• Darohan
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    Something to make you feel even older: yeet isn’t really considered “new” anymore 😬

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    I dont mind new slang if it can be understood from context. When people started using Yeet it was pretty clear what it meant.

    In the other hand my kids friends started saying everything was “so sigma” and it was clear that they didn’t know what it actually meant. Even when I looked on urban dictionary, I still couldn’t figure out what the definition was based on how it was being used.

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      I enjoyed sigma when it seemed to be a mockery of men being obsessed with acting “alpha” but it seems a lot of people use it unironically

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        Yeah, irony is lost on children so once a slang word that relies on being ironic starts being used by children it is pretty much dead.

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      Agreed, op gotta get that Ohio grind

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      I wonder if the word skibidi has out lasted its source only due to how fun it is to say. Can’t wait till mewing starts to embarrass the younger gens.

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        Skibidi is indeed a fun word to say.

        I look forward to making the younger generation cringe as I twist their own slang against them and shoe horn it into contexts not in any way originally skibidi’ed.

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    big yikes unc! 💀 but fr, that based af - it’s lit you understood the assignment. no glaze but you passed the vibe check, some salty boomers yap and get ratiod like a npc opp. gen z in our fire era we finna glow up, no cap 🗣️🔥🔥🙅‍♂️🧢

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      that used to be the slang when I was young, it’s outdated already. no clue what kids nowadays use.

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        I assume the most represented generation on Lemmy are millennials, with Z (and apparently Alpha are old enough) being underrepresented. I’d say X is probably underrepresented as well, but less so than younger. I like to think Lemmy is out here on the cutting edge, but I’m old so I’m probably wrong.

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    look, all you people saying " its not important for me to learn these words" are missing the fact that we get to be the old uncool adults that ruin these words,be that weird aunt that using the slang in the wrong way, or the dad repeating the same line until its beaten to death, Its our hard earned right to make the younger generations words lame and cringe!

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    I just don’t look it up. It’s not really necessary for me to know what the kids are talking about

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    My mom works in a school and her 3rd and 4th graders regularly use slang she doesn’t understand. She regularly texts me for translations so she knows if she needs to talk to the kids about inappropriate language. It’s the reason I’m so up to date on the current slang of kids and teens. Meanwhile, I still use yeet unironically every day. Apparently yeet is super outdated lol

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    With the pace how fast new words are being made up, I think even the younger generation needs to look up what something means.