds imagination and let’s them evolve and express themselves in a better and more efficient way, so in my opinion Isabelle Kerr article is already false as she brought William Shakespeare in to this obviously not aware that he himself made slang.

One point to make clear, she is apologising for her young generation for using slang, but doesn’t she use slang herself and isn’t she ‘part of the young generation’ here she uses  “reality check” which in itself is an idiom first used in use in 1960 and its meaning is  “a wake-up call”. Idioms such as reality check started themselves as slang and have now made their way into the common English language like ‘Assassination’ and why? Because people opened their minds and expressed themselves in way that was independent and unique. Isabelle Kerr had various mistakes another one would be her getting slang mixed up with shortening words like “seriously” to “Srsly”. What i highly doubt is that Isabelle Kerr understands, the difference of it or understands the whole concept of slang and how it can have an impact on everyone’s everday’s life.

My final conclusion for Isabelle Kerr is to look into slang in more depth and understand why it is used and that not just the young generation such as herself uses it because without it most words we use in our everday life would not exist and who knows how that would turn out, be thankful for what we the younger generation are offering to this World because we could and will have a big impact in the future and once we are older the same will go to kut young generation they are in charge of what they want to change. My final verdict for this is long live the young generations freedom to express themselves and also for anyone freedom for what they want.