is English the only language that's being bastardize like using slang words?
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All living languages have a slang. But I strongly disagree that slang bastardises a language. Quite on the contrary, it enriches it. Certain ideas cannot possibly be accurately said without using slang. For example, try using any expression in academic English to say "son of a bítch". Anything you find will be a washed-out version of the original expression.
151405
Society determines bad words, which is why some words are only bad in when said in front of certain people.  The word "bloody" is considered foul in England, but not here unless you know it is bad there.
957756
Usually when people write f**** you,  they would be using a coarse slang. They would use it as an intensive to express annoyance etc.
1070951
Many commonly used swear words have deviated from their original meaning in the mind the of speaker.\n\nPeace!
1094818
Never heard of that one!! Despite spending even longer in England than pniccimiss!!\n\nBut there are always new slang terms evolving, so it may be in use among the 'yoof' of today!!\n; )\n\nIt's not an official or colloquial 'English' term though, but it could become one with frequent use!
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You aren't the only one, honey.  Especially with the slang typing.  Hello, you aren't ghetto and you aren't cool if you do that.  Our youth is going down the toilet with this butchering of the English language.  I don't expect people to type without mistakes, but the word is that not dat and the not da.  People are just losers sometimes.
1080320
No, its proper english
847534
Just type using proper English, and you'll set a good example, at least.  I don't think Internet slang is going away, and isn't there something more important in the world to peeve about?   The Middle East, Poverty, Globalization?
1043490
what? what are you trying to say?\n\n"Words such as Bastardisation, Bastard-i-sa-tion. whilst the simple lazy tounge would round it up into Barstardisation... then put it in the damn dictionary. " ...what's the difference save the typo?
846455
Wow I havent really heard people say a jean or a pant. But if that's true, wow i would go nuts! It just doesnt sound right. Why do people insist on speaking incorrectly? Slang is okay but still, to change the rules of language are just messed up. I'd correct them if i heard them saying that.
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NO! It shouldn't.\n\nPerhaps there can be 'internetspeak dictionaries' that contain all the terms, but we don't want to reduce the language, not reduce it. That makes everything so much harder. It's not real, it's just stupid and pointless. It's unprofessional. English is a perfect, developed and perfected. We don't need to screw it up.\n\nAnd it's not the norm. Not everyone writes like that. There are many literate people. It's only the norm for lazy people, and it'll lead them into incompetence.\n\nYou're a prime example. You don't know much about /grammar/ because you speak like that. You've abandoned spelling. Grammar is spelled with an a, friend.\n\nEver read 1984? Let's veer away from a world like that and your modern day version of 'newspeak'.
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I think that continuous usage or even any vulgar usage of curse words shows a lack of intelligence. If someone is upset shouldnt they be able to explain it using non profane words? Anytime I hear anyone, man or woman, using foul language not only does that person appear much less attractive, but it offends me. I have small children as well. They dont need to hear it, frankly no one needs to hear it. The way in which someone speaks reveals not only their competence of the language they are using but their intelligence alltogether.\n\nI completely agree with you.
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I'm not sure I understand what you just said. Is proper spelling and grammer not cool anymore? \n\nDat sh!t is wack yo! You gotsta talks better, dat wood be off da chain dirty! Word to yo mutha, b!tch...
450359
I think that comment is too harsh.\nI am English living in England and we get inundated with French where I live each summer, it's enough to put you off the French forever.
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You are definitely not alone!  I agree that we can't be harsh on those for whom English is a second language; but for those of us who have been speaking and writing it almost since birth - well, it's a disgrace!  You are not a "boring old pedant"; bad grammar and spelling make it very difficult sometimes even to understand a question, or comprehend what the asker is saying.  It's all about communication, and badly constructed sentences impede that communication.\n\nMy pet irritations are (if you're interested!):\nYour and you're\nBetween you and I (between you and me!)\nMe and John went to the shops (John and I...)\nLets go to the shop's (let's go to the shops)\nHe took a photgraph of John and I (...of John and me)\nWho and whose\nThose who are obsessed with putting apostrophes before any "s"\nThose who are obsessed with using mainly unnecessary "myselfs"\nAnd many more...\n\nAnother boring old pedant...
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R.U. SPEAKIN ENGLISH???\nSOUNDS LIKE MANGLISH U HAVE MANGLED WHATEVER U ARE TRYING TO SAY\n\n:))
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i repeat myself... sad joke... sadder english