myrmepropagandistIf you had asked me as a teen "Someday when you are in your 40s what kind of baffling things do you think the teens of the future will say?"
I might have made many guesses but I can tell you right now "Stay hydrated" was not on that list.
I was really counting on teens being a lot more cyberpunk than they turned out. Where are the borg goggles? The electric tattoos?
"stay hydrated???"
I am disappointed.
What is some lingo you used as a teen that now feel kind of cringe looking back?
I said "totally radical" and "gnarly" despite being from Ohio and never having touched a surf board as a teen. I can own up to that now. It's growth.
Quinn Norton@futurebird it's not the lingo, it's the valley girl accent I deliberately trained myself out of. So I could do things like get a job 😂
Charles ☭ 
is a GreenTubular, dude!
Moriel 🏳️⚧️Not as a teen, but rather until I was about ten i was obsessed with "far out". I thought it was really far out!
Bjørnar (he/him)@futurebird not really teen lingo, but I was very attached to a phrase including mild toxic masculinity, misogyny and homophobia. I never used it or heard it used any way but ironically, but that doesn't make it less cringe.
Ehay2kDuuuuuuuude.
Kim@futurebird "Mega" was a thing in my late tweens / early teens. It's notable that its brief popularity with the youth was insignificant compared to its lengthy tenure in marketing. 'Megarider' (the term for a bus season ticket that was cringe when it first came out) has somehow passed through cringe to quaint and is on a trajectory for nostalgic. I like to think that there's someone in Stagecoach's marketing department with fluorescent pink/yellow socks and a Global Hypercolor T-shirt.
smells of bikes@futurebird "dude" and because I hung out with a bunch of "oh I spent a semester in Australia" types, oh that's brilliant"
oh no. I'm remembering how I loved using the UK pronunciation of a ton of words because I thought it was classy.
I said "A to Zed" ... I sometimes slip up and still do... but it's not on purpose.
(to be fair to me I did live there for a year... but I laid it on pretty hard. it was terrible. )
@futurebird I do this so much that @MLE_online openly mocks me for doing so, and rightfully so.
Emily Velasco@smellsofbikes @futurebird you should go back to saying dude in place of of the Britishisms
@MLE_online @futurebird I say, dude, it's aluminium don't you know.
@smellsofbikes @futurebird there's nothing cringey about dude, so be proud of your dudealect
Michael K Johnson@futurebird @smellsofbikes I've liked "zed" pretty much since I first heard it, but couldn't bring myself to use it. Then I became a ham and learned that in the ham radio community, "zed" is normal. So now I've finally given in and started saying it in normal conversation sometimes, because code switching is tiring, and besides, I like it!
James Widman@futurebird @smellsofbikes they also say "zed" in canada though, and in all other commonwealth countries.
And in all or nearly-all languages that use the latin alphabet:
italian: zèta
spanish: zeta
french: zède
german: zet
...etc
So "zed" is correct, and "zee" is the weirdo american.
@futurebird "dude" and because I hung out with a bunch of "oh I spent a semester in Australia" types, "oh that's brilliant"
@futurebird this was just a bit before teen but "nertz" and I said it so much mom put me on a one use a day rule.
Flaming Cheeto
esc key@futurebird I used to say “swank!” instead of like “cool!” That is a bit painful to remember…
Cheetah Fluff@futurebird I use those now in my 30s because they're fun. It gets me lots of raised eyebrows from people younger and older than me, and that's what's so fun about it!
@futurebird though I usually just stick to "rad" 
Josh 
@futurebird nah, all the slang from my teenage years was hella tight.
Well, except for the homophobic and misogynistic stuff, that was whack.
Galactic Stone@futurebird Cool beans. I can't believe that was a thing.
dragonfrog@futurebird Lingo? Nothing really - using slang that seems dated now is just part of growing up.
Conduct? Oh for sure - I was a little shit in a lot of ways.