http://parentinfo.org/article/online-teen-speak-updated
With "slang", we mean a playful, informal language that can go in and out of fashion. It does not necessary include swears.
Slang is technically a code, understood mainly by teenagers. I can be creative and varied depending on the region/city.
It was born on Twitter, for an online usage.
On the ParentInfo website, it is said that "Speaking in coded language has been used for years by teenagers trying to hide something or communicating in their own way".
I honestly think that teen speak is not about hiding something, like criminals, or communicating in our own way, like a different animal specie.
When teenagers live everyday with social networks, hashtags, smartphones and have a proper life online, the formation of neologisms is inevitable.
New words have been already introduced in our everyday lexicon and they don't sound as a dysphemism.
Moreover, slang is mainly used as a form of sarcasm, not for hiding something (every generation has hidden something to parents anyway).
The website is not always accurate, but it is true that every region/city has its own variants in slang, so it wouldn't be possible to write down every word commonly used.
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