I may be a pan-cultural youth vampire, but I think I’ll leave gen Z to their slang | Barbara Ellen
Parents trying to decode youth speak are leaving nothing for the young to identify as their own
For some time I’ve wondered if there is anything – anything at all – young people can have just for themselves, without older people trying to gatecrash the party?
A Tesco Mobile survey has revealed the slang words and phrases that generation Z uses, and which confuse their parents and older people in general. This is the traditional point when one is supposed to muse, baffled, over youth vernacular, perhaps balk at the Clockwork Orange-esque strangeness of it all.
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