I love learning foreign languages, and the one I have been trying to master lately is the strange tongue spoken by my tween daughter and her Gen Alpha peers. If you spend any time around today’s youth, you will likely encounter some unfamiliar slang phrases whose meaning you can’t even glean with context clues. Some of it, like skibidi, actually has no meaning at all. For this reason, I get particularly excited when I hear a new phrase that actually makes some sense. So, for today’s lesson, we will break down what it actually means when your 13-year-old says ‘Call Taylor.’ Read on for the full scoop.
Before we dive into what ‘Call Taylor’ means, I will give you a scenario in which this was running through my own daughter’s mind (though she didn’t say it, exactly). My 11-year-old tween has a very keen interest in art and attended an art camp where she was one of the youngest participants. She got a bit of an aspirational-friend-crush on a 15-year-old girl at the camp who was just “so cool in every way” and “insanely talented at figure drawing.” I could tell she wanted to make friends with this girl and learn from her, so I said, “why don’t you just go up to her, compliment her art and ask her if she could give you some tips to improve your figure drawing?” What followed was a huge eye roll and a sarcastic, “yeahhh, OK, mom.” Translation? “Call Taylor.”
