First teenage slang to annoy me, I swear

[ckay87]

Made up words, unnecessary words, and improper tense agreement, and noun-verb agreement.
--"Like, there I was, like,in the haunted house, you know? And there was, like, this apparition, you know? It, like, freaked me out!"

Or

--"He be all in my face and I'm jes sayin', like, Get out my face, boy! Then he bay-mama, she be like, "He MY man!".


I guess it's not any more annoying that some stuff that we said (and still say) such as
--"I'm fixin' to go up to the store and get me a cherry Coke. You wanna come? " Which in the dialect of the Deep South might sound like this:
I finn a go-da da stoe n get me a cheer Coke. You wah come?" That used to drive my Yankee father absolutely up the wall. Which is why we did it.

These are great examples of why I don't join the mentality of "learn English if you want to live here." You can book-learn all the English in the world and never understand a word of conversational American English!

 

[DianaPrince]

I cant stand when my son says, "cray cray" translation:crazy...i.e. Youre so cray cray...or that ride was cray cray! stop it!! Lol

 

[BlueStarryHat]

When I was a teenager in the 80s (back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth), we went through a Valley Girl phase, which was funny because we were from South Philly, not the Valley. I'm sure every time I said 'gag me with a spoon' my mother wanted to slap me upside the head.

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

I get annoyed when they say and use : wit instead of with. I correct my kids texts all the time. Tell them they are all high school graduate, speak/ write like it. Also I've read where teens will comment on a photo with " so totes adorbs" lol Ugh I can't stand when they shorten words that don't even make sense to shorten.

I have this issue with my cousins in Spain. They will write like that on Facebook or texts, and I mentally correct their spelling. Sometimes I don't understand what they are saying because of the contracted and misspelled words. I have to just think, 'well, that's one message I won't get.'

 

[ckay87]

When I was a teenager in the 80s (back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth), we went through a Valley Girl phase, which was funny because we were from South Philly, not the Valley. I'm sure every time I said 'gag me with a spoon' my mother wanted to slap me upside the head.

Some of that stuck with me. I will still say "totally awesome" and I want to smack myself!

 

[SandrA9810]

I can't stand "hella." I can deal with any other adjective (cursing to mild), but that one just grates on my nerves.

 

[katiee37]

I heard "trying to" a lot this past year in college, and I hadn't heard it before then. Honestly I noticed it more so from people from NY than I noticed it from anywhere else. The whole overuse of "like" bugs me to no end!

 

[MissMichigan]

I majored in English, I'm interested in languages, and yet I'm pretty forgiving with new or trendy jargon (new spellings, not so much). Anyway, my son has adopted a new one that may be the very first to annoy me.

It is the use of "trying to" in place of "want to." For example, he asked his friends "who's trying to go swimming?" This really means "who wants to go swimming?"

I should start to get the hang of it, but it still throws me. The other day he said "mom, you trying to go to McDonalds?" And I responded "no sir, I try NOT to go to McDonalds unless there are no other options."

Is anyone else hearing this also?

I have heard that one, a lot. But not from teens. Two friends of mine, 23 years old, say it all the time. They're "good ole boys" from Kentucky though, so I had assumed it was a regional thing for them. DB, from Oklahoma, also says things like that some times, but he's bigger on "fixin to".

 

[design_mom]

I have not heard "trying to" around here. If someone said they were "trying to go swimming" I would assume that they were planning to go, but something had delayed them them from being able to go... but that they would be going as soon as the delay was cleared up. Like "I'm trying to go swimming, but I can't leave till I find my keys!"

I havent heard that yet either.
One thing that really irritates me is when teens over-use the word "random".
Like "thats so random" (when it actually isnt). Or "youre so random".

My 38-year old sister uses "random" all the time and it drives me crazy, too. I think she thinks "random" is synonymous with "funny/strange." I have to bite my tongue not to quote The Princess Bride at her. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

 

[karly05]

I majored in English, I'm interested in languages, and yet I'm pretty forgiving with new or trendy jargon (new spellings, not so much). Anyway, my son has adopted a new one that may be the very first to annoy me.

It is the use of "trying to" in place of "want to." For example, he asked his friends "who's trying to go swimming?" This really means "who wants to go swimming?"

I should start to get the hang of it, but it still throws me. The other day he said "mom, you trying to go to McDonalds?" And I responded "no sir, I try NOT to go to McDonalds unless there are no other options."

Is anyone else hearing this also?

I haven't heard of this usage, but my first reaction is: "Do, or do not. There is no try."

 

[7165red]

I heard Dr. Drew on HLN say "he just threw up in my mouth" it sounds so Valley Girl

 

[AndreaDM]

I get annoyed when they say and use : wit instead of with. I correct my kids texts all the time. Tell them they are all high school graduate, speak/ write like it. Also I've read where teens will comment on a photo with " so totes adorbs" lol Ugh I can't stand when they shorten words that don't even make sense to shorten.

Hate that! I have 2 adult friends on FB that do that, ok, you're posting from your phone, but it's ONE extra letter, ONE!

That, and "imma" as in imma get something to drink, ugh!

 

[EMom]

"Fixin' to" is an old Southern saying. And by old, I do not mean 50-100 years. It goes back hundreds of years and can be traced back to the British Isles, where it morphed from "fixed to do this or that." Since so many Southerners came from the British Isles, they brought this saying with them and it eventually changed to "fixing to." If "gag me with a spoon" managed to have legs for a few hundred years, I might be willing to accept it. "Fixing to" is not going anywhere. Lord knows how many generations have used it.

 

[aaarcher86]

I majored in English, I'm interested in languages, and yet I'm pretty forgiving with new or trendy jargon (new spellings, not so much). Anyway, my son has adopted a new one that may be the very first to annoy me.

It is the use of "trying to" in place of "want to." For example, he asked his friends "who's trying to go swimming?" This really means "who wants to go swimming?"

I should start to get the hang of it, but it still throws me. The other day he said "mom, you trying to go to McDonalds?" And I responded "no sir, I try NOT to go to McDonalds unless there are no other options."

Is anyone else hearing this also?

I've heard it. My personal twitch inducing slang word is thug life.

'That's thug life' instead of cool or awesome.... You can literally see my eye twitching.

 

[JessicaR]

I majored in English, I'm interested in languages, and yet I'm pretty forgiving with new or trendy jargon (new spellings, not so much). Anyway, my son has adopted a new one that may be the very first to annoy me.

It is the use of "trying to" in place of "want to." For example, he asked his friends "who's trying to go swimming?" This really means "who wants to go swimming?"

I should start to get the hang of it, but it still throws me. The other day he said "mom, you trying to go to McDonalds?" And I responded "no sir, I try NOT to go to McDonalds unless there are no other options."

Is anyone else hearing this also?

Ask your son about 'tryna'. I promise it makes 'trying to' sound proper.

 

[MrsDuck]

I teach middle schoolers and have never heard that one yet, OP. I hope I don't because I really don't understand it. AND, I consider myself pretty trendy and "up with the times."

 

[Minerva Mouse]

I'm just glad that YOLO finally wore out it's welcome!

I saw a dentition slip one time that cracked me up, I'm not sure if it's real or not, but

 

[GAGirlInVA]

"cumming" in a text makes me crazy.

Nuts.

The other one that really bothers me "adorbs" and "obvs."

 

[The Mystery Machine]

"GET OUT!!!"



Anyone have that one going?

 

[JVL1018]

Two I've heard my 13 year old or her friends use:

OD(odee) means a lot, ridiculous-oh that guy, he is OD hot.

Oh, Jen? I love her, she is OD cool!

Also ratchet. Ugly, gross, nasty.

Ugh, I didn't straighten my hair today, I look totally ratchet..


Neither one bug me. Though i think od is dumb.
She does do the "So, apparently" when starting a conversation too, though! Why?? LOL