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Almost everybody, as a kid, had that one letter that they couldn't pronounce correctly no matter how hard they tried. For me, it was the letter "X". I hated that I couldn't pronounce it, but, at the same time, it didn't really bother me much because the only word I knew that included an "X" was "xilofono" (xylophone). "X" is not a letter used much at all in Italian, in fact, when we are young in Italy we don't even study the "English" letters (J,K,W,X,Y), as there are very few Italian words that include them. So, I thought I was fine. But then one of the most horrible days of my childhood came to teach me a lesson. Me and my brother used to share a Nintendo DS, and with that, we shared all the games as well. My favorite game of them all was NintenDogs, the game where you could have virtual dogs and make them eat, play, and train. I had my two beautiful English Cocker Spaniels called "Sole" (Sun) and "Lun

As I entered the American world, a new form of language was presented to me: slang. Yes, as I came into the U.S. I already knew English pretty well, but I was definitely not updated on the slang. Going to high school, I would hear plenty of words I didn't know from my classmates, such as "hip", "fierce", and "low key". Now, after having spent almost two years here, I can proudly say I am a slang-used as well, or I'm very "hip" to slang. But this made me question why is there such a big slang culture in the United States? First, we need to know what slang is. Britannica.com defines it as Slang[:] unconventional words or phrases that express either something new or something old in a new way. It is  flippant , irreverent, indecorous; it may be indecent or obscene. Its colourful  metaphors  are generally directed at respectability, and it is this  succinct , sometimes witty, frequently impertinent social  criticism  that gives