This is much nicer for other people coming into this. It's the same problem with spoken language and slang, slang is better if you know it, worse if you don't.
Sorry to be pedantic (well, not really it's M.O. for a hacker news commentor after all, isn't it?) , but as someone who knows a few languages, slang is not an issue with spoken languages at all. You learn a language by full immersion with other speakers, who impart that knowledge unto you. Unless all you are doing is conversing with grammaticians and newscasters, you will pick up on regional and local differences, euphemisms, and slang.
dimitrios1|3 years ago