Meaning of boomerspeak | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The style of language characteristic of baby boomers.
   informal, uncountable
2. Alternative letter-case form of boomerspeak.
   alt-of, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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