At 06:13 PM 7/27/03 +0100, Jane Partridge wrote: >Anyone any ideas of possible additions to (UK) teenage vocabulary?
I'd like to know whether anyone has ideas for unearthly teenage vocabulary. I'm sort of writing a fantasy story -- at one point a sixteen-year-old witch enters a sewing room filled with student wisewomen. One of the girls exclaims "What a groovy gown!" (It's a perma-press print, very exotic in fantasyland.) But of course she can't say groovy or swelligant or rad or far out. And every time I try a synonym for something teenagers really say, it's either something already in use or something that doesn't sound teenagery at all. Maybe I'll spell "awesome" phonetically and say she picked it up from the witch. Or have her call it the witch-beast's jama suit and hope no reader is old enough to recognize it. -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it is sunny and warm. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
