Today's repost from December 5, 2018 is about current slang. Because I don't often really pay attention to the terms the kiddos use, but I do hear them. Enjoy.
World history class at the continuation high school. They're doing a unit on the Holocaust. They were working on a vocabulary assignment in Google Classroom.
Because it was the continuation high school, most of them weren't doing much of anything. I was doing my usual rounds, trying to get them to make some sort of progress.I came up on one boy who was on his phone. I questioned what he was up to. He told me that he had started the assignment, but when he opened his Google doc, his assignment had disappeared.
I completely understood. Trying to troubleshoot the problem, I asked the usual questions. He opened the Google doc to show me his assignment wasn't there... And his assignment popped up. His work had saved.
"It made me so hot when it wasn't there. I wasn't going to start it over."
And my ears perked up. "Hot"? He meant angry. Mad.
I did not know that hot was now a synonym for mad. Okay, then.
And, wouldn't you know it, other students used hot to mean angry that same day. It came up a couple times. The usage makes a certain amount of sense.
So, as you go about your day, see if you hear someone using hot to mean angry. I'm curious as to how widespread this now is.
I had no clue they may have thought I was angry a lot when I was menopausal
ReplyDeleteI think they probably figured it out due to context :)
DeleteWe are learning so much from our teenage gr-daughters.
ReplyDeleteThey do have a different way of describing things.
DeleteWhat’s old is new. We used to say someone was hot under the collar when he was angry.
ReplyDeleteThis generation has a way of condensing things down.
DeleteI was up to date with slang when my son was a teenager. Now, I'm totally lost.
ReplyDeleteIt's a very subtle change lately. It doesn't seem like there are any majorly out there words they use.
DeleteInteresting.
ReplyDeleteI haven't heard here either as a synonym for angry.
ReplyDeleteBut very interestingly, in the state of Kerala, the Malayalam (local language) equivalent word for hot is indeed used colloquially as a synonym for angry!
Apparently you're not skipping days, your posts are just not showing up in Feedly.
ReplyDeleteI, too, did not know that hot was now a synonym for mad.
ReplyDeleteHow interesting!