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Title: Generational language limbo!
Post by: Make it Lady on 13/03/2008 17:14:59

I was talking to an old friend in a coffee shop and he referred to a girls face as being pixelated. I assumed he meant dotted and blurry but he meant it was like a pixie.
Has anyone else had a similar lingo misunderstanding?

Title: Generational language limbo!
Post by: JimBob on 13/03/2008 20:20:52

All the time - a very useful resource is this site:

Urban Dictionary
http://www.urbandictionary.com/

Title: Generational language limbo!
Post by: another_someone on 13/03/2008 22:01:40

I remember a very old Gary Cooper film (I think it was 'Mr Deeds goes to town') where the term 'pixelated' was used as a euphemism for being the worse for drink.