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Quantum

18:52 / 02.04.07

I'm old now, so I don't understand young people today, their slang and euphemisms pass me by like them in their 'heelies' whooshing past my zimmer.

What's your favourite new slang? Do you grok the yoof? Is Nadsat finally here and the droogs are going to tolchock me gulliver? Can everyone please pretend the word chav was never popularised? On the same note, let's try and avoid too much offensive stuff, funny as it may be (ask me about feeding the pony some day).

I'll start-
Euaned - to get very drunk. A reference to Tony Blair's son's drunken antics reported in the press. e.g. "I got completely Euaned last night !".

Here's one I saw on a sk8 video; I heart London- you get me?

Your go mate innit! You're lovin' it incha?!

Less searchable M0rd4nt

19:27 / 02.04.07

What are you, thirty fucking nine?

Jack Fear

19:33 / 02.04.07

OI!

Less searchable M0rd4nt

19:46 / 02.04.07

The new 23.

Tsuga

20:23 / 02.04.07

Those bolshy groodies are real horrorshow, but the malenky ones are too.

Quantum

20:27 / 02.04.07

thirty fucking nine?

Getting there, my young apprentice... looking around the world-wide web or 'Internet', I can only find very rude euphemisms for ladyparts and rude acts, or even poorer versions of the Catherine Tate/Little Britain spoof schoolgirl schtick.

C'mon. Connect me to the modern world, childe.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:40 / 02.04.07

I refuse to supply someone who uses the phrase "You're lovin' it, incha" without observing the proper handling instuctions with anything other than an icepack, a neurofen, and my fond hope that he won't need the phone number that I've slipped into his top pocket.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:40 / 02.04.07

And don't fucking call me childe. Neonate.

illmatic

21:07 / 02.04.07

Quants, you is bare dumb ... blood.

Phex: Dorset Doom

21:22 / 02.04.07

Here's what the kids are really saying, so you don't have to look like a hufter when you're being caj in your mate's yard and get, uh, raped apparently.

Though it's nothing we haven't seen before:

crimson

04:43 / 03.04.07

new one I heard recently, minty, meaning cool.

The Ghost of Tom Winter

05:15 / 03.04.07

Someone recently used one around me... he said "I was about to deposit the check."

Referring to finishing his sexual doings...

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:55 / 03.04.07

I heart London- you get me?

I honestly fail to understand how anyone with a working knowledge of the English language could not instinctively understand what this means. The heart is associated with love, nouns can be adapted to be verbs, the verb "get" can be used to mean "comprehend" - these three ideas are all you need and they crop up in all kinds of registers and varities of English. Acting as if they didn't seems wilfully ignorant to me.

Whisky Priestess

09:04 / 03.04.07

According to an Observer columnist's teenage daughter, "butters" means minging.

Wonder if it's at all based on South Park?

The Natural Way

09:13 / 03.04.07

Couldn't agree with Flyboy more. I'm all for marvelling at the the tilt-a-whirls of the English Language, but as soon as it descends into 'I am being a willfully ignorant/difficult (and possibly a bit racist/classist) old fart' territory then it's time for the shut up.

Quantum

09:16 / 03.04.07

Apophenia, that's so bait you're clappin' bruv, don't vex me no more with your chat, are you hamstered? Chh.

My problem is threefold, 1) I'm old with no young friends 2) I left London long ago and 3) I automatically slip into West Green Road yoofspeak which is mostly Jamaican patois so (as a blonde guy) I sound completely ridiculous. I'm totally out of touch, f'rexample I didn't know fudge meaning really thick, 'cos it's what you get for your GCSEs, or bum - to enjoy something: "he bums that game so much". And there are levels of bummage - to really like something is to "bum it blue", but "he bummed it black" means he used to like it but has since gone off it. (linky)
'He bummed it black' meant something else when I was a nipper.

Mordant. I know you're down with the kids and all but don't make me bust out my geek on you, Toreador.

Quantum

09:23 / 03.04.07

I heart London- you get me?

Sorry let me be clearer- it was a shot of the I (heart symbol) LONDON signs used by the tourist board, then it cut to some Hackney graf that said 'get me?'. The juxtaposition of the tourist London with the real London was pretty funny in the context of the skate video I was watching, I didn't mean to imply it wasn't obvious what it meant.

Quantum

09:24 / 03.04.07

...and I can't make the heart symbol without messing up the pointy bracket because I'm ill-IT-erate. Like any old fuddy duddy.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

09:37 / 03.04.07

Ampersand el tee semicolon. No spaces.

<3

Mistoffelees

10:26 / 03.04.07

I ♥ Barbelith.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

10:45 / 03.04.07

I ♣ seals.

Mistoffelees

10:52 / 03.04.07

Wow, that was inspired and quoteworthy Web Fu at its best!

Quantum

11:00 / 03.04.07

I call a ♠ a ♠

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

14:13 / 03.04.07

♦ are a girl's best friend?

Jack Fear

17:18 / 03.04.07

My favorite bumper sticker is a riposte to those "I ♥ My Dog" stickers;

I ♠ MY CAT

Benny the Ball

06:54 / 04.04.07

"butters" means minging.

Wonder if it's at all based on South Park?

WP - this comes from - Nice body, but her face is rough/ugly/etc

People were using this in Nam (sorry, Wandsworth) back in '88.

I was sat on the bus recently and a conversation went something like this;

Kid 1 "He was messing about, yo"

kid 2 "That's long (x3)"

1 "but she ain't taking no jokes"

2 "That's bait (x3)"

1 "And she starts messing him up"

2 "That's bare (x3)"

1 "rare, you know"

Regrettable Juvenilia

07:47 / 04.04.07

How anthropologically fascinating, Benny! It's almost as if there was a whole secret world out there that none of us fellows and ladies here on Barbelith are part of - 'London Below', as Neil Gaiman might have had it!

Dutch

09:47 / 04.04.07

I've often noticed that the words; "...you know what I'm saying?", are usually put after a sentence which makes very little clear sense to me. Also, there is one commonly used American word, which common usage I find utterly repulsive, arrogant and designed to personally tick me off. This is the word; "whatever". Although it can be used for good, its main purpose seems to be to end all possibility of constructive dialogue by throwing any previously worded thoughts into the horrible pit of linguistical despair.

Flyboy feels he must defend at all costs the ways of The Youth; for if ever he ceases to do so, he shall forced to confront the horrifying truth that he is no longer one of them.

Spatula Clarke

16:17 / 04.04.07

Alternatively, it might be that he's not prepared to turn into his parents just yet.

ONLY NICE THINGS

16:18 / 04.04.07

To be honest I imagine that I understand the youth of London probably about as much as I would have had I been snatched from the cloisters of my school as a teenager and deposited on the number 2 bus. Is it not primarily enforced proximity rather than an increase in the incomprehensibility of the youth?

Glenn Close But No Cigar

16:35 / 04.04.07

Depends on what you mean by youth of London, really. I imagine those young chaps at St.Pauls and Westminster might be a little bit easier for the average late twenty-something graduate to comprehend than, say, those who descibe their mum's house as their 'ends'. Then again, the former group are far more likely to crack one out over Peaches Geldof, so who's to say that their culture is not incomprehensible too?

Quantum

16:39 / 04.04.07

Is it not primarily enforced proximity rather than an increase in the incomprehensibility of the youth?

Of course. See my first post, 'I'm old now...' I'd turn to friends who have contact with young people to find out WTF they're saying, teachers f'rexample.

Regrettable Juvenilia

20:27 / 04.04.07

Benny, I'd like to turn that question on its head, because funnily enough I almost replied to your previous post by asking... what's your point?

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