I feel so old.

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The translation is accurate and commendable

I wouldn't know. Because I am old and I feel it right now.

A time-proven antidote to aging is incorporating more youthful slang into your vocabulary. And before you clapback at me, I've been trying it myself and it's pretty bussin' bruh. I'm dripping all over the place now!

You're a radical cat daddyo

I have, on occasion, stuck out my gyat for the daddyo

You've just ruined the Irish classic "whiskey in the jar" for me, thanks.

Well, that's stuck in my head now. Time to go find the Metallica cover, if they haven't scrubbed it from the Internet.

I'm an older guy - over 60 - and I absolutely love using slang that was popular before I was born. At work, I liberally say things like "swell," "keen," and "golly." I've been doing it for years; when I started, everyone knew what I was doing (most laughed), but now there are a lot of folks who are young enough that they just assume it's slang I grew up with, which makes me laugh.

And just to clarify, it is my understanding that "pretty bussin' bruh" is quite different than "pretty bussy, bruh". Correct?

No. They're the same. I think the second one has become more popular. You should probably just use that. No cap.

(cap)

On God that bruh's bussy's straight bussin' fr fr.

I believe you could buss' in a bussy if you were so inclined

Look at this fuckin drip god over here

Drip god sounds like a brand of a mop or household cleaning supplies.

Man if I had more fucking ambition or energy, you're absolutely right and I could be so rich right now but again, I'm lazy and full of depression... but if somebody runs with this idea, can I be on the team? I need a win in my life.

Was watching Point Break again the other day and the desire to speak like a 90s surfer dude is kinda overwhelming, compadre.

What is HMU? The only thing that sounds right if I rack my brain, is "holler me up", but idk I'm mentally old and can't keep up with "hip" culture.

"holler me up"

Almost got it! HMU stands for “hit me up”, as in contact me.

I mean, holler also means contact me so it could be that, it would just sound a little silly. Not like holla at ya boi

Absolutely, I’m just relaying what I’ve heard in case the commenter wants to talk with some youths in their vernacular. I don’t want them to be all “holler me up my fellow kids!”

I think it's warning us about snakes that can kill? I don't know...

It's got too much punctuation though. That's not a dig either, it really does have too much for what they're trying for.

I would expect at least some of those acronyms to be all lowercase too tbh

That was my first thought but then I realized that if I, a 30-something year old old person, understand every word of it, it's gotta be a lil sus.

If someone blew up the toilet or smtg sus, hmu. tbh we high-key tryna glow-up this campground frfr. can't stop won't stop til this place straight up slays ong. need ur help fam. thx

If that's accurate then I got old way faster than I thought I would. At least I can take solace in the fact that I'm probably on the younger end of Lemmy users.

I have reached the age where I find gags like this - and the massive cringe effect they inflict on young folks - fucking hilarious.

i'm comfortable with my fate. who ever really needed hair on their head anyway?

I admit, the idea of a teenager being highly annoyed by that sign amuses me greatly.

The thing is, all of the grammar is correct so it's not actually that cringe. They definitely did their research!

"can't stop won't stop" is definitely the most out of place.

And "campground" is too many syllables. If someone actually said that they'd replace it with something else

I wonder what they'll do if someone actually texts them using that language. Do they have a teenager on staff for the express purpose of translating it?

You and me both. They went a little too hard in the middle, but the beginning and end were decent.

Translated for gen alpha:

level 5 gyatt rizz livvy dunne rizzing up baby gronk ice spice wat da dawg doin skibidi toilet in real life only in ohio we go jim zyzz creatine alpha sigma cuh dey board

okay but that conveys no information whatsoever.

I'm like 70% sure they just make up words and infer meaning from tone.

Fellow millennial here. Dis white boy don’t got a clue.

Edit: Ignore this. I replied to the wrong comment. Told you I don’t got a clue.

At that point, we may as well just return to monke and speak in grunts and ooks.

Are you saying that Gen alpha knows who zyzz is? As a millennial that makes me so happy. We're all gonna make it brah.

Fellow millennial here. Dis white boy don’t got a clue.

I replied to the right comment this time. Finally got a clue.

I took this text and made ChatGPT translate it to 2008 teenager lingo:

Yo, what’s good? If you peep anything sketchy or straight-up wack, like a jacked-up toilet or whatever, hit me up at -number- ASAP. For real though, we’re low-key hustlin’ to make this campground poppin’. We ain’t stoppin’ till this spot’s lit AF and everyone’s vibin’ with it. We’re counting on you, fam. Much love, thanks!

That’s hella accurate

damn is lit and low-key really out of date now?

I tell you the rapper‘s tongue that was lit AF back when Pimp my Ride was the shit is gonna be old lad‘s lingo sooner than…. The PS5 lost its stance to the PS6

Forgot to say no cap, on god

That second sign has big "hello fellow children" vibes.

A principal I worked for one time asked me to write up a student survey. It annoyed me, so I wrote up the entire thing in that type of cringy try hard lingo. It backfired as she loved it and the students took it. The students in my class looked at me when they gave it to the school and said,"WTF sin_free?" I said sorry, they asked why, I explained the situation, they laughed and we moved on.

Sure, moved on. An entire school has a memory of you being cringe. Every drinking party with new friends will start with "lmao remember when sin_free tried to be funny"

That's kind of recursive? It tells me to report the cringe.

And standing there texting to report the cringe, after the first time, would be so fucking cringe.

What's up? Hit me up at -number- if you see anything that is suspect or distinctly uncomfortable or unimpressive, like (I don't know...) a toilet that got badly messed up or something. To be honest, we are openly and boldly trying to improve the attractiveness of this campground. We are determined to keep at it until this place is obviously desirable and impressive. We need your help, friends. Thank you.

Y'all, I'm an Xennial nerd who likes listening to academic podcasts, NPR, and (as frequently featured on NPR) liberal middle-aged white men singing country-blues-rock. I collect fountain pens and watch college football. I am deeply, deeply uncool. I understood every single word of the teen sign. (though, okay, I learned a couple of them several months ago listening to NPR, LOL).

Does that mean I'm cooler than I think, or the sign is less cool than it thinks?

Same here. 30s around the corner, but to my knowledge of passed youth I might have had considered a sign using my people’s lingo quite… Disdain.

That NPR piece was cringe AF with words from when I was teenager, and I'm in my 30's.

You’re gonna have to be more specific, hepcat.

Well it's been a few months but off the top of my head, on fleek. I haven't heard that one in years.

I just meant about which NPR piece was cringe, LOL. That's half the brand at this point, at least on weekends.

I'd much rather people text than phone me, it's like a primative ticketing system

I assume the language used is already dated. They'll need to change the sign every year.

needs more bets and caps, right?

nah need more skibidi edge rizz mog livvy dunne sigma jelq munt baby gronk alpha gyattmaxxing ohio fanum tax caseoh mew goon

When the campground texts you back with a green bubble

When your opinions are based on bullshit brand loyalty free marketing

Same.gif

What is a green bubble?

Apple, in an attempt to leverage social pressure to drive sales instead of actually providing a quality product, displays texts from Android devices in a deliberately unpleasant to look at shade of green, and cripples features of the group chat if even one member of it is using a non-Apple device, incentivizing groups of friends and even families to ostracize people for using a different phone.

mossy liked "Apple, in an attempt to leverage social pressure to drive sales instead of actually providing..."

Wat

Apple users get the option to "react" to messages, adding things like 💜 or 👍 to the message. Since it's not natively supported by other messaging apps, those users get a message that looks like mine instead of an emoji.

Ohh, but why in this context then still

because... the person I was replying to was talking about it? The intent was to be funny, I suppose.

Ohhh, I get I wasn't thinking about it that way lol, my bad

I am a teenager and can't understand shit. What does HMU even mean?

Hit me up, it's more of a 2010s thing

Oh christ we're already referencing pop-culture of the 2010s, help me I don't like this aging thing.

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It's weird seeing English become unreadable from the other side. It's like going back to ye olde Englishe but forward in time.

The Simpsons "it will happen to youuuuu" gag still holds true. You'll never be cool forever. What's cool will change.

Its definitely fellow kids material but its not far off as of a few years ago. I'd say that hit the mark hard enough that its actually funny

Thought about this a little bit, and I think my conclusions is that the thing that kills when boomers try to relate to and write the youths of today isn't necessarily that they get the slang wrong, which, I'm sure is the case as well a lot of the time, but it's mostly that they dial up the intensity to 11, so it ends up sounding like a parody, rather than a legitimate attempt. That's probably not the point about 95% of the time, because the olds would rather portray like, their kids, basically, as moronic incomprehensible idiots, instead of making a minor attempt to understand them and how they communicate and the world they're raise in, but I guess that's just kinda what lead poisoning does.

I dunno, I find it kind of funny, because the youths will be milling about, minding their own business, but then you post like "uhhh skibidi toilet rizzler gyat that monocolored sweater is so preppy" and then all their boomers laugh their ass off, lose their minds, and are like "this is SO true I'm SO old hoo lee". The zoomers aren't the ones laughing at the garbled nonsense speak, bro. If that's not an indication that the elderly are completely cooked, I dunno what is.

What if it was a joke the whole time and it isn't worth diving into the weeds about it.

brother if that's the weeds to you then your lawn must look spotless

It's pretty nice but I'm not sure how it's related!!

I've REKT every toilet I've ever taken a dump in...at least since I started my high fiber diet.

I've RIZZED every skibidi toilet I've ever taken a mew on...at least since I started jelqing