Do you know the meaning of any of the following?
Cooked
Salty
Banger
Tweaking
Chat
If you knew they meant “in trouble,” “rude,” “awesome,” “going mad,” and “mate” you’re probably a teenage girl (or working with teenage girls.
Language changes… a lot. I was reading an article on the ABC news the other day about linguistics. Basically, if you want to know the future of the English language, look at what teenage girls say, because that will become the norm in another half a generation, give or take.
This tells us something very important about how we communicate God’s love to the people around us. We cannot stick with the language we have always known, because that changes. If we want to communicate love effectively, we need to keep learning to understand the language of the day so we can make it easy to understand. There is no point using our words if those words have a very different meaning.