salty kid talk

[Benjamin Barrett]

I've heard this for at least five years in Seattle, but I would say probably
10.

Benjamin Barrett
gogaku at ix.netcom.com

------Original Message-----
-From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On
-Behalf Of Greg Pulliam
-
-My nine-year-old tells me that the latest playground word at his Oak
-Park, IL (Chicago suburb) elementary school is "salty," meaning sad
-or depressed.
-
--
-Greg