Cambridge Dictionary

[Oma]

Did anyone see the article in the Guardian yesterday about new words they are adding?
It came up on my news feed.
They are adding words like

Skibidi
Delulu
Tradwife
These apparently are from Ticktock and influencers and Cambridge Dictionary thinks they are words to stay.
Likes of Skibidi means good or bad or no real meaning at all .
Delulu is apparently delusional, then why not just say delusional?
Tradwife is a traditional wife who likes to look after her husband.
Several more stupid words are being added.

I have always said the English language in a hundred years will be text talk and no one will use traditional words it will all be slang words.

[Gemini]

Oma, I have heard my GS1 use the skibidi term. He uses it as though he is speaking to someone who understands

[Oma]

Some bizarre words Gem 😁

[Daisy]

You sometimes feel there's a whole new language out there that I certainly don't understand. I had to ask what "flex" meant used in the context of "I'm going to flex about my promotion at work" meaning to boast (I think!).

I'm sure a lot of these new words will just disappear from daily use, just like our 60s words like "hip" and "cool".

[Oma]

They say they are here to stay Daisy,
I can't see it myself

[Daisy]

Oma, I agree - they won't "stick", and there will be other new words probably invented by youngsters to fool us oldies.

[Sum1Ls]

Ha ha, come on dear grannies, you must remember using phrases like ‘I think Cliff / Adam / Elvis/ is the mostest! ‘Swinging’ (although I think the meaning of that has changed over the years… not to mention ‘square’ ‘goggle-box’ ‘fast’ and so on. Some last, others don’t.
But wasn’t it satisfying to annoy your elders and even better to confuse them?

[Gemini]

That's true Sun1, I suppose each generation had it's own vocabulary and phrases which befuddled elders!!

My DD2 and friends as teenagers used the word Ladgin . It meant not good, pathetic kind of thing .

I never found out if it was widely used, just in Yorkshire, or even just in their school

[Oma]

That's so true , but you forget don't you😁

[Daisy]

Today we went to a craft fair where GD1 had a stall. There was a ukulele band playing. Their average age was certainly over retirement age, and I had to smile when they played the Bill Haley & the Comets' hit from the 1950s, See you later Alligator, and several early Elvis hits.

Gem, I've never heard the word Ladgin, so perhaps it was local.

I remember us using the word "repugnant" at college for anything we disliked. It was months before a friend of mine said she thought it was a made up word, not a real one!