AEE 2053: Were You Today Years Old When You Learned this English Slang?

This is an All-Ears English Podcast episode 2053. Were you today, years old, when you learned this English slang? Welcome to the All-Ears English Podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the Isles Wiz, and Lindsey McMahon, the English adventurer. Coming to you from Arizona and Colorado, USA. To get real-time transcripts right on your phone and create your personalized vocabulary list, try the All-Ears English app for iOS and Android. Start your seven-day free trial at allyoursenglish.com forward slash app. Have you not kept up with new English slang? That's a choice. Today we share three new English slang phrases that will add color and playfulness to your conversations so you can connect with people of any generation. Hey, Aubrey, how's it going? I'm great, Lindsey. How are you? I'm doing pretty well today. It's a hot summer day, so yeah, what's up in your world? What are we getting into today? I have a really fun question for you. Okay. What is something that you learned recently that surprised you? That maybe you should have known before and you were surprised. Oh my gosh, our listeners probably know if they are dedicated listeners of all-Ears English. A few episodes ago, I think it was episode 2027. We were talking about the term three-peat. And because I was so immersed in tennis as a kid growing up, I watched so much U.S. Open tennis pizza brews. They always used the word repeat when they talked about him, you know, winning three grand slams or three something. I don't know, three of the tournaments. And I figured, oh, it's about Pete Samperes. That whole expression is all about Pete Samperes. Three people don't even know who Pete Samperes is. Right, who is Pete Samperes, by the way? Yes, he's a famous tennis player. And yeah, he won these sets. It's very rare for that to happen with the women's world cup. They were thinking, oh, maybe the U.S. would get a three-peat, right? It actually is like a version of repeat. So it's not just about Pete Samperes. I would still say it's cooler, though, because it is cooler. Samperes, it's a double, you know, double meaning there, but anyways, yes, I should have known that. Yeah, I should have known. I thought that might be your answer. And this came up because I was going over the transcripts to pull keywords for our app. And I saw this. And right after you found out about that, I said, you were today years old when you learned that three-peat is not about Pete Samperes. And then we didn't talk about it more. I said, oh, that should be an episode. Because this is really interesting, fun, new slang that I hear all the time. And I started googling and looking into some other fun slang expressions that I'm hearing a lot on TV, on podcasts. Lots of people are starting to say them. And so we want to teach these today so you guys can use them. And you'll understand them when you hear them. Yeah, we want to make sure you guys stay up to date with the most recent English, right? This is something textbooks can't update you on things like this, because these are new expressions coming up every month. Right? And we are tuned into different generations here on our team. Right, I'll bring you talk to your kids, teenagers, all sorts of different ages. So we're coming to you with real English. Yes. And we're not just teaching you slang that only teenagers use. And you shouldn't use. No, there is a lot of slang that my teenagers use that if I say it, they're like, oh, mom, no. You can't say that if you're over like 16, right? We're not going to teach you that slang. We're teaching you saying that we use that. We hear a lot on podcasts that's being adopted into the vernacular. Yes. And if there is something, you know, we'll let you know the difference between if something does come up, we'll let you know. But first, guys, in order to get all these awesome updates on current slang, what do our listeners have to do, Aubrey, to make sure to hit follow. Yes, on all your English here. We have so many great episodes for episodes every week, which is unheard of. I find that very impressive that we're able to do that every week. We're amazing. We're amazing. So hit follow on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, Amazon Music. Wherever you listen, there's going to be a follow button somewhere. So find it right now, guys, and hit that button. Okay, I'm excited Aubrey here to get into our first slang that is as modern as it gets. What is it? It's so true. Yeah, so this is to say your today, years old. And this indicates that something happens later than expected, right? It's usually a discovery or a realization. It means the same as I should have known this for years, but I'm just realizing it today. And this is actually a fun conversation that you could have. It's a great conversation opener when you're getting close to someone, right? You talk about how you were a little naive as a kid maybe, right? Or even up until now, rather, right? Absolutely. And naive about something. Because it's a little bit of vulnerability you're giving away, but just enough to kind of make you endearing to the other person. So it's a great setup for connection, Aubrey here. I agree so much. And every now and then, I'm in a conversation with someone where they'll sort of pretend that they did it that they knew. And you know, and I'm like, I wish they would have instead just embraced it. Yeah, they're proud a little. And we could have made a joke about it. That's, I always opt for that. I'm like, I'm happy to admit. Like, I'm just realizing something. Yes, well, this is true. Actually, we can do another episode. And this is true for a lot of, this would make a really funny episode song. So where we thought something was being said. Even up until now. Absolutely, song lyrics. That happens to me all the time. So funny. We just, we're not legally allowed to sing the song. So what we could do is we could probably finesse that a little bit and bring in some of the lyrics. And you know, say what we thought it was. And that has to share a very quick story when I was an exchange student in Southern France. I won't sing the song, but the other kids were listening to a song by the cranberries. And they were like, what does it mean when she says the letters E-O-A? And I was like, what do you mean? And they're like, E-O-A. And I was like, oh, she's saying in your head. And they were like, what? They were sure it was the letters E-O-A. I'm like, it's just so funny. This happens to all of us with song lyrics. You just miss here. Not sure what the words are. Oh, it's hilarious. We could figure out how to make an episode on that. I think we, if we try. So guys, hit follow. You'll get some really cool stuff here. But let's get some examples for our listeners here. For sure. Of today year's old. So you might say he was today year's old when he realized Nol is spelled with a silent K. And this just happened to be two days ago. I was playing a game called Boggle where you shake up these letter dice and make all these words. And my cousin wrote. And he's older than I even. And he wrote Nol and O-L-L. I was like, oh, that has a K. That has a silent K. And he didn't believe me. We had to look in the dictionary. It happens. It happens. Or I imagine that could happen with the word Nol, too. It's with a G, right? A silent K. Absolutely. Those silent letters are so tricky on the front of it. It makes no sense. No sense. We don't know. Anyways, guys, okay. So that's a perfect example, right? When he was today years old, he just figured that out. Here's another example. I was today years old when I discovered how easily you can die hiking in the desert. Oh, gosh. Oh, gosh, I'll bring. So you're saying you just had a little while ago. Yes, I did. I just had an experience where I just didn't have enough water in the desert. So I could have said this after the hike. I was today years old when I realized I should have brought a gallon of water on this hike. Oh, my God. All right. So guys, you know, keep listening. We're going to share our number two example of the slang. And then you're going to hear these again in a mini roleplay today. We're baking the role plays right into the middle of the episode today. Good stuff. So Aubrey, what's next for number two? All right, so number two is that's a choice. And this is a very fun lighthearted way to indicate that you disapprove of something. I hear this all the time now. So let's do a mini roleplay. So because this is very much in response to what someone else says. Yeah, we need some precision on the tone of voice here. So we'll let you chime in. Here we go. So I'm pretty catch up on my eggs. I love it that way. That's a choice. So what it means is like you or like I disagree. I think it's gross. It's a more fun lighthearted way to be like you do you. I wouldn't do that for myself, right? You can make that choice. I kind of feel like this message right like you're weird, right? Essentially you're saying you're weird, right? There's always new slang coming up in English to say you're weird. Like you do you. Which is one of them. Like every year, there's a new way to say it. We could build out a whole other episode just on how to say you're weird over the years, right? A lot of it's the new generation coming up that wants to call older people weird, but they want to do it in a fun new way, right? They don't want to use the way the boomers say that someone's weird. So they change it and come up with new stuff. Oh my gosh, that's so funny. Okay, so what is it again, one more time? It's what's the intonation we need to hear? What you're emphasizing that's like if I said that's a choice or something would be strange. It's always that's a choice, right? So that emphasis is on that first word. Your eyes come up maybe a little bit or something. That's a choice. That's a choice. Okay, interesting. Well, I will admit that I am today as old as I'm learning these expressions because these are new for me too. We're today years old when you learned the slang. All right, I'm excited for number three. And I bet our listeners are too. What is it? Okay, it is. I said what I said. And I hear this all the time too. It just means I stand by what I said. I'm not going to change my statement or take it back. So we often use it to emphasize our confidence in a statement and just to declare that we're unwilling to retract it even if we know we're wrong, right? I kind of wonder if this is a riff on it is what it is. Also, very similar. It is what it is. But it's more about a statement I made, right? Someone's going to disagree with me and I'm going to say, I said what I said. Now I'm saying like, this is what I think and I'm not backing down. Yeah, is this common that you would use this with your kids or as a mother of teenagers would use, or when would this be used? Is it about, I hear a lot? I hear a lot. No, it's more informal and fun than that. I hear it a lot on podcasts. I've heard people my age start saying it just because it's so fun. My kids say it a lot. So it's really if you ever, let's do the mini role play and I think that's going to help or you can see what types of statements you would say it to. Okay, yeah, let's do that right now and then we will take a quick break after that role play. So here we go. All right, Aubrey, go for it. All right, the movie knives out is overrated. What? I love that movie. I said what I said. Right? So it's usually this way you make a statement and if someone disagrees with you, especially it will often happen to where like, sometimes people would retract on something that'd be like, okay, you're right. Maybe it wasn't so bad. Instead, you know, you'd be like, I said what I said. I said, I said, I'm not backing down. I did not like it. Yeah, there's something refreshing about it, right? I mean, sometimes we always, we can get tongue twisted at feeling like we have to walk back everything, but there is something nice about just having an opinion and saying it as long as we're being respectful. You know, you have an opinion, you say it. You don't need to kind of bend backwards based on what other people think. That's not an attractive quality for a friend or a partner, right? Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely agree. And this expression is so useful because we also use it to really joke around and really be funny because you'll also use it if someone corrects you or if someone contradicts you and you realize you were wrong. You'll just say it to be funny and be like, I said what I said, right? So for example, if let's say, let's say just as a silly example, you're playing soccer with someone from Europe and they come and they're like, oh, no, this is called football. And you might be like, I said what I said. I said what I said. Like then you're just sort of being funny about like, I know it's football in Europe, but I'm not owning you what I said. I love it. So good. This is so modern, Aubrey. It's so good. So good. Okay, Aubrey. So we are going to finish up today's episode here in just a minute. But first, what do we want to do? Who do we need to say thank you to? Yes, we want to thank our reviewers. We have had so many great reviews left recently. These really make our day. I love seeing those five-star reviews. Sometimes questions are left in reviews, but just always really great messages. So thank you, everyone who's left reviews. Let's give some shout outs. We have Mustafa Hussein from Chad and Ahmad Bagari from Iran. Yeah, and we had a really specific review from Ahmad Toti. This might actually be the Ahmad that I met in Egypt. I'm not sure. It sounds like the same name, but I don't know. We'll find out. So this listener said, one of the best podcasts ever. You made learning English more fun and beneficial for me. I learned a lot from you, thanks. That is beautiful. I love it, Aubrey. So we want to request reviews from you guys. And we do try to read our reviewers names allowed on the show. So go ahead and write your review in Apple Podcasts or Spotify or YouTube. Wherever you want to listen, write your review and we'll try to announce your name on the show. Yeah, absolutely. Also, what a fun episode. These new slang expressions use them, guys, right? Slang is always evolving. And it really helps you connect with speakers, whether the speakers who are learning a language or native English speakers, because it just brings us to a more fun, playful level. Yeah, and it's kind of funny, as I get older, right? And I'm in my early 40s. I've seen over the years, like I'll see Gen Xers still using old slang from the like early 90s. And I kind of roll my eyes, but it's kind of endearing at the same time. It's kind of silly, right? So each of us needs to go. Right, if someone says rad, like rad, no one really says it much anymore, but every now and then just the code will say rad. That's rad. And I love it. I think it is endearing. So yeah, you can use old slang, new slang. It's just so fun to add it to conversation. Yeah, you kind of just have to sort of put together your personal recipe of how much old slang you want to bring in like your legacy slang, so you can connect with your similar generational friends versus how new you want to be. You guys can each decide. That's the cool thing about learning a new language. You can create your own recipe of slang across the decades. Yeah, absolutely. And I have a feeling you guys are going to start hearing these three expressions everywhere. Like on podcast, on TV, on the radio, I hear them a lot. And I think they're the type where if you haven't had them highlighted and really understand what they mean, then maybe you wouldn't notice them. But now that you've learned them, you're going to start noticing them, I think. And I would love for you to come to YouTube and leave a comment, let us know where you heard it and what the context was. Yes. It's just so fun. And then we all learn together. I love it. Let's learn together. Well, I've learned three new slang today, so that's so good for me. All right, I will talk to you very soon on the next episode. You have a good day. Okay? See you next time. Bye. Bye. Thanks for listening to all ears English. Would you like to know your English level? Take our two-minute quiz. Go to all earsenglish.com forward slash fluency score. And if you believe in connection, not perfection, then hit subscribe now to make sure you don't miss anything. See you next time.