| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
The local paper ran an article yesterday that defined the current
teen age slang. Have times ever changed since I was in High School
when the girl I dated was "Boss" and the car I drove was "Cherry".
Here is a short dictionary of the latest idioms.
molded idiotic "Don't you feel MOLDED?"
clowned laughed at "I'm always getting CLOWNED."
bogus stupid "How BOGUS!"
capping light put down "He's always CAPPING me."
tripping in a bad mood "Don't talk to him, he's TRIPPING."
tweak messy/unruly "Her hair TWEAKED today."
hella hell of a lot "We has a HELLA homework today."
shake to get rid of "Let's SHAKE these guys."
buff heavily muscled "He is so BUFF!"
playing cheating "He's PLAYING on his girlfriend."
swoop flirt "I'm going to SWOOP on that
girl"
scope survey "We wanted to SCOPE the scene."
scam look for boys/girls
"I want to SCAM tonight."
pud jerk "They're such PUDS."
stoked happy "I'm so STOKED today!"
throw the dogs fight "Do you want to THROW THE DOGS?"
beat music "Lets go hear some BEAT."
scantless ugly or wierd "He's dressed all SCANTLESS."
tough nice "That's a really TOUGH jacket."
fresh great "Her sweater is FRESH."
later days good-bye "LATER DAYS!"
jet to go "Let's JET out of here."
squid freshmen "SQUIDS don't know anything."
Larry
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 163.1 | Gag me with a spoon! Like, totally barfulous.. | 11550::BLINN | Dr. Tom | Tue Mar 25 1986 16:30 | 0 |
| 163.2 | The in-between age. | APTECH::RSTONE | Wed Mar 26 1986 08:40 | 4 | |
"Since teenagers are too old for childish things and too young for
adult things, they compensate by doing things no one else does."
- Author unknown.
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| 163.3 | The in-between age. | SIERRA::OSMAN | and silos to fill before I feep, and silos to fill before I feep | Wed Mar 26 1986 17:52 | 5 |
"Since children are too young for adolescent things and too young for
adult things, they compensate by doing things no one else does."
- Author unknown.
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| 163.4 | The in-between age. | SIERRA::OSMAN | and silos to fill before I feep, and silos to fill before I feep | Wed Mar 26 1986 17:53 | 6 |
"Since adults are too old for adolescent things and too old for
childish things, they compensate by doing things no one else does."
- Author unknown.
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| 163.5 | GermanTeens take Note | CANYON::MOELLER | Fri Mar 28 1986 14:21 | 6 | |
I asked my wife, who is German born, but a nice lady, how to say
'Like Totally Gag Me With a Spoon!' and her reply was, 'Zum Kotzen'
(It Is To Vomit). How succinct.
Karl
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| 163.6 | ERIS::CALLAS | Jon Callas | Mon Mar 31 1986 14:27 | 3 | |
" 'It was hell!' recalls former child."
-- Thurber
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| 163.7 | No comment | STAR::SZETO | Simon Szeto | Sat Apr 05 1986 23:45 | 5 |
What? Is 'tough' back? When I was in college in the early '60's
a "tough chick" was an attractive coed.
--Simon
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| 163.8 | RE:0 | VAXINE::PITARD | Back from the other side...... | Wed Dec 31 1986 01:37 | 13 |
RE:0
Sorry Larry, But being as young as I am, and also working
with teenagers, some of the paper's `slang' expression was
wrong.
swoop should be scoop,
music is refered to as tunes,
clowned should be razed (pronounced RA-zzed)
a fight is refered to as a blow-out
Jay_who_just_graduated_in_June_of_1986.
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| 163.9 | Slang dialects | 4GL::DIAMOND | Dave Diamond, DTN 381-2687 | Wed Jan 07 1987 14:34 | 9 |
RE: .-1
Of course, there is such a thing as dialect variation. My
sister comes home from Pennsylvania every trimester with an
entirely different language!
Language is rarely WRONG, just DIFFERENT.
Dave
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