Can you understand today's slang?

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If one of your grandkids used any of these words, in their current slang meaning, would you know what they are talking about?

yeet
sus
poggers
woke
bye felicia
simp
cap
bet
dope
fire

Those words are listed as the top 10 slang words of 2021. I would need an interpreter. (Woke is the only one I sort of knew.)
 

Murrmurr said:
I have every reason to believe that's how I sound to the grandkids.
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I remember the stage when my kids were learning to talk, they all had their own strengths and weaknesses, and where one would have a certain word down-pat, another would have their own language for it and make a mess of it... beyond deciphering.

In the beginning I was lost, but as baby after baby came along, I got better at understanding even the most alien of pronunciations for things.
 
Aunt Marg said:
I remember the stage when my kids were learning to talk, they all had their own strengths and weaknesses, and where one would have a certain word down-pat, another would have their own language for it and make a mess of it... beyond deciphering.

In the beginning I was lost, but as baby after baby came along, I got better at understanding even the most alien of pronunciations for things.
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My oldest one didn't talk until he was almost 3, other than to let me know he was hungry, then he just used one word, like cookie or samish (sandwich), or whatever. When he finally really started talking, he sounded like an 8 year old! Talked like a person. It was kind of weird.

First time he did it I'd handed him his sippy cup and he took a swig and handed it back saying, "Hey dad, can I have a regular glass?" Stunned me for a few seconds.
 
Murrmurr said:
My oldest one didn't talk until he was almost 3, other than to let me know he was hungry, then he just used one word, like cookie or samish (sandwich), or whatever. When he finally really started talking, he sounded like an 8 year old! Talked like a person. It was kind of weird.

First time he did it I'd handed him his sippy cup and he took a swig and handed it back saying, "Hey dad, can I have a regular glass?" Stunned me for a few seconds.
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It's funny how every now and then they had a way of taking us aback, isn't it.

Speaking of sippy-cups and real glass vs plastic cups/glasses, I started all my kids off with glass baby bottles, then when they got more mobile and started toddling, I went to Evenflo plastic baby bottles, and for years and years we lived with plastic drinking tumblers scattered on the kitchen counter and stacked in the sink basin, because someone or another always seemed to drop their glass when drinking.

To this day I loathe plastic drinking tumblers, but we do what we do when our children are younger. That aspect of motherhood I'm glad to see behind me... the spilled glasses of milk and juice on the floor, seemed to happen daily, I was forever fetching a cloth and bucket of water and cleaner to cleanup and wash floors of spills and sticky matter.
 
Aunt Marg said:
It's funny how every now and then they had a way of taking us aback, isn't it.

Speaking of sippy-cups and real glass vs plastic cups/glasses, I started all my kids off with glass baby bottles, then when they got more mobile and started toddling, I went to Evenflo plastic baby bottles, and for years and years we lived with plastic drinking tumblers scattered on the kitchen counter and stacked in the sink basin, because someone or another always seemed to drop their glass when drinking.

To this day I loathe plastic drinking tumblers, but we do what we do when our children are younger. That aspect of motherhood I'm glad to see behind me... the spilled glasses of milk and juice on the floor, seemed to happen daily, I was forever fetching a cloth and bucket of water and cleaner to cleanup and wash floors of spills and sticky matter.
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Sometimes it wasn't so funny, but yes indeed.

I'm remembering the day I told my daughter she could dye her hair. Next time I saw her she'd not only dyed it jet black, she also cut it super short. My beautiful child with the long golden hair was gone, replaced by this defiant looking goth-girl just staring me down. All I dared say was, "Looks nice, hon."
 
There are dozens of web sites listing probably hundreds of these words and expressions, which either have no meaning for our generation, or a totally different meaning. They have practically invented a new language! And it seems to change year by year.
 
I know"woke" and "dope" but none of the others. My husband and I started watching a movie one night (don't remember the name of it). After a few minutes, we looked at each other and said that we didn't understand a thing they were saying. It had a bunch of teen-age girls in it and it was full of slang.
 
They have their slang, and their tattoos, and their piercings, but I don't see young people doing much to improve the world, other than advancing technology, which is good, but there's more to life. Where is the great music, literature, and art from today's young people? It doesn't seem to exist. Throughout history, those are the things that defined great civilizations.
 
Irwin said:
They have their slang, and their tattoos, and their piercings, but I don't see young people doing much to improve the world, other than advancing technology, which is good, but there's more to life. Where is the great music, literature, and art from today's young people? It doesn't seem to exist. Throughout history, those are the things that defined great civilizations.
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I take it that’s a no then? 🤷‍♀️
My answer NO I don’t .
 
Murrmurr said:
My oldest one didn't talk until he was almost 3, other than to let me know he was hungry, then he just used one word, like cookie or samish (sandwich), or whatever. When he finally really started talking, he sounded like an 8 year old! Talked like a person. It was kind of weird.
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My 59 year old 'baby sister' still calls it a samitch :D
 
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