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I don't understand any more. It's obviously just another sign of my advancing years but I can barely make sense of what's going on these days. I have noticed loads of posts on trans / CD reddits in the last few weeks where people (usually in their 20's or younger) have put up pictures of themselves with the heading "am I cooked" What do they think they are? a roasting joint..... is being cooked a good thing or a bad thing? I sometimes wonder what happened to the world I once knew, where did it all go wrong? OK grump over. Have a lovely day everyone.
The older generation will never understand the younger one...and visaversa. Not doubt we had terms and actions our parents never understood, and no doubt our kids will feel the same about their kids. Keep an open mind and let the younger generation develope their own personaities, just like we did.
Wavy Gravy - a burned out Frisco hippie from "the good 'ol days," once said, If you remember the 60's, you weren't there man.
Gotta stay "hip."
Smile...... Staci...
Cooked” is a slang way to say “struggling,” “having problems,” “I'm done for,” or are just straight up ready
I struggle with the young generation terms I here some even in text and text back WTF is that 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 think a lot had to do the younger generation got lazy sorry but true most don’t want to work or anything just stay home and play on electronics guess they need slang words to be quick 🤷🏻 oooo well is definitely a new world TC
Bookmark the Urban Dictionary.
I knew that the human race started to decline when real dictionaries agreed to add funnily as a real word. It isn't.
Oh gosh let me join the queue being of an age where we thought we knew how to speak but listening to the young I am not so sure...I try but hearing these terms..
'Sick' - Oh are you ill?
'Innit' - Oh you're in I.T. then
'Salty' - Overdid the salt then.
'Dope' - You shouldn't be doing that stuff, look how gramps turned out.
Oojah, peng, bants? No neither do I.....
To me it's like way, no way, like whatever....
I agree I am only in my 30s and sometimes struggle to understand what my more youthful work colleagues are saying sometimes and I do think that too many slang terms are sneaking into accepted language and often wonder what they teach in the way of English in schools today.
If you all think you are dated, I’m 77 and use phrases my parents used, like “ cattywhompous , ice box, or headache powders.” LOL. My middle age children shake their heads and the grandkids think it’s a foreign language.
I was going to mention a few but Angela @ab123 has beaten me to it with dope, sick, etc. Although I can add 'wicked', 'brah', 'bruddah', and 'blud' to the list.
If you really want to become VERY perplexed by modern language, I suggest you watch a series, which is in English(?), called 'Supacell', on Netflix. The series is science fiction but based in an urban environment with gangstas and niggas [sic] and other strange, pseudo-familiar words and is really quite good, but you will have to watch it with [English] sub-titles on and even then, you will have some trouble following the language as some of it is barely English at all.
I suppose it's no different to the changes that came about in the Great Vowel Shift of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, people then must have wondered what was happing to their language of the times.
Becca
I’m married to a former English as a foreign language teacher, who has apoplexy when anyone on television says ‘less’ instead of ‘fewer’, or ‘fed up of’ rather than ‘with’.
What has me throwing a shoe at the screen , is when ‘nuclear’ is pronounced ‘nu-cu-lar’…
Don't be such a square, get hip. Be cool. Let's go to the gay bar and watch the drag show. It's rad to watch language change.
Ok, I may be pushing things, but we redefine words all the time. Some of these stick, some don't (remember Far out!). If they hang around long enough, they make it to the OED.
Then there are words which refer to new inventions or new technolgy. We now use text as a verb, and added words like sexting, spam, phishing, and smishing. The technology is so fast that regular postal service has now been dubbed snail mail.
Language isn't static, it changes all the time.
Two of mine lately are: Starting every sentence with so. “So….this is my new dress.” Totally unnecessary.
And the current worst is this newish trend in pronunciations of certain words with a “t” in them but dropping the “t” or making it silent for no reason.
”We’re going away to the moun-ains this weekend!”
”It’s cold out - I’ll get my mi-ens.”
OMG….🤯
Slang is one thing, but dont get me started on apostrophe's.
😉
A few more 60/70s slang terms for the collection....
1 | Freak flag
2 | Hang loose
3 | Fuzz
4 | Far out
5 | Bummer
6 | Foxy
7 | Gimme some skin
8 | What's your bag?
9 | Sweet bippy
10 | Can you dig it?
11 | Old lady/chick
12 | Lay it on me
13 | Bogart
14 | It's a gas
15 | Grass
16 | Heavy
17 | Bread
18 | Split
The best slang came from the Victorian era here's three examples....
Whooperups – a term used to describe a group of terrible singers.
Nanty Narking – means that you're having a good time.
Church Bell – used to describe a woman who doesn’t shut up.
Please note that I'm NOT old enough to have been around to have used those from the Victorian era, although some mornings I feel I might have been.:-)
Which just goes to show that the "new" generation is going to make up new words, or reapply them, just like every generatiin does. There is no point in getting panties in a twist about it, inless one does want to be percieved as a grumpy old lady.
As for just plain wrong use of language, "I could careless" is the one that does get my panties in a twist.