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I know precious lil "people" have freedom of speech and "actions speak louder than words" but slang just doesn't sit well with me and sometimes slang rubs me the wrong way

Is it any particular slang you don't like

"all good". "all" is a lot of things. it is not reasonable to expect everything to always be "all good".

"can you". "can", "should", and "will" are all three different things. "can you" as a request is manipulative, in that it implies that just b/c you "can" do something, you "have to". for example, "can you please go commit suicide?" does not have the correct answer of "you can do anything you set your mind to.". "could you", "can you", "would you", and "will you" as requests, all have different definitions, connotations, and denotations. granted, precious lil "people" have "freedom of speech" and "actions speak louder than words", but "can you" is just too easy to say and manipulative. and casual/familiar vs formal. "could you" puts more polite distance between the speaker and the recipient.

"huh" and "what" vs "excuse me". it's too easy to say "huh" and if they knew they had to say "excuse me", then maybe they would listen harder. (rolls eyes) (puke)

"bro". family is not necessarily a good thing b/c some families, dysfunctional. "bro" sounds kind of manipulative. i only have one sibling.

slang: the official dialect of home depot

grapevine: the official method of communication at home depot

slang - too casual. not formal enough. i am not your "bro", or anything like that. distance could be a good or bad thing.

it gets on my nerves how stupid lil reptiles have the nerve to say "can you" and "huh", instead of "could you" and "excuse me".

also don't like being called "boss". (that seems kind of insulting actually). b/c i am not, nor have i ever, been anyone's "boss". (yes, i know that is just slang and not meant to be taken literally, but whatever.)

overthinking

i think stupid lil cockroaches should say "excuse me" instead of "huh" or "what" because they are not my friends or family; and that stupid lil cockroaches should say "could you please" instead of just "can you", b/c "can you" is way too casual for someone that is not in their inner circle.

calloused and manipulative and impolite.

being in their inner circle could be a good or bad thing, but merely speaking to me way too casually, does not put me in their idiotic lil inner circle.

there is nothing inherently wrong or bad about slang.

but it seems to me like spiders that speak primarily (or only) slang, tend to act like they are so "cool" and absolutely important. but whatever. plenty of spiders act like that, not just the slang speaking spiders.

"we have no relation" is not necessaerily a bad thing.

"fambly' not necessarily a good thing. some famblies dysfunctional.

home depot does not allow family members to work in the same department.

some idiots act like calling you "bro" is doing you a personal favor. they have "freedom of speech", but calling me "bro" is not a personal favor.

being in their inner circle might be a good thing in some situations, but calling me "bro" without knowing anything about me, is not the method to do that with.

casual vs formal

plenty of academically educated, kind, precious lil "people", still insist on saying "huh" and "what" instead of "excuse me. manipulative

distance vs proximity

I can't stand it when people say, "It's all good."

I liked it better when people used to say, "It's okay."

I have a paternal uncle who calls me "kid" or "buddy" whenever he visits.

Just call me by my name. It's that simple.

it has been my experience that slang is one way of determining who is in the in-group versus the out-group.

"can you" doesn't take into account how unreasonable the request is. "Can you" sounds like the request is reasonable but sometimes there are factors that are not obvious to the speaker that makes the request unreasonable or impossible. For example, a customer might ask me to do something reasonable but it is not apparent to the customer that I am about to reach my fifth hour and must clock out for lunch, according to the law.

"Can you" sounds improper to use for strangers.

But almost everyone in home Depot, servant, boss or customer or anyone else, has the nerve to say "can you"

They don't mean to be rude. They are just totally inarticulate and small vocabulary, even though English is their only language

Even though English is their only language those annoying lil spiders don't know or understand or care the difference between formal and casual

Those lil rodents do not know me so they should say "excuse me" instead of "huh" or "what , and "could you " instead of"can you "

Stupid lil reptiles!

They are totally full of themselves and entitled

I don't understand why you differentiate between "can you" and "could you"
They are both capability questions repurposed as requests.

Since you can't reasonably expect to alter how everyone around you speaks, for your own mental well-being you should consider making peace with how everyone around you speaks.

You'll be at least a bit less miserable all the time if you stop treating normal speech as an excuse to view everyone around you with contempt.

Look at how you refer to other people in your posts constantly. They're 'reptiles' and 'rodents' and 'spiders' despite having done nothing wrong by most reasonable measures.

carbonhalo

"could you" is more polite, formal, and hypothetical thank "can you". but in know that some educational systems teach "can you" for all requests, regardless of formality.
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funeral

what is "reasonable" is subjective.

"logic could be used to justify anything."

the solar system contains more defendants convicted of felonies, than winners of Nobel Prize. the activity with more participants, not always morally superior.

most precious lil "people" might think "can you", "huh", "bro", "buddy", and manipulative/vague/judgmental/condescending slang is fine with them. but just b/c those precious lil "people" outnumber and overpower (and sometimes outsmart) me, does not "prove" that they are "right" or morally justified or logical or superior to me, for that reason, or any other reason