> I expect to almost totally lose touch with the speech of "these kids today." Is this long term really a problem though? Regression to the mean: No one cares

> I expect to almost totally lose touch with the speech of "these kids today." Is this long term really a problem though? Regression to the mean: No one cares about the specific slang of the 60s anymore. And the hip slang of today will be out of fashion in 15 years. In a similar vain the extreme T9 keyboard text message abbreviations of the youth in the 2000s did go out of fashion because of automatic spell checking and speech recognition of modern smartphones.