Through the past couple of years slang language has progressed and is becoming unstoppable.  Teens today speak with slang many adults have never heard of and say �Wow, I am getting old� but really some of those words were originated hundreds of years ago.  In 1440, the slang word �Salty� was put into dictionaries by Latin Americans in Promptorium Parvulorum in The Latin English Dictionary and was brought into the English language in the form of an adjective meaning �Containing or impregnated with salt; tasting of salt�(OED).  This word is now used differently today than in the past, it is now a form of explanation on how someone is acting or acted.  The College Webster Dictionary online states that salty is used as an adjective and means �Tasting of or containing salt�(Webster).  But with the new generation using salty, it should be admitted into Standard American English with the definition of �angry, mad, or acting ill tempered�, as most commonly used today according to C.Calloway�s Hepster Dictionary in 1944(Calloway�s).

      For example, when salty is used in a sentence like, �Why do you have to get so salty when people want to have fun?� (OED).  Instead of saying �These crackers are salty.�  I feel the original form of how salt tastes bitter of could be bitter related to how someone can act bitter to someone or something�s.

     Salty came into English as a slang word with two similar meanings.  In 1944, C. Calloway Hepsters Dictionary came out with salty meaning �angry, and ill tempered� (Calloway).  Which is now how most people see the word salty as how someone�s actions.

       Many people relate Sailors to being salty.  In 1926, Anderson and Stallings, Three Americans Plays III, had an example of how they related salty to sailors.  �I lived with a Spanish girl at a Cavite back in �99�..In those days I was salty as hell, a sea-going buckaroo� (OED).  Just like when I am in the presence of someone and they use the word salty in the slang form, for example, �Nicole was acting pretty salty last night.� They are not talking about her being like salt on French fries they are referring to how she was acting hostile or irritated.  Most adults do not classify it as a proper word, but should be considered how commonly it is used by teens of today.

      �Black Talk�, a book with what people would call the new language or better known as the book of slang, shows another word or phrase people may use to speak about someone that has a relation to salty.  You may hear someone say you salty dog.  They are referring to a person who uses an excess of obscene language ( Salty,Black Talk)  Which is an example of a definition of another slang word.  Another word that many people use today is �shady� and it refers to someone acting weird or not normal.  In the book �Black Talk�, they define salty as �irritated, annoyed or when someone is feeling sour�.  Which is the way we, the new generation, use it and therefore should be admitted into Standard American English.

      When you look salty up in the dictionary most people would think they would see it defined as tasting bitter or too much salt, but it is defined as being hostile or angry.

     Since it is in the dictionary it should be admitted into Standard American English, because it is just showing how someone acts, a figure of speech or an abbreviation.  I feel this way, because I think that from the origination of the word meaning bitter or too much salt relates to the slang definition of how someone is acting bitter towards someone or something.

      Now that the relation is shown and is sensible it should be admitted to Standard American English.  Many young adults and teens use the slang word salty both ways and are becoming very common.  Next time you go to use a word that is slang, think about the true meaning of a word, and ask yourself �Do I know what this word really means and am I using it correctly?�