boomerspeak

alternative Boomerspeak

1. informaluncountableThe style of language characteristic of baby boomers.

   Your grandparents probably told you not to burn your bridges. In Boomerspeak, that means not telling people off just for the sake of telling them off.

   2009, Jim Finkelstein, Mary Gavin, Fuse: Making Sense of the New Cogenerational Workplace, Austin, T.X.: Greenleaf Book Group Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 152

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   Take away my right to try something you see as "unhealthy" (which is just Boomerspeak for "indecent") – and you're taking away the texture, the essence, of life itself.

   2003 May 1, Johanna Huden, “The Boomers' Clampdown”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2024

   Many of these pieces had been around before, but as boomerspeak, they crystallized into a genre ripe for parody. Boomerspeak's canonical features include the dot dot dot, repeated commas, and the period at the end of a text message. It can also involve random mid-sentence capitalization, typing in all caps, double-spacing after a period, signing your name at the end of a text message, and confusion between the face with tears of joy emoji and the loudly crying emoji.

   2019 December 20, Gretchen McCulloch, “’Boomerspeak’ Is Now Available for Your Parodying Pleasure”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2023

   Essentially, the posts mimic "boomerspeak", or the way that baby boomers – defined as those born between the mid-1940s and the mid-1960s – are perceived to communicate online, combined with the often nonsensical and deliberately ironic memes so beloved of Gen-Z.

   2021 November 4, Adam England, “How Spencer, The Crown and the internet turned Princess Diana into a Gen-Z queen”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2022

   Synonyms: boomerese

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of boomerspeak.