By Colloquialisms, Learning English

Anonymous wrote:Hello,I'm Andrea...I'm from Peru and I need some help to present a Research Project about slang...You're a native english speaker,aren't you?...If you are,tell me : do you think that a person who is learning english as a foreign language should learn how to use slang also? I...

I don't think it helps to get snooty about language. What is 'correct' is always a matter of debate anyway. The language we speak now is different to the language spoken by our grandparents in their youth, which was different to their grandparents, and so on and on... It is hard to define...

Where is "missing"? Missing is a place that is not here and not known, I guess? I would say, "She is missing", but I have heard "went missing" many times. I think that maybe sometimes it could be used like a slang phrase. Such as when educated people say "ain't" to affect the tone of their...