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The language is morphing into a dangerous dialect that's completely foreign to parents.
"It gives criminals, kids, whomever, another way to communicate covertly with one another without maybe parents catching on to what the kids are saying," Westerville Police Department Scott Dollison explained.
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Was Officer Dollison wearing his zoot suit when he made these comments. Did he also say 23 skidoo and other obsolete slang terms.
Come on, what kid has not sued ciphers and slang to keep his/her parents from knowing what was going on. It's part of adolesnce and part of the evolution of language. Dollison, what a maroon:)
Wow that was a real far out story. It's cool, it's wow, it's...oh never mind.
"The language is morphing into a dangerous dialect that's completely foreign to parents."
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So 1337 is the Cockney Rhyming Slang for the new millenium?
Guess that means I'll have to stop mocking it now. Le sigh.
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Not to mention the ciphers, which are spawn of the devil and are used only by Al-Qaeda affiliates.
Sounds like the cops have found another mortal danger to society, since all the satanic gangs didn't pan out.
Dangerous stuff. Communicating in Leet may result in prolonged virginity and 40 years of living in the spare room in your parents' basement.
"There's Glasgow Rangers in town with buckets of honey, and the boss is somebody's trouble."
That's nothing to french. I can't understand it at all, so if people are speaking french I know they are up to no good. Ban french!
Ixnay on the inklslay, hepcats. We don't want the ofay to oticenay.
My employer used to make an airplane called the 717 and still makes an airplane called the 737. Heh. I love stewardesses.
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