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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl tests Jack’s knowledge of Generation Z slang.
Transcript:
00:00:00
Jack
You’re listening to the A-Z English podcast.
00:00:13
Jack
Welcome to the 80s in English podcast. My name is Jack and I’m here with my co-host social. And today social is going to teach me or quiz me on some Generation Z slang and we’ll see how hip and cool I am and see if I understand any of these.
00:00:35
Jack
So, so so whenever you’re ready.
00:00:38
Xochitl
Jack, I think I think because so many like.
00:00:42
Xochitl
Words or phrases and saying like goes start to become recycled. Over the years I’m I’m getting the feeling you might know some of these.
00:00:52
Xochitl
But we’ll give it our best.
00:00:53
Jack
What about hip and cool and my hip?
00:00:56
Xochitl
No, we’ll give it our best shot anyway.
00:01:01
Xochitl
OK, no cap. Do you know what the meaning of no cap is?
00:01:05
Jack
Oh, no cab.
00:01:08
Xochitl
And I can use it in a sentence if you want me to.
00:01:12
Jack
Oh, you know what? I just looked this up the other day because I I heard it and I don’t know what it I I couldn’t remember what it mean. What it means. No, no cap means.
00:01:22
Jack
No, no, I’m sorry I’m confusing it with mid.
00:01:26
Jack
UM.
00:01:29
Jack
No cap.
00:01:31
Jack
Gosh, I knew this one. Can you use it in?
00:01:33
Jack
A sentence give me a hint.
00:01:34
Xochitl
Yeah, this would be. I think it’ll make it easy for you to tell no cap so.
00:01:37
Jack
OK.
00:01:44
Xochitl
Jack, your beanie looks really cool. No cap.
00:01:49
Jack
Ohh no cap.
00:01:52
Jack
It means I’m. I’m like, serious, no joking.
00:01:56
Xochitl
Yes. No lie or like for real. That’s what it means.
00:01:59
Jack
For real. OK, what? What is? Where does it come from? What’s the?
00:02:03
Xochitl
What’s the etymology behind no cap? I actually don’t know. I’m going to look it up. No cap thermology.
00:02:09
Jack
OK.
00:02:11
Jack
No cap.
00:02:13
Xochitl
Its origin in reference to caps for teeth that can be removed and therefore are considered inauthentic.
00:02:20
Jack
Ah, OK.
00:02:24
Jack
Interesting. So this is very much like.
00:02:27
Jack
In the.
00:02:29
Jack
The culture of young people like Generation Z. Yeah. If I said this to my father. I’m like dad. I love you. No, cap. He would be like.
00:02:33
Xochitl
Oh yeah.
00:02:39
Jack
I love you too, son, and I don’t know what you’re talking about. You know, it’s, uh, we. I’ve never heard that expression. But I I have heard it before, but I didn’t know what it meant. So you just taught me a new one there. No cap.
00:02:54
Xochitl
No camp, OK?
00:02:56
Xochitl
The next one is Ritz R.
00:03:00
Xochitl
IZZZ.
00:03:09
Jack
OK. Is is that the sound that a race car makes, races, races.
00:03:16
Jack
Not even close, right, Riz, Riz.
00:03:21
Jack
Uh, I I I don’t even think I can guess this one. I have no idea what riz means.
00:03:30
Xochitl
You have no idea what it is.
00:03:31
Xochitl
Means at all.
00:03:34
Jack
It’s riz, riz.
00:03:36
Jack
I know what a whiz whiz like a smart person, a whiz, he’s a math whiz, is that which makes sense, no?
00:03:43
Xochitl
No, I would say I’ll use it. You want me to use it in a sentence?
00:03:48
Jack
Yeah, sure. Give me a hint.
00:03:50
Xochitl
Will Smith has a mad riz.
00:03:57
Jack
Riz hatred.
00:03:59
발표자 3
No, no. Oh my God. No, it’s not respecting either. I’ve never seen someone fail so miserably. I’m sorry.
00:04:04
Jack
Adoration. Respect. Ohh respect, riz.
00:04:15
Jack
I I’ve I have no idea. It’s it really. Does it sounds like I mean, the closest I could guess would be like mad props.
00:04:27
Xochitl
No, it’s riz. Me is short for charisma.
00:04:29
Jack
OK.
00:04:33
Jack
Ohh Madrid. OK mad riz. He’s got a lot of charisma.
00:04:41
Jack
Mad. Riz. Wow. OK, OK.
00:04:47
Xochitl
It’s short for charisma, and it comes from black culture, just like most of these slang terms do.
00:04:53
Jack
Right.
00:04:55
Jack
The and the.
00:04:55
Jack
Funny thing about these.
00:04:56
Jack
These kinds of this kind of slang is that like 10 or 15 years later, you’ll hear it used on the news and stuff like that.
00:05:04
Jack
Like they it cycles through the culture and it it comes out the top where stuffy white collared shirt, you know, they’re perfect. Hair parted. Reporters are using this slang 15 years later. But anyway, that’s a side note.
00:05:04
발표자
Right.
00:05:23
Xochitl
Yeah. The last one I have for you, I think you.
00:05:25
Xochitl
Have a better chance of guessing this one.
00:05:29
Jack
OK.
00:05:35
Jack
It’s so funny.
00:05:36
Jack
Is that Scooby’s cousin, Chucky Scooby.
00:05:39
Xochitl
No. Isn’t this that Scrappy, scrappy?
00:05:42
Jack
It is crappy. Crappy too, yeah.
00:05:44
Xochitl
Yeah, it is.
00:05:45
Xochitl
You know what you you mean don’t.
00:05:47
Xochitl
You I mean.
00:05:48
Jack
Chuggy chuggy chuggy chuggy chuggy this gum is chuggy.
00:05:55
발표자 3
No, this is so.
00:05:56
Jack
Have nothing to do with chewing. OK, gates.
00:05:59
발표자 3
Funny, you want me to try to use it.
00:06:03
Xochitl
In a sentence or.
00:06:04
Xochitl
You want to get it again.
00:06:05
Jack
Should I keep I?
00:06:06
Jack
Mean this is must be just torture for you listening to this old man trying to understand this young people slang.
00:06:14
Jack
Chuggy Chuggy Chuggy something is chuggy it is.
00:06:22
발표자
I I don’t even.
00:06:23
Jack
Know I I don’t know where to start. I mean like Riz makes sense because it’s charisma, you know, like that. I can. I can see where I missed that one. But Chucky.
00:06:34
Jack
Like a Choo Choo train? I don’t know. I I have no idea. I’m. I’m lost. You got to use it in a sentence.
00:06:41
Jack
Give me a hint.
00:06:42
Xochitl
Wearing Ugg boots with a short Jean skirt is so chuggy.
00:06:48
Jack
Ohh out of fashion.
00:06:51
Xochitl
Yes, Jack, you got it. It’s like out of fashion trying too hard, the opposite of trendy or like styles that have, yeah, cycle through and are in the past. Yeah.
00:07:03
Jack
OK, so so like my understanding of slang is chuggy.
00:07:07
Xochitl
Yeah. Yes, kind of, yeah. You can use it that way, I guess. Yeah, we’re, you know, yeah, like old 2000, like frosted tips or tuggy.
00:07:17
Jack
Yeah, those jeans are.
00:07:19
Jack
Yeah, those jeans are chuggy or whatever. Don’t wear that shirt. It’s chuggy something.
00:07:24
Xochitl
Yeah. Yeah. Two. Yeah. And it’s kind of it’s associated. It’s a little bit. It’s like parallel to tacky, but it doesn’t really mean the same thing. It’s kind of like trends that were overdone and are out of style now.
00:07:25
Jack
OK.
00:07:41
Jack
Yeah. Yeah, like you’re you’re missing it by like, one. One step. You know, you’re one step behind.
00:07:42
Xochitl
So it’s like a little parallel.
00:07:48
Jack
Kind of the the the fashion curve.
00:07:49
Xochitl
The times, yeah.
00:07:51
Jack
Or whatever. Yeah, I understand what you mean.
00:07:54
Jack
It’s not like.
00:07:55
Jack
It’s not like, totally ridiculously bad, but it’s just like it’s a miss like.
00:08:00
Xochitl
Yeah, like it’s just out of trend with the time period and.
00:08:07
Xochitl
Yeah. That’s like a Tuscan.
00:08:09
Xochitl
Kitchen in a modern home.
00:08:12
Xochitl
Like this Tuscan kitchen trend that would be two geeks. That was from like the early 2000s, you know?
00:08:17
Jack
Right, OK. That would be chuggy. Yeah, I’m trying to think of something else, like, yeah, sure. **** carpeting.
00:08:25
Xochitl
Yeah, **** carpeting could be chuggy or.
00:08:31
Xochitl
Blue Eye Shadow could be chuggy they do it.
00:08:35
Xochitl
Like frosted chips.
00:08:35
Jack
I’m sure every every pair of jeans I own are are chuggy. I’m sure, yeah.
00:08:41
Xochitl
Yeah, probably chuggy my close from middle school is chuggy now, so it is what it is. Yeah, it’s like.
00:08:47
Jack
I I’m just.
00:08:48
Jack
Waiting for it. If you wait long enough, chuggy becomes on chuggy.
00:08:53
Jack
It becomes transient. Yeah. You just have to hold out, yeah.
00:08:53
Xochitl
Right. You got popular again. Yeah, I’m waiting. We’ll see. All right, Jeff. Well, those are our slang terms for this time around the Gen. Z slang. If any of our listeners want to make sure to.
00:09:09
Xochitl
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00:09:22
Xochitl
And yeah, I’m excited to hear what you guys think about these slang terms and if you’d like us to continue this segment, let us know and we’ll see you guys.
00:09:29
Xochitl
Next time, bye bye.
00:09:30
Jack
Bye bye.
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