Reading this article by Isabelle Kerr just makes me laugh, I mean it is quite hard to put sense into a person with such moronic views. To start off Kerr messed up right at the start in the title where she makes the claim “young people don’t speak like that – I should know” Everyone speaks how they wish to speak, just because you might be young and you do not use slang words, you can not assume that every other young person doesn’t. Now as I read on I am just filled with more laughter, honestly she should become a comedian instead #ouch.
Kerr goes on to express her views saying “the future of the English language looks bleak.” see the problem with this? If you said “Yeah, how can you call the future of the English language bleak just because it is evolving, we don’t speak like Shakespeare still do we?” then you get full marks, 10 brownie points. OK enough making fun of Kerr, for now.
As I read further down I see that Kerr has quoted comments on twitter that magically back her views perfectly, maybe she has quoted her tweets, we will never know since there is no link or screenshot for the tweets. Top tip Kerr, if you want to back up your point with quotes then at least prove the validity of the source and maybe I would not be laughing so much at your argument.
Kerr also states that she had to Google the word ‘twerking’ which in a way contradicts her point. Kerr is saying these words should not be in the dictionary you know, the book you read to find out what a word means but she herself needed to look up what ‘twerking’ meant. How can you Google what a word means and then proceed to say that you should not be able to look it up, are we banning words now? because I would like to ban the words ‘Isabelle’ and ‘Kerr’.
Kerr goes on and on and states that these slang words portray the youth today as “ASBO-wielding yobs who can’t communicate properly” but language works on understanding, these “ASBO-wielding yobs” are capable of understanding each other, just because you can’t understand them does not mean they can not communicate properly. Take Spanish speakers, I personally do not understand Spanish but if I hear two people conversing in Spanish I do not claim that they are band at communicating.
Now as I reach the end of Kerr’s article I see something so ironic, Kerr points out that if the dictionary thinks that the young generation speaks with all that slang then the dictionary needs a ‘reality check’. Do you see it? No? Kerr is putting up and argument, be it a rubbish one that colloquial language which is word or phrase used in informal language, should not exist as it is ruining the English language, Can you see the problem yet? “reality check” is a colloquial phrase it self so how can Kerr use a colloquial term in an argument against colloquial terms?
Finally the icing on the cake, Kerr states “Shakespeare would be turning in his grave” which would suggest that he would be disgusted with these made up terms but does She not know that Shakespeare made up a truck load of words that we use to this day? A lot of words we use today were actually slang that Shakespeare had made up in his plays so maybe Kerr should research that. Isabelle Kerr, you’re wrong and I have just proven that. I gave you a 3 course meal of truth so maybe you should rethink your views on these ‘slang’ words.
React!