I’m getting better at understanding them
But damn sometimes I spend more time searching for definitions to understand it than it actually takes to read it
I did an indoor skydiving thing once and there’s a lesson beforehand. My partner and I did the required skills well and our young instructor said “Let’s go” and so we got up to leave the room. Incorrect, he was just expressing approval.
I’m trying to decide if that’s on you or the instructor. My first thought was to blame the instructor for being confusing. But now that I’ve thought about it some more, if you had just said something remarkable and they responded “no way, get out of here!” then you probably wouldn’t have thought they were literally telling you to leave.
So yeah… you might just be getting old.
No doubt I’m getting old. Not blaming either party, but clarity is important sometimes. This was not one of those times.
What, “way to go” isn’t good enough any more?
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shat mesel
That’s witerally cwazy. Skibidy rizz.
dude even I can’t keep up anymore and I can’t even legally vote yet
shit evolves too fast
I almost feel bad for you guys. You guys are gonna feel old a lot sooner than I did. The way I spoke was still relevant at least until I was 23ish and then slowly tapered off.
Just take solace in the fact that when you guys are all my age you’re gonna cringe so fucking hard at the way you spoke you’ll collapse into a black hole. It happens to all of us so it’s probably better if you know less.
After I watched slang evolve multiple times across only a couple of generations, I stopped worrying about being in, and realized as a writer that slang older than the parental generation stays classy. Also, there’s no correct way to use a living language. References might tell us what was the norm at the moment they were published, but they were obsolete before they were sold.
I may have to invent a dialect combining Newspeak and Nadsat and go extra crunchy.
I already cringe at how I spoke a year or two ago (whenever pog was a thing) 👍
Pog was a thing when Bleeding Gums Murphy died.
That’s was certainly 3 years ago, in 1998
1998 was 10 years ago lol.
Hey, let’s not choose violence here, this is a family restaurant
Lol was pog ever a thing?? I’ve only ever heard streamers use it, and verbalizing emote names is always gonna be cringe imo
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I was listening to H.G. Wells on audiobook today and it’s both cool and sometimes difficult to listen to the old timey English. Like it’s close enough to be familiar and mostly understood, but also different enough to sound like a whole other language.
Language evolves and I think that’s cool. The more people we have and the more ways of communicating, the more it will evolve.
The evolution of language is beautiful IMO
I’ve read books from over a hundred years ago and their modern translations and the differences are sometimes pretty drastic
Listening to those radio plays from back in the day is pretty awesome as well
This modern slang is damn gibberish. Back in my day, at least our slang made some gramatical sense, it was simply noun replacement, and some adverbs/verbs. Now get off my lawn.
Jive was the same way.
But do you speak jive?
I don’t speak it, but considering this scene from Airplane (1980) ( on YouTube ) I understood the whole conversation.
Of course this is Hollywood jive, and like other languages, it’s subject to regional vernacular variance which might be beyond me.
Lol that’s exactly what I was referencing, hell yeah
It isn’t gibberish and it makes grammatical sense. You just don’t understand the unspoken rules around the slang.
But sure grandma let’s get you to bed :P
Cool beans man, cool beans
Pretty hip if I say so myself.
Whatup dawg, I am fly as well!
I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I’m with isn’t it, and what’s it seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you!
Copacetic, one might even say
Indubitably
It do be like that
I surprised someone in my (very mixed age) friend group when, mid-game, I went to KnowYourMeme to look up the history of “gyatt” and what the heck it meant to see if the name of the random player “WhatTheGyatt” was inappropriate or not.
The fact that the word had history evoked surprise.
I still don’t LIKE it, but now I know where it came from and what they’re trying to say.
(I also had to look up “rizz” because my not-school-aged brain thinks it sounds like jizz and was confused why a bunch of kids would be playing cum tag??? Turns out, it does NOT mean jizz)
Shizzle for rizzle is the pitch you make to secure your requisition.
fo’ sizzle
I think I’ve seen it before, but I had no idea what gyatt meant until I just looked it up. I was able to figure out, after learning it was most commonly used to express shock at seeing a large female butt, that it derived from the first syllable of “goddamn.”
Behold! Beowulf in the original English:
i mean it’s a bit unfair to show it in a different font, if i wrote this in wingdings you wouldn’t understand shit either.
Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon. Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum, monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah, egsode eorlas. Syððan ærest wearð feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad, weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah, oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra ofer hronrade hyran scolde, gomban gyldan. þæt wæs god cyning. ðæm eafera wæs æfter cenned, geong in geardum, þone god sende folce to frofre; fyrenðearfe ongeat þe hie ær drugon aldorlease lange hwile. Him þæs liffrea, wuldres wealdend, woroldare forgeaf; Beowulf wæs breme blæd wide sprang, Scyldes eafera Scedelandum in.
Different font? This is literally a picture of the original.
He/she probably meant hand, not font. Most people don’t know the terminology regarding letterforms.
yeah, and as you can very obviously see it does not look like modern text, the average person would struggle to identify most letters.
My point is that using a text written in what is effectively a completely different writing system isn’t a fair comparison, of course it’s going to be impossible to understand when you can’t tell what the letters are! That doesn’t tell you anything about how different the actual language is.
yeah, and as you can very obviously see it does not look like modern text
Because it’s not; that was the point. It’s still English, but is unrecognizable as such. It literally looks like “some kind of elvish.”
except the major difference is just that it uses funny letters, which you can do with any language and that doesn’t mean the actual language itself is different!
You’re effectively taking dutch, writing it in cyrillic script, and going “look at how different the languages are” when in fact dutch is generally easier to comprehend than a thick scottish dialect.
I never really understood at what point a language evolves enough to be an entirely new language.
Old English feels so far removed from even middle English, let alone modern English.
We have “new” and “old” to differentiate them, but with how many Latin words alone entered English between Old English and Modern English, It’s something I’ve never found a comprehensive answer to.
I guess, what is it about proto-indo European that we acknowledge as a distinct language from the hundreds of thousands of languages that evolved from it, other than time scale and global impact.
卄乇ㄥㄥ ㄚ乇卂卄 乃尺ㄖㄒ卄乇尺
Meeting the kids are why I don’t care about global warming anymore.
The rest of your generation is similar. It shows.
“Bruh no cap fr you fixin to high key catch these hands”
“I hope your entire generation starves from climate induced famine.”
Threatening someone isn’t nice, but yeah, cursing for them to starve in the apocalypse is also poor form.
Yep, that’s where I’m at.
Yeah, we can tell you and your generation don’t care.
Most millennials care. I’m just over us. Humans deserve the slap down coming.
No they don’t, if they cared they would’ve done something about the state of things.
They don’t care exactly like you. They are “over us”.
Skibidi toilet fanum tax Ohio
Yes. snatching food off the plates of strangers is weird and off-putting.
Skibidi brain straight up goated.
Some Ohio rizz Fr Fr Fr
Ohio rolling paper France France France.
Ohio rolling paper France France France.
real
this morning I shat masel fr fr fam no cap bet go brrrrr.
Curously, bet. is short for a bet you can take to the bank while bet? is short for a bet you might not want to take.
I hate that I understand that. I don’t have kids, I just have a friend that uses all that lingo even though he’s 30. He’s super cool, but super cringe some times lol.
To be fair everything after the fifth word is essentially just tone marking
Back in my day we didn’t call it rizz, we called it relatability
Rizz is Kah-RIZZ-mah (charisma). Usually used in the context of one person hitting on another with reciprocated attraction.
No, rizz is game.
Pretty much the same thing, but the term rizz is literally the shortening of the word charisma. Probably related to pizazz.
Relatability is only part of charisma. Impression of things like likeability, knowledge, and authority play an essential role.
This is such a weird performative thing, why are we pretending kids are speaking some incomprehensible foreign language? Aside from a couple pieces of really specific slang, most of which is only ever used ironically anyway (I’m looking at you, “skibidi”), it’s the exact same evolution of language and slang as every other previous generation before it, just perhaps with a wider spread and more global influence. And almost all of it can be deciphered with little effort: Rizz = ChaRISma, Gyatt = GYATTdamn (goddamn), etc.
Like I know we’re all eventually going to become the next generation of boomers, such is the curse of time, but jesus christ y’all don’t have to fucking speedrun to that conclusion.
I don’t know about you, but personally I always planned to be better to the generation that followed me than the generation that preceded mine was to us.
personally I always planned to be better to the generation that followed me than the generation that preceded mine was to us.
And this is why I make the effort to understand. We don’t have to make the same mistakes of the past, we have to tools to understand.
And I do my best, I look up the words I don’t know and can’t figure out. And worst case I simply ask.
Rizz = ChaRISma, Gyatt = GYATTdamn (goddamn), etc.
Erhm… As a non native speaker, WTF?
Rizz, first thing that comes to mind is rice. GYATT… Dunno. Gynaecologist I guess…
No cap fr fr
I guess GYATT is playing into that southern accent.
Shibby
furiously googling how to tell zoomers to get off my
lawncommunity greenspaceBut we have no lawns to tell them to get off of
fam fr fr, u bein here is high key cheugy. Stop simping for my eco friendly wood vaneer, take the L or u’ll catch these hands Periodt
Dafuq is cheugy
it’s a pejorative for people who aren’t following the trends and particularly the now out of fashion trends from the 2010’s (live laugh love signs, mom jeans, minions, holds up spork, girl bossing etc) that’s now associated with being behind the times, tryharding etc, but has evolved to a general term for people who are uncool.
(I am a millennial though for the record so maybe I’m not using it right :D)
I’d never heard it before. After looking it up, that appears to be the correct usage. It’s one of those slang words with no apparent etymology. It refers to a pretty specific time period, so it will probably have a short shelf life unless it changes in meaning.
I’ll add the opposite of cheugy is basic and still negative. Basic people conform too much to the current trends, are trying too hard to be in the groove, and are hence seen as shallow and artificial.
So you can’t win either way, but it was this way in the 1980s too.
The only Time is Morris Day’s, and that’s the hill I’ll die on.
Also how do you pronounce it? Chew-gey?
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