Mar. 12: Hopefully none of these will ever actually catch on.

Because the English language isn't complicated enough, you decide to create a new bit of slang for all the young people to start using. What is it and what does it mean/how is it used?

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cyrus
another name for a std
(I'm sorry, but if STD's come up in conversation enough to justify a slang term for them, you have way bigger issues to deal with than the English language.)

I would have youngsters start using more words like "neat-o", "swell", and "nifty" again.

"Valid" meaning "good, great, etc"
"That shirt is totally valid"

My cousin and I were watching Interview With the Vampire and there was these people making out and she was trying to tell me something about Lestat, but I didn't hear her, except Lestat, and I was like those people are Lestating, what?!?! Haha, so Lestating = Making out.
(Sounds like a solid flick.)

"I, Claudius," every time they wanted to make a statement or state their opinion in some other way...not a statement... Is that even possible? Of course, this must be delivered with the obligatory head twitch, so I'd probably get sued by people developing RSI whilst trying to be cool. Ah, the price of popularity!
(Anyone who can tell me what she's talking about gets a nickel.)

you got teddy-beared! oh yeah, you would just say it when you didnt know what to say lmaooooo

Not really I created new frases, and words that my whole school ended up using all i remember is ork-a-dork which was if you were in orchestra and tired of band geek

(I think I like 'frases' better than 'ork-a-dork'.)

TDF. To die for? Uhm... WEMB. What ever miss *****? TTE to the end? Sorry, idk. I'm not very good at this, lmao.
(See the administrative comment at the bottom of this page for response to this one.)

Flarp (v) - to trip over one's own feet
EX: I totally flarped at school today.
=D My friend and I came up with that one about 2 months ago.

"we don't care about the young folks talkin' bout the young style"

calling random people a doofy ( like my son does ) or norm for someone whom is like semi stupid
Two-fin- ( it's used in my house ) the two finger rule one two hold your bottom lip up and the other to wipe away the tear . umm and i dunno anymore that i would create for like slang .
(Important announcement: 'Doofy' is now the official slang term of Stupid Question of the Day, as it applies so well and would make many of my comments more succinct. Expect to see it in the future. Maybe.)

(The following responses were to this question under the heading "What would you have the young people say?" Apparently this is a sensitive issue for the younger generation...)

Um, just because were young we have to have our own language? Gee, we are humans too. How offending...

What the hell?
I'm sure when you were growing up you had 'slang' words too.
I know my dad and mom did. They are in their 40's and 50's.
How hypocritical.

My mom is 40 something and uses more slang than I do. She also makes up her own words.

*Source*: "Omg, Jayy, wtf?!"
(Your mom is a sperritrop.)

(Administrative Comment Old Man Rant: Ahem... "Gall darn young'uns and their dad burn, voodoo chatspeak! Back in my day we took the time to type out entire words and phrases, not just a bunch o' letters that don't make a lick o' sense. Down right inconsiderate. Don't even spell anything! Yer just somehow s'posed to know what it means... And it's overused! I mean, criminy, they're even using it in everyday speech now. Kid came up to me the other day using this garbage, thought he was speaking Latin or some other devil language to me. Started yelling bible verses at him 'til he ran away. Turns out he was just trying to tell me that I'd dropped my wallet. He should have just said that... now I don't even have my trusty ol' billfold! And, really, if you youngsters were actually LMAOing as much as you said you were there would be A's all over the ground. It'd be anarchy! What do they teach in those blasted schools these days? Turning society into a group of illiterate, gangbanging ruffians. Well guess what young people: ITTSYCKHIFTBTTLADBM! That's right, how does it feel? Confused? Good! Now you know how I feel everytime I flip on the consarned television or use this glorified adding machine you call a computer and its internet. It's called English, use it! Or rather, ICEUI! Yeah, that's right young'uns, who's LOLing now? Huh?!)