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13h ago

When did I get so old

I feel dead at 24

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You can make up words at any age.
- If you also make up a way to pronounce them, a grammar and potentially a culture to go with it, you've just made a conlang

Older generations need to start inventing slang again to noogle the kids.
- Even if you have a butcher's at what already exists the belly fruits won't know whether to shit or go blind, you can really lair it up
  
  These jerps don't know their hand from their splint when it comes to laying lair, kin. Ytk tho on some true dangler shit lololol
- We can just use what we always have, ya dig?
  
  That'd be reet kewl.

I am a bit older than 24 and enjoy learning the new patoi tbh. It's super interesting to me how language evolves endlessly in all these innumerable offshoots and how niche cultures generate all these different codes and concepts and wordplay and stuff.
I like that the youth are forever both borrowing from the old and scouting new grounds of their own in these ways and in countless others as well. So the renewal and rechristening of culture is based and I-like-it-pilled akchooly 🤓
- Good use of patois, but it's spelled with an 's' :)
  
  Kids ain't even know how to spell patwa, I feel u tho cuz I'm cool af. Fr fr.
  $rm cli args make the best slang.
- Bro you are so hip that your rizz is higher than the Empire State Building.
  
  That’s so skibidi Ohio, chat, no cap.

This helped me but it is only valid for 15 minutes
- 13 of those terms are not new at all lol glad to see there’s at least some overlap between generations.
  Now if we can just psyop them into using “rad” and “sick” again 👀
  
  Totally tubular!
- Ts pmo sm vro 🥀🥀 u mst b empl*yed gng 🙏🥀🥀🥀🪫🪫

The earliest urban dictionary entry for yeet was made in 2008, when you are literally part of the generation that popularized the word.
- And it was a dance move performed on bikes. Literally pumping the chest up and down with arms spread wide (like flying an airplane), while riding a bicycle, in a group.

You would have been a child when yeet started becoming popular though

"Yeet" is 10 years old now.
- Jesus Christ.... I'm old enough to have kids that would have said yet.... where's my ibuprofen?

Up to 24 people are sympathetic. You will find a lot of people that will (correctly) say "you're young. Just enjoy your time you don't need to worry about where you're headed. It will come to you". Wait until next year. 25 is when that changes to "what the fuck are you doing with your life". Basically what I'm saying is you're not old. Until next year.
- Then there's 26, when in the US you get kicked off your parents' insurance & you can go fuck yourself! 🤗
- fr fr no cap
- I'm old enough to literally not care one bit what the youngins do or if I really understand them. I don't need them to be my clone to live them. They got their thing just like I had mine. Circle of life.

I'm old and new words are neat

I'm 40+ and I keep inventing words with friends, why blame the young ones ?
(I mean except for the fact that they listen to shitty music and ours was better 👴)
- You probably just forgot about all the bad music you used to listen to and now compares all the new stuff to the best from your time.
  
  That was supposed to be an old grumpy man joke
- That Lo fi shit kids listen to is such trash. I know im an old man now but damn, even the 2010s had more bearable music
  
  ...what's wtong with lofi? It's background noise that helps tons of people focus.
  
  I don’t know what happened circa 2005 where radio stations banded together to only play the worst music but there is still good music around. It just doesn’t see play in avenues you’re exposed to
  (This extends to streaming)

Scientists: ^(hold ^beer) ...

You're zenging, mosh

Isn't he cheering in that scene?

OP glazing

I like to use 1920s slang to even things out.
Well, got to skedaddle.

Is now a bad time to point out that all words are made up? If your generation got to do it, there's no reason to begrudge any other.

Meh. The churn of brain rot on social media platforms has become so desperate I don’t even try to figure it out anymore. Too many vainglorious fameremoved all trying to coin terms or “challenges” making it a massive churn of ever-shifting garbage to steer views their direction.
- I mean, before the stupid challenges it was Jackass; before that it was America's Funniest Home Videos. Dumb entertainment has always existed.
  
  AFV edited the shit of its show. People didn’t get hurt, there were no politics, it was silliness and “family” entertainment.
  Jackass was all about stupid humans hurting each other or themselves. But they didn’t imply or tell you to engage in the stupidity.
  The social media tools today are actively and willfully destructive. Doesn’t matter if it’s telling outright lies about politics or the sciences, or “challenging” people to do risky or damaging things.
  Yeah, stupid humans have done stupid things since forever, but now they’re paid to do it and encourage others to do so as well.

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