First let me say, I love slangs, I find them very amusing and some of them are very "cool". I come from an area that used slang as though it were the only language known to them, and I have a lot of sistrens from Jamaica who I speak to on a regular basis and their language is full of slangs too!
Yes I speak slang on a regular basis because its makes the situations more comfortable and relaxing and exciting. I absolutely love to laugh and I enjoy experiences that make me do, using slangs is the beginning to entertainment for me. I do not use slangs when speaking to people in authority and I hardly ever use it with my students. I do use it when I want to lighten the mood and make them laugh and they very well understand what I mean because they use those slangs too. However I do this sparingly and they know not to get carried away.
Given these details I would say I use slang appropriately. My family (except my mother) uses slangs when they are in the mood to "play cool". It depends on the physical context as well that slangs are used, the location and people around might deter me from using slangs when I would like to but this is just to be respectful towards them. When I am in different social settings and physical settings them i would use them to my leisure.
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