And just like the first image, many of the words in second image are rarely if ever used by the generation being stereotyped and are more often used by older generations to do the stereotyping, inventing a largely imagined culture for the generation they’re completely out of touch with.
This is so real. I remember being a preteen when pagers were a big thing, and seeing a newspaper article written for parents that listed all of these ‘pager codes’ so parents could decode what their kids were saying to each other. Out of a list of perhaps 20, I only recognized 3 and the rest were so elaborate and clearly made up for this article. A few years later, I saw a nearly identical article listing largely the same ‘codes’ but for AIM chats. Shit like ‘2219’ means ‘parents nearby, pick the drugs up at Sally’s instead’. Like wtf?
Like you said, inventing a largely imagined culture for the generation they’re completely out of touch with.
Instead of ‘decoding’ what kids are saying, how about actually talking to them?
Boomers, this you?
Oh my word, now there’s another generation saying things for the explicit purpose of upsetting the adults, oh nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
It’s like older people actually forget they did the exact same thing as they were growing up, and it didn’t mean anything then either.
And just like the first image, many of the words in second image are rarely if ever used by the generation being stereotyped and are more often used by older generations to do the stereotyping, inventing a largely imagined culture for the generation they’re completely out of touch with.
This is so real. I remember being a preteen when pagers were a big thing, and seeing a newspaper article written for parents that listed all of these ‘pager codes’ so parents could decode what their kids were saying to each other. Out of a list of perhaps 20, I only recognized 3 and the rest were so elaborate and clearly made up for this article. A few years later, I saw a nearly identical article listing largely the same ‘codes’ but for AIM chats. Shit like ‘2219’ means ‘parents nearby, pick the drugs up at Sally’s instead’. Like wtf?
Like you said, inventing a largely imagined culture for the generation they’re completely out of touch with.
Instead of ‘decoding’ what kids are saying, how about actually talking to them?
Oh wait, forget the slang - the kids aren’t alright! The kids we raised are ruining everything!
Lol why did they explain ‘bringing me down’ to mean ‘taking off a high’, to then later explain ‘taking off a high’ as ‘sobering up’ 😂
They had no idea what they were talking about is my best guess.
Now for a whole new generation to blame and words to ban and make scaries! (Yeah I’m on a tangent and switching perspectives ffs)
Oh wait this you too?
I still say all of this
I still say a lot of it too, dweeb and grody being choice to use at opportune moments.
I personally love slang, without it our language skills would remain static and even degrade. IMO slang helps language evolve.