If there’s one factor we find out about Gen Alpha, it’s that they low-key enjoyment of coining a brand new phrase (or 5) and the odd nonsensical phrase.
Take six-seven for instance. It grew to become a world phenomenon in 2025 due to social media, nevertheless it didn’t ever actually imply something. Or, no less than, no one may agree on a that means.
Some mentioned it meant “so-so” (as youngsters used it with an up-and-down hand movement), others thought it meant a tall individual, or a basketball time period.
In the long run it simply grew to become a response that youngsters made at each alternative – particularly if somebody (a trainer, dad or mum, classmate) occurred to say these two numbers in a special context.
A trainer may say “flip to web page 67 in your books”, for instance, and the classroom would erupt into “six-sevennnnnn”.
This disruption finally led to the phrase being banned in some school rooms.
Fortunately the weird phrase appears to have fizzled out, however lecturers and fogeys are noticing that “lowkenuinely” has entered the chat as a substitute.
What does lowkenuinely imply?
Lowkenuinely is a mixture of ‘lowkey’ and ‘genuinely’, which describes expressing one thing honest in an off-the-cuff, laid-back means, in accordance with specialists at language platform Preply.
Primarily, it’s a TikTok-era means of claiming one thing is actual or heartfelt. So, an instance is perhaps: “I lowkenuinely love this music” or “I’m lowkenuinely not going to make it by way of this examination”.
Children of the web clearly love a portmanteau (that’s, mixing two phrases collectively to create a brand new one).
Choppelganger is one other latest creation scorching off their keyboards, combining ‘chopped’, usually utilized by teenagers to explain somebody as ugly; and ‘doppelganger’, which is an individual who resembles another person.
A choppelganger, then, is an uglier model of a doppelganger. One dad or mum famous their youngsters had referred to them as “Uncle Fester’s Choppelganger”. Harsh.
There’s additionally been chat, clock it and glazing, in addition to aura farming and crash out. Actually, they’ve been busy.
