Here's an idea for a neat feature. How
do the students in your school talk? Different groups might make up a
language of their own. If so, what do the terms they use mean
and where do they come from? In Al's Morning Meeting, Poynter's Al Tompkins gets you started with a story from the Boston Globe
.
Tompkins writes:
The Boston Globe catches us up
on the latest teen slang. What is a 100m hottie? What does it mean if a
person is "agnorant?" What does "gnar" mean? If a person is "flossin'"
what are they doing? You better get with it.
Here is a glossary of the words.
The story examines the role the internet plays in spreading slang farther and faster than ever before.
