Working with late teens definitely has the ups and the downs…
A few hours a drama each week never hurt any one … and certainly getting reminded about my “age” as Dan, the Old Guy from time to time…
But definitely a positive to take out of all of this is the new lingo I’m learning…
Today – let us break down – responding to someone who asks you to do something…
Example: Billy, can you please take out the garbage?
Billy’s response from the last 36 years of Earth have been… a simple… “OK” or even a “you got it”
But now – the response is … “OK BET”
At first, I thought the 19 year old I was talking to said, “OK bay…”
When letting it go the first month or so, I finally let him know I was off the market and happily married – in which we talked about the response…
“OK BET” is referring to… “Ok, you can bet on it” <—- WHAT?!
We’re working in a generation who is coming in line behind the LOL and the IDK and any other way to shorten speech, preferably through text conversation… and now to throw the wrench in – we are adding a syllable or 2…
INTERESTING!
I feel so old, I have no idea what these kids are talking about anymore and I have no energy to try and figure it out!
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I know the older I get the harder it is to keep up with the lingo!
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