It’s easy to feel Clueless about what teenage girls are saying with their ever-altering slang, but new research says they’re “the accelerators of linguistic change and progress”… Like it or not, linguistics Professor Sali Tagliamonte says if you sit near a group of girls on public transport you’ll hear “the future of language in your community”, and she reckons girls are at least a generation ahead of young men. That’s because they have “an innate linguistic ability that’s superior” and when they’re not as economically powerful as boys, they use language as capital. And it’s not a new conclusion – over 20 years ago the founder of modern sociolinguistics studies William Labov also observed that women lead 90% of linguistic change. So if you are keeping up, you totally ate that, you sigma rizzler…