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Annoying Teenage Terminology

Metamorpheus said:
“ate”. As in, “you ate that”….meant do something well, kinda like you aced that”.

When I think back to my teenage years I remember saying stuff like ‘wicked’ and ‘bad’ which must of sounded much the same to my parents. Language does evolve but I do really dislike how text speak has now made its way into everyday conversation.
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Damn he cookin, unc
 
Bleaney said:
An example that springs to mind was the repeated use of "bare". As in "Bare people in Morrisons today!" Which apparently means a lot. The word must have been really "in" at that time, considering that it was used at almost every possible opportunity! Interestingly only one person was flying the flag for this lingo, but he was the type that suited it.

I've just seen that apparently it's not a localised thing, but I've never heard any British youth from outside my area say that. Mind you I don't listen to much youth speak, in my area, let alone in other places, if I can possibly help it.
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Yeah it's fairly ubiquitous tbh, comes from Jamaican Patois, so will have most likely transplanted into British slang in London and then spread elsewhere

Edit: although I'm in my 30s and this was in common usage while I was still at school, so think you might be more out of touch than first anticipated 😜
 
Well I have 2 decades on you, so I think that's a fairly reasonable excuse for being out of touch.

I'd kind of be more concerned about myself if I was up to date with all this stuff tbh. Wouldnt seem right to me for a 50 something to 'talk so hip man' or w/e the current expression for that would be.

It fact it would be positively cringe! David Brent eat your heart out!
 
Bleaney said:
Well I have 2 decades on you, so I think that's a fairly reasonable excuse for being out of touch.

I'd kind of be more concerned about myself if I was up to date with all this stuff tbh. Wouldnt seem right to me for a 50 something to 'talk so hip man' or w/e the current expression for that would be.

It fact it would be positively cringe! David Brent eat your heart out!
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Haha fair enough man, had you down as being around my age, based on nothing in particular
 
Bleaney said:
Well I have 2 decades on you, so I think that's a fairly reasonable excuse for being out of touch.

I'd kind of be more concerned about myself if I was up to date with all this stuff tbh. Wouldnt seem right to me for a 50 something to 'talk so hip man' or w/e the current expression for that would be.

It fact it would be positively cringe! David Brent eat your heart out!
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Call the cops!


I'm still trying to pinpoint when 'sick' changed from being something absolutely disgusting to something absolutely brilliant.

It's twisting my melon man...
 
F.U.B.A.R. said:
Call the cops!


I'm still trying to pinpoint when 'sick' changed from being something absolutely disgusting to something absolutely brilliant.

It's twisting my melon man...
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At least you have a youngish son, so you're not going to be able to avoid hearing a lot of stuff.

I have virtually no contact with young people apart from at work.
 
i think all these abbreviations (or even the whole words) for gender and sexual orientations and anti-something groups are quite annoying.
they might not be only common with teenagers, but even if some people claim they are to define oneself, they are labels that also marginalize.
my opinion, like it or not.
i don't care.
all i wanted to do is to revive this thread.
 
lecroute said:
i think all these abbreviations (or even the whole words) for gender and sexual orientations and anti-something groups are quite annoying.
they might not be only common with teenagers, but even if some people claim they are to define oneself, they are labels that also marginalize.
my opinion, like it or not.
i don't care.
all i wanted to do is to revive this thread.
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reported for suggesting the gay flag is not colourfull enuf byb ttyl
 
F.U.B.A.R. said:
Call the cops!


I'm still trying to pinpoint when 'sick' changed from being something absolutely disgusting to something absolutely brilliant.

It's twisting my melon man...
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i think sick might've came from something like metal or something where a band is "sick" maybe cause they are really hard and have disturbing content or whatever... then i'm thinking it might've crossed over into skatboarding slang or whatever, and then became mainstream... sick has been around sick the 90's at least... i really don't know if my history of the word is actually truth or not. just seems pretty logical, maybe that's not how it started though.

i might describe something as "sick shit", but usually that would mean something good but with disturbing content whether it be just musically makes you feel weird or the content of the lyrics are disturbing.. idk
 
also skateboarding turned into a kind of anti-society thing for a lot of people... i wouldn't be surprised if that's where sick came from... also tricks being "insane" or "ill"... hip hop and graffiti also anti-society for the most part with things being "ill".

dope i would think would be a chilled out thing, or fire might be energetic for newer slang. i think fire is becoming more common. i never heard it used too much until the past few years. i think fire could also just mean on a higher level. like electricity is like fire and there's a fire that runs deep within people. the fire of life... i dunno. i like in d'yer m'aker by led zeppelin when he goes "fire" at the end. makes me think fire could mean chill, but also, jazz or hardcore music could be "fire" meaning it has intensity. i think most slang gets this way where it pretty much means anything.
 
Its just when you pick a conversation from a group of young people.

Hear all them Drerrie s Bragga bout their Doekoe,
encounters with Battie s of SKO-2.

Don t think my mother had those problems deciphering !
as this, this is a language almost. Really had to look up the words.
 
Street-language, the combo of native, adopted, created to a single
National thing no Dialect s between different parts afaik.
Word s are assimilated or fast. It sound s good btw,
And seems straight to the point, short and fast.
Just can t understand a thing they are saying.

Is it Terminology or a creative proces we are witnessing ?
Where language Evolves but also seem s to break the language,
and non verbal part. That where not in synch in the past.
In my youth among kid s it was polarised, groups with all there own.
Subculture s. And there was shared slang.

Torie [this doesn s make sense/ add up].
But IMO its a new language we got over here,
is this Global/ everywhere among youth ?

Hear all them Drerrie s Bragga bout their Doekoe,
encounters with Battie s of SKO-2.

Friends, Breg about, Money, Homosexual Males, Police.
New, but the last one, old slang from my youth.
 
foodcrisis said:
also skateboarding turned into a kind of anti-society thing for a lot of people... i wouldn't be surprised if that's where sick came from... also tricks being "insane" or "ill"... hip hop and graffiti also anti-society for the most part with things being "ill".
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It's super odd to me how skateboarding turned from something that was looked down upon to something viewed as "cool". I'm 26, and for my entire life skateboarders have been like the male equivalent of goth girls, an aesthetic/pattern of lifestyle that used to be shit on a few decades ago but nowadays people respect the way they do other subcultures and the sort.
 
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