I feel dead at 24
You can make up words at any age.
If you also make up a way to pronounce them, a grammar and potentially a culture to go with it, you’ve just made a conlang
Older generations need to start inventing slang again to noogle the kids.
Even if you have a butcher’s at what already exists the belly fruits won’t know whether to shit or go blind, you can really lair it up
This helped me but it is only valid for 15 minutes
“Yeet” is 10 years old now.
Jesus Christ… I’m old enough to have kids that would have said yet… where’s my ibuprofen?
Scientists: (hold beer) …
Is now a bad time to point out that all words are made up? If your generation got to do it, there’s no reason to begrudge any other.
I am a bit older than 24 and enjoy learning the new patois tbh. It’s super interesting to me how language evolves endlessly in all these innumerable offshoots and how niche cultures generate all these different codes and concepts and wordplay and stuff.
I like that the youth are forever both borrowing from the old and scouting new grounds of their own in these ways and in countless others as well. So the renewal and rechristening of culture is based and I-like-it-pilled akchooly 🤓
Edit: a letter
Bro you are so hip that your rizz is higher than the Empire State Building.
That’s so skibidi Ohio, chat, no cap.
This is something I don’t like - calling the viewers “chat”. I mean, it’s gender neutral, but I’d just randomly call them Ladies, Gentlemen, Ladymen, Gentles, viewers, guys, gals, bros, sis’s, folks, roflcopters, grills…
I’m no streamer btw. Maybe I‘d just get skibidi cancelled lol xD
I’m cool with it for streams, but it got really confusing because I’ve also heard slightly older young’uns refer to ChatGPT as “Chat”
So, like, “Idk I heard it from Chat” can either be a horrifying revelation that they listen to and trust random twitch users, or a horrifying revelation that they listen to and trust inchoate AI tech.
I like to use 1920s slang to even things out.
Well, got to skedaddle.The earliest urban dictionary entry for yeet was made in 2008, when you are literally part of the generation that popularized the word.
And it was a dance move performed on bikes. Literally pumping the chest up and down with arms spread wide (like flying an airplane), while riding a bicycle, in a group.
I remember using it around the early 2000s to be throwing something.
I remember early 2010s, people were making funny videos yelling “YEET” & throwing things super far.
Up to 24 people are sympathetic. You will find a lot of people that will (correctly) say “you’re young. Just enjoy your time you don’t need to worry about where you’re headed. It will come to you”. Wait until next year. 25 is when that changes to “what the fuck are you doing with your life”. Basically what I’m saying is you’re not old. Until next year.
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Isn’t he cheering in that scene?
