{"id":1266,"date":"2026-03-22T02:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2026-03-22T02:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:35:09","slug":"slang-and-informal-digital-language-are-seeping-into-essays-and-class-discussions-heres-how-i-deal-with-it-as-an-educator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=1266","title":{"rendered":"Slang and informal digital language are seeping into essays and class discussions. Here&#8217;s how I deal with it as an educator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/today\/voices\/internet-slang-ai-short-text-english-language-education-writing-communication-6000821\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Slang and informal digital language are seeping into essays and class discussions. Here&#039;s how I deal with it as an educator\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--hcJDNtMb--\/c_crop,h_900,w_1600,x_0,y_146\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/03\/20\/20260319_jt_kennedyalbar_01.jpg?itok=y6U3teGY\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.channelnewsasia.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Slang and informal digital language are seeping into essays and class discussions. Here&#8217;s how I deal with it as an educator<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">&#8220;Fr&#8221;, &#8220;IJBOL&#8221;, &#8220;it&#8217;s giving&#8221; are just some of the internet slang that university lecturer Kennedy Albar hears increasingly often in his classroom, but the use of such words is not necessarily bad. He explains why.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educacion","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}