All Glittered Out

Listening to the slang words kids say today only reminds me that I am definitely of another generation.  I've had some of my older elementary and middle school grandchildren around me this week.  They definitely use words I have used before but never with their new meanings.  I got lost just listening to them talk to each other.  It was like they were speaking a new language.

I suppose every generation has their unique slang words that are like inside jokes that only those kids understand.  I get that.  My generation did the same.  We had silly words that only we understood.  I just feel so far removed.  I need an interpreter.

My daughter and kids from their ballroom dance studio came to a Dance Sport Competition at BYU this week. They performed a couple of times and got to watch many other competition teams.  Their team did Latin style - rumba, cha cha, paso doble', salsa, and jive.  But there were other teams that did the many other fancy ballroom dances.  And of course, the more glittery the costumes, the better.

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By the third day, my 12-year-old granddaughter who came along on this trip with her mom because she could not stay at home alone said that she was "glittered out."  She used some other slang terms, too, that I really couldn't understand except that they meant something "extreme."  During the earlier days of competition, she was fine and would tell me which dances and which costumes she liked the best.  But a steady diet all day long of sparkly, glittery costumes with chiffon and feathers combined with extremely loud music took its toll.  So she is happy to just spend the evening playing quiet games in my house tonight.

My grandson's team did a Latin dance called "SpiderVerse" that really showed their death-defying drops and spins.  Pretty "peak" if I do say so myself.

Translations:  "Peak" and "Fire" mean high praise.
​"Buzzin" and "drippy" mean very stylish.  "Fit" and "rizz" mean attractive.

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