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Dialogue commonwealth

Mike: What's up, George? How ya feeling today, dawg?


George: Lord! Mike, have some manners, could you?
Mike: Huh... I don't see the problem there. Why are you assuming that I was being
rude to you?
George: Well, you might think you are being friendly with those words but to me you
were being slightly rude. I think this is because of us being two different
generations. Let me remind you I was born in 1995, so I am a millennial while you
were born in 2007 which makes you a Gen Z.
Mike: Oh yeah! It hits me that you are 2 years away from 30. Whoops! My bad. If
that's the case, may I ask something?
George: Go ahead, kiddo.
Mike: What makes you think the way I talked to you earlier was rude?
George: Well, I was born before the technologies such as touchscreen mobile phones
and tablets unlike Gen Z who grew up with a lot of cool technologies. Thus, my
generation mostly interact with each other using appropriate and real languages. I
eman, we do use some slang but not as much as you guys do. For me, the way you guys
communicate with each other does not make any sense. For instance, if you want to
compliment someone, they did something very well, you guys say "Wow! You ate,
bestie!!". Like, why did you have to say the past tense of eat to praise them? Poor
Oxford for publishing lots of dictionaries just for you to say ate as a pat on the
back to your friend.
George: Bro... that's a lot of venting but yeah I do see your point. However, from
my point of view, our style of communicating with each other is what makes us
closer and feel connected with each other. For instance, if we drop a comment
saying bombastic side eye under a questionable internet post, all the young
internet users around my age will agree with it.

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