If it seems like your kids are conversing in alien tongue these days, don’t get salty (upset) about it, you’re just a newbie (novice) to this mind-numbing jargon. Tweens and teens are inundated with text messages, TikTok videos and Instagram reels. It shouldn’t come as any surprise their vocabulary would reflect that influence. Widely recognized as “netspeak,” this Gen Z-Alpha slang blends abbreviations with social media memes and intentional mis-spells. The end result? A fire (awesome) mishmash of grammatical oddities such as “bruh,” (brother) and “skibidi,” which could be a nod to the YouTube series, “Skibidi Toilet,” or perhaps just a person who is annoying.
