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The Overlooked Term: Missing Context in Youth Slang

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"Here is the popular ‘youth language,’ slang whose basis clearly feels the influence of thieving jargon. In general, the existence of various professional vocabularies (and jargons, or argot, is primarily a lexical layer connected with different professions) is entirely natural and necessary: there must be some way to designate concepts that do not exist outside a particular profession. Sometimes representatives of certain professions (for example, medical personnel) deliberately use terms that are either poorly understood or entirely inaccessible to outsiders. Thieves’ slang stands out among others only in that it is associated with a ‘profession’ of a special kind. Moreover, underworld words aim to set a sort of closed caste apart from the rest of society. And this, note well, is achieved not only by the existence of specialized lexical constructions that are uncharacteristic of the language in general, but also inevitably by a derogatory nuance when denoting life concepts and values. This is, unfortunately, largely what youth slang has absorbed from thieving language. Young people intend, in a way, to distinguish themselves from the surrounding world, partly boasting about it, mistakenly taking some obscurity in their speech as a sign of their own inner incomprehensibility in general." (source: link txt)

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So what is the real outcome of the worsening problem of youth language in our time?

It is the disintegration and rupture of internal bonds between fathers and children, primarily caused by the linguistic alienation of generations. Of course, this is not the only cause, but it is the language that makes people feel the emerging mutual estrangement more sharply. Finding a common language sometimes becomes very difficult, in the literal sense. Who needs it? The one who follows the rule: 'divide and rule.' The development of youth slang also contributes to the catastrophic impoverishment of the language in terms of the number of words used. Here, lexical richness is disregarded; many have to make do with very sparse reserves. And this leads to a simplification of thinking. In short: a straightening of convolutions. Moreover, the very sound of youth argots clearly carries an intentionally vulgar tone. The stylistic degradation of vocabulary is a characteristic feature of youth speech. And this inevitably affects their level of consciousness." (source: link txt)

"The young man who is capable of calling a girl he likes ‘chuvikha,’ ‘mochalka,’ ‘gerla,’ and so on, is, in essence, committing violence against his own thinking and emotions by crudely degrading himself to the level of vulgar concepts. He ‘lowers’ himself, so to speak, with his own language. It is within the language that the devaluation of human values begins, which then permeates the sphere of practical interactions between people. In jargons and slangs, the meanings of commonly used words become distorted, their sense is blurred or replaced by something else that is always of a lower level than the original. And people begin to behave according to this new level of concepts. Sometimes, as a result, a paradoxical phenomenon is observed: people utter the same words but, in essence, communicate in different languages. Once, at a meeting with his fans, a popular cultural figure was asked how he views free love. He replied that love must be free. As if everything were straightforward: after all, love and unfreedom are incompatible. However, in the language of today’s young people (and not only the young), the word ‘love’ means nothing more than a sexual act, while the phrase ‘free love’ corresponds to the concept of an unregulated and thoughtless sexual life, free from any moral norms. Whether the aforementioned figure intended it or not, his support for free love was perceived by the majority unambiguously: as an encouragement of sexual license. Language does not forgive careless usage." (source: link txt)