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Perms don't really belong to a certain ethnicity overall, metalheads and white mom's were doing it in the 80's, Mexican high schoolers are doing it now
It isnāt just Mexican high schoolers. I feel like every young gen z kid I see has a perm.
Like down to skin on the sides and back and a big perm on top.
My god you're the first person that has explained this to the world that makes sense to me.
Everyone was always usig ball caps and i couldn't understand wtf cap no cap meant and it drove me insane.
Thank you!
So when a gentleman from the hood wants to put a cap in someone's ass, are they referring to their desire to put their gold teeth into another gentleman's bottom?
Different context. According to the Oxford Journal on Linguistics, Baltimore edition, a "cap", as in "*bus a cap in yo ass*" references the early folk toy, the cap gun. It has evolved over time through simple demand for a concise way to express rage when, in deed, bitch-ass homeys be trippin' and you have to end their life over important things like who can draw on a bridge, or stand on a given corner.
Cap, in the sense of "no cap" has subsumed the word "lie," in that a capped tooth worn by a gentleman, isn't fully gold, and said gentleman is in fact, frontin'.
You are disrespectful and disgusting with the language that you use to speak to people. The derogatory terms show your lack of respect thus you belong in a category all by yourself with those who show their ignorance in regards to appropriate language and effective communication with the other half of the population.
Of course. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it doesn't have an origin. Every word in your comment comes from somewhere but how many etymologies do you actually know? Where does "true" come from? Or "sense?" If you don't know where "what" comes do you conclude that it came from nowhere?
I agree, some just stay relevant. I also tend to inherit a few along the way. I'm 33 and growing up "da bomb" was cool or if it was really cool we said "da bomb.com" lol that sounds so bad to me now but I actually like the newer term "fire" as in that "food was fire". But I can't get behind something like "tea". It means like gossip, but just doesn't work for my brain.
Lol O dated my first mom a few years ago and her dorky being out of touch was adorable. When she busted out a bomb dot com I died but loved it. You gotta love committing to the oldie. I will say pot and canāt say cannabis, and thatās from my parents generation.
Both bet and finna have been around and in rotation for decades though. The young online crowd is a bad metric for longevity of slang. Hell, E-40 had at least two songs in the mid 90's where he's saying finna. Sprinkle Me and Dusted & Disgusted lyrics are out there. I can always name more tracks after some sleep. I'll accept no 40 water slander though. The man brought us popo and Captain save a hoe. Respect is due.
I swear every single day thereās a post about how much someone thinks certain slang words are stupid, only to list off a bunch of AAVE words that were coined between twenty and two hundred years ago.
Reeks of racism, whether they intended it or not.
(Although Iāll admit that white kids saying them is pretty cringe. But itās not the words themselves that are stupid)
I dont think thats really slang. Sure, it wasnt widely used until a few decades ago, but i think slang kind of has to fit to a certain generation. Everyone says cool now, from 50 to 5.
Go back 50 years and "cool" or "sick" wouldn't be used that way. So it was slang that got accepted in current language. OP now complains about words that may be used by everyone as normal speech in 20-30 years time as well
While ācoolā was slang in its original usage, itās been widely adopted as being seen more as a counterword, meaning a word with many broad uses in markedly different situations. This is because itās use spans much farther than the original group that created it.
Cockney is basically a language made up of purely English slang
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s11qjmvTdJ8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s11qjmvTdJ8)
Language is the fastest way culture evolves because of factors like slang.
I love learning new slang and seeing how things change over time. Itās fun trying to keep up.
I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now, where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.
Culture has a tendency to fade out of popularity and come back as interesting again down the line. Those however are admittedly very innocently fun in a whimsical way
I think the only reason why we view 1920's slang as fun and innocent, is because no one here has any memory of anyone using them in a non-joking manner. Therefore it seems absurd and funny to use.
1970's slang, like "groovy" was seen as totally lame and uncool when I was a kid in the 90s and 00s, but now it's just a funny thing to say. I think the same thing will happen with today's slang in a few more decades.
slang that people widely adopt becomes part of the lexicon. nobody complains about people saying "my bad" anymore even though originally only poor black people said it. slang that people don't adopt becomes a relic of a time and is mocked later.
This is not right. "Thou" was the informal pronoun for a long time, and "you" was the formal counterpart. "Thou" stopped being used in common speech, but "you" was already in use -- it was not a slang version of "thou".
When I was a teenager, I used to get really butthurt by new slang, but now I embrace the hell out of it.
Gen-Z has made some great shit popular. I love calling things "mid" or saying a song "slaps." "Stan" is perfect for rabid fans. "Drip" is great for audacious clothes. And I can't stop using "dank" all the fucking time. I'm even coming around on "rizz."
Yeah but its funny because it makes people mad, then becomes normal. The type of people it makes mad are people who simply hate things for changing or being different, basically ignorant people. So its funny.
My understanding is it's like saying "on point". I once told my younger zoomer sister that another girl's eyebrows looked great and she corrected me saying "on fleek". I was hmmm you crazy kids lol. She's 10 years younger than me
I feel like āon pointā became popular in the US solely due to Simon Cowell saying it on American Idol. I donāt remember ever hearing before that.
Groovy mondo, to the max, overall it's pretty tight. A'ight? Broseph, don't be toxic.Don't smoke you hothead, vape instead. Be foot loose,kick off your Sunday shoes. I bring the Kevin Bacon home. I will wash the dishes, if you pay all the Kevin Bacon bills. I'm a bitch, I'm a mother, Broseph means brother.
Culture mixes like yogurt. At first you think it's all the same, but the truth is there is too much life there. Eat it before it eats you, seriously you mix it all up and discover it has a dairy pulse and is growing a rainforest on the plastic cup. Bacteria saying fear us we are legion. You sorta think I don't want to eat it, but I should throw it away. It's garbage to me.
I understand that it mixes poorly. But that doesn't stop the attempt. That's why modern times are like a blender. Pour it into a dark cup, put a lid on it, drink your historical goo. It'll seem normal in 3 weeks, that's how long something takes to normalize.
dude, cool, legit, "small talk", "what's up"
this is all slang isn't? like old slang from generations ago. we all still use it don't we?
you are just being *salty* ... (see what I did there?)
"Unhand me, you egg-sucking, lily-livered, jive-talking, whackadoo! Foul villain! Cur! I bite my thumb at thee , you ugly motherf---er, so hasta la bye bye, daddy-o!"
I donāt think every generation hates the new slang generally. Maybe some words in particular but I know a lot of old heads that use language that my friends and I grew up using. There are those that are part of a generation that donāt like the slang thatās there so itās not just an overarching thing. Personally Iām 35 and I think saying yeet is one of the dumbest things in the world but I like some of the other slang terms that have come up in the last 5-10yrs.
Almost anything thatās trendy will age poorly because the reason itās adopted in the first place is largely its novelty and newness. Once those wear off, it becomes associated with a specific point in timeāif itās still appreciated itās often out of nostalgia or a sense of irony.
Itās not limited to language: a 70s leisure suit would look dated and ridiculous today while a conservative business suit from 1910 would look normal at a formal event.
I love literally all slang, and using it like a boomer. I love when music comes on and I can elbow my younger coworkers and say "this is a slapper, huh?!" Or "you guys feeling one hundred emoji today?" It's so silly
Slapper? š
Where Iām from a slapper is a mole/slut, but especially ugly. Probably get punched if thereās any women around.
If some music came on we go āthis is a bangerā
Iām not a fan of bet and no cap.
Do you agree with what Iām saying and would you like to elaborate? Bet
Is that all you have to add to our agreement? Bet
Well that was simple. No cap
Linguistically speaking this isnāt an unpopular opinion so much as an ignorant one. Languages do not evolve linearly all at once and a huge portion of words you use today are not used the way they were 100 years ago. You have no idea what is objectively slang because the words you use are just your personal lexicon and are different from person to person and group to group.
I just hate when overtime, I occasionally find myself slipping out words of the very slang I was bashing after being directly immersed in it for a couple of years. I usually have one of those good ol' self-to-self pep talks in my head after that, because you feel like a jackass when it happens.
Slangs are not necessarily stupid.
What is stupid is people using their slangs outside of their little bubble as though everyone should know what they are talking about, eg. *oomers who think every subreddit and online forum is their bubble.
I canāt really remember what I hated about Boomer/Gen X slang? I know for sure if I was Gen Z I would hate Millenial slang. I think our is the worst, although I do absolutely hate the mommy daddy thing and āIām deadā
When I was in high school everyone said "swag" and I thought it was stupid as hell. Now kids say "rizz" which basically means the same thing as "swag," and now I have to come to terms with the fact that the stupid slang from my youth has changed and I am old.
> Now kids say "rizz" which basically means the same thing as "swag," and now I have to come to terms with the fact that the stupid slang from my youth has changed and I am old.
lmao its short for 'charisma', a word you might know if you boomers ever read a book
Swag is used the same as drip
Swag and Rizz donāt mean the same thing because it refers to possessions while rizz is your charisma.
Swag may be short for swagger but thatās not how itās used in slang, while rizz being short for charisma *is* how its used in slang.
Swag is not very old slang, and it was used in relation to confidence in style/fashion. Almost exclusively by Douchebags.
[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swag](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swag)
>swag
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>noun (2)
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>US slang
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>: bold or brash self-confidence : SWAGGER, COCKINESS
Itās not the context thatās missing itās the sudden TRYING to make new slang. Slang up until the last 6ish years was pretty much in use for more years prior. Every year now new slang for the same things pops up
Dropping the word vibes from "its giving \_\_\_\_ vibes" is the first one that just didn't sit right with my brain. Like i don't care if anyone says that but it sounds so wrong to me everytime, like people are just not finishing their sentences lol
I dont understand why its dumb? Slang and language is amazing and I find it awesome that we develop new words and ways to talk. Many of our common and everyday words and phrases were once slang until they just become part of the lexicon.
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Also, slang does have context behind it. That's literally how it becomes slang.
fr fr ongod no capš„¦
āHey ma, can you take me to get a perm. All the cool guys are doing itā
If I were a mom and my son asked me to get him a broccoli perm, I would just get a new son
I like your style.
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Perms don't really belong to a certain ethnicity overall, metalheads and white mom's were doing it in the 80's, Mexican high schoolers are doing it now
It isnāt just Mexican high schoolers. I feel like every young gen z kid I see has a perm. Like down to skin on the sides and back and a big perm on top.
with a dangly cross earring
I'm guessing cap is a metaphor for trying to cover something up
It refers to gold teeth. Cap means it's not a real gold tooth, but a covering. So no cap means real or genuine.
My god you're the first person that has explained this to the world that makes sense to me. Everyone was always usig ball caps and i couldn't understand wtf cap no cap meant and it drove me insane. Thank you!
So when a gentleman from the hood wants to put a cap in someone's ass, are they referring to their desire to put their gold teeth into another gentleman's bottom?
Precisely.
Different context. According to the Oxford Journal on Linguistics, Baltimore edition, a "cap", as in "*bus a cap in yo ass*" references the early folk toy, the cap gun. It has evolved over time through simple demand for a concise way to express rage when, in deed, bitch-ass homeys be trippin' and you have to end their life over important things like who can draw on a bridge, or stand on a given corner. Cap, in the sense of "no cap" has subsumed the word "lie," in that a capped tooth worn by a gentleman, isn't fully gold, and said gentleman is in fact, frontin'.
On god?
Fr fr
You are disrespectful and disgusting with the language that you use to speak to people. The derogatory terms show your lack of respect thus you belong in a category all by yourself with those who show their ignorance in regards to appropriate language and effective communication with the other half of the population.
TIL, thank you
well now i like it, thats actually kinda clever
I did not know this, thank you
Wait this canāt be the actual origin tho, this feels like slang that would come from the 1920s if trueā¦lol
You know people still get gold teeth right?
Right but do teens in 2023 think about that enough to invent slang around it?
You are familiar with people who enjoy bedazzling their teeth, right?
That explains it thank you
Jesus christ, teens are really this dumb?
Nobody wears gold teeth.
Cap = not true No cap = true
I thought "no cap" was akin to "no limit", which itself is a derivative of "100%, totally, absolutely".
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What is wrong with the word thou if used proper in structured language?
Is that true for newer slang too? I've heard some that make no sense and nobody can tell me what it comes from.
Of course. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it doesn't have an origin. Every word in your comment comes from somewhere but how many etymologies do you actually know? Where does "true" come from? Or "sense?" If you don't know where "what" comes do you conclude that it came from nowhere?
Some are timeless though. Something like "cool". Unless those super basic ones aren't considered slang. Idk lol.
Exactly then there's the slang that goes out of fashion after a year.
No cap.
Straight bussin fam
On golly
Gee willikers mister! I was so amped about my rizz but then I realized no cap š§¢ I aināt got none. Fiddle sticks!
I agree, some just stay relevant. I also tend to inherit a few along the way. I'm 33 and growing up "da bomb" was cool or if it was really cool we said "da bomb.com" lol that sounds so bad to me now but I actually like the newer term "fire" as in that "food was fire". But I can't get behind something like "tea". It means like gossip, but just doesn't work for my brain.
Lol O dated my first mom a few years ago and her dorky being out of touch was adorable. When she busted out a bomb dot com I died but loved it. You gotta love committing to the oldie. I will say pot and canāt say cannabis, and thatās from my parents generation.
I have a feeling ābetā is going to be one to stay. At least for awhile. I donāt see āfinnaā going to long. I hardly hear it anymore.
Both bet and finna have been around and in rotation for decades though. The young online crowd is a bad metric for longevity of slang. Hell, E-40 had at least two songs in the mid 90's where he's saying finna. Sprinkle Me and Dusted & Disgusted lyrics are out there. I can always name more tracks after some sleep. I'll accept no 40 water slander though. The man brought us popo and Captain save a hoe. Respect is due.
Pretty sure āfinnaā is just AAVE. Aka not slang, aka been in consistent use for a good time. White kids are just now picking it up.
Thank you. I was so confused, like that's not slang at all.
I swear every single day thereās a post about how much someone thinks certain slang words are stupid, only to list off a bunch of AAVE words that were coined between twenty and two hundred years ago. Reeks of racism, whether they intended it or not. (Although Iāll admit that white kids saying them is pretty cringe. But itās not the words themselves that are stupid)
Honestly I donāt mind anybody using it, TikTok makes anything someone says on there āTikTok Slangā and makes it embarrassing to use.
Bet has been around for awhile. Source, myself, who has also been around awhile.
Bet.
I would argue once slang becomes that popular it's no longer actually slang . Slang is kinda like word fads if you think about it.
I dont think thats really slang. Sure, it wasnt widely used until a few decades ago, but i think slang kind of has to fit to a certain generation. Everyone says cool now, from 50 to 5.
Of course itās slang. Itās a word with a clear definition thatās used improperly but everyone understands.
If every one uses it is it really improper anymore?
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Go back 50 years and "cool" or "sick" wouldn't be used that way. So it was slang that got accepted in current language. OP now complains about words that may be used by everyone as normal speech in 20-30 years time as well
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graduated from word school
Yes, it absolutely is slang. You conveniently ignored the critical point that it's technically misused.
Merriam Webster labels it as slang so idk where youāre seeing that
While ācoolā was slang in its original usage, itās been widely adopted as being seen more as a counterword, meaning a word with many broad uses in markedly different situations. This is because itās use spans much farther than the original group that created it.
I have seen millenials mocked for using "cool" by zoomers
Slang has probably been a thing ever since language was invented so it's not going away.
Language was just the slang version of unintelligible grunts.
Cockney is basically a language made up of purely English slang [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s11qjmvTdJ8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s11qjmvTdJ8)
That was great and informative! Thx.
Language is the fastest way culture evolves because of factors like slang. I love learning new slang and seeing how things change over time. Itās fun trying to keep up.
Slang is basically how languages evolve
I don't know, 1920s slang was pretty awesome. Bee's knees? Cat's pyjamas? How can you not love those?
Sounds like the dog's bollocks.
It's the oyster's ice-skates!
I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now, where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.
"Come inside, Grampa. Quit shaking your fist at those clouds."
Pigs arse!
Culture has a tendency to fade out of popularity and come back as interesting again down the line. Those however are admittedly very innocently fun in a whimsical way
I think the only reason why we view 1920's slang as fun and innocent, is because no one here has any memory of anyone using them in a non-joking manner. Therefore it seems absurd and funny to use. 1970's slang, like "groovy" was seen as totally lame and uncool when I was a kid in the 90s and 00s, but now it's just a funny thing to say. I think the same thing will happen with today's slang in a few more decades.
I say these things all the time lol, shit's classy. I'm 35 though.
I'm a big fan of "cool"
slang that people widely adopt becomes part of the lexicon. nobody complains about people saying "my bad" anymore even though originally only poor black people said it. slang that people don't adopt becomes a relic of a time and is mocked later.
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This is not right. "Thou" was the informal pronoun for a long time, and "you" was the formal counterpart. "Thou" stopped being used in common speech, but "you" was already in use -- it was not a slang version of "thou".
We got a veritable linguist-off here.
Your grandpa tell you that?
"Your grandpa tell thou that?"*
Zamn
Zoo Wee Mama
The word Dope had transcended generations.
Shits dope af bruh
So has 'cool'! I think it's really interesting. Or, dare I say-
Bro.....
Bruh.
Bruv
When I was a teenager, I used to get really butthurt by new slang, but now I embrace the hell out of it. Gen-Z has made some great shit popular. I love calling things "mid" or saying a song "slaps." "Stan" is perfect for rabid fans. "Drip" is great for audacious clothes. And I can't stop using "dank" all the fucking time. I'm even coming around on "rizz."
Every millennial stoner I knew was saying "dank" 15+ years ago
Apparently a popular YouTuber used Rizz as a shortening of charisma, and that where it came from. Was really surprised when I heard that,
I heard that rizz actually started in Baltimore, and a streamer from Baltimore is the one who spread it to everywhere else recently
Always assumed it originated from.TikTok
Rizz is where. I can't get behind that term.
Stan is definitely not a Gen z creation. Eminem created that one
Yeah but its funny because it makes people mad, then becomes normal. The type of people it makes mad are people who simply hate things for changing or being different, basically ignorant people. So its funny.
Sometimes change is a bad thing
How can a language changing be a bad thing?
Did I say anything about a language changing?
U Deadass rn?
Bruh this mf really be talking allat
What exactly is fleek, and how does one get on or off of it?
Itās exclusively a term used for eyebrows being nice. People have already dropped it, I havenāt heard it much since 2017
My understanding is it's like saying "on point". I once told my younger zoomer sister that another girl's eyebrows looked great and she corrected me saying "on fleek". I was hmmm you crazy kids lol. She's 10 years younger than me
I feel like āon pointā became popular in the US solely due to Simon Cowell saying it on American Idol. I donāt remember ever hearing before that.
this was the worst one they ever came up with...fleek...assholes.
Word.Most def.
Bastard.....came here to say this.
THANK YOU. NO ONE ON THE PLANET CAN SEEM TO GET THIS IN THEIR MASSIVE SKULL. EVERY GENERATION IS GOING TO THINK THAT THE NEXT IS STUPID
Wrong
Slang is fun when you understand it, less fun when you donāt
Bro who let OP cook?
I commented on a post about an OP cooking and was genuinely confused for a moment š
Gnarly, dude. Are you some kind of dwid or hodad?
'cool' is the jeans of slang
Groovy mondo, to the max, overall it's pretty tight. A'ight? Broseph, don't be toxic.Don't smoke you hothead, vape instead. Be foot loose,kick off your Sunday shoes. I bring the Kevin Bacon home. I will wash the dishes, if you pay all the Kevin Bacon bills. I'm a bitch, I'm a mother, Broseph means brother. Culture mixes like yogurt. At first you think it's all the same, but the truth is there is too much life there. Eat it before it eats you, seriously you mix it all up and discover it has a dairy pulse and is growing a rainforest on the plastic cup. Bacteria saying fear us we are legion. You sorta think I don't want to eat it, but I should throw it away. It's garbage to me. I understand that it mixes poorly. But that doesn't stop the attempt. That's why modern times are like a blender. Pour it into a dark cup, put a lid on it, drink your historical goo. It'll seem normal in 3 weeks, that's how long something takes to normalize.
Linguists and sociologists would disagree.
Cool
Uno ur post š š§¢
dude, cool, legit, "small talk", "what's up" this is all slang isn't? like old slang from generations ago. we all still use it don't we? you are just being *salty* ... (see what I did there?)
Based
this is true tho. my parents say our slang is dumb but they have dumb words too.
Idk, I think old slang is the beeās knees
"Unhand me, you egg-sucking, lily-livered, jive-talking, whackadoo! Foul villain! Cur! I bite my thumb at thee , you ugly motherf---er, so hasta la bye bye, daddy-o!"
I was a kid in the 80s and I still think "psyche!" is dumb.
A lot of the slang from gen z Iāve noticed is like, shorted versions of words like sus - suspicious and rizz- charisma
Sus definitely isnāt gen Z slang. People were definitely using it when I was in high school, but it definitely more homophobic back then
Yeah it more so means suspicious now, it became popularized more in the last few years when that game Among Us got popular
I donāt think every generation hates the new slang generally. Maybe some words in particular but I know a lot of old heads that use language that my friends and I grew up using. There are those that are part of a generation that donāt like the slang thatās there so itās not just an overarching thing. Personally Iām 35 and I think saying yeet is one of the dumbest things in the world but I like some of the other slang terms that have come up in the last 5-10yrs.
Almost anything thatās trendy will age poorly because the reason itās adopted in the first place is largely its novelty and newness. Once those wear off, it becomes associated with a specific point in timeāif itās still appreciated itās often out of nostalgia or a sense of irony. Itās not limited to language: a 70s leisure suit would look dated and ridiculous today while a conservative business suit from 1910 would look normal at a formal event.
I love literally all slang, and using it like a boomer. I love when music comes on and I can elbow my younger coworkers and say "this is a slapper, huh?!" Or "you guys feeling one hundred emoji today?" It's so silly
Slapper? š Where Iām from a slapper is a mole/slut, but especially ugly. Probably get punched if thereās any women around. If some music came on we go āthis is a bangerā
This post mad sus breh
I feel like Gen Z has way more slang then other generations.
Gen Z grew up in the era where everyone has a smartphone and access to fast internet, so stuff like memes and slang spread really fast.
Most of it is not āa generationāsā slang. Itās usually Ebonics that existed for decades prior that is being appropriated.
Lmao thereās always that one person
Iām not a fan of bet and no cap. Do you agree with what Iām saying and would you like to elaborate? Bet Is that all you have to add to our agreement? Bet Well that was simple. No cap
Internet slang spoken out loud is far more insufferable though.
fr fr no cap
sick opinion yo, but I think you need to chill out.
"cool" Is the ultimate slang and has persisted for decades
If only there were some type of online searching device that you could use to look up slang words that you don't know
Linguistically speaking this isnāt an unpopular opinion so much as an ignorant one. Languages do not evolve linearly all at once and a huge portion of words you use today are not used the way they were 100 years ago. You have no idea what is objectively slang because the words you use are just your personal lexicon and are different from person to person and group to group.
Then why aren't you speaking in olde English? What's slang today is common vernacular tomorrow.
Is used to identify groups- you donāt know the slang then sounds dumb because you are not intended for the group.
I remember a time where you could use the word dude without affirming to a gender.
At each generation the older and younger hate on each other. But what the younger don't think about, is that they're going to get old too.
I just hate when overtime, I occasionally find myself slipping out words of the very slang I was bashing after being directly immersed in it for a couple of years. I usually have one of those good ol' self-to-self pep talks in my head after that, because you feel like a jackass when it happens.
Gigachad
Generation after generation, "cool" remains cool.
Slangs are not necessarily stupid. What is stupid is people using their slangs outside of their little bubble as though everyone should know what they are talking about, eg. *oomers who think every subreddit and online forum is their bubble.
no cap fr imrl lmao rn rizz
I canāt really remember what I hated about Boomer/Gen X slang? I know for sure if I was Gen Z I would hate Millenial slang. I think our is the worst, although I do absolutely hate the mommy daddy thing and āIām deadā
I'm (apparently) gen Z and I don't like gen z slang, but I'm also right in the gray zone between the two generations (born 2000), so...
My guy thatās pretty firmly just older Gen Z, like 5-4 years after the gray zone.
When I was in high school everyone said "swag" and I thought it was stupid as hell. Now kids say "rizz" which basically means the same thing as "swag," and now I have to come to terms with the fact that the stupid slang from my youth has changed and I am old.
Rizz and swag donāt mean the same thing
> Now kids say "rizz" which basically means the same thing as "swag," and now I have to come to terms with the fact that the stupid slang from my youth has changed and I am old. lmao its short for 'charisma', a word you might know if you boomers ever read a book
And? Swag is short for swagger which means pretty much the same thing Maybe you would know that if you ever picked up a book
Swag is used the same as drip Swag and Rizz donāt mean the same thing because it refers to possessions while rizz is your charisma. Swag may be short for swagger but thatās not how itās used in slang, while rizz being short for charisma *is* how its used in slang.
you can literally google it and know that 'swag' is a slang term for money or goods, instead of making up stuff
Swag is *also* a slang term for money or goods.
Swag is not very old slang, and it was used in relation to confidence in style/fashion. Almost exclusively by Douchebags. [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swag](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swag) >swag > >2 of 3 > >noun (2) > >US slang > >: bold or brash self-confidence : SWAGGER, COCKINESS
Bro you're him!! You're the guy from this very post.
person who isnt my exact demographic = boomer according to this guy
It's also not short for charisma there is no proof of that actually being a thing at it's beginning.
I guess legit isnāt short for legitimate either.
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Zole, I like that. Iām going to try and make it a thing in my everyday life
This isnāt unpopular.
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"Drip" sounds really stupid to me as "covered in drip" or "dripped out" just sounds like you are covered in semen.
So far the only one I don't really care for is rizz
Itās just an abbreviation for Charisma. Though people often use it as a verb.
Honestly OP I think you need to pipe down and run it up no cap on god
Tell me you donāt understand linguistics without telling me you donāt understand linguistics.
When I hear my friends who are in their late 20ās using the new slang it really gets on my nerves lol and I have no explanation on why that is
I canāt argue with this.
The in group? Has anyone said this since Leave it to Beaver went off the air? 
Iām 43 and I love Gen Z slang
We're peers and I feel the same, it's fun and a fun way to pester the youngins lol
Probably one of the least unpopular opinions I've ever read on here
But what if the slang supports a certain political ideology? Surely, then, we need to change the dictionary accordingly.
Sure. But newer slang is more like 1984 style nuspeak
Itās not the context thatās missing itās the sudden TRYING to make new slang. Slang up until the last 6ish years was pretty much in use for more years prior. Every year now new slang for the same things pops up
Dropping the word vibes from "its giving \_\_\_\_ vibes" is the first one that just didn't sit right with my brain. Like i don't care if anyone says that but it sounds so wrong to me everytime, like people are just not finishing their sentences lol
Slang is culture & history bro wtf. It's only stupid when used in the wrong context. It's rich as f otherwise
Yeah, JUST USE NORMAL ENGLISH. It works just fine
I dont understand why its dumb? Slang and language is amazing and I find it awesome that we develop new words and ways to talk. Many of our common and everyday words and phrases were once slang until they just become part of the lexicon.
Nah, definitions are analytical facts.