• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    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.

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      1 hour ago

      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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    6 hours ago

    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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    9 hours ago

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

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      6 hours ago

      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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      11 hours ago

      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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        10 hours ago

        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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    9 hours ago

    And the nursing homes will be full of Arya, Daenarys, and Khaleesi. Boys movie names tend to be pretty underwhelming. Maybe a bunch of “Wades” from Deadpool.

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    they already are in black communities, teens see tiktok comments and go wow new slang, a lot of this shit isnt new tho, like bop wasnt new but everyone acted like it was a new tiktok word, neither was thot on twitter or many others, rizz isnt new, its been around, cooking and based? not new at all

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      Nothing is new under the sun.

      I heard that once in a bible class and it’s stuck with me ever since. And imo it beautifully encapsulates humanity’s trends and fads.

      Language is an ever-evolving thing, but at the same time, how many variations of something can be made before we’ve made all of them? Humanity has been around for thousands of years; I find it hard to believe that just about any word we could come up with is actually brand new and no other human has heard it before.

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        15 hours ago

        Where do you think tiktok slang comes from? It’s just popular slang someone uses in a comment that middleschool kids who are from different areas, that have never heard it before parrot, because they literally just copy popular comments bar for bar hoping to get likes

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            rizz comes from African Americans Vernacular English and has been around for decades…. white kids on tiktok recently learned it…

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              I’ve been around for decades too, even living in California, and the first time I’ve heard the word is recently with the new generation of tiktok people.

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                well slang is very regional, as well as specific to different subcultures… like gamers have tons of slang/jargon…
                seems like kids like to appropriate slang from elsewhere (often black slang, probably from music), then they assume they invented it and gatekeep it, then it progresses to boring or becomes part of the language like “cool”….
                but whatever, i’m down with it… it’s totally tubular!