• @[email protected]
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    10 months ago

    Every generation does this. The boomers had their fair share of dumb slang terms as well but for some reason everyone loves to hate the next generation for doing the exact same thing.

    • @HipHoboHarold
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      2310 months ago

      I remember being young and referring to things da bomb. Or something cool could also be fly. People would refer to themselves as home skillet. Booyah.

    • @Retrograde
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      2010 months ago

      “cool” though, “cool” never dies

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        10 months ago

        Honestly this is just the process of language evolving. Some slang words are born and fade into obsecurity once the novelty wears off, others get used so much that they become part of the language for ages to come. Some even become formal terms given enough time.

        • Annoyed_🦀
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          It’s nice to have slang for a word, but i do hate when people misuse it and then the word devolved. For example, gaslight.