• ClaireDeLuna@lemmy.world
      19·
      1 year ago

      The less you try to understand it the more it makes sense. (Also 23)

      Stupid slang is stupid but it has existed forever (70s had groovy, and jeepers creepers). I say loosen up and enjoy the stupid words. I remember in highschool common slang words were…jit (younger person), fam(friends), on-god(honestly/swear to god), shook (startled, surprised), thirsty(desperate), extra(too much). All of these words were stupid and I resisted using them, but now I just kinda vibe with the people in my life and the stupid slang slowly seeps in.

      Granted I’ve low-key adopted a lot of random shit from different generations just because I enjoy the word more than the original one. Idk life is short, so why waste time trying to understand things that are just going to change in a year, when you can just be in the moment and focus on what’s important?

      • Takumidesh@lemmy.world
        18·
        1 year ago

        I think it’s funny that you used slang that has just been adopted into common language in your post, like low key and vibe.

        Slang is normal, and language evolves over time, new words and phrases being created is fine and some of them stick and others don’t.

        • ClaireDeLuna@lemmy.world
          7·
          1 year ago

          Whenever I think of slang I just imagine that scene from the office, “why use lot word when fewer do trick?” Slang is basically that statement being applied into an actual functional modification to language.

          So fuck it fam, live it up. Vibe with the times or whatever. Just don’t overdo it lest you sound a little silly (but that’s the worst that comes from slang…you just sound a little silly)

    • daellat@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 year ago

      Dopamine release pushed to the extreme. If a video takes longer than 10s it needs a second video or reactor in split screen. Also loud = funny

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    40·
    1 year ago

    As a 40-something, I’m really enjoying watching younger Millennials struggle with Gen Z culture. The wheel keeps turning.

    This isn’t a gen z thing specifically, but every time someone says “touching grass” I hear “touching fabric.” It’s like everyone has become really into to the idea of shitting their pants. Did you know shitting your pants every day is good for your mental health?

      • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
        34·
        1 year ago

        Some of these definitions are hilarious. Someone who didn’t know what “Bussy” meant could read the entry for it here, and still be just as confused.

          • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
            17·
            1 year ago

            Popularized in 2017

            How could those silly old folks be expected to know what ‘facts’ means? It wasn’t popularized until 2017!

            • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
              8·
              1 year ago

              Also the use of “period” as an interjection, which according to the list was invented in 2010 and has not been in use in some form since the 3rd century BCE.

        • LordAmplifier@pawb.socialEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          “Boujee: a high-class/materialistic person”

          Because nobody can freaking spell bougewazee boojoa bushwa

        • seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de
          8·
          1 year ago

          The definition for “ded” is bespoke:

          Laughter and death as a combined concept has been present since Ancient Greece, where it is held that Zeuxis died from laughing at a portrait of an ugly woman he was painting. Ded stems from a folk etymology for dead reckoning. Emerged on the internet in the early 1990s as a representation for regional speech.