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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda gam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Language is what she has done. Spoke is always changing.
And you know, I'm a stickler for apostrophes. I've inherited
this from my mother. I'm a stickler in the worst ways.
My friends get anxious when they have to text me
in case their apostrophes aren't correct.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I'm awful.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
You speak very well as well. You reckon and now
you do that sounds like any podcasts that any of
the narrative first contestants have done what you just did.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It, or a football commentator they played beautiful.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
It's all one hundred percent. The earth is flat.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
But it's funny when you look back.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I'm going to go through some of the new slang,
but anytime something's new, it's hilarious listening to how it
was spoken about at the time. Here's a story that
went to air in the eighties.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
First understand, like, there's this valley, the San Fernando Valley,
the biggest bedroom suburb of Los Angeles. In the valley.
Of course, they're girls, and like all teenage girls, they talk.
But as scholars of the language note, in a most
to cure your.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Way like tubular, well, it's like a totally great day.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
It's like totally awesome. Gag me with a spoon. It's
grody to the max. It means it's disgusting. It's totally groady.
It's like if you have to work or.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Like do housework, continue room, it's like stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
It's like, gag me with a spoon.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
It's totally. Yeah. That's where Valley Girls Speak began.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
And it sounds now like they're taking the piece, But
that's actually a story on American television about the beginnings
of that language. Awesome and totally, which we.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Still use Kardashians gives literally yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
All that stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
But that's where remember, it sounds like a joke, gag
me with a spoon, grody.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
That was from the eighties.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Here's a story about the nineties. Some of these ones,
I know some of them must be big americanisms, but
they didn't tell you what YO means. Here are some
other phrases you want to know if you want to
be sure to sound hip in the nineties.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yo a greeting, Oh, curve, what's up? Clutch the pearls said,
in amazement or disbelief, Well, you know he's married. Clutch
the Pearls fucked in the eighties. It was just wasted.
I don't know how many I have the boy did
I get fucked? I still felt it the next morning.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
It was really the worst thing I'd ever done.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I hope you didn't drive home no way mcgivers in
the TV show where the impossible is often accomplished. I
can't believe you got off that speeding ticket.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
What a mcguiver.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Novel too secretly undermine what.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I can't believe you saw your job.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
You've really been noveled black and decker or a real
tough assignment. You get the analogy, right, This job is
a real grind. It's just a black and decker.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Some phrases may be around forever.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, and maybe others won't think novel. Remember Deborah Novel
was on TV in the nineties and she took the
job of a woman who's placing the station with Brian Gumbel,
Jane Hurley or something like that.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
She took her job.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
So that's what means to wonder Wand she's entered the language.
So let's go through some of today's.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yet yet, do you know what that means? That's bum,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
No, it means you're showing good admiration for someone that.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yet yeah, I just always default to bomb. Well, actually,
haven't listened to this.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
This is a young girl explaining to her mother what
some of the new ones mean and then we'll talk
about them.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Sigma means like alpha col you're the best.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
A wrizzler is someone who's like good with the ladies,
you know.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Jimmity toilet ti. That's like bad because it's in the toilet.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
So it comes from a YouTube series.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Yeah, and it means like bad.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
It means like trash.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Skibbity toilet skibberty looks. Maxing this is when you, I guess,
getting a glow up. It maximizes your appearance. Mewing this
is It was originally a facial exercise to improve your jawline,
but now it means refusing to answer a question. You
can't talk while you're mewing all facts no printer means
the statement is genuine.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
What about if if R?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
This is repeated shorthand for for real and giat is.
It's a slang derived from goddamn, excuse my language, used
to express strong admiration.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
What about riz, well that's in there. That was a rizzler.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I've just heard it before when I was working past
the girls at the tiping for I said Jonesy, he's
got that riz. I was thinking, should I get a
HR and complain or is it a good thing?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You know very well it means charisma, and you know
very well there's no one here in the sales at
this hour.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You make all of that up.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
They're all having a coffee.