It's such a bizarre list too.
They're not cusses. What's wrong with "love that for you"? I could've easily seen myself saying that in 2009, is the meaning vastly different than what I think?
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It took me a while to realize this wasn’t a lookup table
Me too. Felt old before realizing it wasn't a lookup table and then felt older after realizing it was a simple list.
My school district is WAY smarter than this, all the teachers and staff just start saying the words more than the kids do until they think it's corny.
This
Making lists like that is authoritarian and won't work. Making the words worthless works
Why is it even a goal to stop kids saying these words
Because some adults feel out of touch and must crush the new slang while forgetting that the same thing happened to them as kids until their slang became common parlance. Eventually this current crop of kids will do the same to the next generation and the cycle will continue.
What? You mean language changes? I can't take it, that's literally insane!
Because schools are supposed to be raising up people who speak in a way that can be understood and indicates some intelligence.
You literally used the term "dunk on" like three comments ago. A bit hypocritical to criticize the use of slang, don't you think?
I mean, fair enough. But have you heard kids these days? Between the algorithmic feedback loop that is the modern internet, the disinterest of parents in actually parenting their kids, and chatgpt... I don't think it's unreasonable to be a bit concerned about how uneducated the children in our education system are coming off. It's not me being classist, it's valid criticism of a systemic failing.
It's actually you being ageist and not understanding how languages work. Your complaint is identical to Boomers complaining about how Gen Xers and Millennials talk just with updated tech. It's a cycle that goes back many generations. The lack of funding for education actually has little to do with it .
Languages are primarily created and evolved by teenagers. It's always been this way. Each new generation finds new ways of contextualizing the world, and new ways of explaining aspects of it. Teenagers create tons of new experimental words. Most have short half-lives and peter out over time. Some turn out to be genuinely linguistically useful and survive the test of time.
It's a safe bet that the vast majority of words you use on a daily basis were first uttered by a teenager somewhere in the recent or distant past.
Language evolves through teens.
Maybe this is why republicans watch child porn so they think it's corny and nobody else does it anymore.
I am almost 28 and use way more gen z/alpha slang than my 21 year old sister does. It becomes your permanent lexicon after a while and you keep using the words no matter how outdated they are. I say yeet at least once a day still.
Unironically started saying hella after life is strange made me cringe out of my fucking seat when the characters say it.
Reclaim it like slurs. Lmfao
The new thing is "what the helly"
I have been saying "groovy" for as long as I have been aware that the word existed, and that's early 70s
Far out.
Right on!
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I can imagine that working, actually.
As a teacher, I can attest that it works beautifully.
"Ill bless you Youngins🥷 with the Rizz🔥 your gonna need for the low 🔑test on Monday, no cap 🧢💯!!!"
That's out of pocket!
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Bruh, on God I'm not even gonna cap - you're being such a sigma male with that low key bussin mood, but say less about the rizz because you're doing too much with that type shit. Gucci fit, and I love that for you, but it's giving major gyatt energy, so no cap, that's high key straight fire, baka!
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Can we get a date on this? I don’t see skibidi or sus. And I’m most surprised to see the youths embracing finna
Skibidi isn't on the list because no one unironically says skibidi. If you think they are, they're trolling you.
I didn’t think unironic usage was a prereq for this list, just overuse/disruptive to a classroom
Not a prereq for the list, but a factor which explains why people aren't overusing it in the first place lmao.
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hastily scribbles fetch on the board
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