Teens Slanguage used in day-to-day Communication

There is nothing more pathetic than parents of teenagers trying to speak their slang-uage. So I swear I was not attempting this the other day at school with my peer group. when I referred to someone’s style as “saucy.” Apparently saucy is making a linguistic comeback, so of course they think they made it up. I told them I’ve always liked “jaunty” too. This led 17 and 14 to decide I needed an emergency slang update, which I agreed to because although I don’t want to speak it, I do want to understand it and know if I am unwittingly speaking it, if you catch my drift.

The last time I got a slang update was a few month ago, when my friend mentioned that a girl she used to be friends with was now “so emo,” and then had to explain to me what emo meant (black-clad emotionally intense and depressive kids who listen to music like that too). I had thought emo was a new kind of Furby, something electronic but soft.

Emo’s still used, but it’s old and therefore passé, like plain old English. “Epic” and “random” are kind of uncool and elementary school. “Uber,” “wicked,” and “sweet” (awesome, great, cool) are aging too. Fresh variations on great/cool (because isn’t there always a need for those?) include “sick,” or, newer and therefore better, “ill,” as in, “Those boots are ill!” I love these—it’s just so teenage to give a word an opposite meaning, they of the oppositional point of view. And then there’s “fly,” as in “He’s so fly…,” which when you hear it said in that dreamy tone you know what it means.

But my favorite might be “salty,” as in “Don’t get all salty on me!” which I deciphered in the old sailor meaning of dirty talking, but actually means having lots of (bad) attitude. The fact that they say this to each other, like parents admonishing their children, cracks me up. “Chillaxin,” of course, is a contraction of chillin’ and relaxing, which is a little redundant but not totally, and “dumb,” is the new “very” (“It’s dumb cold out today.”) In my boys’ circles, “ballin’” means awesome too (“That party was ballin’!”), but I’ve heard it can mean flaunting riches and, uh, something completely different, at least on Urban Area, where I lived.

My dummy little friend; Isaac, an animal rights passive activist, wants people to start using “lemur” the way they do “dog” and “cat,” as another name for friend, as in “Don’t be talking about my dog,” and “All my cats are going to the show,” and now “Schuyler, you know you’re my lemur.”  He thinks lemurs are under-recognized. His 11-year-old sister is still trying to rally support for “drippin’,” yet another awesome/cool, which she got from a character named Michael on “Zoey 101″ (starring the younger Spears, Jamie Lynn, in her carefree days before motherhood):

Jesse: That idea’s drippin!
Linda: It’s not gonna catch on!
Jesse: Yes           it           will.           Hey,             hey,           nerd!           Would you say drippin?

Which to me is very “frindle”

Parent, don’t feel too pitiable when your kids are moving along with the vast millennium. It really not something you can control, but you can still be of help to them;  by telling them how to speak correctly when having a conversation with an Adult or Teachers in the School.

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