I find it awfully hard to speak without slang, too. The bad news is that most of my slang is at least twenty years old, so teenagers might tend to look at me fu

I find it awfully hard to speak without slang, too. The bad news is that most of my slang is at least twenty years old, so teenagers might tend to look at me funny, the way I used to look at middle-aged people when I was a teenager. The good news is that most of my slang is at least twenty years old, so it's a cherished and time-honored part of the traditional English language and is in all the dictionaries. As you get older it becomes easier to notice how rapidly one can start an ancient tradition. It only takes a couple of decades. Your kids won't necessarily know the difference between venerable wisdom and some nonsense you invented back in college.