Does slang always mean something bad?

It depends on who you are talking to. Know your audience. With close friends, slang is perfectly fine. In a job interview, not so much.

Slang is colloquial (informal, conversational) speaking and expressions that are not standard language. Slang is appropriate most times with friends or coworkers who know what you’re speaking of and understand. I wouldn’t advise you to use slang in a professional setting such as a job interview.

I find myself lapsing into slang too much lately. I’ve gotta stop talking about baby mamas and baby daddies when I’m out in the world. Peeps think I be frontin’ them sometimes. ;-)

Word.

Slanc is Not necessarily negative, it is just a way to describe special vocabulary which belongs to a defined group of people connected through their profession, interest or geographic location. It is simply another word for “dialect”, and the only time it would be impolite to use it would be when talking to someone who doesn’t understand it… Otherwise it is a language subculture which is, just like any other language, bound to evolve and grow! Languages are a living thing and need to be developped! So speak it as often as you can, but judge wisely whether in the current situation it is appropriate or not.

No, slang does not mean bad.

Slang is just new words or phrases that develop out of popular culture. Some slang will stick around and eventually become part of the English language. Other slang will eventually disappear from current use but will remain in books to puzzle future generations.

Some slang terms are inappropriate for most use outside of bantering with friends, but typically these refer to acts that you shouldn’t be discussing with any but your best friends or your significant other. Others are just quite informal and so shouldn’t be used in an office setting or other formal situation.

An example of out-dated slang would be groovy (still in use but no longer considered “cool”). Another would be the word cool, which has become almost accepted fully into the English language. There are quite a few from the 1920s here. Some of these terms have entered American English so much so that they are no longer considered slang (an informal nonstandard variety of speech characterized by newly coined and rapidly changing words and phrases, generally considered inappropriate for formal use) but are classified as idioms (linguistic usage that is grammatical and natural to native speakers but that may have different meaning from the one suggested by the individual words such as raining cats and dogs)

Basically, if it is in the Urban Dictionary or refers to sex or body parts, you don’t want to use it in a job interview, a speech, or in speaking to potential in-laws. Can ya dig it?

Whoa, dude, like, far out! I, like, totally grok you, Darwin! Outta sight! ::pushes up Lennon glasses::

I found a site with pre-hippie 60s’ slang, and I now think “Climb it, Tarzan” when you ‘flip the bird’ (in jest, of course) should make a comeback. I LOLed.

Hey, you are making fun of my youth!

@Darwin – If you could only ask my friends how much of 60s slang I use IRL non-ironically. I was born 25 years too late.

Thanks all of you!

No, of course not. It can strengthen the bonds of social groups / sub-cultures.

@mattbrowne Ya, could be so.
There are some slang like words in native language here, and from that I came to agree your point.
Thanks.