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

Thats great sanityclause , i just asked the young agency lad what my dd's friend meant when he called me his g and apparently it means im like his homegirl

Should have said the young agency lad we got in at work today

SanityClause I'm 25 too. We never used peng.
I remember one boy constantly saying things were pukka though. Everything was pukka.

Dd tried to introduce me to "m9" the other day. While I think I might be able to translate it, I'm still a little fuzzy as to the contexts in which I might use it.

I used "meta" to describe something the other day ("that's a bit meta") and my teenage son was impressed. He asked me how I'd come across the phrase. Apparently it's a thing now. I explained that it was a term used in undergraduate essays back in the day.

I like the words that are moved just a few inches from their common and habitual ground, giving them a new edge. "Deep" is one of those. Arguments/discussions with my son tend to involve the phrase: "It's not that deep." ("Could you pick up your socks, please? Why are you still in bed? Is everything OK?)

Obviously, "deep" means exactly what it has always meant and is easily understood. You could come across that line, delivered by an arguing couple, in a book written in the 60s or 70s (just about). However, it's been subtly altered owing to the manner in which it is now deployed.

thecat how funny that meta is a thing now!

The use of epic irritated me. So glad it fell out of use.

i dont remember using any words that dont make sense without an explanation

In 20 years time these teenagers will not remember doing that either.

Scary Yes @ 'meta'. It occurred to me that one reason for it might be that many of the tropes of post-structuralism and post-modernism - particularly the self-reflexivity - have made their way into popular culture and are a standard presence there. Yes, I know that there is an argument to say that that is the context from which they were derived originally ("Leaving LAs Vegas") but they are there in force now.

This kind of makes sense: a lot of the people making these products have been undergraduates themselves, probably in the Humanities, and also these ideas are now in the 'A' level curriculum (and probably the GCSE curriculum). So, when they are creating popular culture, those ideas (so cutting -edge in my day!) are just what you do.

As a result, it's just going to be quite normal to find "meta" in conversation when you are talking about popular culture, or even about people's behaviour/incidents you've witnessed.

It was still quite weird, though. I felt very old.

I quite liked "epic".

"Moist" is still a thing around here. I saw a quiz on Twitter asking people to guess the least popular word in English. I knew it would be "moist". It's used as an adjective of disapprobation amongst the young people.

Oh is fleeing a verb now, I thought it was "on fleek"
I saw Richelieu Hines chastised Gik Wan fir saying was fleek instead of on fleek.

Barmy.

• fleeking My phone is not cool.

It's just evolution of language.:. Innit

Cool
Rad
Sick
Hip
Let's bounce
Pukka
Chill - as in take a chill pill
Kicks - as in trainers

All crazy terms from my youth... I'm nearly 40, so I'm sure some have snuck in there from my older teen years, never heard of Peng or Meta (am off to do some googling) so I can be down with the youths...

Meta and epic are both used in our house; meta by DH who's 42 and epic by DS who's 4.5. I can't wait for the teenage conversations : )

I disapprove strongly of moist.

DS calls me 'swag' when I put my sunglasses on, which I believe means I look cool. He also uses 'sick' a lot which apparently means that something is good.

I sometimes feel like I've stepped out of a Jane Austen novel.

It was "doody" in my day to say something was good/cool. My mum hated it!! Never ever hear that any more. My younger brother is "that's so sick! Oh she's so peng, she's fire! 🔥" I feel ancient. My mum taught me "gopping" for something ugly, I like that

Yes sick means good. "Did you have a good day db?" "Yeah it was sooooo sick!"

Although I don't talk like it I know what most of them mean.

The one that is confusing me at the moment is 'lit'. Like "it was lit" or "it's going to be so lit". I guess it means good but oh my word you sound like a knob.

Does anyone else remember the preggers and peng threads?

^
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.^

babymamamama it's short for 'versus' as in Player versus Player

Oh yes rhiwrites I see. "'My bad!"

I hope it comes to me, can't remember right now, but the other day I swear I heard someone in a group of teenagers use something as a slang term that I last heard in one of Shakepeare's plays. I wish I'd asked where he got it from, but he didn't look very approachable and probably wouldn't have appreciated the query!

"peng" is short for penguin, as in "peng-win", as in winning, as in "good"

I can imagine the conversation ended up something like this blueberry

Every generation has its own idiolect.

I love it.

As a teacher, it both fascinates me and amuses me. Plus it often helps me teach concepts like metaphorical and figurative language.

Lol .

I didn't know they would be still using words like "peng". They used it around my time but I'm not old at all.

Slang words are a mix of Jamaican patois, and American slang.

peng means "hot", "good looking" "sexy".

fleeking means "on point", "nice", basically kind of the same connotations as above.

I know a lot of people who use slang words around my age... 20+