Teenage slang - what are they saying at the moment?

[tamburlaine]

what are the funniest/most annoying/most incomprehensible bits of slang your teens are using at the moment?
I'm writing a piece about teenage boys set in the west country, and my experience of teenage boys is based entirely in hackney where everyone tries to talk like a yardie 'n ting you get me.
So I'd be very grateful for any non hackney mums of teenage boys giving me a list of current slang. Cheers.

'Gay' for something stupid
'so' - as in I so didn't do that etc etc.
'Having a mare'
'It canes' (hurts)
'Minging' 'minger'

"Bare" used to mean 'very' -- eg. "He's bare tall, innit!" Also 'nang' used to mean good, "Cor, dass nang, innit."

have we had........... that's so yesterday!

A kid near me - London tho - uses 'blood' all the time - as in "Yeah, that's blood". It means it's cool as in blood brother (e.g. blood brothers re cool) I think.

oooooo had minging come back in as a word. That makes me very trendy then Been using that for years.

afer my dss and friends left this weekend I found a piece of paper on the floor giving percentages to girls one of the categories was 'flabbiness' I will find out if the meaning is traditional or if it has another

plus stuff from Little Britain like 'the evils'

here is what they're saying according to the BBC

tamburlaine you are soooo right in that they're all tryin to talk like yardie lol It amazes me because from the time I was 16 up to about 24 all my friends were jamaican/bajan etc and a lot were from London and that's how they all spoke. Now my 14 year old sister is talking like a yardie - makes me pmsl every time!!!

One of the things I've picked up on in their msn conversations is they all ask each other "Who you on?" or "you on me/him/her?" Guess it means fancy him/her/me lol.

lol had to come back here to say dss is coming round tonight and I know for a fact that after the usual hello etc the next thing I will say to him is 'hang on hang on SLOW down and start at the beginning and remember that you can breathe in between sentences' . I honestly find it difficult to understand him and his mates not so much because of the words they use as the speed at which they talk and the way they construct (or not) their sentences. Im obviously an old fogey me

I was recently playing a guessing game with my 15 year old brother (i'm 34) and I amazed him by guessing the name of a group, I was so proud of myself and feeling quite young and said I might be old but i'm not square to which he replied, wot's square? Says it all, felt ancient!

By the way he says random, seems to be an adjective but i'm not 100% sure of the meaning as it seems to have many.

fat momma another westcountry one is shag, as alright shag, meaning hello mate. make of it what you will. (not teeneage though, my generation and older.)

OMG Anorak. Do you live in our house?

all this teenage slang is sooooo unfair on us foreigners, no hope of ever understanding it!
and I also have no idea about what french teenagers say either

very liberating

We used random in college to be sort of odd, bizzare and unknown.

So it could be "some random bloke started talking to me" meaning an unexpected & unknown bloke

Or... "My hair was a bit random this morning" = it looked odd

I can't believe they have "tell over" and "lush" in that list.

Message withdrawn

"Gay" is much more complex than that IME - it can mean anybody who is not your mate, or who is uncool, or who you want to wind up - can also be used about an action or activity I think. Mostly a primary school playground word these days, in that context - I just consulted DS2 and he reckons it dies out around Y8. (People get agitated when they first come across it thinking all the kids are homophobic but they've just adopted it without considering its accepted meaning, surprisingly )

How about "tight"? Do kids still say that? Nothing to do with money, just shorthand for mean and nasty.

Remember from my Lingustics/French degree days reading about a sociolinguistics PhD student who had done a big thing on Nottingham yoof talk back in the 70s.
She had infiltrated them (looked about 15) by hnging around playgrounds and smoking fags with them.Bet things move a lot faster in this day and age though with MTV,the Internet and all (says she,leaning heavily on her zimmer)

Where I live,(Caernarfon) 'cunt' (pronounced 'cont') is an affectionate turn of phrase! 'Sut wyt ti cont?' is effectively 'How are you mate?'
Raises a few eyebrows....

merc or mirc or merk - don't know the spelling -it means i am going to kill you...i am going to merk you.

not bovvered

never pronounce the sound "th" always pronounce this as a "f" so things would be "fings"

innit

know what i mean...said as a statement rather than a question

"hell" as a profanity allowed in front of parents - becuase is mildly shocking but you can't get battered round the house for it.

"yeah mum, whatever"
the use of "or somefin" at the end of all Questions.
" and what y' want me to do?"

this is really winding me up actually - i want to punch them when they speak like this!

'Tight' = unfair/unjust, as does 'renk'.

Both used freely today by Year 8 to express horror & disgust at fate of Anne Frank, but equally to express horror & disgust at tight, renk English teacher imposing detentions for persistent lateness....

"aww mum thats bang out"

= " mother dahling my opinion is that you are being unfair"