"Cool" Teen-Talk Leaves Adults In The Dark

"Cool" Teen-Talk Leaves Adults In The Dark
December 27, 1953
December 1953
Middletown, Ohio
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Strictly Frantic, Man (With the assistance and vocabularies of W.P. Lawson and Sam Fugate, Middletown High School; Janice Gehorn, Monroe High; and a number of other unintelligible youngsters.) Middletown parents who chance to discover, absorb and mull over the following confidential words are fervently urged to keep their mouths shut. For teen-talk disappears as soon as it can be understood. That is the language’s essence. And as soon as local teenagers find their parents are "hip", they will give the jargon a thorough going over, making all information contained here thoroughly useless. One Columbia University professor has described the youngster’s lingo as a "mystery vocabulary born of a desire to be unintelligible to the elder generation." If parents walk about the house shouting, "Dig you later, alligator,” the boys and girls will just have to discover something far worse to scream...
Strictly Frantic, Man (With the assistance and vocabularies of W.P. Lawson and Sam Fugate, Middletown High School; Janice Gehorn, Monroe High; and a number of other unintelligible youngsters.) Middletown parents who chance to discover, absorb and mull over the following confidential words are fervently urged to keep their mouths shut. For teen-talk disappears as soon as it can be understood. That is the language’s essence. And as soon as local teenagers find their parents are "hip", they will give the jargon a thorough going over, making all information contained here thoroughly useless. One Columbia University professor has described the youngster’s lingo as a "mystery vocabulary born of a desire to be unintelligible to the elder generation." If parents walk about the house shouting, "Dig you later, alligator,” the boys and girls will just have to discover something far worse to scream...
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