• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    As far as zoomer/alpha slang goes, this makes a HELL of a lot more sense than most of the shit they’ve turned into verbs and the vast lexicon of terms they have for people who disappoint them.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      17 hours ago

      slang is the way it is for a reason, it’s why its called slang lmao.

      Sick literally didn’t make any sense the way people used it when it was new, same shit today, just different words, times change old man!

    • Jyek@sh.itjust.works
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      Every generation has a word soup vocabulary that generations prior don’t get or can’t use properly. It mostly falls out of vogue in a few years. Almost all of the words that are being used ironically to make fun of the lexicon, will become obsolete. The words that don’t get the highest usage and remain stable in unironic use will move forward with the rest of the English language. That’s just how language works.