How did all of this brain damage manifest itself?
You doin too much
Love that for you
Why?
Also, you can’t stop language from changing. Change is certain. We don’t talk like people 100 years ago and that’s a good thing.
My guess is they are used sarcastically/ironically and whoever made the board is sick of hearing them.
Those are phrases that get repeated verbatim as responses, which is the hypothetical reason they might be included on this (maaaaybe fake?) list. I’m actually slightly tired of them too, I have a couple students that really overuse them as responses to everything.
…Though I’d never be dumb enough to tell them that.Love that for you
Yeah making a list like this deserves doubling down on that kind of slang.
I’m betting (hoping?) this was done with a bit of tongue in cheek, especially since there’s a nice, close up picture of the list and it uses up significant board real estate.
Humbling kids with some self awareness is great, especially in middle school. Self reflection and metacognition (why do we do what we do?) are super important tools for kids and leads to more empathy and better conflict resolution.
If this is just a teacher being a crotchety conservative, then yeah, you’re right. But I’m willing to bet the kids even helped make the list and had a good time doing it.
Yeah, they forgot to put “on my soul” on the list, though the kids at my school are all illiterate, so they just parrot it as “oh my SO”.
Every. Five. Seconds.
The correct solution here is to just use these back at them at every opportunity. I feed on the cringe every time they say they didn’t do something and I get the privilege to respond, flatly and with enunciation: “Cap.”
This list is missing “on my soul”, which the illiterate children at my school (who have only ever heard it on snaptok and facegram, and are only poorly parroting it) replace with “oh my SO”.
Where grimace shake and skibidi shit
On da strempf
If my kid ever comes home from school with a picture like this I’m having words with the teacher. Let the children have their fun ffs
The principal is getting a 3 hour tense but polite discussion on prescriptivism vs descriptivism and he’s going to be defending descriptivism whether he likes it or nor and he’s going to lose the entire while being simply unable to hangup. This will never happen again.
Bruh, on God I’m not even gonna cap - you’re being such a sigma male with that low key bussin mood, but say less about the rizz because you’re doing too much with that type shit. Gucci fit, and I love that for you, but it’s giving major gyatt energy, so no cap, that’s high key straight fire, baka!
Bet
So “on God” means like “on God’s authority” or “for reals”?
It’s short for “I swear on god”
Even using “on” like that is a young zoomer thing I think.
I hear “on accident” a lot and it wasn’t a thing back in the day.
Demerits for misuse of “say less” and “baka”. Other than that, high marks!
“Say less” is etymologically tied to “say no more”. It is possible that I am wrong about “baka”, because I’m an otaku, but I presume they’re using it in the anime way, and not just completely divorcing it from its actual meaning. I might be giving them to much credit.
Doest baka more or less just mean “idiot\stupud”?
Yep
Then it looks like his statement makes total cringe sense.
You know what, you’re right, the preceding sentence is supposed to be critical of the listener, so they are actually misusing “straight fire”, which would imply something good.
It took me a while to realize this wasn’t a lookup table
Me too. Felt old before realizing it wasn’t a lookup table and then felt older after realizing it was a simple list.
On god I have a co-worker named Riz though. Straight bussin’.
I recall this meme from a year or so back with a different joke attached.
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Can we get a date on this? I don’t see skibidi or sus. And I’m most surprised to see the youths embracing finna
Based on my experience in the NE U.S., this list is current.
Skibidi isn’t on the list because no one unironically says skibidi. If you think they are, they’re trolling you.
I didn’t think unironic usage was a prereq for this list, just overuse/disruptive to a classroom
Not a prereq for the list, but a factor which explains why people aren’t overusing it in the first place lmao.
So saying the n-word is just fine? Really weird priorities here.
student: “Yo, bro do you have the answer to number 4?”
Teacher: “we don’t say this here”
Student: “I’m sorry you fucking teacher cunt”
Teacher: “its fine. just try to remember next time.”
I hate finna more than all the others.
it’s AAVE, not made up, and there’s literally no reason why “gonna” should be more legit. it’s the exact same construction.
“Going to” is far superior to “fixing to,” so I don’t know what you are talking about.
They don’t really mean the exact same thing, or at least not in my dialect. “Fixing to” implies that the thing will happen imminently, not just in the future.
Fair enough. I do think that connotation doesn’t necessarily carry over to the “gonna” and “finna” forms, but it’s a good point.
That said, “fixing to” still grates on my brain in ways I can’t begin to describe.
Why do you think it’s superior?
That’s a fair question. My most honest answer isn’t a very good one: I can’t stand it.
Linguistically, I don’t get it. “Fixing to” doesn’t seem to offer any benefit over “about to” or “going to” and as far as I can tell it doesn’t have any logical meaning at all.
So, just for clarification, you’re ok with “boutta”?
but that’s not how language works. if you’re gonna dissect parts of phrases like this, “about to” makes even less sense.
None of those words will make me like it.
I mean it’s as made up as any other slang
why do i never hear someone bitch about “gonna” then
Because “gonna” is centuries old, while “finna” only started getting popular around 2010.
Not exactly an apples to apples comparison, ‘younger’ slang is always going to be less ‘familiar’/‘normal’-sounding.
You’re not old enough. Teachers bitched about ‘gonna’ when I was a kid, it’s old hat now.
you got me there; i was born a century too late in the 1900s.
“All slang is made up” and “a lot of people are racist (or at the very least ignorant)” are not mutually exclusive statements. Finna is equally as “made up” as gonna or even skibbity.
i know but my point is that this is pointless pedantry.
True, I just suppose I feel saying a word is or isn’t made up doesn’t really mean anything, versus saying a word is actually actively used and understood by a group of people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3QQDAKxUIk from a linguist about finna (and gonna and other things)
Yesssss it’s language Jones!
- literally