What language does your teen speak? - Page 3

[gnutter]

while I was reading this my son walks in and says "dude you gotta see this guys mom she is hardcore vegetarian...."
so we are fluent in dude and gnarly--along with "sweet" and I am sure some more colorful words when he is out with his dudes shredding the concrete.

[Cherie2]

phatty!

[Maiasaura]

Originally Posted by Storm Bride

(I wanted to kill my ex-roomie for "talk to the hand")
I don't think I'm following you on this. From what I can remember of how osmosis works, it seems about right to say "I learned it by osmosis". What's wrong with that one?

i STILL don't get "talk to the hand". what in the world does that mean??!?

somebody here that's more recently medical than me will maybe have to correct me, but if i remember correctly from A&P, osmosis is from an area of lesser concentration to a greater one, and diffusion is going from an area of greater concentration to a lesser one.
so, if one is learning something from someone else (however it happens), the one learning has "lesser concentration" (thereby gaining something) and the one giving the new information has "greater concentration" (giving/losing something), as it were.

ok, call me nitpicky...:

i may still have it backwards, but i don't think so. i'm pretty sure i remember it correctly.

pamela

[Ruthla]

Originally Posted by noordinaryspider

INo matter how much you may like or dislike a shirt, it is physically impossible for a shirt to have a sexual preference.

I thought "gay" meant "happy" and "carefree."

Originally Posted by Storm Bride

Has anyone else ever seen the spelling "geigh" to mean lame? WTF?

so "gay" means homosexual or happy/carefree and "geigh" means lame?

DH: DS1, what do you have for homework?
DS1: Your mother.

WTF?

Apparently he has to interview Grandma for homework?

[doctorjen]

Okay, I have to jump in.

Diffusion is the movement of molecules from an area of higher concentration to areas of lower concentration

Osmosis is the diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane - in which water molecules move from an area of higher concentration of water molecules to an area of lower concentration of water molecules, across a membrane

Both are passive transport methods.

The saying "I learned it by osmosis" is I think supposed to imply that the knowledge simply moved into your brain from an area of higher concentration (outside of you) to an area of lower concentration (your brain) but since osmosis refers only to water, if you are picking up stuff by osmosis the only thing you could get is water logged.

[vancouverlori]

You mean your kids are actually saying stuff in your presence???

Good heavens, mostly from Emily (just over 12) is stony silence. Sometimes a short answer, usually followed by a "Can I read now" or "Leave me alone" or "Get out of my room".

Originally Posted by mercyn

i have taken to correcting people when they say "i learned it by osmosis"....i'm going "no, that's diffusion"

oh, see, now I always used "osmosis" to mean that I (jokingly) stuck the book against my head and somehow gained knowledge thereby.

Originally Posted by BrownEyed

The 12 year olds are saying the f word, when I was 12 I hadn't even heard that word.

Your parents were obviously not huge hockey fans like mine. Most swearing involved referees in our house.
One time when I was about 14, I told my mom to f*ck off. It was an intense argument about something stupid. She then proceeded to skip around the living room goofily. When I asked her what the h*ll she was doing, she said (while skipping around the room) "I'm f*cking off, I'm f*cking off...". It worked (so you may want to stash that one in your bag of tricks).
-Lori

[doulamomvicki]

Your parents were obviously not huge hockey fans like mine. Most swearing involved referees in our house.
One time when I was about 14, I told my mom to f*ck off. It was an intense argument about something stupid. She then proceeded to skip around the living room goofily. When I asked her what the h*ll she was doing, she said (while skipping around the room) "I'm f*cking off, I'm f*cking off...".

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[KaraBoo]

"Your mama" is such an old phrase. We used it a lot in the 80s. I love it! I use it playfully, sort to insult myself...since *I'm* the one saying it and *I'm* the "mama." LOL

We say, "Talk to the butt" instead of "Talk to the hand" thanks to the movie Stuart Little (the cat says this). And we quote movies something fierce in this family. We're all movieheads. And the quotes will mutate into something even more ridiculous, thanks to our goofiness, a la the "g-homey" comment upthread. (That was great! LOL)

[Storm Bride]

Originally Posted by doctorjen

Okay, I have to jump in.

Diffusion is the movement of molecules from an area of higher concentration to areas of lower concentration

Osmosis is the diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane - in which water molecules move from an area of higher concentration of water molecules to an area of lower concentration of water molecules, across a membrane

Both are passive transport methods.

The saying "I learned it by osmosis" is I think supposed to imply that the knowledge simply moved into your brain from an area of higher concentration (outside of you) to an area of lower concentration (your brain) but since osmosis refers only to water, if you are picking up stuff by osmosis the only thing you could get is water logged.

Okay - I'm still okay with using "I picked it up by osmosis" - "osmosis" doesn't really have any other common usage in English, and I think using "diffusion" would just confuse people, as they'd hear a connection to "defuse".

[Storm Bride]

Originally Posted by Ruthla

so "gay" means homosexual or happy/carefree and "geigh" means lame?

Apparently. I don't pretend to get it.

Apparently he has to interview Grandma for homework?

Hey - I think I may use that next time he says "your mother". Thanks!

...and if he says "your face", I can ask if he's supposed to do a facial sketch for art. I'm sure I'm going to establish myself as horribly square, but that's okay...

[Cherie2]

that cake is dank

[doctorjen]

Originally Posted by Storm Bride

Okay - I'm still okay with using "I picked it up by osmosis" - "osmosis" doesn't really have any other common usage in English, and I think using "diffusion" would just confuse people, as they'd hear a connection to "defuse".

Yeah - doesn't bug me either. I get what people mean. Now using "I could care less" when they mean "I couldn't care less" makes me kind of nuts , though . . .

[Cherie2]

Originally Posted by doctorjen

Yeah - doesn't bug me either. I get what people mean. Now using "I could care less" when they mean "I couldn't care less" makes me kind of nuts , though . . .

Or I forget, instead of I forgot

[TigerTail]

Your car needs gas.

"YOU need gas."

Your bananas are overripe.

"YOU're overripe."

It's really quite entertaining.

[teachma]

Originally Posted by mercyn

has anyone heard "ginormous"?? that's a new one on me. i kind of like it

A fourth grader in my class wrote this one in a story last week and INSISTED it was a real word!

[Maiasaura]

okay, doctorjen, so i was right......right? at least kind of.

i understand about people getting confused if i say "diffusion", though. but it's fun to mess with people's heads

somebody PLEASE explain "talk to the hand"???

the "care less" thing gets me, too.

what does "the cake is dank" mean?!?

pamela

[TigerTail]

Originally Posted by teachma

A fourth grader in my class wrote this one in a story last week and INSISTED it was a real word!

It is, , with urbandictionary.com the lexicon is leaving us oldsters behind. They know where the language is headed. Can't stop the tide, or teen's word coinage.

[doctorjen]

Originally Posted by mercyn

somebody PLEASE explain "talk to the hand"???

I'm not as sure about this one - but the jist I get is that you turn away and hold up your hand and say "Talk to the hand" and implied is "Because I'm sure not listening!"

Any other interpretations?

[delicious]

Originally Posted by JBaxter

I learned a new word in Teenese this morning

DS1 was refering to a girl that used to like him as an "emo" I asked what in the world an emo was ( if it was something to nasty we arnt allowed to say it in the house)

Emo-
Definition- a super emotional person ( male or female) usually talking about dark subjects somewhat goth attire and doing a form of self mutilation like cutting /burning /branding

I learn something every day

http://fourfa.com/

[Storm Bride]

Originally Posted by doctorjen

I'm not as sure about this one - but the jist I get is that you turn away and hold up your hand and say "Talk to the hand" and implied is "Because I'm sure not listening!"

Any other interpretations?

Yup - that's it exactly. It's very much a "tell someone who cares" kind of thing. Trust me, after my roomie, I'm an expert. He had this way of flipping his hand up that made me want to break his freaking wrist.