To wonder what happened to normal words???

[BlueberryJuice]

Conversation with dd (13) yesterday.....

dd: "im looking forward to going back to school next week, as some of those year 10 boys are really peng !"

me: "oh right"

dd: "yeah, thats why it's important i get my eyebrows done before i go back as i need them to be really fleeking !"

Seriously, where do they get these words from??? Lol

My 16 year old cousin was doing work experience with me back in July and introduced me to peng...I've never been more confused in my life. I'm only 25 but have never been more relieved to not be "down with the kids". Fucking peng!!

Its like the teens of today have invented a whole new language! Makes me feel old and im only 38 lol

My 13 year old dd doesn't speak anything like that. ...

Your lucky peakyblinder , half the time i don't understand what my dd is talking about lol

But like 'lol' and the overuse of punctuation. Very irritating, isn't it?

*bit , bound to happen

Ok point taken buzzardbird , but at least people understand what im saying

Ds1 was getting bullied at school last year because he doesn't talk like that

But surely teenagers have always created some kind of slang that our parents hated?

I suppose they have i need, im sure i used slang as a teen, but i dont remember using any words that dont make sense without an explanation

Mind you it was a very long time ago that i was a teen

Hmm, Kelly, peng has been around for years. If you're 25, people were saying it when you were at school.

Primary aged kids in my area say "I will verse you" as in I will take you on in a competition. I do wonder how these things come into use and their origins. Wonder if Susie Dent could explain.

Has it sanityclause ? Ive only been hearing it this last few months, I wouldn't mind so much, but when i ask my dd what these words mean she looks at me like because i have not heard them before

Mine are 10 and 9 and already use words and phrases that I don't understand!

I imagine people said the same thing about "cool".

Yeah I suppose they may have done when that word was first used, she also said yesterday that one of her mates said that im his g , i have no idea what that means either but apparently its a compliment

I find evolution of language fascinating. It's always happened amongst the young but I guess it spreads at a much faster rate now with the Internet / social media.

A quick Google tells me it was in the Urban Dictionary from 2003, when it was used to describe "good" drugs, and from 2006, used to mean sexy, or attractive in a person.

If it was in the urban dictionary in 2006, it was being used in that context, in speech, from even earlier.

The first written instance of the word "cool" to mean good, was from the 1920s, I think.

Urban dictionary is your friend. I may have the app on my phone.

One of DD2's friends told her that I'm her bae, Blueberry.

It made me feel like such a Cool Mum™.

DD's only in reception so we've not yet been subjected to this. I've heard of 'peng'p before, but I thought it was 'on fleek' and not 'fleeking'. I must be getting old!

I'm 22 and peng wasn't used in my area when I was in school. I don't even know what it means

• 'peng' obviously. Computer is on a go-slow and only displays what I've written after a long pause.

Well, I'm 53, and "peche" was something good or cool, back in my school days. Stupid word. Never said it myself!

Slang words just eventually become so accepted that you don't remember they were once exclusive to teenagers. Words like jam, gig and 'dig it' in the 60s for instance. Evolution of langauge is really interesting

Do they make a translator for teenage slang app? You could just hold it up everytime they speak and it could translate the drivel into clear cut BBC English.