lexipanic
/ˌlɛksɪˈpænɪk/nounVerified NewThe recurring moral panic over young people's language, declared anew by each generation with the same argument.
Every generation's innovations are reported as the collapse of the language itself. The panic is older than print and recycles its own quotations, and the language survives every predicted death.
Etym. — lexicon + panic — a named, repeating genre of language complaint.
Rel. — slanglag
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