Fandom keeps you young?

[sienamystic]

Except it can't be fandom, because I'm only on the outskirts of it, so it is...the internet keeps you young? Or being immature and not having kids? Too much Tosh.2.0 and The Soup? Or something?

One of my cousins posted a list of slang terms on her FB that her two kids (both under ten) use, and a lot of her friends answered with other slang terms they hear their kids using that they didn't understand...and not only did I know most of them, but I use some, and could have told her what they all mean and where they came from. The one that killed me was, "They also say "ponage" but I don't know what that means."

ETA: In a miracle of timing, XKCD has put up a chart designed to kill my good mood.

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[antisoppist.livejournal.com]

A translation mailing list I'm on had people getting incensed this week by the use of "fail" when English has the perfectly good word "failure", why are people saying this, are they all suddenly illiterate, might it be a mistranslation from Japanese...? I was just surprised none of them had encountered it before.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

"Fail" was definitely one of them! But so were, "no dur" and "chill," both of which were around when I was a kid, so I'm startled by her saying they were new.

Well, "no dur" was more, "no duh," but still.

[siliconivy.livejournal.com]

that's funny ... over the weekend, my youngest nephew was trying to educate his mom on current slang...she's still trying to figure out what "hot mess" means.

If you're in the mood & feel like copying, I'd be curious to see what some of the slang is ... just to see if I fall into the "old" or "internet young" category. :)

but yeah, that chart was designed to kill good moods...

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

Let's see:

beast
epic fail
smart one
no dur
chill
ponage
random
amazing (this one listed as an overused term, but not necessarily slangy)

Really, nothing too outlandish, like the stuff in my icon.