In an attempt to seek her opinion, I sent an article to a colleague and in return got a short message or should I say mini message just consisting of three letters GTG. Not exactly in tune with the latest trends in languages, I kept wondering what these three letters imply.

Finally, I approached the colleague concerned and asked, “What do you think”. I told you so in my message, she retorted, and then it dawned upon me that her GTG really was a slang for the answer I was seeking. What she was saying was it is “Good to go”.

This is slang now, a popular form of speech that has a long history going back as far as 1756 when the use of such words was considered to be the vocabulary of the underdogs in society, but their use anyway continued to be in usage below the level of standard speech. Now they have not only survived the passage of time, but in fact are a popular form of conversation and sometimes more relevant than the regular language format.

Why are slangs so popular? Mainly because, unlike regular languages, they harbour........

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