Word: youthspeak
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...through hip-hop and the Internet, words travel so fast that white middle-class boys and girls in London are talking like black kids in the ghettos of Harlem and Compton." The speed with which Blinglish expressions are coined may signal disappointment for bofs (old people) trying to decode youthspeak. Brap (cool) and wix (wicked, as in good, but even cooler) these dictionaries may be, but they're already old school...
...must warn the reader at the onset that this column will probably seem melodramatic and, in the colloquial youthspeak of today, cheesy. So the faint of heart or the eternally cynical should stop reading...
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