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by Answers101 on July 8th, 2006

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Why do some people use lingo such as chick, dude, etc.? Quite candidly, whatever happened to normal speech?

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  • by 2curious on September 4th, 2006

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    I think it has to do with teenage rebelliousness- if you think about it, most of these phrases are invented and used by kids at an age where they are trying to create an identity separate from their parents. What better way than to make up your own language?
    And we've all done it-Think of "Yowser" or "Peachykeen"or "Cool, man".
    As far as who uses it, only people under the age of 25 can use the current slang without sounding like an complete idiot.

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