What's a slang age? How your words date you
Your slang age is how old your words sound, not how old you are. Every generation's words carry a timestamp, and English even has a phrase for showing yours: dating yourself. "Okey-dokey" belongs to one era, "on fleek" to another, and a row of skull emojis to the one after that. You can't hide the timestamp, because you don't notice you're leaving it. That's why "OK boomer" took off, and why millennials got roasted for the crying-laughing emoji.
Old-speak has its classics. Parents sprinkle "..." through every text and warn that you'll "catch your death" in the cold. They say a friend sounds "like a broken record" and that "all this used to be fields." Millennials have their own fossils: "YOLO," "adulting," "Is it Facebook official?" Younger speakers reply "bet," call a hopeless situation "cooked," and laugh with a skull instead of a crying-laughing face.
This test never asks how old you are. It follows one weekend trip with three friends in 12 scenes. It starts with an 87-message group chat and ends with a video of you asleep, mouth open. In each scene, you pick what you'd actually say. Your answers add up to a slang age across 6 levels, from 16 to 55. In Korea, the idea went viral as "Young Creator Crew" vs "Old Creator Crew," after K-pop group CORTIS's song YOUNGCREATORCREW. Landing on the old side isn't an insult. Old-school talk has a way of putting people at ease. Post your result in the group chat and compare.