Language Is Awesome! Or,
How to Confuse Your Parents without Really Trying
Wanna know a secret? Language is always changing - it's a living thing that evolves as people and cultures change. And you know what that means? It means that something can totally be clutch, and you don't have to feel funny when your parents give you a funny look and tell you that they don't think that's a word. It is a word, because someone made it a word and you and your friends know what it means. It's just that your parents a'int got no swag.
OK, so you probably won't catch Mr. Swanson using the word swag on a consistent basis, and there is a place for the Standard English that you learn in school, and we will be studying grammar. BUT that doesn't mean that language can't be fun, and it doesn't mean that you can't change it to do what you want it to do. Language is a tool, and you'll find that school-English is a pretty useful tool from time to time, but there are totes ways that you can have fun with it in your own way. As the year goes on, you'll find more and more stuff under this heading, which is just for you. Have fun with it!
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OK, so you probably won't catch Mr. Swanson using the word swag on a consistent basis, and there is a place for the Standard English that you learn in school, and we will be studying grammar. BUT that doesn't mean that language can't be fun, and it doesn't mean that you can't change it to do what you want it to do. Language is a tool, and you'll find that school-English is a pretty useful tool from time to time, but there are totes ways that you can have fun with it in your own way. As the year goes on, you'll find more and more stuff under this heading, which is just for you. Have fun with it!
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