Current teen lingo?

[philforhockey51 4,220]

my two cents (how old is this term lol):  

 

YOLO = flash fire of a term, gone tomorrow               SPQR = Yes Roman though you know that.            Keep those kids in check, they will be better for it.

 

Travel around the streets of Newark NJ, where I'm from, and you will hear an incredible amount of variation in slang terms. Race, Gender, Ethnicity, Age, Wealth, Education all have a factor in the variation of the same words. They spill over into each other as they travel through the different communities , get combined get switched and then get another makeover into a whole new word. Take areas and groups of people that want to keep to themselves, immigrant groups, gangs who create new words with the intention of keeping others from understanding, those words have also hit the mainstream, mostly through music. Music seems to spread it quickly but social media has also added a mean punch, thats why YOLO has broken national borders.

 

There will always be terms that last but others that live short lives. The sand falls through the hourglass, but no one uses one anymore lol.

[AkemiAzula 280]

Now that was an acronym you could say with pride knowing your generation included the likes of GJ Caesar and Kleopatra VII

Then that Octavius dude like fully went and wrecked everything. He used to be rad but he changed, man.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Naw.  The fly in the Roman Republic was a general named Gaius Marius.  He was the ground zero of political rot a few years before one C.J. Caesar.  "Arma virumque cano qui primus ab oris ..." P. Vergilius Maro.

 

Vernacular language changes with the times.  The old Romans are still around embedded in the all the Romance Languages, and have even crept into some more northern languges such as English, which is probably the world's largest polyglot.  English steals from everywhere.  Example "turn coat" almost literally translated from the Latin "terga vertere".

 

Acronyms wide use is a result of the need for speed and short expression, encouraged by the twits at Twitter and the texting capability of current smart phones.  However, let me remind everyone that TANSTAAFL.