Topic: High School Lingo...
directandwrite's photo
Tue 11/11/08 01:43 PM
Okay, this is for all of you young people out there, or all you parents of young people, or all of you hip with young people...I am working on a project and I am wondering if anyone can give me some insight on how high schoolers today talk!

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks all! flowerforyou

franshade's photo
Tue 11/11/08 01:44 PM
sorry if up to me I'd still be saying Groovy

but good luck to you

Marley's photo
Tue 11/11/08 01:46 PM
I am not sure that they speak. Mostly, just test message.

no photo
Tue 11/11/08 01:47 PM
They use poor grammar. say "like" like all the time...
They cuss...the "f" word is still popular....
They say this all the time....."Can I have twenty bucks"

reydar's photo
Tue 11/11/08 01:51 PM
Like, I know, RIGHT???? LOL

thats what my daughter says all the time.. jokingly in that moking preppy cheerleader voice...

no photo
Tue 11/11/08 01:57 PM
They talk like they are texting someone! I have a 14 yr old and it is nuts. I know being jad means that someone is gay.

Josh_P_Rad88's photo
Tue 11/11/08 01:57 PM
It completley depends on what area of the U.S. u want, cuz i have gone to HS all over and they all talk slightly different

Most of it is just re-used phrases from back in the day unless u go west coast
than u get ur fo-shizzles and and forsheezys

Trinité's photo
Tue 11/11/08 02:02 PM
I have heard some gurly's at the mall actually use text msg code outloud lol

Here is a link to some txt coding...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12221779/

Boring is one word for this one lol
http://thesurrealist.co.uk/slang

Interesting and most useful for those that 'want' to know:
http://parentingteens.about.com/cs/familylife/l/bldictionary.htm

Good Luck...:smile:

directandwrite's photo
Tue 11/11/08 02:37 PM
Thanks everyone! All advice is very much appreciated!

no photo
Tue 11/11/08 02:42 PM
'n' is the new 'and'


Example:
I am good at communicating n cooking

PacificStar48's photo
Tue 11/11/08 02:50 PM
I sure would not have a clue. I am trying to figure out how to interpret Alzheimer's most days. Little tough when you add in about five or six first languages besides English.

msmyka's photo
Tue 11/11/08 02:51 PM

Okay, this is for all of you young people out there, or all you parents of young people, or all of you hip with young people...I am working on a project and I am wondering if anyone can give me some insight on how high schoolers today talk!

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks all! flowerforyou


Ugh, they speak as though they were never taught the English language in the first place. slaphead