It's hard to workout what the young are saying
what they are trying to convey?
we are both using the same language
but they use it in a different way!
They use the same words as I do
but in a context, at odds, with mine
the words sound the same but their usage
is something, that I must, redefine
"Cringe" - means embarrassingly tacky
"sick - is now high praise
will these meanings enter the dictionary
or is it just, a short, passing phase?
If that wasn't enough there's text speak
tapped on the screens of their phone
they can make up a sentence just from letters
they live in a world of their own!
"F-Y-I" 'for your information'
"I-C-Y-M-I"
'in case you missed it' "L-M-A-O"
'laugh my arse off' - no word of a lie!
Apparently languages do evolve
and history has given it's view
thank goodness we don't speak like Shakespeare
"This above all, to thine own self
be true!"
I don't speak like my Grandparents did
and I'm sure that,
neither,
do you!
