By that time language may be unrecognizable by those of you still around
I heard this thing that humans are tribal creatures and in any group, family, friend etc, they will invariably develop their own language, and they didn’t mention it but generationally specify slang is so much more beautiful when viewed through that lens. So even if it’s an old person thing, for those of us privileged to be able to stay on this earth that long, it will still be your tribes language and you will feel at home saying it. And that’s all that matters.
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My 34 year-old brother says “rats!” when something bad happens. He learned from our grandpa.
Oooh, I like that, I’m terrified of rats, so that would be a great replacement, for the usual word, when around kids, too.
One of these days I need to go and read through the Calvin and Hobbes collection I bought for my bookshelf when it was on a steep discount. I remember reading them all the time as a kid.
A relatable situation; when my kid can read a little better I mean to very enthusiastically introduce them to it.
Though honestly they might enjoy the beautiful artwork without bothering to read. Or it might encourage them to practice. Hmm.
Either way is good IMO. Even if they just look at the pictures and imagine their own stories I have to believe that’s good for a developing mind.
And the nursing homes will be full of Arya, Daenarys, and Khaleesi. Boys movie names tend to be pretty underwhelming. Maybe a bunch of “Wades” from Deadpool.
I’m surprised I’ve never seen a kid named Atreyu.
Jst lk ppl used 2 txt, amirite
Oh the t9 era of texting, I miss d tym wen t9 ws d nly optn
You don’t say!
I’m cooking spaghetti for dinner tonight. Yes, I’m old.
Who has a problem with spaghetti?
GenZ HATES spaghettis because their not WOKE like “bucatini” or “far fale”
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They already are, as people on here know them. Also “cooking” just seems to be shorthand for “cooking with gas”, with the same connotations and meaning, and boomers are definitely saying that.
I’m a partial to “cooking with grease” just cause it’s different.
they already are in black communities, teens see tiktok comments and go wow new slang, a lot of this shit isnt new tho, like bop wasnt new but everyone acted like it was a new tiktok word, neither was thot on twitter or many others, rizz isnt new, its been around, cooking and based? not new at all
Nothing is new under the sun.
I heard that once in a bible class and it’s stuck with me ever since. And imo it beautifully encapsulates humanity’s trends and fads.
Language is an ever-evolving thing, but at the same time, how many variations of something can be made before we’ve made all of them? Humanity has been around for thousands of years; I find it hard to believe that just about any word we could come up with is actually brand new and no other human has heard it before.
What is “bop”? Are bop-its popular on TikTok?
How is rizz not new? I’ve never seen it until tiktok.
Where do you think tiktok slang comes from? It’s just popular slang someone uses in a comment that middleschool kids who are from different areas, that have never heard it before parrot, because they literally just copy popular comments bar for bar hoping to get likes
I’ve heard it plenty, california
What year did you first start hearing the word rizz?
rizz comes from African Americans Vernacular English and has been around for decades…. white kids on tiktok recently learned it…
I’ve been around for decades too, even living in California, and the first time I’ve heard the word is recently with the new generation of tiktok people.
well slang is very regional, as well as specific to different subcultures… like gamers have tons of slang/jargon…
seems like kids like to appropriate slang from elsewhere (often black slang, probably from music), then they assume they invented it and gatekeep it, then it progresses to boring or becomes part of the language like “cool”….
but whatever, i’m down with it… it’s totally tubular!
Not really. Just look up the some slang words from 2000’s you’ve never heard of but what everyone in my generation would’ve been constantly using.
Ofc some of them are still around, but most aren’t.
Chillax n00b, cuz 2000’s slang is awesomesauce, biatch!
you want some amazeballs with that awesomesauce? #winning
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So bomb. True that. Dope. 1337
So kewl!
Nice to see so many fellow le gentlesirs here.
tips hat to you
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Cooking is not new slang. That shit goes back decades.
Yup
Phrase what’s cooking? “what’s up, what’s going on” is attested by 1942. To cook with gas “do well, act or think correctly” is 1930s jive talk.
The expression “NOW YOU’RE COOKING WITH GAS” has bobbed up again — this time as a front page streamer on the Roper Ranger, and as the banner line in the current advertising series of the Nashville (Tenn.) Gas and Heating Company, cleverly tying gas cooking to local food products and restaurants. “Now you’re cooking with gas” literally took the gas industry by the ears around December 1939 — Remember? — when it flashed forth in brilliant repartee from the radio programs of the Maxwell Coffee Hour, Jack Benny, Chase and Sanborn, Johnson Wax, Bob Hope and sundry others. [American Gas Association Monthly, vol. xxiii, 1941
Even old people will just stop using them, like “groovy”.
Well I think it’s nifty.
Groovy is acceptable, but only in the way Ash from the Evil Dead uses it.
Marvy fab yo
Psssh, next you’ll tell me people aren’t saying “hail to the king, baby”?
Dude, that’s totes bogus. Get outta here with that whackness. /s
Yeah. Thankfully nobody says things like “epic fail” anymore
At least epic and fail are actual words.
What constitutes an “actual word”?
A word that isn’t a direct code for another word is what I meant.
Can’t speak for anywhere but where I’ve lived, but I’ve heard groovy on the US west coast pretty recently, though not regularly. There was a niche little clique of geeks out in east Texas that’d say it pretty regularly some years ago though. Hippie activist/tabletop enthusiast type vibe, that group. Good people. Groovy, even.
Yeah I feel like not hearing people use “groovy” is more because things aren’t feeling very groovy lately.
That mighta been me
Then we may have met before. I’d rather not be identified on this account, so I’ll just text some of the old gang, and if you’re on the list, you’re on the list lol
i mean, i say it, my cool brother says it, there’s a few of us.
hits blunt
So is he your cool brother because he says “groovy”, or does he say “groovy” because he’s cool?
idk why i wrote this
Yeah, dawg. I just be thinking smart shit like that all day bro. My crew calls me The Doc on account of im so smart. We play this game where we throw rocks in the air and if it hits someone before it lands you get a point. But if you hit yourself you get 10 points. Cracked my skull enough times that I’m on a first name basis with every doctor in town, but I never lost one game. That’s called real genius, bro. No amount of practice can get a person to my level. Thats not even strategy bro thats just me. Im built difirint
weird mood today ig
rips blunt till it burns my fingies
I am so sorry
Tf were we talking bout bro?
