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Slang Correx—From My 17-Year-Old

Posted 2 years, 2 months ago

Dear Mom,

I just got around to reading your slang column, and you got a few things wrong, left a few things out, and it wasn’t really “the latest.”

First, it’s all about irony. Second, everybody has their own category of slang nowadays. There’s gangster/traditional slang (e.g., “he’s really ‘g’”), nerd slang, hippy-stoner slang, and ironic hipster/faux intelligent slang.

Combining words is in (i.e., absotively posilutely). I would describe this as nerdy white people whimsical slang.

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The Latest in Teen Slang: So Ill, So Fly, So Salty

Posted 2 years, 3 months ago

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 night at dinner with our teenage daughters 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…

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Dude, Do I Need More Eyeliner?

Posted 2 years, 10 months ago

I do not volunteer at my 16-year-old’s high school because I want to give. I volunteer because I want to get. Recently I did hair and makeup for the school musical as a way of getting to know my daughter’s cohort better. (By the way, I know nothing about 1940s hairdos, which is what the show called for, and I want to take the opportunity now to thank this lady for her fabulously instructional YouTube video showing how to make the vintage pin-up look.)

 

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