If you don't want folks to think you're old, stop using words like "Folks" (55, grandparent)
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I don't get it. I work with people in their 20's and 30's, and they all use "folks" or just "people."
Nobody I know says "peeps," except as a joke.
Anyway, unless you are trying to date them, what is so terrible about people thinking you are Old?
Yes, the younger folks say "folks", they just don't mean their "parents" when they're saying it. Hence the young millenial's confusion.
I specifically remember when the term "folks" came into use in the mainstream environment -- around the early 90's, I'm hearing an East Coast guy at work say something like, "We need to talk to the folks in Tech Support....". I thought that was weird, then I started hearing all kinds of Corporate types saying it. And it's still around....just not meaning parents.
I really think that the vocabulary of the average Joe is becoming very limited. My husband and I still get a laugh about a restaurant encounter with a less than brilliant server (disclaimer: this is not a knock on servers, my mom was a waitress for 35 years).
Hubby: I'll have the eggs and bacon.
Server: Would you like hash browns or home fries with that?
Hubby: I'll have the latter.
Server, looking confused: What?
Hubby, speaking slower and enunciating: I'll have the latter.
Server: What's a ladder got to do with it?
Hubby: Never mind. Home fries, please.
We really had to stifle our giggles.
I actually don't believe that story.
Playing along:
But your "hubby" WAS being uppity and condescending by "speaking slower and enunciating" and deliberately repeating the word.
And you thought it was so clever. Yay let's make someone feel ignorant and point out how we're so much better than them.
I also don't believe the premise.
Never in my life heard: "Do you want hash browns or home fries?".
It's normally one or the other.
I've also never heard anyone say "I'll have the latter" instead of just saying which food they want.
Yes, the younger folks say "folks", they just don't mean their "parents" when they're saying it. Hence the young millenial's confusion.
I specifically remember when the term "folks" came into use in the mainstream environment -- around the early 90's, I'm hearing an East Coast guy at work say something like, "We need to talk to the folks in Tech Support....". I thought that was weird, then I started hearing all kinds of Corporate types saying it. And it's still around....just not meaning parents.
Do you believe this one Runs With Scissors: I'm a native New Yorker - When we lived in a small town in North Carolina I had a craving for a bagel, cream cheese and lox. I went to the seafood section at Piggly Wiggly and asked the guy behind the counter for some lox. He pointed to a different aisle and told me to check in hardware. God's honest truth. I knew we had to get out of there before my kids wound up like that.
I do not intend to dummy down my vocabulary for FOLKS who's vocabulary is limited.
Exactly!! Especially since way too many 'young' folks speak via text v. oral communication anyway.
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When was that in???
