I must be getting old; I have no idea what my pupils are saying. The word I've come across recently is 'braaap' (prounced brap in spite of all those As) and I have absolutely no idea what it means. I got one of my pupils to explain it to me but I'm still none the wiser. Quite possibly because I wasn't really paying attention seeing as my interest was on a par with that of a thriteen year old finding out how to solve equations, but it might also be that the concept of braaapness is beyond my twentyfour year old brain.

I think braaap might be the new cool. Maybe being cool isn't cool anymore. Except if cool isn't cool anymore then it must be cool to be cool anyway because for something to be cool in the new meaning of the word it isn't cool in the old meaning and the new meaning of cool definitely isn't cool in the old meaning so must be cool in the new meaning, therefore it's still cool to be cool.

What I really mean is that it's not braaap to be cool.

I think.