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[A dog is walked by an old lady wrapped in a blanket siting in a wheelchair] Old Lady: A doggo! [Close up of the old lady’s happy, yet not all there expression] Old Lady: A heccin good pupper. [A Nurse rushes to the Old Lady’s chair. The dog stairs at the Old Lady, the owner off screen] Old Lady: 13/10 good boi. Dog Owner: huh? [The nurse wheels the Old Lady away] Nurse: Don’t worry no one understands her- Old Lady: Could be a fren.

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  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
    12·
    21 hours ago

    This tends to be how I think of the generation that fell in love with words like “yeeted” and “gabbin”* and all those words that are completely unnecessary in lingual context, and just meant for style points or whatever.

    * ach, it’s not exactly that, but something similar

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      19 hours ago

      Aw c’mon, I kind of like yeeted, it’s better than chucked. But then I’m in my 60s so I’ve seen a lot of slang come and go.

      • X@piefed.worldEnglish
        4·
        19 hours ago

        ‘Tis better to yeet than be yoted. – proverb of some dubious kind

      • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        19 hours ago

        I like some pop-slang, not others. “Neckbeard” is pretty good, because there wasn’t quite a word like that, and it really does capture a certain type. Meanwhile, “yeet” doesn’t mean anything to me, and wasn’t needed in the slightest IMO.

        Languages naturally change over time, but usually that’s down to stuff like peoples mixing, and new situations & tech coming along, or dying out. This pop-slang stuff is okay for what it is, but I also feel the OC captured the other side of how useless it can be.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      12·
      21 hours ago

      and all those words that are completely unnecessary in lingual context

      I mean, some of the most beautiful prose I’ve ever read has “unnecessary” words

      • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        19 hours ago

        EDIT: That’s fine and all, but not what I was talking about.

        What I’m thinking of are more like cool / pet words used to help establish the uniqueness of a younger generation, helping to draw a divide from those older than them. Which actually makes a certain amount of sense…

        • 🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          13 hours ago

          cool

          Like that word. They’re isn’t anything temperature related in that sentence. It’s impressive how long “cool” keeps being used.

          These words are important though. Without them you get in a 1984 world where some fool forces people to use double plus good.

          • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            13 hours ago

            Without them you get in a 1984 world where some fool forces people to use double plus good.

            What, dog-whistling?

            These words are important though.

            Now here I have to call BS, just like the OC.