Publish at February 22 2022 Updated March 04 2022
Each generation claims that the next will "destroy the language" with new expressions and foreign borrowings. Yet French survives despite these supposed "assaults. For many linguists, the language practices of teenagers express a worldview of their time and some of the terms will eventually enter the lexicon.
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