Terms that you don't hear young people use these days

[TRAX]

A wonderfully offensive and completely needless attack on the attitude of young people today.

Many young people are very polite and will regularly use every one of these terms. I don’t deny that there is a subsection of youths who are like this and will simply use (insert choice of swear word) in place of any of these, but I certainly won’t stand for someone faulting the entire generation - of whom a small minority ruin the reputation (we hate it as much as you do trust me!)

It’s not if adults were nowadays the prime example of politeness either !
Fully agree with you on that one.

 

[DustyBin]

In the North East Region (particularly around Newcastle), does any of the younger generation use the phrase "why aye", or was this around the time of Jimmy Nail's character Oz in Auf Weidershien Pet when it seemed to be common?

In the last few years when I have been on various seaside trips to Whitley Bay, when passing through Newcastle etc, I have never heard anyone use that phrase.

It is used by the younger generation, I hear it fairly regularly. I think it's one of those instances where due to programmes such as the aforementioned Auf Weidersehen Pet (for example) people expect it to be used more than it really is. Geordies don't actually walk around mindlessly shouting "why aye man!" at each other for no apparent reason!

It's a bit like Cockney rhyming slang really. I have a lot of family in London, and despite being born and raised in the North East I have a larger repertoire than they do as they don't actually use it!

 

[Lloyds siding]

Seems I'm a mixture of old and new, and obscure too: I use 'dear' meaning expensive and 'old dear' for elderly women. I use wherewithal, forthwith, I shall if you will.
I say film rather than movies, and I talk about seasons and series..with the meaning that the annual 'series' in a particular tv programme is a 'season'...which is the way that the producers make them now.
However I've been saying 'Hi' for at least 40 years..and I may say 'Hi Guys' to a mixed group...if I think they are OK with that (as I've said before..I work mostly with younger people: 30-40 years less than me!).
I also say 'Sling yer hook' now and again....I've looked it up and it's a dockers' phrase, hence being used in London and Liverpool.

 

[AlterEgo]

"Whom."

I know someone who uses whom all of the time, but literally only ever in the incorrect way!

"Whom knows if he will sign for Man United!"

"I spoke to the group, whom had incorrect tickets"

 

[swt_passenger]

I think we can add deprecate to the list; I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that!

They hardly even write it. Only 28 hits in the forum search, at least half being quotes of it…

 

[DustyBin]

Do young people still go "courting"?

It's not a word I've ever used and I'm in my thirties!

 

[gg1]

Do young people still go "courting"?

It's not a word I've ever used and I'm in my thirties!

I doubt anyone under 70 does, the only people I've ever heard use it are my parents generation or older, they were both born in the 1930s.

 

[MikeWM]

They hardly even write it. Only 28 hits in the forum search, at least half being quotes of it…

Used quite a lot in IT in my experience. An interface or an API will be marked as 'deprecated', ie. you shouldn't add any further uses of it because something better has been provided, and at some point someone intends to go through and remove the existing uses (although that very rarely happens in practice!)

A quick search in our current codebase finds thousands of results for the term.

 

[AlterEgo]

Used quite a lot in IT in my experience. An interface or an API will be marked as 'deprecated', ie. you shouldn't add any further uses of it because something better has been provided, and at some point someone intends to go through and remove the existing uses (although that very rarely happens in practice!)

A quick search in our current codebase finds thousands of results for the term.

Also "self-deprecating" remains in pretty common usage.

 

[Islineclear3_1]

My wife went shopping yesterday and asked for some cloves. The (young) shop assistant thought she meant clothes

 

[Busaholic]

They hardly even write it. Only 28 hits in the forum search, at least half being quotes of it…

I wasn't attempting to be clever by using the word. It just seemed the correct word to use of the individual I was talking about. Le mot juste.

 

[swt_passenger]

Used quite a lot in IT in my experience. An interface or an API will be marked as 'deprecated', ie. you shouldn't add any further uses of it because something better has been provided, and at some point someone intends to go through and remove the existing uses (although that very rarely happens in practice!)

A quick search in our current codebase finds thousands of results for the term.

Yes, I perhaps should have explicitly included that it didn’t seem to get used much in this forum. I’ve seen it often in the wider world.

 

[najaB]

I occasionally use “outwith” and “herewith”

Outwith doesn't exist outwith Scotland.

 

[ABB125]

I don't think I've come across "dastardly" in any conversations with people of a similar age to myself (or, for that matter, with older people).

(Incidentally, if something can be "dastardly" what's this "dastard" to which it's being compared?)

 

[61653 HTAFC]

I don't think I've come across "dastardly" in any conversations with people of a similar age to myself (or, for that matter, with older people).

(Incidentally, if something can be "dastardly" what's this "dastard" to which it's being compared?)

I don't think I've ever heard that word, outside of a certain nefarious character in Hanna-Barbera cartoons.

"Nefarious" probably doesn't come up much in the schoolyard either.

 

[Jon_jpwh]

What I used to call a flannel is now called a face cloth

 

[alex397]

Do young people still go "courting"?

It's not a word I've ever used and I'm in my thirties!

As someone born in the early 1990s, it’s definitely not a word I’ve ever heard in real life.

I heard it used in Only Fools & Horses, and as a mind-in-the-gutter teenager presumed it was some sort of act rather than just a word for dating

A word I’ve only ever heard on tv, rather than actual real life, is ‘besides’. Maybe it’s just me!

My family watch soaps, and a lot of the language they use, I don’t actually recognise in real life. I’d be interested to know just how realistic the language used is! Although, soaps are hardly realistic despite wanting to be. Most people I know in real life don’t have affairs, murder people and don’t get pregnant as a teenager!

 

[DustyBin]

Outwith doesn't exist outwith Scotland.

I live near the border (well sort of....).

 

[najaB]

Most people I know in real life don’t have affairs, murder people and don’t get pregnant as a teenager!

I take it you don't live in Dundee then!

 

[Strathclyder]

I don't think I've ever heard that word, outside of a certain nefarious character in Hanna-Barbera cartoons.

This is how I personally became aware of that word, mostly through watching Stop That Pigeon! episodes on YouTube (Klunk was always my favorite part of it, along with the outrageous airplane designs).

 

[alex397]

I take it you don't live in Dundee then!

No, very much the South East! Or Saaarf East as it is commonly known.

 

[DynamicSpirit]

Used quite a lot in IT in my experience. An interface or an API will be marked as 'deprecated', ie. you shouldn't add any further uses of it because something better has been provided, and at some point someone intends to go through and remove the existing uses (although that very rarely happens in practice!)

A quick search in our current codebase finds thousands of results for the term.

So your quick search has amply demonstrated the truth of your statement, although that very rarely happens in practice!

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My wife went shopping yesterday and asked for some cloves. The (young) shop assistant thought she meant clothes

The mind boggles as to what kind of shop would sell both cloves and clothes, at least, in the same department

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Also "self-deprecating" remains in pretty common usage.

Interesting on that score, that the meaning of 'self-deprecating' is very different from what you'd logically expect if you put together the usual meanings of 'self' and 'deprecate'

 

[Busaholic]

Most people I know in real life don’t have affairs, murder people and don’t get pregnant as a teenager!

Not in that order, anyway.

 

[nlogax]

Outwith doesn't exist outwith Scotland.

I've been working very hard to change that..

 

[najaB]

Not in that order, anyway.

I refer you to my previous comment about Dundee - they are a precocious lot up here.

 

[PeterY]

A term more commonly used amongst us older generation is "lady friend" I can't see youngsters saying that . Yes, I do have a lady friend

 

[najaB]

A term more commonly used amongst us older generation is "lady friend" I can't see youngsters saying that . Yes, I do have a lady friend

Or "a beau" for the ladies. I don't think anyone says "a paramour" these days

 

[yorksrob]

I don't think anyone says "a paramour" these days

Norrie's friends ?

 

[westv]

What I used to call a flannel is now called a face cloth

I haven't used one of those for years.

 

[Pete_uk]

'you rotter'