Being a high school teacher has its advantages when it comes to keeping up with the hip, groovy lingo. In fact, using the words HIP and GROOVY are quite UN-hip and NON-groovy and if it hadn’t been for one of my classes keeping a running list of Mrs. K-M Can Say and Mrs. K-M Can’t Say on the white board for me to memorize (beside the literary terminology they had to memorize), I would be quite unaware that those terms have been replaced by things like phat and hot. Thank goodness COOL is still hot.
Anyhow, the most recent tidbit of juicy lingo I learned was not from a student, but from a student teacher named Alison (who is much groovier and hipper than yours truly, though I’m much phatter). She was talking about a recent break-up of hers and told me that she let the guy have it. My ears perked up. I quite adore scandal. “What did you say?” I asked. And she answered with a defiant grin: “I let him know that he was totally deleted.” Deleted? I was hoping for more. But the more I thought about it, the more I loved it. In this day and age of tech everything, being “deleted” is probably the worst relationship fate you could suffer. Now THAT’S juicy lingo that I’ll store for future use…
Be sure to comment on YOUR fave lingo.
Did you ever think that it would come to this?That you would be out of touch with the “in” lingo? Can you remember “going around?” I can, and now it’s hookin up. I’m never 100 percent sure exactly what hooking up is, just meeting or the whole enchilada. Oh, when did I stop being hip, cool, groovy? Well, at least I’m Phat.
July 20th, 2007 at 11:48 pmOh yes. “Going around”… I’m so hearing you. Totally reading your mail.
July 21st, 2007 at 7:25 am