"is it any worse than say rappers using the speech & slang they use when talking to one another?"
Nope, it's no worse. As you say, it's totally harmless, and a lot of groups have their own jargons. But rappers who use rap-slang when talking to non-rappers get made fun of too, especially if they're white-bread suburban kids who've never seen a real ghetto in their lives.
I hang out with a bunch of people who speak Sindarin Elvish, and we get made fun of about that sometimes. I know one guy who speaks Nadsat (the invented teenage slang from A Clockwork Orange in a fake-Liverpudlian accent, and I'm sure he has no clue how silly he sounds, but... whatever. If you want to hear a REALLY irritating jargon, spend some time with hardcore James Joyce fans - they'll make you wish you were back with the babytalkers.
There's always going to be people who enjoy ridiculing others for any reason they can find. It's not nice, often it's downright nasty, but what are you going to do about it? There isn't any way to stop them. The only real options are to quit doing whatever they're mocking you for when you're around them (or avoid them, friends-lock your journal, block them from posting to it), or else decide not to care about the opinions of assholes, and just ignore anything they say.
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Nope, it's no worse. As you say, it's totally harmless, and a lot of groups have their own jargons. But rappers who use rap-slang when talking to non-rappers get made fun of too, especially if they're white-bread suburban kids who've never seen a real ghetto in their lives.
I hang out with a bunch of people who speak Sindarin Elvish, and we get made fun of about that sometimes. I know one guy who speaks Nadsat (the invented teenage slang from A Clockwork Orange in a fake-Liverpudlian accent, and I'm sure he has no clue how silly he sounds, but... whatever. If you want to hear a REALLY irritating jargon, spend some time with hardcore James Joyce fans - they'll make you wish you were back with the babytalkers.
There's always going to be people who enjoy ridiculing others for any reason they can find. It's not nice, often it's downright nasty, but what are you going to do about it? There isn't any way to stop them. The only real options are to quit doing whatever they're mocking you for when you're around them (or avoid them, friends-lock your journal, block them from posting to it), or else decide not to care about the opinions of assholes, and just ignore anything they say.