Quote Originally Posted by AdrianII
Oh get off it, my dear, venerable but ever so slightly stuck-up Brother Dâriûsh. It is a part of urban language, game slang, argot, youth culture, technoculture. Each generation creates its own (varied) idiom. Mine certainly did. I remember one teacher warning me and my classmates in stern tones that we spoke gibberish and that with our lax attitude toward language we would never make it in the Kille (Dutch for 'Big Chill').
'Beg your pardon?' a student asked: 'The "Kille"?'
'Yes, the Kille','he said. 'That's a figure of speech, indicating the toughness of adult society.'
'Ah,' the student mused: 'Must be a generational thing...'


Sounds familiar. I and my friends did that in school, but it was only because we couldn’t speak the native tongue. We communicated through a mix of languages, frightfully confusing, even more so to our poor teacher. It was eventually supplanted by the dreadful vernacular young immigrants use.