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		bsaul on Dec 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap an... i'd say the problem is mainly the inability of young generation to be able to write and speak proper french. Speaking slang is fun and everybody's been doing it forever. However being only able to speak slang is a problem.

Toutouxc on Dec 18, 2023 | [–]

> the inability of young generation to be able to write and speak proper french

The language isn’t going to stop evolving just because you were born.

bsaul on Dec 20, 2023 | | [–]

there's evolving and there's devolving. As in loss of precision in the grammar and in the vocabulary.

fknorangesite on Dec 18, 2023 | [–]

Gosh I know, right? Kids these days!

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