"I'm not gonna lie"

[Davros]

DD (14) says this all the time in the middle of various sentences. Is it the latest teenage vernacular or just DD and her friends or possibly just DD? It gives me the rage (inwardly). I have commented on it and she's stopped saying it quite so much but that could be because she's on school holidays at the moment. Anyone else's teens say this?

NGL is usually a prefix to something bad.

"NGL, you look puffy in that dress."

So it means "You might not like this but I'm going to be honest with you." It's the same "To be honest..."

Cannot believe all of the slang phrases I still use from my teenage years!

Time, peak, sick, ngl, can you not, is it?, long, are you dumb?, bruv (this one even makes me cringe, yet it just slips out).

Luckily I only speak like this with friends from years past and my partner, or other people who happen to use them. I don't talk like that to professions or people I meet in the street.

Reminds me of Nessa! Didn't suppose today's 14 year olds would have watched G and S though.

DD has definitely never seen G&S or heard of it probably. Like most people we use a lot of slang, catch phrases, references and general piss taking in private and with close family/friends but NGL particularly irritated me. I've also started to notice "trust me" grrr