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GOTTA KNOWDA LINGO

Yikes, am I out of it. I can’t translate what my senior teenager says lots of times.

She just got her ears pierced for the first time and is enjoying buying earrings now, a new accessory. The other day, she showed me some dangly ones.

“They have the indie emo,” she said.

I nodded – big fake that I am. Finally, I had to ask:

“WHAT THE HECK IS AN ‘INDIE EMO’?”

I was thinking of Indiana Jones on an emu, but I knew that couldn’t be it.

“Indie” is short for independent label music, which apparently is more creative and avant garde than the usual head-banger stuff.

“Emo” is short for emotion, mood, style or genre.

I guess I’ve got that “nerd emo” going. At least it’s familiar to me.