Don't pretend you didn't become obsessed with whatever cool new slang was flavour of the month when you were a child
I don't remember getting any new slang as a kid.
Yeah, we just called people fags (sorry) or gay.
90s and early 00s were N O T LGBT friendly
Companies 12 hours after June ends
"PRIIIIIDE 🏳️🌈"
next day
"So you fags wanna buy our products or what"
fags
This is what we called cigarettes in Australia.
Same in Britain. Damn homophobia ruining perfectly good slang!
We had a couple weeks calling people "F.A.G.s' and "M.A.G.s" for 'female ass grabber" and "male ass grabber". As in someone how grabd a females ass or or a male ass. I have no idea how the teachers were able to do anything about that with a straight face.
What I remember from the 90/00s: sinch, hella, coolio, jam (going), spaz, poser, chillax, bitchin, burn, noob, booyah, aight, duh, phat, sup, stoked, jiggy, harsh, buzz kill
There's a shitton more, but that's what I got off the top of my head
Yes to all except jiggy. I feel like that was just Will Smith trying to make Fetch happen.
Idk, I got like all the jiggy’s before beating gruntilda
He was streets ahead!
Don't casually throw "spaz" in there with a load of inoffensive stuff!
You were learning slang along with everything else. At that age, it doesn't stand out against everything else the same way it does when you're older.
I think this is true, but I also grew up without Internet or social media so maybe things were more regional as opposed to this larger shared culture those things have enabled. So that may be part of it?
As someone who grew up in rural Canada, I feel that. We always felt a decade out of date on fads and slang lol.
I did not, for I was a loser who didn't know slang
No shot fellow cool kid
Dude practically became a verbal tick
Fr, no cap
True dat
You have a point, but when I was a kid we at least made sure the slang came from black people first. I don't think anything good can come from white kids out there making up words.
LOL who’s that
what
You forgot the /s right?
I kind of figured it was implied but eh. Some things don't land.
Yeah, well. World is full of racists. Can hardly even make fun of 'em without being mistaken for one, now.
This reminded me of the month 'wigga' was every fucking one's favorite word at my very-nearly-all-white school. Nothing good, indeed.
I remember as a kid in my area this game was called Toilets.
If you got caught you were a toilet and had to stand with your arm out until someone pushed on it and said 'flush.'
I miss the toilet game haha
When we played it you also had to go down on one knee, and the person unfreezing you had to sit on your knee while they flushed your arm.
I actually love these new slangs! Based.
Lit FR FR
The emotional damage of simultaneously realising that you are old and understanding all the people you laughed at for yelling "get off my lawn"
Bussin
Like... tables?
Or like bussy?
How would one rizz someone else? Basically, what is rizzing?
Don't ask the children, they don't know either
🚸
And is "mew" just making a cat noise or something more?
A technique attributed to a British orthodontist named Mike Mew that involves putting pressure on the roof of your mouth with your tongue to try and change the shape of your face by moving your maxilla up and forwards with the lateral pressure of your tongue. This fits into the broader looksmax approach to self-modification in the name of love and romance.
Stacy "Yh Chad has some nice ass jaw now. He's been mewing for 6 months now"
STOP!
STOP, UPON ME!
FORCE THE TOOLS AVAILABLE!
YES... I'M ALRIGHT...! BWA HAHA HAHA HAHA...!
And kids at the Catholic school play jizz tag.
Even had some mewing going in the break room at work last night
What's everyone's take on mewing?
It seems to make sense to me.
I've seen others say it's bullshit.
I started doing it periodically a few weeks ago, and I just had an oral bone spur break through my gums from a tooth extraction I had over ten years ago.
So it makes me think the mewing changed something in my lower jaw enough for some fragments of bone to come loose and make their way out.
Meanwhile, half of them are illiterate. The parents need to get themselves and their children off the internet.
Let's start with you then.
Done. I don't have any children and am not using a device to occupy them.
In all seriousness, this outright angry reaction is really surprising. People should be angry that their children are illiterate, but I suppose if they were, the children wouldn't be.
Using slang doesn't mean they're illiterate dawg
Slang is actually a better way to communicate. You can communicate more, in a shorter amount of time, language is fluid, luddites gonna Luddite.
I didn't say or imply that. The spread of the slang is over media they consume because parents are using devices as babysitters. Them being illiterate means they're illiterate, dawg.
What? The only thing with any definitiveness in what you linked is that 72% of teachers are using an outdated method for teaching early level reading skills (letter and word recognition).
As a secondary point, it says that teachers feel their kids can't read anymore so the teachers have taken to tiktok about it.
There's nothing there indicating high levels of illiteracy, or that they've been caused by an over use of devices as babysitters, dawg.
I think you need to brush up on your literacy.
It sure as hell isn't a good thing, and it isn't helping kids read or develop, but this is the same argument that's as old as fucking time itself where older adults blame new technology for degeneration of the youth. People literally made the same complaint about radio dramas leading the youth astray.
The core of the issue is that it has become increasingly easy for parents to use technology to avoid properly taking care of their damn kids.
I literally just pulled the first link by searching "childhood literacy US," because I know many would be in denial. It really is hilarious how angry people are about this.
Your unwillingness to read the link you post while asserting children are illiterate, is both tragic and funny.
And that you then act like everyone else is silly for countering you? Go find a bridge, troll.
I'm not responsible for people having such an extreme emotional reaction to an offhand comment on a meme. I truly wasn't ready for all this, and now I'm laughing at you all. I'm not sure what the hell is wrong with ya'll, but it isn't my problem.
So you admit you did no actual research and just grabbed the first thing you found, and expect us to applaud you for it? GTFO
I admit I did no ADDITIONAL research for a chat thread where people are irrationally angry over an offhand comment on a meme. I don't keep research papers on my phone for all information I've ever been exposed to ready to go incase assholes on the internet are upset. I don't expect you to "applaud me" for anything, I give zero fucks about you or your opinions. Any other questions?
Why are you so defensive?
You're absolutely right!
I don't have any children
Who'd have thought?
The amount of people with no kids that have strong opinions about how children should be raised is like the people with no uteruses that have strong feelings about abortion and pregnancy, or white college kids who have strong opinions about what words and phrases should be offensive to minorities. There's nothing wrong with having an opinion, but the arrogance to think they have something to contribute to that conversation is exhausting.
As the population of people raised on the internet increases, you'll see far more anger responses to the idea that being raised on the internet is bad for you.
Nobody wants to believe they might not have done it right.
That being said, kids generally do dumb things, and your initial comment seems a bit harsh for something as silly as rizz tag.
There's a correlation that these kids are spending hours of their time on the internet (that's how this slang spreads to them) and the fact they can't read. I don't see how it's harsh to point it out, I just think maybe it hit too close to home for some folks.
You just have a chain of unprovable assumptions there.
Kid's use slang -> they must have picked it up on the internet -> many people are illiterate -> the parents of these specific kids are not raising them right
Do you mean half of the world's children, or half of the children in your own, unspecified country?
Literacy in my country is over 80%, which is still too low in my opinion, but fast better than half, thankfully.
Literacy, in my country, which is specified because it is the origin of the slang in the meme. You really thought you had a gotcha, there, didn't you?
Don't pretend you didn't become obsessed with whatever cool new slang was flavour of the month when you were a child
I don't remember getting any new slang as a kid.
Yeah, we just called people fags (sorry) or gay.
90s and early 00s were N O T LGBT friendly
Companies 12 hours after June ends
"PRIIIIIDE 🏳️🌈"
next day
"So you fags wanna buy our products or what"
This is what we called cigarettes in Australia.
Same in Britain. Damn homophobia ruining perfectly good slang!
We had a couple weeks calling people "F.A.G.s' and "M.A.G.s" for 'female ass grabber" and "male ass grabber". As in someone how grabd a females ass or or a male ass. I have no idea how the teachers were able to do anything about that with a straight face.
That's because to you it was just normal.
What I remember from the 90/00s: sinch, hella, coolio, jam (going), spaz, poser, chillax, bitchin, burn, noob, booyah, aight, duh, phat, sup, stoked, jiggy, harsh, buzz kill
There's a shitton more, but that's what I got off the top of my head
Yes to all except jiggy. I feel like that was just Will Smith trying to make Fetch happen.
Idk, I got like all the jiggy’s before beating gruntilda
He was streets ahead!
Don't casually throw "spaz" in there with a load of inoffensive stuff!
You were learning slang along with everything else. At that age, it doesn't stand out against everything else the same way it does when you're older.
I think this is true, but I also grew up without Internet or social media so maybe things were more regional as opposed to this larger shared culture those things have enabled. So that may be part of it?
As someone who grew up in rural Canada, I feel that. We always felt a decade out of date on fads and slang lol.
80s had a ton.
I did not, for I was a loser who didn't know slang
No shot fellow cool kid
Dude practically became a verbal tick
Fr, no cap
True dat
You have a point, but when I was a kid we at least made sure the slang came from black people first. I don't think anything good can come from white kids out there making up words.
LOL who’s that
what
You forgot the /s right?
I kind of figured it was implied but eh. Some things don't land.
Yeah, well. World is full of racists. Can hardly even make fun of 'em without being mistaken for one, now.
This reminded me of the month 'wigga' was every fucking one's favorite word at my very-nearly-all-white school. Nothing good, indeed.
Yikes
penis
GenX here. Kids enjoying doing kid things even if we don't understand why they do that hurts no one? Keep it up, kids. You're doing fine. No cap.
she freak on my gyatt till I baby gronk
Damn I bet she hit you with that hawk ptui fr fr.
Excuse me the correct slang here would be to hit someone with that "hawk tuah"
Chiming in to say I that I understood "ptui" for what it was more clearly than "tuah."
Is this true?
i never lie
For riz.
Am i doing it right?
On god
No cap frfr
No gods, no kings, only man. ^Am ^I ^doing ^this ^right?
the children do not hear the canon
I... I don't know. I DON'T KNOW !
I remember as a kid in my area this game was called Toilets.
If you got caught you were a toilet and had to stand with your arm out until someone pushed on it and said 'flush.'
I miss the toilet game haha
When we played it you also had to go down on one knee, and the person unfreezing you had to sit on your knee while they flushed your arm.
I actually love these new slangs! Based.
Lit FR FR
The emotional damage of simultaneously realising that you are old and understanding all the people you laughed at for yelling "get off my lawn"
Bussin
Like... tables?
Or like bussy?
How would one rizz someone else? Basically, what is rizzing?
Don't ask the children, they don't know either
🚸
And is "mew" just making a cat noise or something more?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mewing
I love how alt right chuds are making themselves sound like trans catgirls these days
you do it so you can mog
As in "moggy"?
So it's cats all the way down.
Outside of tag (I guess), it's like chatting someone up.
So to unfreeze them they’d have to like, “How you doin?”
Joey Tribbiani entered the chat
Thats not even what it means.
STOP!
STOP, UPON ME!
FORCE THE TOOLS AVAILABLE!
YES... I'M ALRIGHT...!
BWA HAHA HAHA HAHA...!
And kids at the Catholic school play jizz tag.
Even had some mewing going in the break room at work last night
What's everyone's take on mewing?
It seems to make sense to me.
I've seen others say it's bullshit.
I started doing it periodically a few weeks ago, and I just had an oral bone spur break through my gums from a tooth extraction I had over ten years ago.
So it makes me think the mewing changed something in my lower jaw enough for some fragments of bone to come loose and make their way out.
Meanwhile, half of them are illiterate. The parents need to get themselves and their children off the internet.
Let's start with you then.
Done. I don't have any children and am not using a device to occupy them.
In all seriousness, this outright angry reaction is really surprising. People should be angry that their children are illiterate, but I suppose if they were, the children wouldn't be.
Using slang doesn't mean they're illiterate dawg
Slang is actually a better way to communicate. You can communicate more, in a shorter amount of time, language is fluid, luddites gonna Luddite.
I didn't say or imply that. The spread of the slang is over media they consume because parents are using devices as babysitters. Them being illiterate means they're illiterate, dawg.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/education/students-cant-read-education/
What? The only thing with any definitiveness in what you linked is that 72% of teachers are using an outdated method for teaching early level reading skills (letter and word recognition).
As a secondary point, it says that teachers feel their kids can't read anymore so the teachers have taken to tiktok about it.
There's nothing there indicating high levels of illiteracy, or that they've been caused by an over use of devices as babysitters, dawg.
I think you need to brush up on your literacy.
It sure as hell isn't a good thing, and it isn't helping kids read or develop, but this is the same argument that's as old as fucking time itself where older adults blame new technology for degeneration of the youth. People literally made the same complaint about radio dramas leading the youth astray.
The core of the issue is that it has become increasingly easy for parents to use technology to avoid properly taking care of their damn kids.
I literally just pulled the first link by searching "childhood literacy US," because I know many would be in denial. It really is hilarious how angry people are about this.
Your unwillingness to read the link you post while asserting children are illiterate, is both tragic and funny.
And that you then act like everyone else is silly for countering you? Go find a bridge, troll.
I'm not responsible for people having such an extreme emotional reaction to an offhand comment on a meme. I truly wasn't ready for all this, and now I'm laughing at you all. I'm not sure what the hell is wrong with ya'll, but it isn't my problem.
So you admit you did no actual research and just grabbed the first thing you found, and expect us to applaud you for it? GTFO
I admit I did no ADDITIONAL research for a chat thread where people are irrationally angry over an offhand comment on a meme. I don't keep research papers on my phone for all information I've ever been exposed to ready to go incase assholes on the internet are upset. I don't expect you to "applaud me" for anything, I give zero fucks about you or your opinions. Any other questions?
Why are you so defensive?
You're absolutely right!
Who'd have thought?
The amount of people with no kids that have strong opinions about how children should be raised is like the people with no uteruses that have strong feelings about abortion and pregnancy, or white college kids who have strong opinions about what words and phrases should be offensive to minorities. There's nothing wrong with having an opinion, but the arrogance to think they have something to contribute to that conversation is exhausting.
As the population of people raised on the internet increases, you'll see far more anger responses to the idea that being raised on the internet is bad for you.
Nobody wants to believe they might not have done it right.
That being said, kids generally do dumb things, and your initial comment seems a bit harsh for something as silly as rizz tag.
There's a correlation that these kids are spending hours of their time on the internet (that's how this slang spreads to them) and the fact they can't read. I don't see how it's harsh to point it out, I just think maybe it hit too close to home for some folks.
You just have a chain of unprovable assumptions there.
Kid's use slang -> they must have picked it up on the internet -> many people are illiterate -> the parents of these specific kids are not raising them right
Do you mean half of the world's children, or half of the children in your own, unspecified country?
Literacy in my country is over 80%, which is still too low in my opinion, but fast better than half, thankfully.
Literacy, in my country, which is specified because it is the origin of the slang in the meme. You really thought you had a gotcha, there, didn't you?
"Kids can't read" is certainly a take. 😂