*angrily shakes walking stick*
Yesterday I heard a kid use "trending" to mean popular. This was at a carnival, referring to a ride "trending" in the sense of having a long line. Feel like this is the modern version of LOL and OMG escaping into conversation.
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Chat, is this real?
Asking chat is no longer meta. Now we ask chatgpt
@grok is this true?
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/grok
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I teach at a middle school. I occasionally refer to my class as "chat" to make my students cringe. They hate it and tell me I'm too old.
Please keep doing it
Oh man, that is so pwned!
I keep thinking back to Abe Simpson's quote, "I used to be with it, then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what is it is weird and scary to me."
What I'm with definitely is no longer it, but what is it is novel and curious to me.
I 100% understand "chat." If you've ever heard someone address a real or imagined audience as "sports fans" it's that same psychology, mimicking radio, television or now internet streamers. I'm not going to adopt it but I fully get how it works.
I hate it when the hip kids these days use the word "popular." They're not even referring to populare politicians! They're not referring to populares; they're not even referring to the optimates! Kids these days with their new fangled slang.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimates_and_populares
i don't mind this one, because it at least makes some degree of sense. The etymology is understandable without needing to reference urban dictionary, and it doesn't utterly contradict the previous definition.
Yeah like "dank" or "sick" or "ill" did.
You're ill but I'm iller
My wife and I are both computer geeks, and so our kids were exposed to computers and played computer games from a young age. One day I was playing with our daughter - playing with her dolls - and she said, "I'm going to exit this Barbie and select this one." Cracked me up because it made perfect sense, but it's not the way people talk about things IRL.
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But did they grofit from it too?
uncontrollable vomiting
Thank you for synergizing with my comment
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^ Boo this man.
Better than ‘bussin’
Honestly that's great. It's a pretty fitting word imo.
No cap: Whoever said that is goating with the sauce!
I blame capitalism.
Except nobody ever said LOL or OMG outside of texting like a weirdo. People just aren't taught proper verbiage and they now use their slang in actual conversation which makes them less likely to be understood by the majority
If you've never heard someone say those letters out loud, your crowd hella neurotypical
Was just about to post some "what are you talking about?! Lots of people said..." but maybe that says something about the number of diagnosese my friend group have accumulated...
Yeah nah I'm not mad at them, just a little jealous maybe. They sidestepped an entire pet peeve
I have a friend that says pmo out loud. I haven't said anything about it, and I don't think it will.
I had to look that one up. Had no idea toktokers were so polite lmao
Wha? She's not super terminally online. Just really awkward.
All I could find is that it's a tik thing. I don't touch the stuff myself, filthy habit.
I still today use, and hear familiar millennial use, "lmao"
Usually ironically with a twinge of negativity. Pronounced "luh-mow"
IE "Did you here the US elected Trump again?" "lmao"
Usually only used on its own, it suddenly sounds weird if you put it in a sentence but purely just used as a response to show ironic dissatisfaction quickly.
Pretty much the verbal equivalent of an eyeroll.
Lots of people did exactly that. It was obnoxious, and everyone hated them for it.
Lot's of people still do and I think it's completely fine
They don't use the same words I use, burn them at the stake!!
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