Ok, boomer: the dictionary so that your years don't show on your tongue
Let's put ourselves in a situation.
It's Friday night and you're already getting in the mood to give it your all. Your
Cameras, lights, action and let the algorithm work its magic.
Suddenly, something vibrates. You get a notification. You think: “Could it be from Tinder?” But when you look at the mobile, pay attention to the little message:
"I proposed to say words, but such beauty prevents me from formulating prose worthy of your grace. Of such magnitude is your beauty, that when you greet someone, every tongue is mute. Of such magnitude is your sweetness, that I cannot understand who to try it without desires. And my fever is of such magnitude, that it seems as if it were coming from my lips: I invite you to ride over the Valley of Castilla, little slut.”
You're waiting for a “🥵” and you find a Garcilaso hotter than a sauna doorknob.
Does this sound strange to you? Well it shouldn't.
Let's see, don't misunderstand us.
You may not see Garcilasos in your DMs every day, but the language changes so fast and crazy that we go from generational clash to generational clash.
The baby boomers are mixed with us, with generation X, with millennials, with generation Z...
Some so “effective” and others so “ok, boomer”. And it doesn't matter which country you are from, you just have to open your ears a little to realize that the years are also noticeable on our faces.
The result? A cocoa in which it seems that we all speak a different language. Not even if this was an Erasmus!
So if your date didn't live OT1 and rolls his eyes when you say "nasty de plasty", or if your sugar daddy doesn't understand why you and your colleagues say "like" so many times in a 5-minute conversation...
We have reviewed and bring you the dictionary with the expressions of yesterday and today so that the language gives you more joy than misunderstandings.
Be careful, they don't teach you this in language academies, but you will surely use it more than B1 through Trinity.
One last warning: get ready, because the odd time jump is coming (we love a good bounce, a good shake).
DICCIONARIO BACK TO THE FUTURE!
1. In plan. The number one par excellence. 80% of any current conversation. Our inseparable tagline, because we love an ornament.
2. The putivuelta. A little walk to test the terrain. It's a one-way trip, because you never know if you'll come back with a few drinks, friends, or extra trouble.
3. Tonight… buggy. After the turnaround, your suspicions are confirmed. Tonight, a good trip is coming (and not exactly by car).
4. Things are coming. When you want to create hype and announce that something new is going to happen on that roller coaster of emotions that is your life. Ironically or not, that's up to each individual's taste.
5. Send nudes. The most graphic and most sought-after sexting. It is the informal request for you to teach what you don't even teach to best friends.
6. And I say if I mess up. What started as a trend in Instagram stories has now become a strategy to get straight to the point. Basically like the Disneyland fast pass (lots of rides and lots of play).
7. Ontas. Where are you? When they have you on speed dial for a quickie. A caller hangs up or bootycall. Call it what you want, but... at your house or mine?
8. Ghosting. That link that was transparent and turned out to be Casper. Let them leave you approved, with a double blue check... and with half the dignity if you write to them again.
9. Hey, forget it. It is the required message when the person sending it knows that you have not spoken since 1987... or when you have done the ghosting.
10. Simp. A chapas, a fanboy... and a bore too. He is someone with a single mission in life, that of giving you the ears to dip your churro.
11. Hater. A hater, a troll, a rabid hater. Someone who seeks to provoke, offend or take advantage of in the worst of ways.
12. Cancel. The new internet justice. If the famous person on duty turns out to have a golden beak and a dirty mess, the Twitter hordes will launch a cancellation campaign faster than it takes you to search for what happened on Google.
13. What a painting/What a circus. A panorama, a show, a spectacle to put your hands to your head.
14. Don't get scratched. The natural evolution of the 'tranquitron'. So that you stop thinking about it so much, this seems like a Turkish novel.
15. Ok, boomer. If someone is stuck in 1960, keeps talking about “glass generation” and “offended people” or doesn't understand 99% of this dictionary, we can only give you one answer: ok, boomer. Kids don't have time for such a high degree of oxidation.
16. He rents me. What suits you, what you feel like, what you're in the mood for.
17. Mamadísimo/a. That you are stronger than vinegar, period.
18. Facherito. Everything that is cool, that is fashionable and that is a pleasure to see. If they tell you that you look good, it means that you dress great (but you undress better).
19. I can't help it. For when your vital battery runs out or you're down to #$%&€ of everything. We can't take it anymore, for non-bilinguals.
20. Crush. A platonic, but modern love. Your limit is the sky.
21. Stalkear. When you take a good look at your ex's networks, you are stalking like a good Gossip Queen (XOXO, gossip girl).
22. Shippeo. When you put together imaginary folders in your head. Because you knew before anyone else that Bárbara Rey and Chelo García Cortés had... one night... of love.
23. Goals. What we aspire to. It is perfect. It is your life goal. It's your goal. It's your new way of saying that you have healthy envy.
24. Madam, if you want a bag. For the nostalgic, the equivalent of "don't get involved, Charles Boyer" or "herding, which is a gerund."
25. Hasta luego, Maricarmen. Hasta luego, Lucas. Chao, bacalao. Pues eso, que nos piramos ya.
With the language more alive than ever.
25 expressions to realize how language has evolved in the last 25 years (up year, down year). But there are so many words, expressions and memes that have been left out of this list that we are earning a textbook “ok, boomer”.
So we'll have to come back in another 25 (or next month) to make the renewed version. What is clear is that language is alive (although you surely already know that, right?) and, no matter how much our language changes, the objective remains the same: to understand each other. It's a matter of evolving and updating (almost as much as you update Tinder).
PS: Your expressions may give you away from time to time, but not your face. Take care of her.
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