First teenage slang to annoy me, I swear

[mrsklamc]

Just thought of one that I think I've only seen on the DIS. "Close-minded."

 

[Maridw]

I hate the word "conversating". I finally had enough of my 26yo DD using this word and so I got after her. I said there is no such word. You either have a conversation with someone or converse with someone. You do no conversate or any other tense of that word. I said she was not to use it around me ever again.

There was another word that really bugged me because people have been adding a letter or changing one of the letters, but I can't think of the word right now.

Sometimes I really want to just Gibbs slap someone when they use the wrong word or use a word wrong.

As far as the "can I see the butter?" thing. My mom used to do the same thing with picking it up and showing it to the person. My GDD (3 yo) always says "let me see" if we are looking at something and she wants to touch or hold it. I just say, "you see with your eyes, not your hands."

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I thought of another one. Hashtag. I watch American Idol, and this past season Mariah Carey kept saying "hashtag Pow!" Now I hear it everywhere. Hashtag this, hashtag that.

 

[mrsklamc]

I thought of another one. Hashtag. I watch American Idol, and this past season Mariah Carey kept saying "hashtag Pow!" Now I hear it everywhere. Hashtag this, hashtag that.

Oh yes, saying something that was meant to be silent out loud reminds me of- "Ke$ha." $ does NOT make an "s" sound, people!

 

[Robinrs]

I thought of another one. Hashtag. I watch American Idol, and this past season Mariah Carey kept saying "hashtag Pow!" Now I hear it everywhere. Hashtag this, hashtag that.

Her latest song is named #Beautiful!!

 

[Pixie Princess]

The first bit of teen jargon that really got me was the incorrect use of "legit." The first time I heard this I was shopping, and a girl was using "legit" in her sentences about as often and you hear teen using "like." (Which, on a tangent, hearing teens use "like" doesn't bother me so much, but to hear it from someone who has clearly graduated high school...nails on a chalkboard. It's one of the many reaons I don't watch The Bachelor. Honestly, grown women with careers and they can't utter more than three words without saying "like". Maddening!)

Improper use of "literally" is another one that,figuratively, drives me crazy.

"Totes" for totally. GRRRR. Shortening words has been around forever. My parents did it for goodness sake. However, totes??? It makes no sense. You don't say, "That movie was totalies awesome!" No. Happily my teen hasn't started in on this, but her friends say "totes."

 

[design_mom]

Oh yes, saying something that was meant to be silent out loud reminds me of- "Ke$ha." $ does NOT make an "s" sound, people!

Reminds me of the Glee episode where the principal announced that the glee club would be singing a song made famous by "ke-dollar sign-ha." I can't help think of it that way whenever I see it written now.

 

[Pixie Princess]

Reminds me of the Glee episode where the principal announced that the glee club would be singing a song made famous by "ke-dollar sign-ha." I can't help think of it that way whenever I see it written now.

Me too!

 

[Diznygrl]

Wait, so the $ doesn't make an 's' sound?? All this time I've been pronouncing it "Kesha". How the heck do you pronounce Ke$ha? Kay-ha??

 

[DisneyDiva8401]

Oh yes, saying something that was meant to be silent out loud reminds me of- "Ke$ha." $ does NOT make an "s" sound, people!

Wait...what? It doesn't? How DO you pronounce it?

 

[mrsklamc]

She spells it Ke$ha and does pronounce it Kesha. I'm saying, it's incorrect, because a dollar sign does not make an 's' sound.

 

[Diznygrl]

Whoops! Sorry, I read your post wrong. I get it now.

 

[Atlas722]

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 am. The first time I heard it was last year in a YouTube video.

 

[mom2rtk]

One that I detest, and I have heard people of all ages & backgrounds use is: 'oh, my bad' when they make a mistake. I just really, really want to

I feel the same way about that one.

The other one I don't like is when my daughter, at age 11 or 12 (she's about to turn 13) would tell me about which girlfriend was "going out" with which boy at school. Every time she said that I'd just say "But they're only 11 (or 12)...... where are they GOING? And who is TAKING them?"

 

[meggiebeth]

'YOLO' really irritates me. It's seemed to have died down now, but I think it's really pointless. Just say what it means!

'Innit' meaning 'isn't it' also really irritates me.

And often people using 'ain't' gets on my nerves too.

My brother has started using the word 'sick' to describe something fantastic. It gets terribly confusing!

And all the 'memes' that are famous on the Internet. Some of them are amusing, but others are somewhat annoying!

She spells it Ke$ha and does pronounce it Kesha. I'm saying, it's incorrect, because a dollar sign does not make an 's' sound.

It irritates me too! I find it tacky, but then again I am biased because I didn't like her Cinderella music video which was dreadful!

Meg~ Sent from my iPhone using DISBoards

 

[MomofIndigo]

I have two that I hate:


"I'm like" or just the over use of "like" in general. I am not even that old!! It just drives me . I have several girls in my office that come tell me something and in every sentence it is "I'm like" or "I was like".

The other one is "Seriously". "I was like seriously? How can people just keep saying the same word over and over. It is cray-cray:

I can tattle on myself though. I use Rad. It was something my older sister said all the time when I was a kid and it stuck. I have never been able to kick it out of my vocabulary.

 

[ten6mom]

I don't know what most of these mean and I haven't heard most of them. I generally consider myself to be a grammar Nazi and but do frequently use "prolly" in informal writing. I had no idea I was irritating so many people!! Oopsie!

 

[honeybunches]

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

Ha! That has me cracking up! I am SURE it is real as I have written many a referral form like this in my 16 years of teaching 6th graders. Hahahahahaha.
Teachers in our system went back for in service this week. Our students arrive Monday morning. This thread would be a worthy addition to the professional learning I have endured for the past 2 days. I will share some of these with my colleagues tomorrow.

 

[honeybunches]

Oh, and I thought of another one that my students say. Ima (I'm going to) As in, Ima get something out of my locker. I ask them, "Who is Ima and why is she in your locker?"

 

[TinksThree]

Oh, and I thought of another one that my students say. Ima (I'm going to) As in, Ima get something out of my locker. I ask them, "Who is Ima and why is she in your locker?"

Agree! This one drives me crazy!!