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Comment author: entirelyuseless 13 September 2015 03:55:47PM 0 points [-]

Well, I don't know that slang is a problem, but I think it is likely to be one.

This gives me reason to think that using slang is either likely to help people think more rationally, or to cause a slight tendency to think less rationally. Given actually existing correlations, at least those that I perceive, I think the latter more likely than the former.