A recent Tesco Mobile survey highlighted the slang terms used by Generation Z, illustrating the disconnect between youth vernacular and older generations’ understanding. While some phrases like 'pogs' and 'drip' are unfamiliar to parents, others are becoming common knowledge. The article humorously critiques older generations, who sometimes adopt their kids' slang, highlighting generational appropriation where youth culture is co-opted. This phenomenon raises concerns about young people's ability to maintain a unique cultural space amid older influences. The author contemplates the balance between shared appreciation and cultural ownership.
First, it should be acknowledged that it is a modern parent's inalienable human right to wind their children up by deploying their slang back at them.
Perhaps there's a form of generational appropriation that involves older people commandeering youth-signifiers, to the point they leave nothing that actual young people can identify as just their own.
The good news: it appears that I am not the 21st-century equivalent of the 20th-century judge who hadn't heard of the Beatles.
Sure enough, there are some I don't know: poggers (enthusiasm); drip (stylish clothes/accessories); touch grass (time outside).
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