Listen, bluds, if you wanna be phat with the kids, you should floss with some nang new words.

I spent Tuesday afternoon with my mother. My mother is a quieter woman than what she used to be, its down to either a) she's finally recovered from me leaving home, or b) the meds she are on makes her believe in constant zen. Ignorance is bliss.

Brother comes home from school and starts playing on my mothers softness that he 'needs' a Blackberry so he can 'bbm' his mates. Blackberrys are crap in my opinion. But i'm saying that because i've had an iPhone3g and as of last Friday an iPhone4, I think they're great, it's everything i want in a techy gadget. What can i say, my heart belongs to apple...


And no before you ask, unfortunately, that isn't my ass.






Brother announces that his old Samsung phone, however 'hench' it may be, because it survives when he throws it at a wall, isn't satisfying his needs. Instantly, i'm confused. Hench? What the hell does hench mean, the only sentence i would use hench in, is; 'The mafia boss and his hench men.' And even then, i don't really know what it means. I google it when i get home, and come across the 'Teenglish' dictionary. Mainly for parents to help understand their children. 

Now I understand Beef, though if someone came up to me and said what's your beef, I'd reply "medium to well done." Probably resulting in a black eye and a broken nose. Feds, Player and Rents are also understandable.


It's pretty confusing the language the youth of today use in this country. I'm pretty hardcore with teaching my son manners and getting him to pronounce his words properly. He won't really understand why he needs to use them but if I can get him to do so without needing to tell him, I'm hoping it will stick for life. But if someone came up to me and used this language in day to day conversations, although I would probably understand better than most adults, I doubt I'd understand a full conversation.. What's wrong with the Queens English and using it properly, why invent a new language? I think it's purposefully to confuse adults. Today, drugs and other undesirable things that you don't want your kids doing are easily at hand to them. I'm not saying all kids who use this language are up to something dodgy, it's just youth culture, but it makes them a lot more secretive. 
It's not like its new though, this secret language, for decades it's been going round, for example;
BAD – meant good (80s)
DARK – very good (mid 90s)
WICKED – excellent (80s – mid-90s)
SAFE – excellent (late 80s/early 90s)
YARD – home (90s to Present)
BREDRIN – friend (noughties-ongoing)
LATER(S) – goodbye (late 80s – present)
SICK – very good (noughties)

I’m not entirely sure parents should be “phat with their kids” though. Parents should talk like parents. “Cool Parents” is an oxymoron.

See here: for more teenglish jargon busting http://www.gotateenager.org.uk/default.aspx?page=jargonbuster

Hope you have a nang day ;)