This essay is about the slang used in the past and how it realtes to the slang children use in the present.

The dialect of the past definitely had its share of slang. Slang in my belief is a way a generation of children can communicate with one another as well as in a way rebel against what parents call acceptable language. In the late seventies one of the most common slang used would have to have been the word groovy. In present time one of the most common slang used is the word tight. Both positive …

…the two generations are where the main differences lie in the seventies it was said that only the rebelled youth used slang phrases or only the hippies used such terms, it was seen as being bad. Today my generation has not had it as hard as past generations especially since we have not had any large confrontations with are older counterparts like the hippies had with their older generation on where they stood on war.