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Wait wut. By the wonderful Brooke Barker.
P.S. Personal pep talks, and what slang do you use?
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I feel seen. Ha
Well, my kids (ages 13, 11, and 8) like to call me “bruh” when they are annoyed or embarrassed by me. I used to remind them that I’m their MOM and not a “bruh” (which is maybe such a “mom” thing to say), but now I just call them BRUH in return, as in “Oh, am I embarrassing you BRUH?” I’m hoping my use of this slang word might make it uncool in our house sooner rather than later, haha!
Saw a pic of the best Mothers Day cake the last other day:
Ma
Mommy
Mama
Mom
Bruh
Haha! My 8 year old son’s friend just asked me if “yoyo” meant crazy. I was like “you are not asking the right person . You need to find someone younger than me … and older than you!”
This makes me think of conversations with my 5 year old. “….That’s not a real word.” “It’s only funny if you know the real way to say it and use that most of the time…” HaHaHaHa! I can be such a pain in the behind lol. That autism piece yesterday reeeeeeeaaaaallllly spoke to me. ♥️
I have no idea what 100% of these song phrases mean. I do have faith that really good ones can become part of official language though. And that isn’t awful 😉😉😉.
i love learning slang from TikTok and trying it on with abandon
Any Earth Day or climate change posts? Would love to see COJ start a dialogue on the very pressing issue of our planet warming…
yes !! please
My son does have his own slang, but so do I. So do most people. We play around with it, and have had fun laughing about it.
I suggest it’s ok to tell a different story about this though, rather than seeing it as evidence of an adult’s irrelevance and obsolescence (which is ageism). Slang is just language evolving, part of the ever ongoing changes of life. Why not enjoy it?
Yes! This specific comic is just for fun, but it’s good to point out that the idea of relevent lingo is relative: in a career-oriented culture, it could just as easily be the language of 40-somethings (the highest earners) that’s considered ‘hip’.
That feeling when you thought it was thurs but coj posts a comic… It’s the freakin’ weekend! (Or is that… not a cool thing to say….)
Zounds, TGIF!
It does make one feel old, but also, there is something kind of awesome and powerful about the fact that something as simple as words can function as a “keep out” sign on the door of the clubhouse. I mean, that’s always been true and it is used to ill effect when it’s work jargon that maintains an “old boys club” or otherwise limits hiring, but also kind of cool that less empowered folks (youth, socioeconomically disadvantaged and/or under represented minority folks) can pull the same trick, of using language to maintain insider/outsider status. Language is powerful! There is something hopeful about that.
Love this observation, Bookster!
Definitely! Currently reading a great book about exactly this type of thing called, “Cultish” The Language of Fanaticism, by an incredible writer, Amanda Montell.
Highly recommend, because it outlines how vulnerable we all are to the power of language in all realms: politics, marketing etc.
Also my first comment on this post was maybe too minimalist but it was in recognition of how true this comic is, and I see it was not posted so maybe something was lost in translation. That’s ok, of course but it was possibly misconstrued?
I think there is a second peak for those that have teenagers in the house. Those folks all of a sudden know slang, pop music and the cool shoe trends.
Yes! My kids are in their late teens and my millennial co-workers are always super interested to find out what’s current :)
I was just scrolling down to say this!! Definitely bi-modal. Unless you are a high school teacher. Then you are always current
Yup, my 16 year old helps me understand what the youths are saying lol
Thank goodness for Urban Dictionary.
My kids use of sus cracks me up. My 20
Year old also feels old when me younger two use the same slang he does so it’s not just us everyone is feeling slang old lol
I’m 35 and work in an elementary school in Seattle, and the slang situation is HILARIOUS. The kids are juuuuust slightly worse/less up to date than I am at slang, because they are picking up and trying out phrases that are both somewhat outdated and that they don’t quite know how to use. My favorite is the second-grade trend of saying “heckin'”, as in, “I’m reading a heckin’ cool book about dragons!” – I think it’s hella, filtered to hecka, and then became heckin? Regardless, the language experimentation delights me daily.
Maybe their parents are doggo language aficionados, lol.
heckin’ amazing.
Haha yes Sophia. My first grader came home dabbing the other day and I was like is early elementary school where all the fads trickle down to and just kind of float around indefinitely?
Well, this is really derpy, as my 12-year-old niece would say.
Commenters, you need to add definitions to your examples of slang! I have no idea what any of these words mean.
Haha, agreed! I had this same thought!
+1!!
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