Today I realized that my vernacular is positively absurd. I'm like a sponge, just absorbing everything that I come across. I'm currently obsessed with Skins, a teen television drama from the UK, so these weird British terms keep slipping in. In the dining hall a few days ago I actually said, "Oggie Oggie Oggie! Oi! Oi! Oi!!" When did I become a British footballer? Yeah, never. I have no business chanting such things. Especially not in a dining hall.I also never retire my weird slangs. Remember in 2003 when people (mostly from California, I believe) said "Holla" ? Well I still do. As in, "I just found a quarter on the floor! HOLLA!" (For the record, no one has ever "hollered back") I also still say "neato", "Sweet!", and "Whoa!" a la Uncle Jesse. Do cool kids still say "cool"? I don't think so. I certainly know they don't say "cool beans" or "cool kids" for that matter.
I think I could be forgiven if I used these terms ironically, but I don't. And most of my outdated slang is still too recent to be ironic anyway. This year, I think I'll try to adopt some cockney slang, just to thoroughly frustrate my poor buddies.