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Article: In the age of acronyms, do you know what your kids are saying?
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- Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA)
- Article date:
- June 8, 2007
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Byline: Erika Chavez
SANTA ANA, Calif. _ Parenting a "tween" has always been tricky.
They're on the cusp of adolescence, so it can be hard to understand the things they do ... and now, what they say can be just as mysterious.
To wit: "OMG, I was JK!"
Translation: "Oh my god, I was just kidding!"
Frances Biemann and her friends have been known to talk like this.
"We say `IDK,' that's kind of like a word now, too," said Frances, a 12-year-old middle school student. (Stumped? IDK means "I don't know.")