I can handle a certain amount of slang. There's some slang that I legitimately don't understand. If someone tells me that they're "running the road on bare treads of chicken lint" I 100% don't know what that means. No one does. I just made it up. But there's some slang terms I do know the meaning of. The problem is, I just don't understand why the usage of them is that much easier than just saying what you really mean! A lot of times, there's the potential for creating a lot of confusion. If I'm working in a store and someone walks in and goes to buy something and asks, "do you take plastic?", I know that they're referring to a credit card. The problem is, what if they're not? The tough thing about misunderstanding is that it can potentially go both ways. If I say "yes, we do take plastic" and this person is from some weird foreign country I've never heard of who's currency is little pieces of plastic, I've now made a promise I have to keep! Now I've gone and sold these nudy mags to some guy from Uzbekistan for a handful of worthless pieces of garbage that just happen to be valuable in his country! From now on we'll just resort to speaking in literal terms.
"Do you take plastic?"
"No. We only take money!"
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