Balderdash and other words millennials haven't heard

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  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,991 Championing
    edited October 2020
    I think “woke” is the new word for “snowflake”. I.e. a rude word for a liberal person or someone who gets easily offended by things that they perceive as politically incorrect.

    What age are millennials? My dictionary says it is someone who reached teenage age in around 2000 so would be around early 30s now, but I have been referred to as one in the past. I’m 26 - what generation am I? :D
  • Ami2301
    Ami2301 Online Community Member Posts: 7,877 Championing
    Thanks @Tori_Scope although I don't think I will be using it anytime soon ?
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,464 Championing
    edited October 2020
    There is some debate and crossover between the age ranges @66Mustang. I guess you can decide whether you want to be a Millennial or a Zoomer! I'm pretty much always considered Gen Z, but I can feel quite a big generational gap between myself and the younger Zoomers as things, particularly social media, have changed sooo much, even just within a few years. 
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,991 Championing
    edited October 2020
    Oh that’s easy - if we are basing it on tech and social media then I’m a Baby Boomer. :D I don’t like the idea of any social media (except forums) and will not use it haha. Also was late to the party getting my first smart phone in 2014.

    I remember hearing something about the kind of smiley faces you use being able to reveal your generation. I.e. Someone who uses emojis and someone who uses punctuation like :-) !

    Yes things do seem to change more quickly these days. I guess good in a way as things could change more quickly for minority people like disabled people.
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,464 Championing
    edited October 2020
    A baby boomer :D  @66Mustang

    Yes, I've noticed the emoji thing too. I absolutely love reading the articles on what emojis that 'young people' send allegedly mean. Most of them are so off the mark it's unbelievable. It also depends on the context. I message my Mum differently to how I message my friends, both of which are different to how I write on here. 

    Let's hope so!
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,991 Championing
    That’s really interesting. I used to really adapt how I wrote to whomever/wherever I was writing. I still do up to a point but I think I do it less these days. Maybe that’s an age thing - becoming more confident in your own writing style as opposed to what you think people want to read?

    What you say about the emojis reminds me of “lol” which used to mean “lots of love”, haha.
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,464 Championing
    Interesting @66Mustang. It's not a hugely conscious thing for me, it happens quite naturally on the whole. I think you're probably right about the confidence thing, though. I do remember frantically looking up acronyms that my friends were using that I didn't know the meaning of when I was at school, whereas now I'd probably just ask.

    Haha yes. My Grandma always used to finish with 'LOL, G'ma' in our birthday cards and we always got a good laugh out of it :D 
  • Dragonslayer
    Dragonslayer Online Community Member Posts: 2,164 Pioneering
    I haven't heard the word Gusump for some time. That by the way is probably not the correct spelling. I have forgotten how to spell it right.
    I think it means'outdoing' someone on a bid to buy a house? 

  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 16,760 Championing
    @Cher_Scope - you have a strange vocabulary! Whilst I understand the meaning of the words, I don't think I've ever called anyone a 'cad', or a 'bounder', or said 'balderdash'. To me these were words used in Regency times. Even my parents didn't use 'betrothed,' rather 'engaged'. My Dad did say 'nincompoop,' another word that I don't think I've ever used, nor 'kerfuffle.'
    We did used to say someone was 'plastered' rather than 'sozzled.' Also 'tight' to me meant someone who was 'tight-fisted,' or mean, so somewhat similar now.
    Words that I feel will disappear, if they haven't already, are those to do with pre-decimilasation currency, such as a 'tanner,' a 'bob,' etc.
    As far as text goes, I do text differently to my children; my eldest daughter who is dyslexic, uses lots of shorthand terms, & very little punctuation, so sometimes I have to read them through 3 times to work out what she means. My son, who is 6 years younger, also has bother with her texts, & we text using words, & punctuation in full.
    I was a little disconcerted when my new hairdresser asked me if I knew how to text last week......I must be showing my age! :)

  • Cher_Alumni
    Cher_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,714 Championing
    chiarieds said:
    @Cher_Scope - you have a strange vocabulary! Whilst I understand the meaning of the words, I don't think I've ever called anyone a 'cad', or a 'bounder', or said 'balderdash'. To me these were words used in Regency times. Even my parents didn't use 'betrothed,' rather 'engaged'. My Dad did say 'nincompoop,' another word that I don't think I've ever used, nor 'kerfuffle.'

     :D  You aren't the first person to say that! I do like throwing in a quirky word to spice up or romanticise mundane sentences but I agree some of the words mentioned here belong in black and white movies!  

    I'd also never heard of yeet until this discussion so my aim for today is to use it in a conversation successfully. 
  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 4,167 Championing
    Dragonslayer said:
    I haven't heard the word Gusump for some time. That by the way is probably not the correct spelling. I have forgotten how to spell it right.
    I think it means'outdoing' someone on a bid to buy a house? 

    Gazump...  Millennials can't afford to BUY houses so there's no need for it anymore...   :D

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 4,167 Championing
    Might just have been my area but I remember 'safe' being big in the early 2000s...  



    Odd thing about smileys...I've always found it difficult to read faces or even create the correct facial expressions in social situations.  I've never understood why people assume you're not listening unless you're constantly contorting your face to adapt to whatever they've said, it's exhausting...  Anyway, since using Messenger and forums and having to actually choose the correct smiley to give a context, I think I've got better at doing it in real life as well.  I can only find 16 smileys on here so you're saved from my usual bombardment of smileys!  ;)  
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,991 Championing
    OverlyAnxious said:
    Dragonslayer said:
    I haven't heard the word Gusump for some time. That by the way is probably not the correct spelling. I have forgotten how to spell it right.
    I think it means'outdoing' someone on a bid to buy a house? 

    Gazump...  Millennials can't afford to BUY houses so there's no need for it anymore...   :D

    Ha ha ha very true!!!!
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    You don’t hear wizard or top hole being said much these days either, which isn’t a bad thing. Gadzooks is another ? 
  • Richard_Scope
    Richard_Scope Posts: 3,739 Cerebral Palsy Network
    Shenanigans is a good solid old fashioned word!
  • Dragonslayer
    Dragonslayer Online Community Member Posts: 2,164 Pioneering
    Another word not used anymore for an alley between houses was  Ginnel.
    Another was Snicket.

  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,464 Championing
    I still hear people, particularly in the North, say ginnel @Dragonslayer. I'd never heard the word before I moved up here though!
  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    Heard of all of those words apart from the top two
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited October 2020
    Another meaning a cad is a bounder, usually someone is a bounder and a cad to boot! ?  to boot meaning as well of course. Splendid by jingo!
  • Dragonslayer
    Dragonslayer Online Community Member Posts: 2,164 Pioneering
    Tori_Scope said:
    I still hear people, particularly in the North, say ginnel @Dragonslayer. I'd never heard the word before I moved up here though!

    Welcome to the north. Gods own country. ?

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