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How dumb is the ‘Xaxa Generation’?

So you are a twenty-first century kid. A millennial. Born and raised in an era where technological revolution is the ‘in-thing’. In your resume, you describe yourself as computer-literate. You also say, to your own credit, that you are creative.  You can add new words to the dictionary. Your prowess of coining new and ‘trendy’ lexical units is in no doubt. Indeed you have a whole language to show for it: Sheng! How proud should you be!

Not so fast though. Have you ever realized how petty that language is? Well, I will not fill these pages ranting about the ephemeral code. I will concern myself with the ‘xaxa’ madness, which has been with us for some time now. This style of communication, largely incomprehensible to ‘old-fashioned’ folks like me, has well earned its users the title “the Xaxa Generation”.

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