For months now, parents and teachers have been plagued by a baffling scourge: Tweens gleefully shouting “six-seven,” a sort of verbal meme that basically means nothing but has taken over as a mass inside joke in classrooms across the country. If you think that sounds stupid, that’s kind of the point — adults are not supposed to understand “six-seven.”

But now, a lot of us do. In the past few weeks, “six-seven” has become so pervasive that the over-15 population has managed to figure out what it means (again, nothing) and get in on the joke. Naturally, this has immediately rendered “six-seven” lame.

The final nail in the coffin: A brave assortment of parents and teachers are dressing up as “six-seven” for Halloween. I am not a tween, but I was once, and I can’t imagine anything more mor

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