I'm a parent and teach writing. Watching my kids adopt new slang gives me a window into how expressions go viral, burn out, and reshape how we talk.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Maria Zijlstra: There's a focus today on 'slanguage', a really neat term for the slang of our language, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author says slang is very much alive nowadays with kids.Courtesy of the author Slang's role is shifting as digital culture ...