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Juachoerin  The speech of today’s young people is filled with
words and expressions not found in formal English which greatly
enhance the sound of their language, making it very expressive
and colorful. And when they write in their own language, it’s
beautiful too. Of course, the main thing that distinguishes it
is the presence of new words, and of new uses for old words.
But the most interesting thing about modern slang is that, in
addition to new words and meanings, it has produced new
grammatical relationships among words. Some new words today—and
some old words with new meanings—don’t behave much like any of
the “parts of speech” (noun, verb, etc.) that ordinary grammar
deals with. In order to accurately describe they way they do
behave, we have to define and discuss