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Posted on 11/22/2024 7:28:35 PM PST by SeekAndFind
There are a few easy ways to determine someone’s age. You can ask them how old they are, look at their driver’s license, or, to make it more fun, toss out an educated guess based on the slang terms they use. Many slang words and phrases are pretty indicative of a certain time period. That’s because new terms are coined each generation, while older slang eventually falls out of fashion. Generational divides can be spotted by the popular slang terms that came about during each time period.
The Silent Generation encompasses people born between 1928 and 1945, when slang wasn’t as popular as it is today. Watching movies or reading books written during these years will reveal language that seems formal to modern ears. That said, by the 1950s, members of the Silent Generation had coined a few slang terms that were embraced by the youth. “Daddy-o” referred to someone cool, and a person was “cruising for a bruising” if they were looking for trouble. It was the following generation, however, that introduced several slang words that are still used today.
Baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) embraced slang on a wider scale, coining sayings such as “boob tube” (“television”), “threads” (“clothing”), and “ticked off” (“annoyed”), to name just a few. Boomers also came up with “dig it” for when you’re really into something, or saying you have to “split” when it’s time to leave. Other slang words from this time include “groovy” (“cool”), “square” (“uncool”), and “moo juice,” to describe a fresh glass of milk.
Generation X includes anyone born from 1965 through 1980. Gen Xers are known for living a somewhat grungier lifestyle than their predecessors, as evidenced by the music that became popular in the late 1980s and early ’90s. This generation popularized terms such as “gnarly” and “phat.” “This rocks” describes something that’s amazing, and slang terms including “dude” and “homeslice” became positive terms of address. A Gen Xer would also tell someone to take a “chill pill” to calm down, invite someone back to watch TV at their “crib,” or call something “bogus” if it’s false.
Millennials, the more popular term for Gen Y, are people born from 1981 to 1996. The rise of this generation coincided with the rise of the internet, so many slang terms are the initialisms that developed out of internet culture: “BRB” (“be right back”), “OMG” (“oh my god”), “TBH” (“to be honest”), among others. Millennials are also responsible for coining words such as “bae” (to talk about their significant other) and “slay” (to praise someone doing something exceptionally well). You may also hear a millennial use “adulting” when behaving responsibly, “keeping it 100” when being real and truthful, or “getting swole” when lifting weights at the gym. This generation may also feel serious “FOMO,” which means a “fear of missing out.”
Gen Zers, also known as “zoomers,” came into the world between 1997 and 2012. For many older adults today, Gen Z slang is enough to make your head spin. But terms such as “cheugy” (“outdated”) and “sus” (“questionable” or “dishonest”) are part of a coded language that these young people share. Another popular series of terms coined by this generation are “cap” (“false”), “no cap” (“true”), and “capping” (“lying”).
Generation Alpha generally includes anyone born since 2010. If you’re a member of the Silent Generation — or even a millennial — then some of the most popular Gen Alpha slang may sound like an alien language. Take, for example, the slang term “skibidi,” which can refer to something that’s either cool or bad, or even be used as complete gibberish. Its origin is a meme called the “Skibidi Toilet,” and there’s an associated viral dance trend. If this still doesn’t make sense to you, you’re not in Gen Alpha. It’s enough to know that “skibidi” is often used as an exclamation in bizarre situations. For something that does make more sense, try “rizz,” an abbreviation of “charisma,” used to describe someone with the trait. Gen Alpha also uses the Greek letters “sigma” and “beta” to describe something that’s good or weak, respectively.
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FROM THE ARTICLE:
This generation popularized terms such as “gnarly” and “phat.”
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I, personally, can attest to the fact that the "Greatest Generation" employed a patois rich in slang - even if it was more regionalized (due to the lack of near-instantaneous dissemination via the Internet). On the other hand, their shared war experiences and familiarity with military terminology had a cohesive effect. Even comic strips contributed their share.
Someone who was socially adept, poised, well-groomed, and almost charismatic was "slick." If you sought a physical altercation with someone, you wanted to "clean his clock." A spendy person was a "Diamond Jim Brady."
There are entire books on this subject - this article doesn't even scratch the surface.
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Because certain important secular events (wars, etc.), economic cycles, and other irregularly spaced historical moments help define a "generation."
If you were too young to actively participate in WWII, you weren't part of the "Greatest Generation." The "Baby Boomers" were literally the fall-out of a big demographic cycle of breeding in the aftermath of WWII. The advent of the Internet was likewise a watershed event. Etc.
This should be obvious.
In some cases, the demarcations shouldn't be portrayed as being that sharp - but journalists are lazy.
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You’re right. We 1960s babies were very different from the late 1940s to mid-1950s babies. They had the draft and the Vietnam War. The ‘hippies’ protested, and they talked and sang about their ‘generation.’
We have nothing in common with them. We came of age in the 1980s when Reagan was president. It was peacetime. We didn’t have protests or talk about ‘our generation.’
At first, news writers dubbed us “Generation X.” Then, someone decided “Gen-X” doesn’t start until 1965. Then, someone else decided to call us “Generation Jones.”
I think they all got it wrong. I’d say 1960-1974 babies are a unique demographic: When we were growing up, more parents started divorcing, and more mothers started working outside the home. We had less supervision but more TV. We were teens and young adults when Reagan was president. We weren’t offended by a joke. Our retirement age was raised to 67. And many more reasons...
Thank God my 14 yo grandson and I have such a great relationship. He tells me about the newest slang so I can stay a cool grandmother. Now I know all about skibidi and riz and mewing, which is more bizarre than it sounds.
I’ve been hearing the term “flex” recently.
The Greatest Generation/Boomers gave us useful terms/acronyms like snafu, fubar, and charlie foxtrot.
The term “fag” has evolved over the years. Once it referred to cigarettes, then homosexuals. “Fagged out” at one point meant tired. More recently, I have seen it used to describe devotees of a hobby or pastime. One that I’ve seen is the term “plane fag” as used to identify people who track airplanes (military, politicians, celebrities) to glean information that is not generally made public through normal channels.
Cool as a moose!
Actually, I was born #10 of 13 in a very Catholic family in Orange County, CA. So I was the “younger” of the group. LOL.
While I agree with “the terms” being familiar, that doesn’t mean I share experiences of someone several more years older than I.
By the time I was 4 years old I remember my mom always being angry at my Dad. However, My older brothers and sisters say they saw a different mother when they were young.
I agree! Funny how the “Baby Boomers” are classified not by shared experiences, but due to the output of a population growth in the U.S.
Say what? LOL.
Excellent post! Saving it... :)
My mom went back to school to be an R.N when I was 4, then she divorced my dad when I was 11. Definitely less supervision!
And yes we didn’t take offense to jokes or pranks. It was just called life. If we complained, you were viewed as a “baby” or the P word. New music in the late 70s and early 80s was new wave and punk and music to a degree paints the generation better than other indicators.
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That was the slang I was looking for from Gen X. LOL
Yeah, I am a boomer too.
Yeah, I am a boomer too.
You & I lived through a good majority of it all, and what was cool to say in the different periods are remembered. Not an important thing to review, as far as I was concerned. 🙂👍
Gen X here. I remember phrases such as "colder then a witches tit", and the prefix "Mega" (not MAGA) for something that is extreme. Example: "Your dad's gonna be mega-mad." or "The T Rex eating toilet guy was mega-sick." (sick meaning cool)
My rant on being a Baby Boomer:
I’m in the middle as a Baby Boomer. That means I was 10+ years younger than BB’s who went to Vietnam, hippies and yippies gone wild, the drug culture, folkies, British Invasion bands, Carnaby Street, adult humorists, the nostalgic youth, Motown muscle car drivers, influential neighbors and relatives, California-bound dreamers, Woodstock, dead rock stars, women’s libbers, “free love” women, student radicals, yuppies, STD-infested gays, militant urban street gangs, junkies and dealers,...
There was this lifestyle- To emulate your favorite rock stars and countercultural figures, but what we were really doing was being good little fan$. Not all of it but still a lot of it...Fortunately for me, I eventually grew out of it.
However, I’m no maturity snob either and still can’t get enough of the old MAD Magazine, National Lampoon, George Carlin, Flip Wilson, rock bands of the era, cartoons, a little bit of this and a little bit of that, space exploration, Mecum car auctions, etc.
Maybe it wasn’t so bad after all.
“””That was a waste of two minutes.”””
Yes, I found it ‘awesome’ that ‘awesome’ was not mentioned.
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