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Preventer79@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

"Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day

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"Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day

Preventer79@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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  • Jhex@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    if they last… most slang dies in a few years

  • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    Gnarly, tubular, radical, extreme to the max!!!

    • MrMcGasion@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      Even as a 90s kid I only heard half of those from the Super Mario World Special Zone level titles (along with Mondo).

  • Ginny [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    15 hours ago

    bet

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    I’m old and “cooking” was old when I was young.

    • Meowing Thing@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      Nah. It was just cooking

  • mathemachristian [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    15 hours ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6lWx-4Ypv4

  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    22 hours ago

    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.

    • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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      8 hours ago

      That is not very groovy of you.

    • Hupf@feddit.org
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      17 hours ago

      What you say‽

    • baatliwala@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      All dat has become allat now in meme speak so maybe not totally out of fashion

  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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    24 hours ago

    They are already getting there. Hearing forty year olds say it means kids are now stopping saying it.

    • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      21 hours ago

      Wazzuppppp, fellow youths!

      • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        It is time for a rap!

        • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          https://youtu.be/zljDDcTnTG0

          This is what I strive for in my old age.

      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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        21 hours ago

        I hear more millennial YouTubers using this language than I do highschoolers.

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          I would imagine because you spend way more time watching millennial YouTubers than you do hanging out with high school ers

          • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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            19 hours ago

            Yeah! Screw me for not wanting to hang around the little shits after having to deal with them at work right?

  • w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
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    They already are.

    Source: I’m old and I can use all those words correctly.

    • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      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.

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    Calvin and Hobbes comic about how transient slang is

    • kieron115@startrek.website
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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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    My 34 year-old brother says “rats!” when something bad happens. He learned from our grandpa.

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      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.

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      Oooh, I like that, I’m terrified of rats, so that would be a great replacement, for the usual word, when around kids, too.

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    By that time language may be unrecognizable by those of you still around

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    No cap

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    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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    I’m cooking spaghetti for dinner tonight. Yes, I’m old.

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      Who has a problem with spaghetti?

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        GenZ HATES spaghettis because their not WOKE like “bucatini” or “far fale”

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      deleted by creator

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    So will be “squeezin the juice”, just think about that one

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