You usually tailor your language to the group, you're conversing with. If you are conversing with the younger lot; then they are mostly into slang and other concoctions of their times and age. At times; i use don't in place 'does not'; ain't in place of 'is not'; and broke in place of 'broken'.
However, if i were commmunicating with someone older or working on a formal piece of writing; i wouldn't use these terms.
at times it's simpy a typo; take the instance of my using ' times and age' instead of using ' time and age' or just ' times' in the above post.
"You usually tailor your language to the group, you're conversing with. If you are conversing with the younger lot; then they are mostly into slang and other concoctions of their times and age. At times; i use don't in place 'does not'; ain't in place of 'is not'; and broke in place of 'broken'.
However, if i were commmunicating with someone older or working on a formal piece of writing; i wouldn't use these terms."
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Don't talk down to them, but don't cater to them either. The grownup trying to talk hip is a perennial character in youth culture down the ages. Word.