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I'm getting better at understanding them

But damn sometimes I spend more time searching for definitions to understand it than it actually takes to read it

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

dude even I can't keep up anymore and I can't even legally vote yet

shit evolves too fast

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I almost feel bad for you guys. You guys are gonna feel old a lot sooner than I did. The way I spoke was still relevant at least until I was 23ish and then slowly tapered off.

Just take solace in the fact that when you guys are all my age you're gonna cringe so fucking hard at the way you spoke you'll collapse into a black hole. It happens to all of us so it's probably better if you know less.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I already cringe at how I spoke a year or two ago (whenever pog was a thing) 👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That's was certainly 3 years ago, in 1998

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

furiously googling how to tell zoomers to get off my ~~lawn~~ community greenspace

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

fam fr fr, u bein here is high key cheugy. Stop simping for my eco friendly wood vaneer, take the L or u'll catch these hands Periodt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

it's a pejorative for people who aren't following the trends and particularly the now out of fashion trends from the 2010's (live laugh love signs, mom jeans, minions, holds up spork, girl bossing etc) that's now associated with being behind the times, tryharding etc, but has evolved to a general term for people who are uncool.

(I am a millennial though for the record so maybe I'm not using it right :D)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'd never heard it before. After looking it up, that appears to be the correct usage. It's one of those slang words with no apparent etymology. It refers to a pretty specific time period, so it will probably have a short shelf life unless it changes in meaning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The only Time is Morris Day's, and that's the hill I'll die on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

But we have no lawns to tell them to get off of

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Skibidi brain straight up goated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I did an indoor skydiving thing once and there's a lesson beforehand. My partner and I did the required skills well and our young instructor said "Let's go" and so we got up to leave the room. Incorrect, he was just expressing approval.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

What, "way to go" isn't good enough any more?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I surprised someone in my (very mixed age) friend group when, mid-game, I went to KnowYourMeme to look up the history of “gyatt” and what the heck it meant to see if the name of the random player “WhatTheGyatt” was inappropriate or not.

The fact that the word had history evoked surprise.

I still don’t LIKE it, but now I know where it came from and what they’re trying to say.

(I also had to look up “rizz” because my not-school-aged brain thinks it sounds like jizz and was confused why a bunch of kids would be playing cum tag????? Turns out, it does NOT mean jizz)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I think I've seen it before, but I had no idea what gyatt meant until I just looked it up. I was able to figure out, after learning it was most commonly used to express shock at seeing a large female butt, that it derived from the first syllable of "goddamn."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Skibidi toilet fanum tax Ohio

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

this morning I shat masel fr fr fam no cap bet go brrrrr.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hate that I understand that. I don't have kids, I just have a friend that uses all that lingo even though he's 30. He's super cool, but super cringe some times lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

To be fair everything after the fifth word is essentially just tone marking

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was listening to H.G. Wells on audiobook today and it's both cool and sometimes difficult to listen to the old timey English. Like it's close enough to be familiar and mostly understood, but also different enough to sound like a whole other language.

Language evolves and I think that's cool. The more people we have and the more ways of communicating, the more it will evolve.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This modern slang is damn gibberish. Back in my day, at least our slang made some gramatical sense, it was simply noun replacement, and some adverbs/verbs. Now get off my lawn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cool beans man, cool beans

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Pretty hip if I say so myself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Back in my day we didn't call it rizz, we called it relatability

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

No, rizz is game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That's witerally cwazy. Skibidy rizz.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Meeting the kids are why I don’t care about global warming anymore.