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alphaDictionary.com has announced the launch of a new language test that dates your speech on the basis of the slang we use in high school and college (http://www.alphadictionary/articles/generation_test.html). The Slang Generation Checkup asks you 20 questions about your slang and then lets you know which generation your speech comes from: Do you talk like a hep cat of the 40s, a flower child of the 60s, or one of today's hip-hoppers? Did you and your special someone spoon, cuddle, smooch, neck, or mug down? Were the guys and gals not cool enough for your clique dips, saps, chumps, bozos, dorks, or offies? All of these words had their era and the Slang Generation Checkup asks you 20 questions, then tells which era your slang puts you in. The Checkup follows the tradition of the widely popular alphaDictionary Rebel-Yankee Test that measures how much of a southern or Yankee accent you have. This test has been taken by more than 2.5 million people since September 2005. Its popularity led to features on PBS Morning Edition in June and in many newspapers, and on many talk and TV news shows since June. "Testing someone's generation by the slang they use is more difficult than determining their accent area," said Robert Beard, president of The Lexiteria, the parent company of alphaDictionary. "Accent is determined by the region you were raised in and changes little over time. Slang, on the other hand, is time-sensitive and changes radically every 10 years or so." People tend to update their slang, picking up the latest and this makes dating the slang of an individual tricky business. This is why the Slang Checkup asks about slang usage during the period when it is most important, in high school and college. (The website also provides an article, "What is Slang", that explains why slang is so important in this period of our lives.) "Like the Rebel-Yankee Test, the Slang Generation Checkup is mostly for fun and education," said Andrew Shaffer, chief software architect at alphaDictionary who developed the software for the Checkup, "giving takers a much broader view of American slang."
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