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Essay provides a discussion on when it is a good time to use slang terminology.
Slang is informal language such as "minging" or "bling", used by different groups of friends or gangs, the words are usually made up by the group or heard on TV. But is using slang right? People have mixed opinions on the issue, Nick Bell the managing director of teenfront.com doesn't think slang is a bad thing, "We should expect the language to develop over time, the use of emailing and text messaging are communicating more in a written form." However Chris Ainoo the editor at the children's express magazine disagrees. "I think slang is a bad thing. If you are always talking in slang then the language you need when you want to talk or write something properly isn't always there." But John Wells a professor of phonetics says.....
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