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Originally Posted by 3stan
Do American news reporters and politicians drop semi-archaic American slang into random sentences in an attempt to seem like common people? Like, this current affairs program just did a story on how drunk people are violent, and all through the story the reporter was referring to the drunks as 'yobbos'. It's like reporters and speechwriters take their formally written speeches and runs it through a filter changing random words into slang.
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Depends on context. Easiest way to put it is in any reporting, speech, or journalism courses they tell you flat out to avoid slang in any form. So regardless of whether or not its used, academically we view it as a tool for hacks.