Slang Is a Part of Language and Should Not Be Banned

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Slang is a Part of Language and should not be Banned Expressions like “What´s the haps?” can be heard everyday in schools or on the streets and they are especially spoken by the younger generations. One aim of schools is to give kids an understanding of formal language in order to raise chances for a good job after school. Nevertheless one should keep in mind that slang is a part of language and a ban is neither possible to implement because of the necessary high effort to ensure observance and the missing distinction between slang and formal language, nor is a prohibition useful, because it supresses individuality. The controlling of a prohibition of slang is time-consuming and can be expensive to implement. If schools become a place free from the use of slang, it is necessary that teachers follow the conversations between pupils, so that they can intervene when slang is spoken. The conversations of pupils need to be interrupted, corrected and they need an explanation why they are not allowed to talk that way. Besides it is necessary that the use of slang results in consequences and punishment, like additional homework. A normal teacher will not have the time to do so, because there are matters of a significantly higher importance, such as focusing on existing performance distinctions between the pupils. The controlling of the punishment observance is time-consuming as well. For that reason it will be necessary to hire special employees who have to supervise conversations and take care of the additional work. This would be a very expensive enterprise. Apart from these difficulties in controlling the prohibition, schools have to keep in mind that there are no standardised ‘rules’ which draw a certain line between slang and formal language. Language has evolved since the first spoken word in human history and this process is still in progress and is in so far

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