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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Maddy Mussen

I'm a Gen Z and I fear we've all forgotten how to talk properly

“Kamala is so brat.” ”Starmer is serving cagoule.” “It’s giving non-summer.” “He has no rizz.” “Oh, I’ve heard he’s a sigma?” “The Piccadilly line is a bop, the Victoria line is so based.”

Hi, I’m a Gen Z and I speak in tongues. So does everyone else I know. And we don’t really care if you don’t understand it, in fact we like it, because that means you’re not in on the joke. 

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