{"id":24844,"date":"2011-02-26T11:39:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T11:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/02\/26\/how-to-communicate-with-your-t\/"},"modified":"2011-02-26T11:39:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T11:39:23","slug":"how-to-communicate-with-your-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/26\/how-to-communicate-with-your-t\/","title":{"rendered":"How to communicate with your teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"

First of all, it is not “your<\/em> teenager” and if that is how you view the teenager, you’ve totally lost. Second, remember the ultimate truth that you knew when you were a teenager and that “your” teenager knows now: Teenagers know things that adults don’t understand. Most adults think this is something you “grow out of” but really, it is something that is ruined by getting old. So just keep that in mind.<\/p>\n

But that isn’t really what I wanted to blog about.<\/p>\n

I was just sent this post<\/a> on “how to speak teenage” (which should really be called teenagerese) and as an anthropologist (who studies rocks) I have decided that I can do better. So here are parts of the original posts with my corrections.<\/p>\n

In each case, there is the phrase (the thing the teenager says) and its definition followed by the response recommended by the Yahoo site which I shall call “Yahoo-ese.” My correction are in italics<\/em>.
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\n1. ) “Whatever”<\/strong><\/p>\n