In the rapidly evolving digital era, one thing that seems to change faster and faster is language. With the introduction of technology and the internet, the way people communicate has undergone a transformation. Nowhere is this more evident than in the speech of teenagers, which often leaves adults feeling like they\u2019re missing something to understand. But teenagers having their own language is nothing new, for example in the 1950s-1960s some commonly used words by teens were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1: Groovy (awesome\/cool) Ex: \u201cThat beat is groovy!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2: Rad (great\/excellent) Ex: \u201cThat party was totally rad!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3: Bread (money) Ex: \u201cWhere did you get all that bread?\u201d \u201cMy new job\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4: Goat (greatest of all time) Ex: \u201cThat guy is so good at football!\u201d \u201cHe\u2019s the goat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5: Bookin (going fast) Ex: \u201cThat guy is bookin it down the street!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here is an example of 20 commonly used words by teenagers today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1: BRB (be right back) Ex: \u201cI\u2019m going to go jump off a cliff, brb.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2: LOL (laugh out loud) Ex: \u201cLOL that video is so funny!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3: OMG (oh my gosh) Ex: \u201cOMG that cliff is so high.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4: OMW (on my way) Ex: \u201cSounds good I\u2019m OMW.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5: Savage (crazy) Ex: \u201cYou\u2019re a savage for jumping off that cliff!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6: Cap (not true) Ex: \u201cI jumped off a cliff with no parachute.\u201d \u201cYea that\u2019s cap.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 7: Bet (let\u2019s do it) Ex: \u201cLet\u2019s go jump off a cliff with no parachute.\u201d \u201cBet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 8: Bruh (bro what?) Ex: \u201cI\u2019m just going to jump off the cliff.\u201d \u201cBruh.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 9: Ick (gross you out) Ex: \u201cThe way he jumped off that cliff gave me an ick.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10: W (a personal win) Ex: \u201cI got adopted yesterday!\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s a W.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rizz (skillfully charm) Ex: “He saved me from falling off the cliff.” “Yea, thats W rizz”<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 11: Fire (really amazing or cool) Ex: \u201cI jumped off that cliff while blindfolded!\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s fire!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 12: Sick (cool or amazing) Ex: \u201cNo way you jumped off that cliff\u201d \u201cBro that\u2019s so sick.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 13: Lit (hyped up) Ex: \u201cI got so lit at that party.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 14: Dough (money) Ex: \u201cI got so much dough from work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 15: Bot (not smart\/Not real) Ex: \u201cYou\u2019re a bot for falling off that cliff.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 16: Trippin (wrong) Ex: \u201cBro I swear I saw a person falling off that cliff\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re trippin\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 17: SMH (shaking my head) Ex: \u201cBro I\u2019m about to jump off that cliff.\u201d \u201cSMH\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 18: Dub (W or win) Ex: \u201cI\u2019m going to jump off that cliff because I can.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s a dub.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 19: Hard (cool\/looks good) Ex: \u201cThat chain on your neck goes hard.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n 20: Rizz (skillfully charm) Ex: \u201cHe saved me from falling off the cliff.\u201d \u201cYea, that\u2019s W rizz\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Nick DeSanto In the rapidly evolving digital era, one thing that seems to change faster and faster is language. With the introduction of technology and the internet, the way people communicate has undergone a transformation. Nowhere is this more…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[428,427,424,425],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/teenager-words-stupid-graphic-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6366,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions\/6366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}