The speech around West Palm Beach is tailored to the younger generation. If you live in West Palm Beach you're either living with your parents, a parent, or you're a retired senior citizen so teenagers basically develop they're own slang terms. The pattern that I have noted recently is that two syllable words are just to many syllables for the teenage brain. Suddenly we have to shorten older slang words like "gnarly" to "gnar" and "totally" to "tots"(said toads) to make them our own. It's like a doctor snipping loose ends of all his words to make it look nicer and then attempted to articulate his rationalization for the surgery.

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