There are a lot of things that the newest generations are getting right. They have been weaned on computers and coding is in their bloodstream.
While I may not tap my toes to all of the latest hip-hop beats, there have been vast innovations in music since the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane & Bob Marley.
But I recently came across this list of words in the English language that are becoming lost to the generations.
I admit that some of them are already lost to me as well. Absquatulate!? Never heard of it. I mean it's not even familiar to me.
Many of these words were normal everyday words in my time, and the times of my parents. I mean, c'mon... Balderdash, Cahoots, Flabbbergast, Doohicky, Poppycock!? These were commonplace. I remember using the word "catastrophic" in front of a girlfriend once (a college graduate, btw) and she looked at me askance and said "Now you're just making up words!".
We're, slowly but surely losing the English language. My father-in-law had a favourite word - Sesquepedalian. I'll let you look it up.
by the way... that word in my graphic at the top? Hippopotomonstrosesquippedsliophopia is a fear of long words.
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