Teenage slang translation thread

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This is what I have learned this evening...

Beast = very good.
Peak = rubbish, unfair.

If anyone can add anything else, please do, in the interests of helping me understand what my son is saying to me.

Soz aba you.

Think this might just be in Liverpool. It's the young person's equivalent of holding up an imaginary handbag and saying 'OooooooOOOooo'.

You can also be soz aba yourself.

Just remembered one that gets used all the bloody time... How could I forget?!

"Allow it" - translates to "forget it"

eg,

Boy1- "fam let's go to that party Brixton tonight"

Boy2- "Nahhhh allow it blud, Brixton is far"

"Far" meaning far away obviously - they shorten it to far (I hear this a lot!)

Oh and also..

"Don't watch that" translates to "don't worry"

Yup!

DD doesn't really do much teen street language, but DS loves it - despite being WMC, most of his friends are 2nd or 3rd generation black British and he likes to fit in

Yes, because "far AWAY" is clearly too long to say.

Like when my daughter texts me K instead of OK. because another letter is too long.
everything is too long is this house.

Load the dishwasher.
Oh allow it that's long.

Go and get x from upstairs
Oh allow it that's long.

Or KK!

And DD text me things like
thank youuuuuuuuuuu!

yes i get those texts as well.

why is OK to long to text but thankkkk youuuuuu alright?

Lol, I just looked up "on it" in urban dictionary out of curiosity - it has all the above uses listed - but what made me laugh was the mellifluous phrase, "nah, we're just on it, innit" :-)

My dd's shorten everything - obvs everyone says totes and blates, but I'm never quite sure whether hilair (hilarious) and cray (crazy) are just them or more widespread?

Hilair is used everywhere.... As is cray!

Eg

"Dat shit is cray"

Or even "craycray"

In some parts of London 'isit' means yes.

'Do you wanna a cuppa'
'Isit'

Gilly, for some reason I find that reassuring! Makes them sound slightly less loopy :)

Do they get it from Rastamouse? Maybe we should ask ... "Did you get that from Rastamouse?"

This is a very illuminating thread. Although we did used to say "butters" about ten years ago.

fuck I am old

Mine's started saying 'snazzy' in much the same context it would have been used by someone already past it in the 70s... May be just her though?

dh was flabberghasted when ds asked 'who put crack on your cornflakes?'

snazzy?

Love it hugo - will have to remember that one!

Loving "who put crack on your cornflakes". I'll have to use that on DH, he's a morning person. Sigh.

Is vex teenage slang? My grandmother used to use that. "I'm very vexed with you / don't vex me" and so on. She was about as far removed from gangsta slang as it was possible to be. Used to make us turn off Neighbours because it was so risque

I expect the Mail will be along shortly, and blame the BBC and Rastamouse.

'effort' is the one I hear over an over again, I think it means he can't be arsed.

Sleepy Suffolk, but my two 12yr olds already using a lot of these (since dtsrting High School in local town) and Dh and I were bemused. I have bookmarked here gor referral purposes.
I think I'll start using more traditinal Suffolk phases to confuse them as much as they confuse me.

Butters (Buttas?) is a really ugly girl...apparently...