An established vocabulary is something that should be desired, not shunned or frowned upon. Lately, it seems that most ‘teens’ only have 5 words in their vocabulary: Fuck, asshole, money, you and me. On occasion you may hear a few other words thrown in: give, now, a, get, lets, for, cell phone, words like that also with the addition of suffixes and prefixes ‘teens’ are almost able to form sentences. For example: Fucking asshole give me money for a cell phone now!

Now not all ‘teens’ speak like this, of course, some of us have more than 3 brain cells. I, for one, am quite opinionated. It also helps to have friends who aren’t as, let’s say, ‘urban’ as well.  Now, I don’t mean that in any racial way at all. Like most ‘teens’ I have a large group of friends, and although I don’t see myself as very sociable we do get along quite well. Back to my point though, we all use average speech, by my standards at least, but I continuously get the blank look and a “What?” when I say things to every day people. Now, I’m not saying everyone should just go out and start reading the dictionary or anything, that’s just ridiculous. But, if you could at least try and keep up with the rest of the educated population I’m sure everyone would appreciate it. So, next time you try and talk to me, if you start the conversation with, “YO! Sup g?” instead of, “Hello, how are you?” or something of that effect, consider yourself ignored.

I phrased teens as 'teens' because the age group has a bad reputation and I am ahamed to actually call it that. Also, by 'urban' I mean anyone who speaks in ebonics.

SETH, OUT!