Playground slang

[llmod1]

Going to be doing an assembly on Thursday about language and am planning to look at phrases through the ages (Shakespeare, cockney rhyming slang, 60's speak, etc.)

I have been looking online for a dictionary of 80's playground speak but can't find a good one.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Failing that any words or phrases that I could share with the kids.

[jakartajive]

You'll be wanting one of these, Mark.
One of the well baddest books ever writ.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cassell-Dict.../dp/0304351679

[babycart]

You can spend days on here

It can get a bit unpleasant at times, but then, lets face it, so can 12 year old kids.

[jakartajive]

is you nang, Mark?

[babycart]

is you nang, Mark?

"I have brought along a copy of the NME"

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[bongolia]

do kids still say 'gaylord'?

[BestDressedChicken]

is you nang, Mark?

A story I heard which *should* be true, if it actually isn't re. the origins of "Nang" to refering to things really cool, amazing etc. Allegedly, it was the name of an incredibly fit Vietnamese girl who went to a school in Dalston.

I always think of the word "bare" - as a kind of intensifer, I guess - is a kind of generational marker.

[jakartajive]

A story I heard which *should* be true, if it actually isn't re. the origins of "Nang" to refering to things really cool, amazing etc. Allegedly, it was the name of an incredibly fit Vietnamese girl who went to a school in Dalston.

I always think of the word "bare" - as a kind of intensifer, I guess - is a kind of generational marker.

As in the bare cheek of it?

That'll be my nan's generation, then!

[jakartajive]

Just when you think you're getting down with the kids . . .



. . . the Saatchis go and fuck it all up by co-opting whatever residue of cool you may have managed to accrue into the air-kissing ironic nouveau mainstream smugfest that is White Cube.

[vladislav]

Donk,gonk,ging,gang,nang,goolie,watcha. vladislav

[Hooded Claw]

Probably more early nineties than eighties but I remember:

Umm errrr! - If someone had done something they were going to get in trouble for.

Billy - to be used while stroking your chin if someone is obviously lying

I also remember loads of names for marbles, which was a big craze when I was at middle school (one of the few counties still with a three teir system):

steelsy
Jumbo
Galaxy
Catseye
Spotted Dick
Milky

....I'm sure there were more.

[ashra]

Umm errrr! - If someone had done something they were going to get in trouble for.

I think a study of regional variations of 'you're going to be in trouble..' noise would be very interesting.

Where I grew up it was Ahhh ahhh ahh ahh ahhhh, one of my friends moved to St Ives and revealed that locally it was HUMMm mmmm mmm mmm mmmmm, but to the same melody