Families For Life | Grandparenting 101: Learn the Talk
Just when you are ready to kick back and smell the roses, you realise your golden years are not-so-golden. You know zilch about what your grandchildren are talking about.
No need to panic, though. Bust the generation gap with this handy A-Z guide on teenage terms and lingos.
- Apple - Apple is a tech company that changed pop culture. Need we say more?
- Bae - an endearing term meaning baby or sweetie.
- Crackberry - a person addicted to checking e-mail and swapping short messages on the Blackberry mobile device.
- Dope - used to describe how good something is.
- Emoji - tiny icons you can put on your text messages
- Google - you can’t be serious. Go Google it.
- Innit - “isn’t it”
- Jack - a very intelligent man with the most honest heart.
- KO - "knocked Out". Used to describe someone who is unconscious and the loser in fight games.
- My bad - a way of admitting a mistake.
- Homie - friend
- Frenemy - an enemy disguised as a friend.
- Legit - Real or Cool.
- Muggle - a person who possesses no magical skills (originated from the 'Harry Potter' novels).
- Noob - those who are new to a task.
- OTP - “One True Pairing”. Meaning the favourite combination of characters in a fandom.
- Plank - to lie horizontally across any object or the ground with your arms by your sides
- Quidditch - fictional sport in the 'Harry Potter' novels involving bats, balls, and brooms
- Rawr - a word that means "I Love You" in dinosaur speak (whatever that is).
- Ship - short for romantic relationship, popularised in fanfiction.
- Troll - one who posts a deliberately provocative message online with the intention of causing dispute.
- Uber - an American multinational transportation company. It operates the Uber mobile app, which allows people with smartphones to submit a trip request which is then routed to Uber drivers who use their own cars.
- V - vine. A short video, usually 5 to 10 seconds long of random stuff. They are frequently shared on social websites such as Facebook, Twitter.
- Wicked - used to describe how great something is.
- X-treme - this can describe anything in any positive way
- Yolo - abbreviation for “you only live once”.
- Zonk - to go to sleep.
Now you can easily decipher your grandchildren and their homies (if you have forgotten what that means, go back to H).
Congratulations in advance for clinching Grandparent of the Year!