No one scored below 60% but several parents who scored higher admitted to making educated guesses based on the multiple choice responses. Georgia moms knew more of the terms than Georgia dads, but I decided to do my own unofficial poll by sending ’s online gaming terms quiz to a diverse group of friends.
Less than 32% of Georgia parents were able to understand the meaning of words like lit (yet another word for cool), dope (also means cool and has been used for several decades), thirsty (attention seeking), snatched (looking good), shook (shaken up), and noob (newbie). “It builds markers that show you belong or don’t belong to certain groups.”Ī recent poll from, a site that hosts more than 500 solitaire games, indicates that a majority of Georgia parents are not well-versed in slang. “It shows you are a member of a community but there is a generational aspect as well,” Walter said. There is also a sense of community that is important to slang. “When you are doing things in a new way it drives vocabulary development by coming up with words that don’t exist for what you want to talk about,” said Daniel Walter, a linguistics professor at Emory University’s Oxford College. Knowing what your kids are talking about is a good idea, but understanding slang also helps us understand how the broader culture is evolving. “You get the information, you decide if this is something I have to worry about and once you come up with your answer you can go from there.” “Parents want to ultimately protect their kids and you can do that best with knowledge,”Andreoli said. The top story on the site this year is one titled “New Teen Slang & Acronyms for 2021″ - a story Andreoli said evolved when they saw search traffic in Google (which accounts for 80% of site traffic) like “what does (blank) mean?,” where the blank is everything from “finsta”(a fake Instagram account) to “dragging” (public humiliation but on social media). Or terms that are regional that might be used in California, and if that translates into an emoji, suddenly kids on the East coast are using it and not understanding the root of it,” said Rick Andreoli, editor of Parentology, a website dedicated to helping parents navigate the digital age. There is language that is used within gaming culture that may or may not meld over into social media culture. “Language and culture is evolving rapidly and independently on different platforms. Every now and again, regional slang would cross state lines and make it to the rest of the country through popular culture, otherwise you just picked up the local stuff when your cousins from down South, up North or out West came to visit.īut of course, with the advent of the internet and social media, the landscape of language has changed. When I was a kid, our main source of exposure to slang was friends at school and television. I could tell by some of the terms that popped up in slang searches - “what does sksksk and I oop mean?”- that I wasn’t the first parent who was about to miss the last train to street cred. I actually thought we were talking about a bus instead of the latest word for something good. In this case, I hadn’t even realized that slang was being used.
It was the first time I had been caught off my game, unable to hold the line on cool by using context clues or rudimentary lexicology to figure out the meaning of words I didn’t know. Where is the bus going?”Īnd just like that I had entered a new phase of parenting - not just mom, but a mom lost in the morass of teen slang.
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