Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for January 05, 2024

Sorry Darryl I believe, Zoe has a valid point. Wanda needs to use words that kids of today will understand.

So you learned a new word!

A little outdated?

It is so old it is a Dad word.

If she’s talking about an old person’s hands, say, gnarly is fine. If it’s the old slang word, then avoid. In general, slang doesn’t age well in children’s books.

You said it was for 9 year olds.

My son is 9 and he uses the word “mid” to describe certain things. “Mom, green beans aren’t good or bad. They’re kind of mid” Uhh, thanks, I think?

Sucks to grow old.

At least she did not write ‘groovy’!

Wanda could still use the word, but then, that would be “gnarly!”

Commentator on WWE uses it a lot to describe a bad fall

Gen Z ++ stumbles on the millennial language, just as the millennials stumbled on the Boomer language

Dad looks flabbergasted.

Why would gnarly be in a kids’ book anyway?

Funny

And like just what is WRONG w/ “Gnarly”, like, fer shuuurrrr!!!!

I mean, even making up slang doesn’t quite work – look at the phrases made up for “West Side Story”!

I remember when “gnarly” was the new slang — and I wasn’t all that young myself then!

As much as Zoe is right, her delivery needs work.

Nah, Zoe, you’re just unwilling to expand your vocabulary to a different way of speaking.

That’s not a word I’ve hear anyone say in my lifetime.

I say gnarly at least thrice per fortnight.

“Gnarly” is an interesting word in that it has contradictory senses.

Zoe also objects to ancient phrases such as “Clean Your Room”

Fur sure, fur sure, he’s a Valley Boy.

Bummer! “Gnarly” was such a cool word too! Alas…

Learning an outdated slang can be cool dude. I could dig it.

I barely have google down. What is gnarly?……

Zoe, Zoe, Zoe, that is the whole point, to broaden ones vocabulary, to expand ones mind and to challenge one intellectually.

It’s nifty – really neat.

Yeah, hate to say it, but it makes more sense to use modern slang instead of our gen’s slang (any gen except the modern one). It’s silly and a lot of them don’t make sense, but just as normalized “grody” and made “sick” into something good, they did too.

Fire, lit, no cap, for real, cap, slay, ect

Using the proper King’s English is always an option too, you know.

Brat.

Extreme Laugh Out Loud here!!!