• WraithGear@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I wonder if the word skibidi has out lasted its source only due to how fun it is to say. Can’t wait till mewing starts to embarrass the younger gens.

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        3 months ago

        Skibidi is indeed a fun word to say.

        I look forward to making the younger generation cringe as I twist their own slang against them and shoe horn it into contexts not in any way originally skibidi’ed.

  • MrGerrit@feddit.nl
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    3 months ago

    With the pace how fast new words are being made up, I think even the younger generation needs to look up what something means.

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    3 months ago

    Something to make you feel even older: yeet isn’t really considered “new” anymore 😬

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    3 months ago

    I’m almost at Abe Simpson’s perfect diatribe.

    I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I’m with isn’t it, and what is it is weird, but not yet scary to me.

    I remember being in my late teens and early 20’s and my parents would watch The News™ and how often they’d run stories that were of the pattern “And coming up after the break, Kids These Days™ are having sex by touching their eyeballs together. Why you should be angry and scared.” And the first thing I thought as a Kid Those Days™ was “…no we’re not. I had sex this afternoon and one of the few things we didn’t touch together was our eyes.” And I guess I’m still young enough that that kind of story doesn’t make me click a thumbnail?

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    3 months ago

    I definitely have gray hair and I don’t understand how they use deadaas.

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    3 months ago

    I just don’t look it up. It’s not really necessary for me to know what the kids are talking about

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    My mom works in a school and her 3rd and 4th graders regularly use slang she doesn’t understand. She regularly texts me for translations so she knows if she needs to talk to the kids about inappropriate language. It’s the reason I’m so up to date on the current slang of kids and teens. Meanwhile, I still use yeet unironically every day. Apparently yeet is super outdated lol

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    3 months ago

    Even as a kid, I wasn’t the one making up slang. I still had to use urban dictionary.

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    3 months ago

    big yikes unc! 💀 but fr, that based af - it’s lit you understood the assignment. no glaze but you passed the vibe check, some salty boomers yap and get ratiod like a npc opp. gen z in our fire era we finna glow up, no cap 🗣️🔥🔥🙅‍♂️🧢

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        I assume the most represented generation on Lemmy are millennials, with Z (and apparently Alpha are old enough) being underrepresented. I’d say X is probably underrepresented as well, but less so than younger. I like to think Lemmy is out here on the cutting edge, but I’m old so I’m probably wrong.

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    look, all you people saying " its not important for me to learn these words" are missing the fact that we get to be the old uncool adults that ruin these words,be that weird aunt that using the slang in the wrong way, or the dad repeating the same line until its beaten to death, Its our hard earned right to make the younger generations words lame and cringe!

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      So you’re saying I should skibidi that sigma fanum tax gyatt to help make it stop?

      … I hate that I typed that.

      Rizz can stay though. That ones decent.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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        Yeah we can keep rizz. I, a 37 year old millennial, could fully explain that one to my boomer mom in a sentence fragment. That’s a symptom of slang for the ages.

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          I’m also 37 and I can’t decipher between which ones are real and which ones are made up at this point, and I’m totally okay with it. Where do you, personally, get exposure to this language? My assumption is gaming but I have no idea. I’m not sure what I stopped doing that I’m so out of touch (other than I stopped being cool (a long time ago)).