things teenager say

"Moss," "merked," "reach" and "dip." If you have no idea what those words mean, don't beat yourself up too much — this is just everyday teenage lingo.
Teens tend to have a language of their own, but if you feel like infiltrating the crowd (or even just trying to understand some tweets), we have a guide to help you sort through the jargon. And with the holidays just around the corner, it could be useful to pick up a few key phrases to blend in with the younger folks at your holiday dinner — without looking completely out of place.
Rachel Metalin, a high school English teacher at Upper Canada College in Toronto, says these terms even make their way into class discussions with students.
"I often ask them how terms have morphed and changed to the slang words we use now," she says.
Last year, our teenage slang list included words and phrases like "epic fail," "photobomb" and "lipdub," which just goes to show that some things never change — they just get reused over and over again.
Most of the words and phrases on our 2012 list are seen on social media sites, text messages and heard in high school hallways and popular song lyrics. But Metalin says the way young people (and adults) are communicating could be taking a toll on their performance in the classroom.
"In a way, you get all these charming new catchphrases that are appropriate for their ages, but at times I see their writing suffer. People begin writing the way they are speaking and everything becomes short-form," she tells The Huffington Post Canada.
And this year wasn't just about the kids. 2012 had a mix of strange catchphrases and words like Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte's "Jeah," which he explained was a mix of both "yeah" and "good," (good one) or the overuse of the word "baby bump" in headlines and magazines pages. The Atlantic's list of the worst words of 2012 include these two, and other awful culprits like "butt-chugging," "plus-one" and "retweets are not endorsements."
But 2012 also brought about mainstream recognition for a few words, like "f-bomb," "sexting," "bucket list" and the Oprah-inspired "aha moment," which were all added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary's 2012 list.
Now it's time to take a look at what this year has wrought. It's not meant to stereotype tweens and teens' vocabulary as one big list of these specific words, but rather, to share what could be the next "radical" or "hepcat." And yes, these words were not specifically only from 2012, but they do seem to have the most staying power.

got this from : http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/12/19/slang-words-2012_n_2322664.html