Kerr is wrong! I strongly disagree with the false facts that she is trying to stress. She stated in her article that slang is wrong and is negatively impacting or lives. she has mentioned that we aren’t interested, ” It’s already a constant battle for young people to prove we’re not all apathetic”. Well this isn’t a true statement, due to the fact that we actually do care about what we say and how we say it.

In addition to that, she has also said ” I am embarrassed and  ashamed” Now why is she ashamed? I am sure that she has friends that speak with a tone in which is classed as slang. Yes is the answer everyone talks in slang every so often. It doesn’t exactly reflect well on young people who the new additions are mostly related to image, reputation and sex’. Why are you embarrassed? When you were young didn’t you and your folks use words that were classed as slang back then? Yes! Yes is the answer to that question

Our generation of children now use words such as VOM and SELFIE. The words ‘vom’ and ‘selfie’ may not sound right to you but it does. These words are initialisms standing for vomit and taking a picture of yourself. Kerr cannot tell me that she doesn’t use words such as selfie because I know for a fact that her friends do. In addition to that, I know that YOU USE THESE WORDS!

You also state that “Shakespeare would be turning in his grave”  Shakespeare introduced new words to the dictionary and nobody ever dared to challenge the things that he put into it. How can Shakespeare add words to the dictionary but our younger generation can’t? Shakespeare added  words to the dictionary so that if you do not know a word then all you have to do is go into a dictionary and check the meaning of something. Kerr questioned the word twerk…Well why question the word twerk and not know about it and not want it to be in the dictionary so that you can see the word on a daily basis and know what it actually means? Now come on now Kerr are you that naive and stubborn?  How could Shakespeare be turning in his grave and disapproving if he’s the one that started the whole trend in making up words and introducing them into our day-to-day lives. He invented over 1700 of our common words by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, connecting words never before used together. If he can do this then why can’t we? Gossip is a word that he invented…Now Kerr don’t tell me that you do not use this word regularly.

Kerr doesn’t seem to get the point in these new words but the dictionary needs to be regularly updated otherwise in the future we would be using the same words that were originally said in the 70’s 80’s or even before… Kerr needs to understand that it is the 21st century and that the world is changing and will always be changing, their used to be ‘old English’ but their words were changed. People were probably outraged that words of this famous language were being changed, well now it is happening again. So people like Kerr need to get her foot out her backside and live up to what life is.

In conclusion Kerr has presented herself in her article as someone who is arguing against something she knows nothing about. Clearly she hasn’t researched anything about it and therefore hasn’t got a scrap of general knowledge. she is arguing that slang should actually be in the dictionary which wasn’t her argument. Kerr you need to do your research and get your facts straight and then come back and argue. Why don’t you just go and argue about putting on make-up or something else that you “may” have just a tiny scrap of knowledge about.