If you don't want folks to think you're old, stop using words like "Folks" (friendly, friend)

[Old Folks]

Originally Posted by luv4horses

I get it. Haven't heard parents called 'my folks' in a coon's age.

I love that!

[CSD610]

Originally Posted by Corvette Ministries

Me: What do your folks think?
Young Man: My "What"??
Any other archaic words or phrases you've caught yourself saying you wish you could take back?

Nope, there is no reason to change the way I speak to unrealistically believe that someone else will
actually believe I am *young*, nonsense.

[yourown2feet]

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?

[Vision67]

Hey folks, I am old. Damn proud of it too!

Now get off my lawn!

[randomparent]

I'm not old, and I use the term occasionally.

[TheShadow]

I don't think "folks" is an archaic term. Perhaps it's more colloquial, or regional, but I've lived on the west coast and in the south and I've heard it used pretty much everywhere by people of all ages. I prefer it to "people".

[in_newengland]

Pocketbook. Even the signs in the stores say that. I don't know what the young people around here call in though. Maybe'll I'll ask.

Another one but it's from many years ago, was to use Xerox as a verb. Now we photocopy.

[jean_ji]

Some words are more regional than archaic and sound funny to non-users. My Mother used words that sounded different to me because my parents had moved 200 miles north from where they were raised. Some of the words and phrases they used were not heard where I was raised. My relatives that loved 200 miles south had a noticeable dialect difference also. There was and is a difference between northern and southern Indiana in that 200 miles range.

[randomparent]

Tape rather than record.

[SOON2BNSURPRISE]

Originally Posted by in_newengland

Pocketbook. Even the signs in the stores say that. I don't know what the young people around here call in though. Maybe'll I'll ask.

Another one but it's from many years ago, was to use Xerox as a verb. Now we photocopy.

They just call them a bag. I don't know anyone around here calling a purse a pocketbook anymore. LOL Then again I am kind of young as I am only 51. My 45 year old wife has never used the term pocketbook or heard it before, although that is probably because of her Latin heritage.