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

  • Vespair@lemm.ee
    17·
    4 months ago

    This is such a weird performative thing, why are we pretending kids are speaking some incomprehensible foreign language? Aside from a couple pieces of really specific slang, most of which is only ever used ironically anyway (I’m looking at you, “skibidi”), it’s the exact same evolution of language and slang as every other previous generation before it, just perhaps with a wider spread and more global influence. And almost all of it can be deciphered with little effort: Rizz = ChaRISma, Gyatt = GYATTdamn (goddamn), etc.

    Like I know we’re all eventually going to become the next generation of boomers, such is the curse of time, but jesus christ y’all don’t have to fucking speedrun to that conclusion.

    I don’t know about you, but personally I always planned to be better to the generation that followed me than the generation that preceded mine was to us.

    • KarmaPolice@lemmy.world
      7·
      4 months ago

      Rizz = ChaRISma, Gyatt = GYATTdamn (goddamn), etc.

      Erhm… As a non native speaker, WTF?

      Rizz, first thing that comes to mind is rice. GYATT… Dunno. Gynaecologist I guess…

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      3·
      4 months ago

      personally I always planned to be better to the generation that followed me than the generation that preceded mine was to us.

      And this is why I make the effort to understand. We don’t have to make the same mistakes of the past, we have to tools to understand.

      And I do my best, I look up the words I don’t know and can’t figure out. And worst case I simply ask.