• @[email protected]
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    1635 months ago

    Don’t pretend you didn’t become obsessed with whatever cool new slang was flavour of the month when you were a child

    • @Plopp
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      475 months ago

      I don’t remember getting any new slang as a kid.

      • Track_Shovel
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        815 months ago

        Yeah, we just called people fags (sorry) or gay.

        90s and early 00s were N O T LGBT friendly

        • @WillFord27
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          575 months ago

          Companies 12 hours after June ends

        • @[email protected]
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          Don’t forget how casual the r word was. Every comedy of the 90s and 2000s called somebody that. It’s still too commonly used but nothing like it was back then.

        • @[email protected]
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          45 months ago

          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.

      • @db2
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        405 months ago

        That’s because to you it was just normal.

      • @[email protected]
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        175 months ago

        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

        • @TheDoozer
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          95 months ago

          Yes to all except jiggy. I feel like that was just Will Smith trying to make Fetch happen.

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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        125 months ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          15 months ago

          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?

          • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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            15 months ago

            As someone who grew up in rural Canada, I feel that. We always felt a decade out of date on fads and slang lol.

      • @[email protected]
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        75 months ago

        Just because you don’t remember it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. You had to learn it at some point. You weren’t born with a lexicon of slang that revealed itself when it suddenly became modern/relevant lol

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      35 months ago

      Watching millennials/gen x pick on Gen Z for the same behaviors we all had gets old doesn’t it?

      • @candybrie
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        15 months ago

        And the kids playing tag are likely not even gen z but gen alpha. No one can even pick on the right generation.

    • @gdog05
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      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.