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

  • strawberry@kbin.run
    23·
    5 months ago

    dude even I can’t keep up anymore and I can’t even legally vote yet

    shit evolves too fast

    • TommySoda@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 months ago

      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.

    • saigot@lemmy.ca
      3·
      5 months ago

      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

        • saigot@lemmy.ca
          2·
          5 months ago

          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)

          • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            5 months ago

            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.

  • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
    8·
    5 months ago

    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.

  • Makeshift@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    5 months ago

    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)

    • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      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.”

    • TommySoda@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • Skua@kbin.earth
        3·
        5 months ago

        To be fair everything after the fifth word is essentially just tone marking

  • Thorry84@feddit.nl
    3·
    5 months ago

    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.

  • 5in1k@lemm.ee
    1·
    5 months ago

    Meeting the kids are why I don’t care about global warming anymore.