not cool, dude

I have finally gotten used to the word "hoodie." At first I'd cringe a bit whenever I read or heard it, but now it almost seems like a normal, everyday word to me. I still haven't accepted "preggers" and don't imagine I ever will. The new and reigning least favorite slang term of the '00s, though, is "baby daddy," the skin-crawl-inducing variant of "baby's daddy," which also is becoming/has become an overused phrase. Is it so difficult to speak or write the apostrophe and "s"? I'm not against slang or all forms of word shorthand. I welcome contractions. But some slang particularly makes us sound lazy and less intelligent. Consider the "redneck" genre of comedy, for example — any of those slang words/mangled versions of actual words not dumb down their speaker? One of my favorite words is "y'all," so I'm not claiming to be better than all that. I'm just sayin'.