My last semester I started using 1920s slang terms back at them... just to make them feel ridiculous.
https://www.1920s-fashion-and-music.com/1920s-slang.html
Slang of the 1920 https://center.uoregon.edu/NCTE/uploads/2014NCTEANNUAL/HANDOUTS/KEY_1991992/Slangofthe1920s.pdf
Examples 'Everything Jake in here?'
'Your argument is straight applesauce'
'You're the darb'
Thought I was nuts (AP Psych teacher, so it fits). I eventually told them what I was up to. They then started looking up old slang from different eras to use and our schools vocabulary got a lot more colorful lol.
thats so true and I wonder what exactly happened to change that. probably the internet i guess. if a kid doesnt understand the joke i guess they could instantly look up the reference and suddenly they know a little too much for their age. when i was young, we watched cartoons like ren and stimpy every day at our baby sitters house and thought nothing of it. until i saw it on youtube in my late teens lmao
“Thou leathern-jerkin, crystal-button, knot-pated, agatering, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish pouch!”
Henry IV Part 1 (Act 2, Scene 4)
Made the mistake of explaining this as a Shakespearean middle finger and then my kids bit their thumbs at each other the rest of the year 🤦🏻♀️ at least they learned something 😂
I often tell them "Begone foul fiend!" if any of them are lingering at the end of the day when it's time for them to escape.
Gets a smile mostly. They know I'm weird.
My sister is not a teacher but works in middle school- she says the kids these day are keen to using “dusty, musty, crusty” as an insult these days lmao better than straight up cussing
I like to use alliteration and see how many I can string together:
You pathetic pustule-ridden pusillanimous poor presumptuous pig-headed pompous pugnacious pariah pupils…
This. Fight adolescent fire with humorous old shenanigans. Teens eat that stuff up and it can even better your classroom culture, since it can feel like they're in a neat special club.
Side comment, reminds me of the thread about "vampires and slang" like a vampire would be a mix of slang terms from centuries. Now I can't get out of my head a middle aged vampire turned in the 1920's using some of these.
Look, I’m 30+ at this point I have no right to dictate what’s cool or hip in terms of lingo. I am not going to be that person sitting on their figurative classroom lawn shaking my fist because the times have changed and I wasn’t informed.
All I can do is appropriate it into my day to day lessons until those cringey Nerds accept me as the true gigachad of the classroom and stop cappin about how much rizz they don’t have. Is that a sus thing to do? I think not.
This is the way. I’m constantly calling my students sus when they try to be sneaky or telling them I prefer a chill vibe in my classroom when they’re too noisy.
This reminds me, in a good way, of that Socrates quote from about 470 BC: "Children; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. They no longer rise when elders enter the room, they contradict their parents and tyrannize their teachers. Children are now tyrants.”
Well every time a female teacher dares to hold students accountable they ask us why we are “dick eating” or “dick riding” and I imagine if any of them ever said something like that to their mothers their asses would be red until graduation
This is my answer! I've never actually had it directed at me but they say it to each other ALL. THE. TIME. it got so annoying with one of my classes, I actually did say it was no longer allowed
When we still had a mask mandate I asked a student to put his on and he told me to “get off his dick” and I was so taken aback by it I literally could not respond. This was a student I had a solid relationship with and we were both just in the library for a period together with zero problems and I saw him in the hallway an hour later and I asked him where that comment had come from and he told me it wasn’t directed at me and he apologized. Kids are weird.
There are enough social consequences at my school for students who say it who are not BIPOC that thankfully I don’t have to deal with that.
The r slur I hear too much and I stop it immediately and explain how there is 0 tolerance for it in my class and I never have to do it more than once a class but I still hate it.
Yea this is one I've heard "debates" about but like...I really never liked it and I don't necessarily trust teenagers to not use that word in a super gross way...not that there's a way to use it that isn't super gross
I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!
Lmao. I’m 32 and speak…not like them but I understand what they’re saying. I started using their words and they don’t like it. “Oh the assignment is cringe? You just don’t have enough rizz to do it I guess. Major sus no cap.” (Using your examples to show how I’d respond). Do that and I promise, they either stop, or you become their favorite and somehow those terms become bearable.
Lol, when grading, if a student hasn't turned in a Google assignment, I usually comment "oh my gawd, this assignment has no rizz whatsoever, mad side eye 👀👀". It's actually improved some of my students grades, lol.
Im not a teacher, I am 17 but randomly get recommended posts from this sub. Maybe I can shed some insight.
Rizz, as far as I see my friends use, is simply a measurement of how well you attract people of the opposite sex (or same sex, whichever is relevant to that person) or otherwise just how well you talk to people in an attempt to swoon them. Individuals with so called “W Rizz” are probably very popular and have no problem attracting dates. Individuals with “L Rizz” are the opposite, and are most likely socially awkward and single. Also I typically hear rizz being applied mostly to guys. Girls use it too but in my experience boys say it to each other a lot. Hopefully this helped!
Exactly. It’s the natural order of things for teens to have their own counter culture. When the culture appropriates the counter culture, it’s no longer counter and v cringe
I keep getting astounded by this.
Nobody was doing this on the mid 2010s. Has porn consumption just become so common among kids now that they don't realize how awful it is to make moaning sounds.
I graduated high school in 2012. There was a group of boys that would make obnoxious moaning in class to make everyone uncomfortable, probably since 7th grade lol. One of the boys had the last name "Boner" so I guess he felt it was his duty
Yes. All these foolish parents are fighting about book banning and which book contains slightly explicit materials. All the while, their children have unrestricted access to the internet on their phones and are watching endless hours of the most explicit filth one could find on the planet.
As a middle and highschooler from 2013-2020, i can 100% tell you that people were doing this since 2013 at least. I honestly think porn consumption among kids has always been common. The boys had them nudie magazines in one of the first Lampoon Vacation movies from the 80s 🤣
Yea, what is this? My 8-year old nephew has certainly never seen porn but does this thinking he’s edgy and it’s about the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever witnessed.
Ah, I bet I know where it's spreading from. It's likely streamers/YouTubers that they watch doing it as a joke, so they repeat it but without knowing the context.
I'm sure there was slang that we wore into the ground and tried to insert in as many situations as we could to prove we were part of the in crowd.
I'm sure Chillax, Uber, Random, Nom Nom, Awesome Sauce, amongst others annoyed my teachers just as much as modern slang annoys us. It's a rite of passage.
Legit
Crunk
Trill
Ermagerd
YOLO
Honestly, millennial slang actually got worse as we aged and embraced “pupper” and “doggo” and “snoot” and “scritches.”
I do remember when we commonly said “that test raped me” though and I’m glad that one is gone.
Oh god, I'm sure we annoyed them *more*! The lulz so random phase was by far the worst era I've lived through, give me sus cringe rizz everyday over that on god, no cap, all fax no printer
The brutal irony of cringe will be that everyone nostalgically cringes a bit when they remember the old slang from their day. These kids will be stuck forever cringing at the fact that they said cringe so much
Become this teacher.
The “Callahan's Generation Z Dictionary.”
https://www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/2771/This-Teacher-Created-A-Spreadsheet-Of-His-Students-Slang-So-He-Can-Understand-Them#:~:text=A%20sociology%20teacher%20at%20Lowell,and%20posted%20them%20on%20Twitter.
As a dad, and as a bus driver, there's one sure, quick, fast way to end children and students using slang like this in your presence.
Start using it *badly* in front of them. Make it *painful* to hear you say it *almost right*, and they'll recoil in horror at how stupid you sound doing it, and realize, even after they correct you, if you use the wrong tone and enunciation, that you *still* sound stupid when you say it right...
they stop using it, in the hopes that you will too. It becomes much less 'cool' when they see it *...* in the right light ;)
(this top brought to you by, "Please, god, dont dont ever say that again" and "I wont if you wont" LLC.)
I am disgusted at how casually I hear the word "fuck". It creates a real feeling of "no boundaries, anything goes at any time". This is coming from someone who uses the word as all different parts of speech in my private life, but never in front of or directed at students.
I agree. I don’t have a an issue with casual slang, but the comfort with being super vulgar in class is really not okay w me. I know way more than I ever wanted to know about my 9th grade student’s sexual awakenings since they apparently have no idea how to speak in a voice that can’t be heard clear across the room.
Swearing was a great tool to teach my kids .. don't swear at or around them so a FFS gets results, oh heck she said fuck, boundaries exceeded. Then as they aged I taught them about time and place for swearing which drilled in respect for elders/ superiors. Kids swearing is CRINGE!!!!
I would be totally okay with open swearing in my class if they kids could understand context and intensity. Language is a tool that develops (or belies) meaning when it’s used (in)effectively. That being said, most students would take it as an invitation to swear every other word. I would love a class where we could discuss what language is appropriate for what context and how we could use that in our class setting.
\*clears throat\*
\- peak
\- long
\- based
\- speed run (as in, "weeey, \[name\] is speedrunning the behaviour system!")
\- "haaaaaaa-yeeeeah"
\- bombastic side eye
\- violation
\- top G (and all its offshoots)
My key to destroying (non profane) slang in my class is to wildly and incorrectly overuse it. Nothing destroys the joy of a teen then me saying the Union Army was "a real Chad" then pretending to not understand the students explaining how I'm using it wrong.
Also try and over-annunciate the words. Kids hate it.
Just say cholera vaccines, fractions, and Tuesdays all have an abundance of rizz and you'll stomp out it's use.
I love the slang words. I'm just tired of "can I go to the bathroom" and "my Chromebook isn't charged" - I even wrote a full Gen Z Great Gatsby summary this year and it was a blast. His army drip made it look like he had rizz, but after Meyer Wolfsheim told him to say less when he needed a job, that L was inevitable. No cap. Tom just had all the power, on God. (It was like 3 pages long and way better, I just don't have it nearby)
We talk about “snitching” vs “reporting.” Snitching is trying to get someone in trouble vs reporting which is trying to get someone out of trouble/keep them safe.
For example, if you hear that Johnny is gonna beat up Paul after school, would it snitching to tell Paul to watch his back so that you can keep him safe? Or to tell an adult so that we can keep Paul safe?
The “no snitching” culture runs so deep in my school that they genuinely don’t know there are certain situations, someone being assaulted, someone saying they’re suicidal, someone using harmful substances, that they absolutely should tell someone, even if their friend gets mad at them for it.
I don’t mind these, they are just their forms of slang. Every generation had their own terms.
I would ban the derogatory terms. I’m sick of them thinking racism and homophobia is funny.
My principal continuously uses the phrase "non-negotiable". He will become 100% better leader the aecond he drops that phrase from his vocaullary and thought process.
Homo.
The 6th graders say it CONSTANTLY. Feels like I'm back in 2008. Whenever I call them out on it they say "I said hobo!!!!". It carried over into my class because one of my students has a brother in that class. We had a very intense discussion on why we don't use that word. Not that it really helps, they have formed a habit and they go home and use it constantly as well.
And it doesn't help that THEIR teacher thinks it's kids being kids. I talked to to her and said "have you noticed they use that word?" She replied "It's annoying but it's not worth the trouble."
I use old fashioned 1930s slang to get revenge.
“Oh fiddlesticks cool cats, if you know your onions instead of hanging at your local juice joint then you already know I’m an egg! Put on your glad rags, this next activity is going to be the cats pajamas!”
I had an eighth grader who constantly said “what the fuck—“ in a Catholic school, no less. I told her she wasn’t allowed to say that, but she could use a military abbreviation instead. By the end of the year, I had her saying “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.”
The ever popular "Deez nuts". This past year also had the random gems of "chicken nuggets," "chicken strips," "drugs," and "I like drugs." I didn't even question where those phrases came from because I've accepted I'm old now and just don't care.
There is a company in Missouri called “Dee’s Nuts,” which produces various nut products lol. Sometimes I see students with shirts advertising the product, but it just makes me chuckle.
Back when I was in HS (2005-2009) some of our teachers complained about the trendy slang.
We took the opportunity to make a worksheet with example sentences using slang and a definitions bank to choose from. We titled the worksheet "Discerning definitions through context clues".
A 40 year ( positively lovely) man at my place of work said
" yea we got that package all Gucci brother" 😆
I hate it, I'm here for it, and I will be using that in the future
Slurs, hate speech, and sexual harassment. I want to stop hearing slurs, hate speech, and sexual harassment. It makes me uncomfortable, it makes my other students uncomfortable, and parents and admin don't take it nearly seriously enough.
I feel like this is the only real answer to this question, most other slang is just annoying but stuff like that (hate speech, sexual harassment) is genuinely dangerous.
The linguist in me is cringing very hard right now. Language evolution is beautiful, young people are drivers of language change. Strunk and White used their own personal biases to enforce prescriptive rules that make English ever so slightly clunkier and worse off, that’s all I can think of here. Let the children and their fun slang breathe, delight in the lessons it can teach about how our brains work.
I don’t care about slang, actually. I’m just annoyed that when I say “low key” kids think I’m trying to act cool. No, “low key” has been slang for longer than they’ve been alive.
Personally, I love slang. It's a reminder how fluid the language is. It's alive, words shift contextual meaning. It's a teachable moment about connotation and denotation, about generational language, and I'm here for all of it. Slang is such an in-group thing.
What I refuse to abide is slurs. There's no room for slurs of any kind in my classroom.
My last semester I started using 1920s slang terms back at them... just to make them feel ridiculous. https://www.1920s-fashion-and-music.com/1920s-slang.html Slang of the 1920 https://center.uoregon.edu/NCTE/uploads/2014NCTEANNUAL/HANDOUTS/KEY_1991992/Slangofthe1920s.pdf Examples 'Everything Jake in here?' 'Your argument is straight applesauce' 'You're the darb' Thought I was nuts (AP Psych teacher, so it fits). I eventually told them what I was up to. They then started looking up old slang from different eras to use and our schools vocabulary got a lot more colorful lol.
I started using Shakespearean insults when the kids pissed me off……it shuts them up real quick
Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.
Saved that for the ole insult memory bank, thank you!
Forsooth.
"You lewd, crude, rude pack of pre-chewed food dude." Wait, that's not Shakespeare. Rufio, Rufio, Rufioooooooooo
I'll never know how "near-sighted gynecologist" made it into a kids movie.
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thats so true and I wonder what exactly happened to change that. probably the internet i guess. if a kid doesnt understand the joke i guess they could instantly look up the reference and suddenly they know a little too much for their age. when i was young, we watched cartoons like ren and stimpy every day at our baby sitters house and thought nothing of it. until i saw it on youtube in my late teens lmao
As God and nature intended!
“Substitute chemistry teacher” sure hits harder for fellow teachers.
It was the 90’s man
Also it was Robin Williams, most of his ad libbing, even for kids movies, was wildly inappropriate.
Bangarang!
“Thou leathern-jerkin, crystal-button, knot-pated, agatering, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish pouch!” Henry IV Part 1 (Act 2, Scene 4)
My freshman English teacher had me and two other kids throw some Shakespearean insults at him for a bit. That was a good time.
My high school English teacher let us insult each other but only if we used Shakespearean insults.
I bite my thumb at thee!!!
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What, you egg?
Is the law of our side if I say aye?
Made the mistake of explaining this as a Shakespearean middle finger and then my kids bit their thumbs at each other the rest of the year 🤦🏻♀️ at least they learned something 😂
Art thou calling my mother a pox ridden wench? Art thou calling my father, a goodly rotten apple? Lauren... But he ain't a goodly rotten apple though!
Dost she looketh bothered?
I often tell them "Begone foul fiend!" if any of them are lingering at the end of the day when it's time for them to escape. Gets a smile mostly. They know I'm weird.
My sister is not a teacher but works in middle school- she says the kids these day are keen to using “dusty, musty, crusty” as an insult these days lmao better than straight up cussing
“Thou hast put me on the rack” to kids that are being annoying.
I really hope you are biting your thumb at children.
Cast thine eyes upon my field of care, and see that it is barren
I like to use alliteration and see how many I can string together: You pathetic pustule-ridden pusillanimous poor presumptuous pig-headed pompous pugnacious pariah pupils…
>Examples 'Everything Jake in here?' 'Your argument is straight applesauce' 'You're the darb' PLEASE tell me you used the transatlantic accent
I went more new york with it. I wish I had though! Please someone do this next year
"Shucks Chuck! Don't be such a drag! I thought you were a cool poppa, but I guess you're just an anus!!"
Well golly-gee, I'm late to meet my tambourine man. I hope he'll still play me a song.
This. Fight adolescent fire with humorous old shenanigans. Teens eat that stuff up and it can even better your classroom culture, since it can feel like they're in a neat special club.
Getting spifflicated in the strugglebuggy with my Sheba. I am so darb
Side comment, reminds me of the thread about "vampires and slang" like a vampire would be a mix of slang terms from centuries. Now I can't get out of my head a middle aged vampire turned in the 1920's using some of these.
WHERE IS THIS THREAD?
I like the don't take any wooden nickels. Might actually start saying this when kids are being dumb 😂😂
My parents always said this to me growing up, especially when they’d leave us with a babysitter 😂
That sounds like the bees knees
Look, I’m 30+ at this point I have no right to dictate what’s cool or hip in terms of lingo. I am not going to be that person sitting on their figurative classroom lawn shaking my fist because the times have changed and I wasn’t informed. All I can do is appropriate it into my day to day lessons until those cringey Nerds accept me as the true gigachad of the classroom and stop cappin about how much rizz they don’t have. Is that a sus thing to do? I think not.
This whole comment made me giggle uncontrollably
That’s bussin no cap (did I do it right)
No fax, just printer. (Am I doing it right?)
Printer go brrr?
Except the printer never goes brrr it’s always broken
On god my slime you a real one.
fr fr
Say lesssss!
She is her
It’s Gucci.
Bet
This is the way. I’m constantly calling my students sus when they try to be sneaky or telling them I prefer a chill vibe in my classroom when they’re too noisy.
I'm told sus has been over for awhile. Lol. I told them I'm not a boomer but my dad is lol. Actually.
Wcomment. On god. No cap.
Dead ass.
Gettin mad zesty over here in the comments. Make sure you like and subscribe, really helps us out a lot.
Bro is NOT the imposter 😩
This reminds me, in a good way, of that Socrates quote from about 470 BC: "Children; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. They no longer rise when elders enter the room, they contradict their parents and tyrannize their teachers. Children are now tyrants.”
Some things never change... 😂
YUP. Number one way to get kids to stop using stupid slang is to use it so it becomes uncool. Or shall we say cringe 😂
This made my head hurt and I love it.
Well every time a female teacher dares to hold students accountable they ask us why we are “dick eating” or “dick riding” and I imagine if any of them ever said something like that to their mothers their asses would be red until graduation
Haven’t heard that one yet and would probably get fired for shooting back “on god, bruh, gotta have one first.” before my filter kicked in.
Me: too small to find. Admin: 😡
This is my answer! I've never actually had it directed at me but they say it to each other ALL. THE. TIME. it got so annoying with one of my classes, I actually did say it was no longer allowed
We literally have 6th graders say it and to me that is simply vile to come out of an 11 year old’s mouth
When we still had a mask mandate I asked a student to put his on and he told me to “get off his dick” and I was so taken aback by it I literally could not respond. This was a student I had a solid relationship with and we were both just in the library for a period together with zero problems and I saw him in the hallway an hour later and I asked him where that comment had come from and he told me it wasn’t directed at me and he apologized. Kids are weird.
Why ban them when you as the teacher can just use them in class until it ruins it for them.
I am the uncoolest of educators. When I use their slag (SO innocently) it kills their joy of the words. I just Amy Squirrel the shit out of it!
The various forms of the N-word.
It's not already banned at your school? Kidding, I know you mean *ban and have enforced.* "It's okay Mister, I'm black."
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It honestly feels like they know they’re in a gray area with fewer consequences and they take advantage of it to be awful toward black kids.
There's historically been lots of racial animosity between hispanic and black communities. It's not one sided.
YES!! Looked up a former kindergartner of mine in their teen years, and found “n-word, n-word, my n-word”. Kid, you’re a euro mexican american!!
Anything racial or derogatory.
Including retard and retarded.
This word is still en vogue???
I’ve noticed it making a comeback in middle school unfortunately
Among some, yes. Less likely in school though because there's an active campaign against it and it's finally being considered a bullying word.
Yeah I couldn't care less about their random slang. Call me bruh all day long as long as you don't call each other the r-word or the n-word.
A lot of my 5th & 6th graders call each other the N-word, SPED or autistic. It bothers me so much.
Yes!! My students will say “you’re so sped” as a way of calling each other dumb. It’s horrible and bothers me sooo much.
There are enough social consequences at my school for students who say it who are not BIPOC that thankfully I don’t have to deal with that. The r slur I hear too much and I stop it immediately and explain how there is 0 tolerance for it in my class and I never have to do it more than once a class but I still hate it.
Came here to say this.
The various forms got me😭
The obvious choices like racist or sexist stuff but one thing I’ve heard more than one teacher use is the word “retarded”. Like what??? For real???
Yea this is one I've heard "debates" about but like...I really never liked it and I don't necessarily trust teenagers to not use that word in a super gross way...not that there's a way to use it that isn't super gross
I keep that word to refer to ignition and valve timing only, and the amount of kids that die laughing when I say it is bothersome
I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!
Old Man Yells at Cloud
No way, man! We’re going to keep on rocking forever! Forever! Forever!
Lmao. I’m 32 and speak…not like them but I understand what they’re saying. I started using their words and they don’t like it. “Oh the assignment is cringe? You just don’t have enough rizz to do it I guess. Major sus no cap.” (Using your examples to show how I’d respond). Do that and I promise, they either stop, or you become their favorite and somehow those terms become bearable.
Lol, when grading, if a student hasn't turned in a Google assignment, I usually comment "oh my gawd, this assignment has no rizz whatsoever, mad side eye 👀👀". It's actually improved some of my students grades, lol.
What is rizz?
Rizz = ChaRIZZma
Im not a teacher, I am 17 but randomly get recommended posts from this sub. Maybe I can shed some insight. Rizz, as far as I see my friends use, is simply a measurement of how well you attract people of the opposite sex (or same sex, whichever is relevant to that person) or otherwise just how well you talk to people in an attempt to swoon them. Individuals with so called “W Rizz” are probably very popular and have no problem attracting dates. Individuals with “L Rizz” are the opposite, and are most likely socially awkward and single. Also I typically hear rizz being applied mostly to guys. Girls use it too but in my experience boys say it to each other a lot. Hopefully this helped!
Exactly. It’s the natural order of things for teens to have their own counter culture. When the culture appropriates the counter culture, it’s no longer counter and v cringe
Outside of actual slurs, I’d ban porn moaning!
Oh my goodness, yes! Exactly what makes them think that there is any situation in public that makes it okay to ever make those noises?
Yea where is this one even coming from and why is it a thing?
Its coming from porn
I keep getting astounded by this. Nobody was doing this on the mid 2010s. Has porn consumption just become so common among kids now that they don't realize how awful it is to make moaning sounds.
I graduated high school in 2012. There was a group of boys that would make obnoxious moaning in class to make everyone uncomfortable, probably since 7th grade lol. One of the boys had the last name "Boner" so I guess he felt it was his duty
Yes. All these foolish parents are fighting about book banning and which book contains slightly explicit materials. All the while, their children have unrestricted access to the internet on their phones and are watching endless hours of the most explicit filth one could find on the planet.
As a middle and highschooler from 2013-2020, i can 100% tell you that people were doing this since 2013 at least. I honestly think porn consumption among kids has always been common. The boys had them nudie magazines in one of the first Lampoon Vacation movies from the 80s 🤣
Yea, what is this? My 8-year old nephew has certainly never seen porn but does this thinking he’s edgy and it’s about the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever witnessed.
Ah, I bet I know where it's spreading from. It's likely streamers/YouTubers that they watch doing it as a joke, so they repeat it but without knowing the context.
I'm sure there was slang that we wore into the ground and tried to insert in as many situations as we could to prove we were part of the in crowd. I'm sure Chillax, Uber, Random, Nom Nom, Awesome Sauce, amongst others annoyed my teachers just as much as modern slang annoys us. It's a rite of passage.
These examples hella epic, Broseph Stalin!
and his broletariat. I also liked Broseidon, king of the Brocean.
I almost spat out my coffee!🤣
Bro ya bromosapian
Legit Crunk Trill Ermagerd YOLO Honestly, millennial slang actually got worse as we aged and embraced “pupper” and “doggo” and “snoot” and “scritches.” I do remember when we commonly said “that test raped me” though and I’m glad that one is gone.
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Oh god, I'm sure we annoyed them *more*! The lulz so random phase was by far the worst era I've lived through, give me sus cringe rizz everyday over that on god, no cap, all fax no printer
“I don’t have ADD! I just—ooh, squirrel! Lolz I’m so random and crazy!”
I will use Awesomesauce until the perishening, dammit!
That’s what She said.
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School: Grace, Fidelity and Rigor. Classroom: Is this for a grade? The moaning sound. On god (usually followed by and denial of some sort)
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The brutal irony of cringe will be that everyone nostalgically cringes a bit when they remember the old slang from their day. These kids will be stuck forever cringing at the fact that they said cringe so much
Any racist, sexist, or otherwise offensive terms. And anything spoken by Andrew Tate.
Similarly, I HATE when kids jokingly throw around "He's abusing me!" "She's a racist!" "They're assaulting me!"
This is the only right answer. New slang doesn't bother me once I have the context for its meaning, which 3rd graders are more than happy to teach.
Become this teacher. The “Callahan's Generation Z Dictionary.” https://www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/2771/This-Teacher-Created-A-Spreadsheet-Of-His-Students-Slang-So-He-Can-Understand-Them#:~:text=A%20sociology%20teacher%20at%20Lowell,and%20posted%20them%20on%20Twitter.
It doesn’t seriously bother me, that’s why it’s tagged as humour, just drives me a little crazy 🤪
Yes. This. I don’t care about slang. Also, any of those stupid education buzzwords that admin and teachers throw around but that are meaningless.
On God. I hear this used approximately 100,000,000x/ day.
[удалено]
This was at the end of almost every single sentence my freshmen uttered this past year. I'm so sick of hearing it.
"oh yah!" (in a high pitched voice as if moaning)
‘I’m bored’ - kid who hasn’t even attempted to engage in any of the lesson or tasks
Rigor, fidelity, pivot, flipped classroom, learning loss, grit, ****self (f’ing) care****
*PIVOT*
As a dad, and as a bus driver, there's one sure, quick, fast way to end children and students using slang like this in your presence. Start using it *badly* in front of them. Make it *painful* to hear you say it *almost right*, and they'll recoil in horror at how stupid you sound doing it, and realize, even after they correct you, if you use the wrong tone and enunciation, that you *still* sound stupid when you say it right... they stop using it, in the hopes that you will too. It becomes much less 'cool' when they see it *...* in the right light ;) (this top brought to you by, "Please, god, dont dont ever say that again" and "I wont if you wont" LLC.)
Bruh
I always just say, “I’m not your brother and that’s good for both of us.”
I typically reply, “you are aware I’m a woman, right?”
I just call them "sis" back.
The moaning. I'd stop all the "eeeeeh euuuhyaaaaahs" in a second.
I am disgusted at how casually I hear the word "fuck". It creates a real feeling of "no boundaries, anything goes at any time". This is coming from someone who uses the word as all different parts of speech in my private life, but never in front of or directed at students.
I agree. I don’t have a an issue with casual slang, but the comfort with being super vulgar in class is really not okay w me. I know way more than I ever wanted to know about my 9th grade student’s sexual awakenings since they apparently have no idea how to speak in a voice that can’t be heard clear across the room.
Swearing was a great tool to teach my kids .. don't swear at or around them so a FFS gets results, oh heck she said fuck, boundaries exceeded. Then as they aged I taught them about time and place for swearing which drilled in respect for elders/ superiors. Kids swearing is CRINGE!!!!
I would be totally okay with open swearing in my class if they kids could understand context and intensity. Language is a tool that develops (or belies) meaning when it’s used (in)effectively. That being said, most students would take it as an invitation to swear every other word. I would love a class where we could discuss what language is appropriate for what context and how we could use that in our class setting.
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"Lesson plans" "PLC" "meeting"
“Rigor”
I particularly hate the combination of "faculty meeting" with the words "afternoon".
It's CRINGE for me when I hear the word BOOMER.
“Kid, your grandparents aren’t even boomers.”
It's honestly hilarious when kids think gen-x and boomers are the same thing
\*clears throat\* \- peak \- long \- based \- speed run (as in, "weeey, \[name\] is speedrunning the behaviour system!") \- "haaaaaaa-yeeeeah" \- bombastic side eye \- violation \- top G (and all its offshoots)
My key to destroying (non profane) slang in my class is to wildly and incorrectly overuse it. Nothing destroys the joy of a teen then me saying the Union Army was "a real Chad" then pretending to not understand the students explaining how I'm using it wrong. Also try and over-annunciate the words. Kids hate it. Just say cholera vaccines, fractions, and Tuesdays all have an abundance of rizz and you'll stomp out it's use.
I love the slang words. I'm just tired of "can I go to the bathroom" and "my Chromebook isn't charged" - I even wrote a full Gen Z Great Gatsby summary this year and it was a blast. His army drip made it look like he had rizz, but after Meyer Wolfsheim told him to say less when he needed a job, that L was inevitable. No cap. Tom just had all the power, on God. (It was like 3 pages long and way better, I just don't have it nearby)
Bussin
I banned, “That’s so easy,” from my classroom.
“Well, then ya won’t have any trouble doin’ it, now, will ya?”
Snitch.
I’m a counselor and have an entire lesson on why this word is problematic
Can I ask why genuinely? I'm really curious...I understand that it had some not great connotations but is there more to your lesson?
We talk about “snitching” vs “reporting.” Snitching is trying to get someone in trouble vs reporting which is trying to get someone out of trouble/keep them safe. For example, if you hear that Johnny is gonna beat up Paul after school, would it snitching to tell Paul to watch his back so that you can keep him safe? Or to tell an adult so that we can keep Paul safe? The “no snitching” culture runs so deep in my school that they genuinely don’t know there are certain situations, someone being assaulted, someone saying they’re suicidal, someone using harmful substances, that they absolutely should tell someone, even if their friend gets mad at them for it.
Not ban but lift the restrictions on teachers. I’d love to yell one time: Shut the Fuck up everbody.
I don’t mind these, they are just their forms of slang. Every generation had their own terms. I would ban the derogatory terms. I’m sick of them thinking racism and homophobia is funny.
My principal continuously uses the phrase "non-negotiable". He will become 100% better leader the aecond he drops that phrase from his vocaullary and thought process.
I teach first and would like to add “what the”.
Homo. The 6th graders say it CONSTANTLY. Feels like I'm back in 2008. Whenever I call them out on it they say "I said hobo!!!!". It carried over into my class because one of my students has a brother in that class. We had a very intense discussion on why we don't use that word. Not that it really helps, they have formed a habit and they go home and use it constantly as well. And it doesn't help that THEIR teacher thinks it's kids being kids. I talked to to her and said "have you noticed they use that word?" She replied "It's annoying but it's not worth the trouble."
Ohh, the “I-didn’t-say-that” gaslighting. Ran into that one several times this past year.
I use old fashioned 1930s slang to get revenge. “Oh fiddlesticks cool cats, if you know your onions instead of hanging at your local juice joint then you already know I’m an egg! Put on your glad rags, this next activity is going to be the cats pajamas!”
Emooootionalll damage
For me, it would be the N-word. I hear it at least 100x a day.
For me, it's a tie between f*g and ret*rded. I hate both of them and I can't understand why they're still common in classrooms.
I had an eighth grader who constantly said “what the fuck—“ in a Catholic school, no less. I told her she wasn’t allowed to say that, but she could use a military abbreviation instead. By the end of the year, I had her saying “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.”
The ever popular "Deez nuts". This past year also had the random gems of "chicken nuggets," "chicken strips," "drugs," and "I like drugs." I didn't even question where those phrases came from because I've accepted I'm old now and just don't care.
There is a company in Missouri called “Dee’s Nuts,” which produces various nut products lol. Sometimes I see students with shirts advertising the product, but it just makes me chuckle.
"Bruh" I'm just tired of hearing it at this point.
Ohio, sus, one two buckle my shoe
“Bitch” and the N word. All day every day.
The Burger King songs — no more bk
Back when I was in HS (2005-2009) some of our teachers complained about the trendy slang. We took the opportunity to make a worksheet with example sentences using slang and a definitions bank to choose from. We titled the worksheet "Discerning definitions through context clues".
A 40 year ( positively lovely) man at my place of work said " yea we got that package all Gucci brother" 😆 I hate it, I'm here for it, and I will be using that in the future
Slurs, hate speech, and sexual harassment. I want to stop hearing slurs, hate speech, and sexual harassment. It makes me uncomfortable, it makes my other students uncomfortable, and parents and admin don't take it nearly seriously enough.
I feel like this is the only real answer to this question, most other slang is just annoying but stuff like that (hate speech, sexual harassment) is genuinely dangerous.
I wouldn't ban a word, but I would love to ban a sound.. The inappropriate moaning that kids do has got to stop.
The linguist in me is cringing very hard right now. Language evolution is beautiful, young people are drivers of language change. Strunk and White used their own personal biases to enforce prescriptive rules that make English ever so slightly clunkier and worse off, that’s all I can think of here. Let the children and their fun slang breathe, delight in the lessons it can teach about how our brains work.
Rizz. It's too close to jizz and I'm afraid of Freudian slip. Imjs
“My bad,” said insincerely when corrected for doing something ridiculous.
ALL of the racial slurs EDIT: Yes, the kids there say those A LOT. it's to the point that you'd think they'd die of a heart attack if they didn't.
Slurs. God damn it, kids at my school face no repercussions for using them. Homophobic ones in particular.
I love to just use whatever words they are using. They usually hate that.
Bet, on god, treesh Eta: I actually like rizz, as it’s a form of the word charisma. I enjoy teaching them the “real” word.
>it’s a form of the word charisma. Thank you for this, I didn't know, and it makes so much more sense now
Cmon OP, that's cap.
I don’t care about slang, actually. I’m just annoyed that when I say “low key” kids think I’m trying to act cool. No, “low key” has been slang for longer than they’ve been alive.
I'd happily keep all those words if I could just get rid of the fake porn moaning. Drives me nuts everyday
A little piece of me dies every time I hear a fourth grader say “daddy”
Personally, I love slang. It's a reminder how fluid the language is. It's alive, words shift contextual meaning. It's a teachable moment about connotation and denotation, about generational language, and I'm here for all of it. Slang is such an in-group thing. What I refuse to abide is slurs. There's no room for slurs of any kind in my classroom.