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...EDUCATION 64% Percentage of U.S. teenagers who use informal text-message slang in their written schoolwork, including abbreviations like "LOL" (38%) and smiley-face emoticons (25%) 56% Percentage of teens surveyed who consider good writing to be "essential" later in life...
...Percentage of U.S. teenagers who use informal text-message slang in their written schoolwork, including abbreviations like "LOL" (38%) and smiley-face emoticons...
...Baltimore, even adding dashes of dark humor that endow the desperate inner city with humanity. On a disturbance call, Moskos must ascertain whether the relationship of a man and a woman is sexual and therefore legally “domestic,” a task requiring sensitivity to Baltimore slang...
...ever had sex?’ sounds like you’re blaming the victim,” he writes. “‘Have you two ever been romantically involved?’ would get laughs and implies a level of romance that may be inappropriate. Slang words abound, but ‘tapping it,’ ‘touching it,’ or ‘spanking it’ (‘it’, of course, being ‘that ass’) are too informal and somewhat gender specific...
...comedy is McDonagh's signature. He can shock an audience into laughing at just about anything (suicide, patricide, terrorism, famine), and his expletive-ridden dialogue - its cadence and Celtic slang borrowed from his Irish background - can make even the most banal comment sound like a punch line. Audiences first fell for McDonagh's gritty, witty brand of theater in 1996, when his first play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane - about the love-hate relationship between a spinster and her domineering mother - won the then 26-year-old a handful of awards and the first of many Tony nominations. Since then...