What makes skibidi not a real word? Sure, it's a nonsense word often used to replace other words, but it still carries some meaning, even if vague
Remember that linguistics isn't just about high brow standard written/spoken language, it covers all types of language, including slang, body language and sign language
There are real linguists with real qualifications who have actually studied gen Z and gen alpha slang and gotten scientific conclusions out of it
I believe one linguist who studied it was able to either impress or embarrass a high school by speaking entirely in correct gen Z/gen alpha slang
Yo dawg, that would be like totally tubular unless the geezers spaz out like lamo rents gettin all agro after gettin to tha crib and finding all da homies having a jammy jam in the hizzie. Ya feel me, cuz?
Btw Ali G came up nice. As in Sacha wasn't left to be defined by Ali, went on to become Borat (which was also like the 20 years ago), has done some seriously good drama shows and now is looking like this:
C'mon Gen Z. You can't have "tubular". That's clearly an 80s term, and thus belongs to the millenials. Same thing with "crib" and the 90s.
"Cuz" was early 2000s. I don't know who that one falls to. All I know is I was about 18 before I heard it. So, basically on my last legs as far as being able to claim slang to my generation.
Geezers isn't even my generation, or Gen X. It's either the Boomers, The Greatest Generation, or The Silent Generation. Really pulling slang out by the roots on that one. What's next? Are we going to take a trip to the Piggly Wiggly?
My dearest cuz,/ I pray you school yourself – MACBETH, IV ii
The Yellow Stocking Tales blog has a neat list of words used by Shakespeare and how the meanings have changed over time (or haven’t changed, in the case for the word “cuz”)
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.
"cooking" in the context of doing something well has been around for a long time. Think, "now you're cooking!" Or the less common "now you're cooking with gas!"
I think it's just in more frequent use currently. It will be interesting to see if people stop using it after it goes out of fashion with the youth.
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
As an old person today, I have no clue what these words mean. Assuming cooking has nothing to do with food. I've never heard rizz. I've at least heard people use based, though I don't know its use.
Ah but then there is the phrase "let him cook," which tends to be used when someone starts doing something that seems foolish. I would think it at least somewhat relates to "cooking." If you fail, you are "cooked."
Edit: To clarify, this phrase is commonly seen after someone says something like "hey, don't do that;" I did not mean to imply the phrase itself has an inherent good/bad connotation, merely what has been pointed out that they want to "wait and see" the results before making judgement.
Cooked, getting cooked - someone is messing around with you and you fall for it, kinda like this maybe could be better explanation.
"You are cooking" - you made a song, for example, and it was great song.
"You are cooked" - kinda like when you, as a child, do something bad and your parents are going to be mad when they find out — you are basically cooked.
I consider 'based' an opposite of 'sour' or 'acidic'. That is, being alkaline and having high pH is considered socially desirable. Mixing based and sour personalities will naturally produce salt, that is, dried tears.
Cooking is a term for any time-consuming chemical reaction, which happens to include food preparation.
I have no chemistry-related explanation for rizz. Something to do with sparks?
I make it a point to adopt some of my grandpa's lingo. Funnily enough my 18-20 year old students can smell 30yo slang from a mile away and will point out it ages me, but they've never said anything about the random 50s teenage slang I incorporate.
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
the song one is common, but it also used to mean a hoe and means that again, ppl on tiktok comments were acting like that was recent but I remember it being used in that context as a kid
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.
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 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!
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 like to say "cooking with magnets" because 1) it sounds cooler and 2) when people look at me weird I can immediately launch into my spiel about how induction heating is superior to gas in every way.
I was today years old when I relaised that "gag" in that phrase presumably means "make me vomit" not "silence me". I've spent many decades being confused about that...
I'll be ambling through nursing home hallways in a threadbare robe on the way to the ol' skibidi while some orderlies with multicolor levitating hair make modem noises at each other.
That'll just be the microplastic poisoning setting in though.
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.
To be fair, we also heard them from the ninja turtles, and any other kids media and/or commercials trying to appeal to the demographic. Some of us used it sarcastically on the playground, but I don’t think any of us knew anyone who used it seriously. I think it might have been surfer slang that was co-opted by marketing departments?
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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reddig33@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 350d
Even old people will just stop using them, like “groovy”.
thejoker954@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 350d
Dude, that's totes bogus. Get outta here with that whackness. /s
WALLACE@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 350d
Yeah. Thankfully nobody says things like "epic fail" anymore
pilferjinx@piefed.social · 1 pts · 350d
At least epic and fail are actual words.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 349d
What constitutes an "actual word"?
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 349d
Ones that are not skibidi
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 349d
What makes skibidi not a real word? Sure, it's a nonsense word often used to replace other words, but it still carries some meaning, even if vague
Remember that linguistics isn't just about high brow standard written/spoken language, it covers all types of language, including slang, body language and sign language
There are real linguists with real qualifications who have actually studied gen Z and gen alpha slang and gotten scientific conclusions out of it
I believe one linguist who studied it was able to either impress or embarrass a high school by speaking entirely in correct gen Z/gen alpha slang
pilferjinx@piefed.social · 1 pts · 349d
A word that isn't a direct code for another word is what I meant.
grabonex@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 348d
I still do 👋
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 350d
thejoker954@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 349d
Yeah I feel like not hearing people use "groovy" is more because things aren't feeling very groovy lately.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 349d
That mighta been me
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 349d
i mean, i say it, my cool brother says it, there's a few of us.
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 349d
Well I think it's nifty.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 349d
Groovy is acceptable, but only in the way Ash from the Evil Dead uses it.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 349d
"Cool" has had greater longevity than i expected.
CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 349d
Psssh, next you'll tell me people aren't saying "hail to the king, baby"?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 349d
Marvy fab yo
EndOfLine@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 350d
Yo dawg, that would be like totally tubular unless the geezers spaz out like lamo rents gettin all agro after gettin to tha crib and finding all da homies having a jammy jam in the hizzie. Ya feel me, cuz?
don@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 350d
Word up, homie.
CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 350d
What does lamo mean? I understood the rest, and yes, my back hurts.
Laristal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 350d
Misspelled "lame-o" is my guess. Though my spelling of it is a guess as well.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 349d
Misspelled? Letters used to cost money, you know. 160 chars/msg.bst to shrten evrything
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 349d
Always saved time and money too
Dasus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 349d
Nice reference.
Btw Ali G came up nice. As in Sacha wasn't left to be defined by Ali, went on to become Borat (which was also like the 20 years ago), has done some seriously good drama shows and now is looking like this:
joelfromaus@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 349d
fr
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 350d
I'm 40 and I understand most of that, yup it's old person speak.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 350d
C'mon Gen Z. You can't have "tubular". That's clearly an 80s term, and thus belongs to the millenials. Same thing with "crib" and the 90s.
"Cuz" was early 2000s. I don't know who that one falls to. All I know is I was about 18 before I heard it. So, basically on my last legs as far as being able to claim slang to my generation.
Geezers isn't even my generation, or Gen X. It's either the Boomers, The Greatest Generation, or The Silent Generation. Really pulling slang out by the roots on that one. What's next? Are we going to take a trip to the Piggly Wiggly?
Marketsnodsbury@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 349d
Reminds me of reading Macbeth in high school:
My dearest cuz,/ I pray you school yourself – MACBETH, IV ii
The Yellow Stocking Tales blog has a neat list of words used by Shakespeare and how the meanings have changed over time (or haven’t changed, in the case for the word “cuz”)
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 350d
Greatest generation is dead dude. Ok maybe a few are around but like, they're 100+
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 350d
.......ok? Does them being dead today negate the slang they created when they were alive?
Or are you claiming old slang gets put in the free for all bin, for any generation can adopt as their own?
Because I wouldn't mind picking up "bees knees" when that becomes available.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 350d
PlexSheep@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 349d
REDE
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 349d
I’m never gonna stop calling people “dawg”
toynbee@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 349d
kieron115@startrek.website · 9 pts · 349d
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.
toynbee@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 349d
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.
kieron115@startrek.website · 3 pts · 349d
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.
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 350d
"cooking" in the context of doing something well has been around for a long time. Think, "now you're cooking!" Or the less common "now you're cooking with gas!"
I think it's just in more frequent use currently. It will be interesting to see if people stop using it after it goes out of fashion with the youth.
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 13 pts · 350d
Let him cook
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 349d
Right analogous in some contexts (American sportsball) to "Let him eat"
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 349d
Does that come from getting paid and therefore being able to feed oneself
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 348d
Yeah sort of like, "They are performing at a high level and carrying the team, let them get stats (==better contract)"
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 350d
Language is freaking fascinating.
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 349d
I personally think cooking will have serious staying power.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 350d
Nurse! I vibe coded in my pants again
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 8 pts · 350d
Gyatt so Ohio, on god.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 350d
Dasus@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 349d
Yup
darkmarx@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 350d
As an old person today, I have no clue what these words mean. Assuming cooking has nothing to do with food. I've never heard rizz. I've at least heard people use based, though I don't know its use.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 24 pts · 350d
Rizz = Charisma
Based = Cool; Awesome; Good.
Cooked = Fucked (as in up, not sexually).
Cooking = Doing something (usually good, but does not necessarily have to be).
Sincerely,
A 40 year old Millennial.
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 350d
'cooking' specifically implies either creativity or efficacy (or both, some novel solution that results in success)
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 12 pts · 350d
Ah but then there is the phrase "let him cook," which tends to be used when someone starts doing something that seems foolish. I would think it at least somewhat relates to "cooking." If you fail, you are "cooked."
Edit: To clarify, this phrase is commonly seen after someone says something like "hey, don't do that;" I did not mean to imply the phrase itself has an inherent good/bad connotation, merely what has been pointed out that they want to "wait and see" the results before making judgement.
foggy@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 350d
This version of cook seems aligned with "hold on."
As in "it's not yet apparent that what's happening makes sense/is good."
Where's that tiktok linguist kid when ya need him.
Una@europe.pub · 9 pts · 350d
Cooking - you are doing something good
Cooked, getting cooked - someone is messing around with you and you fall for it, kinda like this maybe could be better explanation.
"You are cooking" - you made a song, for example, and it was great song.
"You are cooked" - kinda like when you, as a child, do something bad and your parents are going to be mad when they find out — you are basically cooked.
moody@lemmings.world · 8 pts · 350d
"Let him cook" is more like "I wanna see where this is going"
Ledivin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 350d
I'd say "let him cook" is foolishness-agnostic. It could be good or bad, but it's definitely unexpected
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 350d
that is the creative part of the equation
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 350d
Based also sorta meant woke for a bit before woke
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 350d
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 350d
Based is like 'unpopular, but I agree.'
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d
I thought it was recognizing that the person acted/spoke their conscience, more or less
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 350d
Temba, at rest.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 349d
Shaka, when the walls rizzed.
pelya@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 350d
I consider 'based' an opposite of 'sour' or 'acidic'. That is, being alkaline and having high pH is considered socially desirable. Mixing based and sour personalities will naturally produce salt, that is, dried tears.
Cooking is a term for any time-consuming chemical reaction, which happens to include food preparation.
I have no chemistry-related explanation for rizz. Something to do with sparks?
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 350d
Yep me too, I bet as it's young people it's mainly texted and in txt spk
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 350d
Ahh, the first Kid Pidgin.
j_elgato@leminal.space · 12 pts · 350d
That would be rad...
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 350d
Totally gnarly
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 350d
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 350d
Forsooth.
Threeme2189@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d
Foshizzle
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d
Grouse!
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d
shalafi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d
One might even say "tubular".
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 349d
My 34 year-old brother says "rats!" when something bad happens. He learned from our grandpa.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 348d
I make it a point to adopt some of my grandpa's lingo. Funnily enough my 18-20 year old students can smell 30yo slang from a mile away and will point out it ages me, but they've never said anything about the random 50s teenage slang I incorporate.
LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 349d
Oooh, I like that, I'm terrified of rats, so that would be a great replacement, for the usual word, when around kids, too.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 349d
I'm cooking spaghetti for dinner tonight. Yes, I'm old.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 2 pts · 349d
Who has a problem with spaghetti?
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d
GenZ HATES spaghettis because their not WOKE like "bucatini" or "far fale"
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 349d
dil@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 349d
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
toynbee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 349d
What is "bop"? Are bop-its popular on TikTok?
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 349d
A song that is good, or goes hard.
toynbee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 349d
That makes sense, I guess. Thank you.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 349d
Absolutely! I’m old, but somehow I am still semi-“hip”
toynbee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 349d
I'm old, but I was homeschooled so not once was I hip.
In fact I'm pretty sure my actual physical hip is failing.
dil@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 349d
the song one is common, but it also used to mean a hoe and means that again, ppl on tiktok comments were acting like that was recent but I remember it being used in that context as a kid
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d
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.
HereIAm@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 349d
How is rizz not new? I've never seen it until tiktok.
dil@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 349d
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
dil@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 349d
I've heard it plenty, california
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d
What year did you first start hearing the word rizz?
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 349d
rizz comes from African Americans Vernacular English and has been around for decades…. white kids on tiktok recently learned it…
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 349d
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.
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 349d
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!
dil@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 349d
How the fuck would I remember a specific year
rem26_art@fedia.io · 10 pts · 350d
in the nursing home talking about how I rizzed up the nurses (i didn't)
expr@programming.dev · 10 pts · 350d
Based has been around forever, it's not some new slang.
jve@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 350d
Maybe like 10 years? That seem about right?
Some searching seems to suggest that “Lil B” started the words come back around 2010
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil_B
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 349d
Lil B in quotes like he's a massively obscure figure from the past. The years really don't stop coming.
jve@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 349d
Never heard of him.
¯\(ツ)/¯
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 349d
They are already getting there. Hearing forty year olds say it means kids are now stopping saying it.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 349d
Wazzuppppp, fellow youths!
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 349d
I hear more millennial YouTubers using this language than I do highschoolers.
Patches@ttrpg.network · 4 pts · 349d
I would imagine because you spend way more time watching millennial YouTubers than you do hanging out with high school ers
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 349d
Yeah! Screw me for not wanting to hang around the little shits after having to deal with them at work right?
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 348d
It is time for a rap!
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 348d
https://youtu.be/zljDDcTnTG0
This is what I strive for in my old age.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 349d
I'm old and "cooking" was old when I was young.
Strobelt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 348d
Nah. It was just cooking
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 349d
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.
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 349d
I'm a partial to "cooking with grease" just cause it's different.
cravl@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 349d
I like to say "cooking with magnets" because 1) it sounds cooler and 2) when people look at me weird I can immediately launch into my spiel about how induction heating is superior to gas in every way.
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 8 pts · 350d
Gag me with a spoon
Acamon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 350d
I was today years old when I relaised that "gag" in that phrase presumably means "make me vomit" not "silence me". I've spent many decades being confused about that...
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 349d
Nah, these expressions will just fall out of use. You think this is the first time people came up with funny fad expressions?
Sorry, but you ain't all dat and a bag of potato chips. Fo shizzle.
Hupf@feddit.org · 2 pts · 349d
What you say‽
baatliwala@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d
All dat has become allat now in meme speak so maybe not totally out of fashion
Randomgal@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 348d
That is not very groovy of you.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 350d
I haven't heard swag in a long while and so I'm not sure how many of these words will actually be used enough later on.
olafurp@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 349d
Jst lk ppl used 2 txt, amirite
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 349d
Oh the t9 era of texting, I miss d tym wen t9 ws d nly optn
olafurp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 348d
Whn txtng was xpnsive af, gud tyms
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 350d
I'll be ambling through nursing home hallways in a threadbare robe on the way to the ol' skibidi while some orderlies with multicolor levitating hair make modem noises at each other.
That'll just be the microplastic poisoning setting in though.
__siru__@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 349d
You had me in the last sentence... sadly
Dasus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 349d
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.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 349d
Chillax n00b, cuz 2000's slang is awesomesauce, biatch!
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 349d
you want some amazeballs with that awesomesauce? #winning
untorquer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 349d
So bomb. True that. Dope. 1337
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 349d
So kewl!
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d
Nice to see so many fellow le gentlesirs here.
tips hat to you
Dasus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d
solidsnake@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 350d
Based is already old though
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 350d
And it was never not lame. Poor fad, never got to be fetch.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 349d
Stop trying to make fetched a thing.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 349d
They already are.
Source: I’m old and I can use all those words correctly.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 349d
Yea but when old people now use it, it's an oddity. I think OP means when old men in general are talking about Razz and Skibity outhouse.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 350d
And their grandkids will ask "based on what?"
Zozano@aussie.zone · 17 pts · 349d
And then you hit em with the "BASED ON DEEZ NUTS"
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 349d
Based grandparent
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 349d
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.
kieron115@startrek.website · 2 pts · 349d
I'm surprised I've never seen a kid named Atreyu.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d
They exist. Don’t think I’ve ever met one either.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d
There are a few Thors around.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 348d
No love for Rhaegar per usual…
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 349d
By that time language may be unrecognizable by those of you still around
svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 349d
bet
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 349d
idkmybffjill
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 348d
Gnarly, tubular, radical, extreme to the max!!!
MrMcGasion@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 348d
Even as a 90s kid I only heard half of those from the Super Mario World Special Zone level titles (along with Mondo).
Iunnrais@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
To be fair, we also heard them from the ninja turtles, and any other kids media and/or commercials trying to appeal to the demographic. Some of us used it sarcastically on the playground, but I don’t think any of us knew anyone who used it seriously. I think it might have been surfer slang that was co-opted by marketing departments?
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 349d
No cap
Jhex@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 348d
if they last... most slang dies in a few years
LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 349d
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.
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 350d
Skibiddy Rizz YOLO my chat in Christ, based yeets.
Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 350d
Woah, you lost me there with your hip young lingo, son
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 350d
I speak a little jive
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 349d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6lWx-4Ypv4
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 1 pts · 349d
You don't say!
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d
What's cooking?
deepus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 348d
Fish balls. Why, would you like some?
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 349d
I’m old so no idea but I would guess like “let him cook”
https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-does-let-him-cook-mean-the-slang-phrase-and-its-memes-explained
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 349d
So will be "squeezin the juice", just think about that one
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 350d
memento te senescere