Wicked

Whwn I was an Akela (scouting) in the noughties and 2010s, one of the boys (aged 8-10) used 'wicked' quite a lot to mean things like amazing or awesome. He's the only person I've ever heard using it.

Lit, i think is the word now.
We've been sick, now we're lit.

I think I need a 'Youth-Oldie' dictionary.

I hope the word amazing when just describing something quite mundane dies out. I was talking to a young receptionist at the GPs the other day and when I supplied her with my name and date of birth she said ‘amazing’ and again when I said I could pop in again later.
Is just a complete misuse of the word.

I think mis-use of words like amazing are often a bit like a nervous tic. The person, perhaps a little stressed, feels they have to say something and the word their mind lands on may seem rather daft.

I've had a similar experience to the one fallingstar describes. I just felt a little sorry for the person's apparent nervousness.

Fallingstar

I hope the word amazing when just describing something quite mundane dies out. I was talking to a young receptionist at the GPs the other day and when I supplied her with my name and date of birth she said ‘amazing’ and again when I said I could pop in again later.
Is just a complete misuse of the word.

I find that more often it’s ‘perfect’.

So many people online seem “obsessed” these days.
Seems rather dramatic when trying a new lipstick…

Baggs

Whwn I was an Akela (scouting) in the noughties and 2010s, one of the boys (aged 8-10) used 'wicked' quite a lot to mean things like amazing or awesome. He's the only person I've ever heard using it.

That would be right. In one of the earlier Harry Potter films Ron uses it a lot and that made it popular amongst school-children.

My daughter and then partner used Wow in nearly every sentence about 20 years ago.

DGC (late teens, have been using 'wicked' to mean good for some years now.

The other returnee is 'cool'. We have a bevy of young builders in and out of the house at the moment and their every other word is 'cool'.

I love language and our use of it!

I remember the days when gay meant happy and cheerful and queer meant odd!

When our three younger children were growing up (now 24,26,28) there were times when I zero clue what they meant!

I’m familiar with “wicked” and “sic” but even now they’ll come out with something which just leaves me totally uniformed 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

I cannot believe “cool” is back in fashion, one of my cousins used to constantly say “cool-beans” it drive me mad.

Does anyone remember the American expression of “neat” meaning “cool” or what we might consider good or great!

I remember superb in the nineties. My DD used to say it a lot. Not heard it for ages.

I still say cool 🙃

Fallingstar

I hope the word amazing when just describing something quite mundane dies out. I was talking to a young receptionist at the GPs the other day and when I supplied her with my name and date of birth she said ‘amazing’ and again when I said I could pop in again later.
Is just a complete misuse of the word.

I hate that, too. Also, when someone describes something very ordinary as "awesome"

I can remember some expressions from the eighties that are very ratrely heard now. When was the last time you heard someone called a divvy or div.
Also one that was used a bit for an aggressive young man was a Kev., presuming that these sort of men were often called Kevin. It was quite popular in the late eighties and then seemed to die out.

Now it's Karens who are under fire (much to their annoyance, judging by the Karen I know)

Saying right or like in or after every sentence drove me bonkers. And bonkers is another that's back but means something different. ie: mad but in a nice way as we once might have used dizzy or a little bit crazy.

"You're welcome" and "no problem" used incorrectly and all the time, irritate me.

Being called darling by complete strangers is odd. and patronising

I'm definitely not in the know with today's words. I'm seeing my DGC tomorrow. I shall listen out 😊

Sick is an extraordinary piece of language usage. Very odd!

Does anyone remember "talk to the hand".

MissAdventure

Does anyone remember "talk to the hand".

Yes I do.

An American (now ex) sister-in-law said it back in the 1990s. I had never heard it before and had to ask for an explanation.

Ah, I didn't realise it came from the U.S.

Here's the latest, hot off the press, from my 11 year old granddaughter.

slay = awesome

You heard it first here. 😎