Now I’m showing my age: the discourse of kids has changed so much since I was one, and I am endlessly fascinated and, by turns, alarmed at the usage. Take ‘whatever’ for example. In my day, I say back in my day we said ‘Whatever’ to mean ‘you have given me a choice, and I [...]
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Whatever! (Eavesdropping on my kids)
Posted in Honestly!, Laugh, Parenting, tagged communicating with your child, Discourse of teens, eavesdropping, Kids, language, lexicon on July 15, 2008 | 6 Comments »
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