Posted on 11/22/2024 7:28:35 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Perhaps you didn’t read the Generation Alpha slang descriptions and thus missed that I was coining a new phrase combining a Silent Gen. phrase with a Gen. Alpha slang term.
Okay, well I didn’t know you knew that. I wasn’t even a part of that generation, but old movies is where I learned of that saying. đ
Were you one of the older kids in your family?
Iâm one of the younger ones in my baby Boomer family, and all these terms are in my lexicon. I even heard âcruisinâ for a bruisinââ when I was a kid.
I imagine I didn’t after reading that the article was a waste of time. đ
FWIW I’m a Boomer. I grew up hearing the previous generations talk.
That’s how we did it back then. The older generations taught the younger generations. :)
I agree. This guy was paid to write this awful article? There was TONS of slang during the Silent Generation. He did not research his article well at all.
My kids used that. Also âheardâ from the youngest and his buddies.
Why does the Silent Generation encompass 18 years, the Baby Boomers 19 years, and all subsequent generations are 16 years.
Well, I wasted some of my time. I read some of the article and skipped other parts. About 35% - 65%.
I suggest reading popular fiction actually written in that era.
Yes. Slang was popular.
The most important slang term is missing for Boomers - “bitchin’.”
pie eyed
beat it
packing heat
dizzy broad
“This is so retarded. Born in 1963 and I have nothing in common with folks born in the late 40s and 50s...”
Early Boomer. In 1963 I was in 7th grade and vividly remember hearing Kennedy had been killed. Vietnam directly impacted a lot of us. We had an entirely different life experience.
“Generation Jones” is now used to differentiate the 1954-1965 cohort from early Boomers. It never made sense to extend the Boomer cohort to 20 years.
I would like to point out that some of us Boomers were using that phrase when the Gen Xers were still pooping their diapers.
But if they want to ride on our accomplishments that's OK with me. :)
And "wicked" means "bitchin'."
When my youngest was in maybe 3rd or 4th grade, I wanted to see if his brotherâs old hand-me-down jacket would fit him. He wanted to be a pizza delivery guy for Halloween, and the jacket made perfect sense. So when he went to try it on, he kept saying, âMom, this jacket is tight!â
I looked at him and said, âAre you sure? It looks like it fits great!â
We went around and around. Even though it was âtightâ he wanted to wear it. Puzzled, I said âfine!â We werenât in a position to spend much money. I figured he could throw a baseball cap on his head and carry an empty pizza box around. If the jacket was too small, it wouldnât matter for one night.
On Trick or Treat night, I walked with him and his slightly older sister, who was a Rubikâs cube for her costume. It was a box with construction paper for the squares, and the straps from an old backpack. We passed by one kid, who saw her costume and said, âMan, youâre a Rubikâs cube? Thatâs TIGHT!â
âTightâ suddenly made sense. I learned that night I had to pay closer attention to the slang of the next generation.
Hoser.
That’s totally bogus.
“That was a waste of two minutes.”
HaHa! True, but it took me a little longer because I had to re-read a few of those weird terms.
A lot of slang terms were regional. Growing up in the ‘Burgh area, our universal term of contempt for someone was “jaggoff”. It was said with a particular upper lip sneer that I can’t describe.
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