7 days ago
Think you know Gen Z slang? Gen Alpha has a whole new language
W hat is the meaning of six-seven? This is the question of the hour, asked in countless Google searches by people trying to decipher the sayings of Gen Alpha, the generation born after 2010. I could Google it too, but you can't trust the engine these days.
Better to make like an etymological Philip Marlowe and collar a few Alphas to see if they will talk. Then see if you can understand it. There are several in my house. 'What does sixty-seven mean?' I ask them.
They have no idea but think it might be rude. I think the same thing. There's a Martin Amis novel where a teenager asks a girl for a sixty-eight. 'You do me and I owe you one,' he says. I guess it's something like that.
