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
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.
I already cringe at how I spoke a year or two ago (whenever pog was a thing) 👍
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
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.
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What, "way to go" isn't good enough any more?
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.
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...
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.
furiously googling how to tell zoomers to get off my ~~lawn~~ community greenspace
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.
But we have no lawns to tell them to get off of
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)
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."
That's witerally cwazy. Skibidy rizz.
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.
this morning I shat masel fr fr fam no cap bet go brrrrr.
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
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.
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.
Cool beans man, cool beans
Pretty hip if I say so myself.
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!
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
shat mesel
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.
Meeting the kids are why I don’t care about global warming anymore.
"Bruh no cap fr you fixin to high key catch these hands"
"I hope your entire generation starves from climate induced famine."
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