They did and I thought it was new back then but I was wrong.
It's like "bet" in that I thought that was also newer when it came back until I watched Eddie Murphy hosting SNL for the first time and he used it in the monologue.
Literally the dumbest and most worthless gen z slang. It doesn't save any time whatsoever. Why would you need slang for a very specific thing like lying?
Especially when "cap" is already used to mean capacity limitation, like a bandwidth cap.
edit: I should have looked it up rather than relying on my (mis)understanding from low-quality past conversations, where I thought this was a term kids tried to invent because it sounded cool.
"Why do these men insist upon using 'bully' as an alternative to 'ruffian?' 'Bully' already has a meaning! They're a prostitute's bodyguard! I say, the English language surely is dying here in the late 19th century!"
I can see how a prostitute's bodyguard could be a pejorative metaphor to use on a ruffian. I had yet to hear anyone attempting to explain it make any connection from this new use of "cap" to any prior meaning, so it really sounded like someone just liked how the phrase sounded and wrung a meaning out of that.
However, I now see that, had I bothered to look it up, I would have learned some etymology.
In Black slang, to cap about something is “to brag,” “to exaggerate,” or “to lie” about it. This meaning of cap dates back to the early 1900s.
History lesson: In the 1940s, according to Green’s Dictionary of Slang, to cap is evidenced as slang meaning “to surpass,” connected to the ritualized insults of capping (1960s). These terms appear to be rooted in the sense of cap as “top” or “upper limit.”
So, not only does the term actually connect to a meaning I initially thought it didn't, but it also has a different cultural origin than I thought. My comment above was based on the misunderstanding (again based on low-quality info from social media) that it was a generational "thing", not one of any particular cultural origin. I only meant kids aren't paying cell phone bills with data caps; I did not mean anything about a race or culture.
So I'm going to trash my garbage comment above, not to save face (see my apology for spewing my ignorance here) but to avoid leaving an ambiguous statement laying around on the internet for AI/ML LLMs to train on.
I loved the Pogo comic strip (old shit from the '50s and one of the main influences on Bill Waterson for Calvin and Hobbes) growing up and it gave me the habit of using non-words like "momenterribly". I know it makes people think I'm a moron and I don't care.
It also gave me the habit of saying "Friday the 13th fall on a Tuesday this month". Same effect and same apathy on my part.
If you remember Pogo, look up political novelist Ross Thomas. He was a Washington based reporter for most of the 1950s and started writing fiction in the 1960s. 'The Fools In Town Are On Our Side' is about an attempt to clean up a corrupt Southern city by making it so rotten that even the pimps will vote for reform.
It's sad but she just wasn't able to do well in any of the tasks. She was too ambitious with the toilet idea, and just missed the mark with the raspberry ganache. She was an awesome sport though!
I add words to my online vocabulary first, and when I'm comfortable slipping shit like bet and yeet and based into my comments I start slipping them into my real vocab
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pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works · 62 pts · 2y
I knew this the first time I said "rip" out loud.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Like RIP of a bong or RIP a line? Or RIP in peace?
Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 2y
Rip in rest
SuperIce@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
RIP in pepperoni
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
RIP in peace. But now I'll say it even if I just drop my toast
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I forget when I started saying LOL unironically...
I know when it started ironically at least. PurePwnage.
https://www.purepwnage.com/
thesprongler@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 2y
This is me with 🤙I can't stop please help
getoffthedrugsdude@lemmy.ml · 24 pts · 2y
Right on, bruther🤙
PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
Keep it steezy brotato chip
steeznson@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Unfortunately steeznson is extremely close to my actual name so I couldn't resist it
Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 2y
Shaka bruh 🤙
backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 35 pts · 2y
skull emoji
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
đź’€
Rubanski@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
I wish I forgor đź’€
taiyang@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 2y
I still say cool beans.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 2y
No, no, that doesn't count. That's a classic bit of slang, not some trendy wave.
taiyang@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
It was when the Jumanji cartoon was a thing! I'm just old.
Peaty@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
Cool beans comes from the 1960s or earlier.
taiyang@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
They brought it back briefly in the 90s, though!
Peaty@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
They did and I thought it was new back then but I was wrong.
It's like "bet" in that I thought that was also newer when it came back until I watched Eddie Murphy hosting SNL for the first time and he used it in the monologue.
Mordachai_Shedbacon@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
and radical rice!
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
Same. I can't stop. Pls help.
rbos@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y
Streets ahead, brah. The Brahm Meister.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Awesome possum.
CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Is this like the weird "criss cross apple sauce"?
z500@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
That phrase is just objectively cool beans, though
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 2y
Dude this meme is an absolute BANGER!
getoffthedrugsdude@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 2y
Thanks fam
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y
bro
can@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 2y
Bruh
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 2y
Breh
Aarkon@feddit.de · 1 pts · 2y
Brom
VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf · 4 pts · 2y
Brot
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Broheim
VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf · 4 pts · 2y
Jotunhomie
improbably_me@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
Yo frater
Wildf1re@lemm.ee · 22 pts · 2y
That is literally how language evolves.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social · 22 pts · 2y
Based
johnthedoe@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 2y
Are we still saying on fleek?
ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
The kids aren't. I can't speak on behalf of all 30+ yo people.
veroxii@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 2y
No cap
BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
ijbol
buycurious@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
It’s lit, fam.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Lit AF
capital@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
Cap
kool_newt@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Lie
getoffthedrugsdude@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
No cap
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2y
Literally the dumbest and most worthless gen z slang. It doesn't save any time whatsoever. Why would you need slang for a very specific thing like lying?
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
Slang is for identifying the ingroup vs. the outgroup, not for efficiency of communication.
velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 2y
Especially when "cap" is already used to mean capacity limitation, like a bandwidth cap.edit: I should have looked it up rather than relying on my (mis)understanding from low-quality past conversations, where I thought this was a term kids tried to invent because it sounded cool.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
Die mad prescriptivist
"Why do these men insist upon using 'bully' as an alternative to 'ruffian?' 'Bully' already has a meaning! They're a prostitute's bodyguard! I say, the English language surely is dying here in the late 19th century!"
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I can see how a prostitute's bodyguard could be a pejorative metaphor to use on a ruffian. I had yet to hear anyone attempting to explain it make any connection from this new use of "cap" to any prior meaning, so it really sounded like someone just liked how the phrase sounded and wrung a meaning out of that.
However, I now see that, had I bothered to look it up, I would have learned some etymology.
So, not only does the term actually connect to a meaning I initially thought it didn't, but it also has a different cultural origin than I thought. My comment above was based on the misunderstanding (again based on low-quality info from social media) that it was a generational "thing", not one of any particular cultural origin. I only meant kids aren't paying cell phone bills with data caps; I did not mean anything about a race or culture.
So I'm going to trash my garbage comment above, not to save face (see my apology for spewing my ignorance here) but to avoid leaving an ambiguous statement laying around on the internet for AI/ML LLMs to train on.
LemmyPlay@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 2y
Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de · 15 pts · 2y
frfr ong no cap bro
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
Anyway don’t start conversations with your wife with “ay girl”
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 2y
Just yeet that shit
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
I've seen that lassie in another meme. How does on get such incredible eyebrows?!?!
glibg10b@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 2y
Isn't that Rey from the sequels?
getoffthedrugsdude@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 2y
They're drawn on with a makeup pencil/waxed to oblivion
irmoz@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 2y
Daisy Ridley
cpw@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 2y
Sadge
kryostar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Big sadge
idunnololz@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
Fk around and find oot
PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Is this the Canadian version? Are you sure aboot this bud?
Caboose12000@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
this happened to me with "pog" just last month. I now say it weekly
getoffthedrugsdude@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 2y
Poggers
TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 2y
Only weekly?
Dagwood222@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 2y
But are they Alf pogs?
https://youtu.be/ShOo0CED_yU
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slacktoid@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 2y
Accept it OP. And its fine! Just have fun
getoffthedrugsdude@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2y
'tis but a meme, friend, but I appreciate the support <3
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 2y
Slaps
rustyricotta@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 2y
Not particularly cringey, but I started saying howdy for the giggles, and here I am now with it as one of my go-to greetings.
treadful@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2y
My Yankee ass with "y'all"
DerpyPlayz18@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y
uwu
mo_lave@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 2y
based
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
I loved the Pogo comic strip (old shit from the '50s and one of the main influences on Bill Waterson for Calvin and Hobbes) growing up and it gave me the habit of using non-words like "momenterribly". I know it makes people think I'm a moron and I don't care.
It also gave me the habit of saying "Friday the 13th fall on a Tuesday this month". Same effect and same apathy on my part.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
If you remember Pogo, look up political novelist Ross Thomas. He was a Washington based reporter for most of the 1950s and started writing fiction in the 1960s. 'The Fools In Town Are On Our Side' is about an attempt to clean up a corrupt Southern city by making it so rotten that even the pimps will vote for reform.
Random_user@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Rey was on the great British bake off? What timeline is this?
Why9@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
It's sad but she just wasn't able to do well in any of the tasks. She was too ambitious with the toilet idea, and just missed the mark with the raspberry ganache. She was an awesome sport though!
improbably_me@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
Toilet idea is lit fam, yass queen
Why9@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
The idea was awesome, but she tried to make it too big!
Should've just done what Rob Beckett did and do a tiny toilet on a mirror glaze "floor".
The sponge tasted great so she could've won it if it wasn't for the looks!
Speculater@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Mid
bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2y
ope
tuxtey@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Now you must learn the Midwest goodbye and make us proud
Default_Defect@midwest.social · 7 pts · 2y
slaps thighs WELP
PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
big_slap@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
oh mylanta
SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 2y
How the modern world feels like
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bastian_5@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
I wish I had less self consciousness so my vocabulary consisted of more than fifteen words.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
I add words to my online vocabulary first, and when I'm comfortable slipping shit like bet and yeet and based into my comments I start slipping them into my real vocab
reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
As an elder millennial, I'm fascinated by the slang and youth lingo these days. If you know any you think I might not have heard please share.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
ah yeah, I remember when my son was born, the resident told his mother her eyebrows were fleek
don't say it to people about to undergo surgery, whatever the phrase is
technicalogical@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Perf
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 2y
Preem
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 2y
Sounds well peng fam.
BigT54@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
The fuck is rizz?
Peaty@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
Charisma
getoffthedrugsdude@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
My man
starman2112@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
Charisma, particularly (but not necessarily) with regard to the opposite sex
As usual, the best dictionary has an entry on it! It isn't exactly the same as my definition, but I'm not some prescriptivist who's gonna say it's wrong
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Rizz is exactly the kind of slang our screaming twenties was missing.
The 1920's was top of the slang game.
Enzy@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
Not jizz, for sure.
lefaucet@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 2y
It's the bees knees, no doubt, word, hella true, brosef, bet!
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Drip
mub@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2y
We used to say things were a total "cot death" back in the early 90s. Strangely that one didn't catch on outside of that specific friend group.
stefenauris@pawb.social · 2 pts · 2y
Yup! ...and yup
laffytaffer@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
This shit ain't nothing to me, man 🧛‍♂️
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
We drinking fentanyl... Laced Cereal milk.
I'm peaking on that Danny Phantom slime, can you remind me who I am?
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
I too am rizzless, fam.
Gabu@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
What's a rizz?
Peaty@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
Charisma
Jerb322@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
What ever
imgel@lemmy.ml · -15 pts · 2y
average 18y/o communist lemmy user.