40 ways to talk with (and connect with) a millennial
All words and expressions born well after the new millennium.
If you are in your forties, 50 years old or beyond, you would have forgiven not know what on earth "spilling tea", "clap back" or "Fleek" means. (It's all for the latter, because no one seems to know what "Fleek" means.) However, if you want to talk to millennia on their own terms - and to really decipher what they are saying Maybe you were learning. That's why we gathered this final list of the millennial terminology that each person should know. So, read it, take notes and try to use them in a sentence. (You do not have time? Well, so I guess #Thestruggugereal.) And if you are a millennium, it's in your turn to ometterThe words your elders use.
1 "Netflix and Chill."
This is the most polite way to say "lights this movie that we have no intention of looking, then to deceive you on the couch." Speaking of: if you look a classic way to rush someone, do not miss these23 old-fashioned label rules that are still applicable.
2 "Sorry sorry"
It's when you want to make it clear crystalline to someone exactly how much you are really remorse you are really about something. And for more great anecdotes, here is the30 words that will sound you instantly more intelligently.
3 "Sipper" or "Turn the tea"
It started with the sameKermit the frog Sip tea, which understood the legend, "but it's nothing of my business." It basically means claiming not to notice when something crazy or slut occurs. When you invade tea, it usually means that gossip are shared and tea is a little more difficult to swallow.
4 "Wake up"
You may notice the lack of "up" according to this word. If we do not know anything else about Millennials is that they are far too busy for modifiers. In this context, it is not only a question of being awake. It is suddenly life, either off alarm or determination. You are awake, so now things are, you know,real.
5 "Skid"
This means that you are in the bad way-metaphorically. When someone prays you "sfr will", they say, "You're not welcome here. Getting lost, let us alone,Sky! "
6 "Dirty"
It looks like a word George Takei could take advantage, but it has become a favorite among the millennia. It means being in a bad or grumpy mood.
7 "The fight is real"
Spoiler alert: If someone tells you, you make fun of. They say that the thing you takeso Seriously, that you consider such a blatant tragedy, might not be as bad as you think. The fight is actuallynot Real, and you should learn to recognize the sarcasm.
8 "Xennials"
The older millennia tired of being called Millennials, so they invented a new name for themselves. If you were born between 1977 and 1983 and do not feel as if you belong to X generation or millennia, you are a xennial. File This one under "Nobody cares, please stop inventing new words for stupid things." Oh, and speaking of newly created words, here's here10 things "polyamour" people want you to know about their relationships.
9 "Thirsty"
You want something, and it's not a tasty drink. This could be anything more instagram adepts or woman you just spotted the club. Can also be used self-deprecated; If you want so much that you are thirsty, it might be time to calm down.
10 "Trolls"
They do not live under a bridge and they will not ask you to answer these puzzles three before going. They are just jolts that say nasty things to online strangers.
11 "Basic"
This is not necessarily an insult, just a suggestion that your personality and your opinions and physical attributes are particularly standard and means of the road. It's like saying, "Oh, you have a basic cable. It's ... Okay, I guess." Ok well, it's a total insult. And for more millennial behavior, read whyThe selfie pastes are here and carbohydrates never look as chic.
12 "AF goals"
It's a shortcut for "everything we are talking about includes things I liked to reach or own in my life." It could be a sweet tech new gadget or a beautiful woman you would like to see on your arm. AF (an acronym means "as [F-Word]") simply accentuates.
13 "Babe"
It's the one you love "before someone else." This word probably started as an attempt to say "baby" or "baby", but then they realized midway through the word they simply did not have the energy of this last wish.
14 "Bounce"
It's when you have to leave somewhere quickly. "I have to bounce back."
15 "On Fleek"
Just another way to say something is "on the point". (Note: Nobody has no idea what "Fleek" actually means. GO Figure.)
16 "RT"
Short for the Retweet, a reference to Share Tweet from someone else on Twitter. In other words, it's stenographic for "I do not have the time or energy to come with an original thought, so here's what someone said." Or simply: "idem."
17 "Applauding in return"
When you dissolve and you're not just sitting there and stew in your own juice, you return the favor with a kick. To find? You "hit you". (Ok, we do not understand either.)
18 "Fire" (as an adjective)
"These once the Jordans are fire." Noton the fire. Not pulled up. Just simply, fire.
19 "LB / FB"
Stenographic for "like the back" or "suite". He referred to when someone loved you or followed on social media and returned the favor by hitting the same button on your own screen.
20 "Hunty"
You know that a word is good when it is borrowed from Drag Queens. Call someone "Hunty" announces that you are well aware of their shenanigans, just in case they think they pull a quick on you. "Nice try, Hunty."
21 "Quiche"
It means hotter than hot. And if there is one thing we can all agree is that the quiches are sexy. Wait What? Okay, maybe not. But maybe that's why this millennial slake works. It's like saying, "She's so hot, she looks like my grandmother's slippers," or "his bikini photos are like a smooth musical smoothie." It works because it's really, really not.
22 "SUS"
Someone acts as shaded or suspicious, and you mean so much, but you then remember how many millennia feel about vowels and suspicious to be thirteen vowels or something like that, so you just say "SUS And do you hope you talk about / send texts / or tweeter to fill the whites.
23 "Ratchet"
When everything started in hell, your hair, your clothes, your work, your life, then you are ratchet. The word was created to describe a woman who can not keep her together, but she has evolved to incarnate just about anyone whose personal or professional life is out of the rails.
24 "To cancel"
When you meet a ratchet that hopes for a romantic connection, it's time to cancel. It's a less abrasive way to say, no, it will not happen.
25 "I can not even"
You can not even what? No matter. This could be something specific, it could be the general reality. The goal is that the world has become crazy, and wecan not even.
26 "Jomo"
The "fear of disappearing" is so the last generation. Millennials have upgraded to the next best emotion, thejoy to miss or Jomo.
27 "Dead"
That's all you need to say. Not "I'm dead." Just "dead". You will know that you will know what you mean (at least if they are millennia.) That's how they express to have seen or read something that is so good or funny, it's great (figurative) will kill joy.
28 "Alight"
Something is especially great. Like: "This holiday is lit!"
29 "Merica"
Thus millennia make fun of the ability of an apparently endless America for self-love. When people become too enthusiastic about fireworks and firearms and monster trucks, it's'Merica.
30 "Break Internet"
The Kardashians sucked some of the joy of this sentence, but it is always possible to break the internet by sharing something legitimately amazing. With so much online noise, creating something that causes a real buzz and dominates the global conversation, when you are not a Kardashian or an asset, is nothing miracle.
31 "Humble Brag"
When you want to share how fantastic your life is, but you do not want to be this guy who turns that his life is fantastic, it's when a humble valve man comes into play. Just a dose of modesty or even Auto-deprecation, so it seems that your intention was not to gloche (even if it was clearly). Example: "I have so much packing to do before my flight to Paris. Ugh, my life right now is so complicated!"
32 "Increase, Turnt up, arrived"
Another way to say "I'm having fun on this holiday" without having to use "I'm having fun on this holiday."
33 "Bye Felicia"
If someone leaves and you do not really care, return them to "Goodbye, Felicia". It's a difference that really works only if the person you are trying to insult is not named Felicia. If she is fine, then you have been accidentally polite. OMSOPS!
34 "Photos or it did not take place"
A form of sarcasm that has evolved from a real necessity. People tend to lie on social media. Well, they are everywhere, but especially on the internet, where everyone seems to implore the attention of foreigners, and they will write pretty much everything to get it. It is difficult to anyone of trust more, if demanding "photos or it did not take place" is not so much a request for photographic evidence. It's just saying, "According to my experience on the Internet, I started against you. »
35 "FOH"
When you want to say that you get the "effit from here", but are too polite to put it in so many words, the acronym of the Millennium FOH does the job for you.
36 "Says never"
Four words that can reduce to none just about any statement, with just the right amount of sarcasmic sneer. "I'm sure of love family picnics ....says that no one ever ".
37 "Because Duh"
Exclamation points are so much in need. If you really want to express how much you have just said is so true, finish with the quantizer "because Duh. It works every time. "I absolutely spend the weekend in a whirlpool withScarlett JohanssonBecause duh ".
38 "Tear down"
Not in the direction of knight and dragon; You are not sure they killed fire spherware beasts to save a princess. To "kill" in ways to make millennarist feels an exemplary job.
39 "Yaaaaaas"
When simply say "yes" is not enough. "Yes" is just a calm deal or positive answer, but "Yaaaaaas" suggests a frenetic intensity that really grows the nail.
40 "Adulting"
All boring bullshit that big people do. If you are drawing at work and paying your mortgage and cooking your meals and ironing your own clothes, you are in the adult world now. He sucks sometimes, but he is a reality for all the great boys and girls. Yes, even a millennials.
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