How to Pay for a Baby - Kool A.D. Language Analysis

"How to Pay for a Baby" is an article written by Kool A.D, with purposes to provide an opinion and advice to new becoming or expected to becoming parents with financial problems that they have or may face. Kool A.D has written this piece of writing in his own way that makes it unique, his own idiolect. In terms of diction and syntax, this article can be categorized into a mixture of both colloquial and slang dialects. Kool A.D uses a form of language that is common to the popular culture and younger generations, meaning that the language is not completely understandable by everyone.  As a result, the article gives a unique and humorous tone which the targeted audience, new and younger parents are able to relate and form an intimate, spontaneous and casual bond with the author and the article itself. The use of both colloquial and slang dialects is evident throughout the article, beginning with the first phrase itself, "I'mma keep it 100 with y'all". The use of profanity is widely used across the article such as, "Fake a** currency", "some s***" and F*** outta here. This also brings us the use of informal contraction words such as "outta" which means out of, "I'mma" which means I'm going to and "hella" which means hell of a. In addition to that, slang vocabularies such as "yaper", "feddy", "guap", "doggie", "smackerinos", "legal tender", etc. are used in the article, which I myself do not understand. Profanity, informal contractions and other slangs are common to social groups such as the millennials, young people, African Americans, etc. which are the social groups the targeted audience belong in. With Kool A.D. using this form of syntax and diction, the audience are willing to listen to the perspective of their group of people. 

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