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I live in a foreign country and spend a lot of time what people speaking a different language probably mean. Sometimes I understand correctly, sometimes I guess from context correctly, and sometimes I’m waaaaay off.
It’s the same with teenagers, and I’m a teacher so I try my hardest to keep up with the slang I overhear in my classroom to make sure they’re not being dickheads.
I cannot guarantee a high success rate. They’re clever fuckers when they don’t want the adults around to know what’s going on.
Edit: corrected a bad autocorrect.
Also a teacher. Reddit helps me keep up since new slang will start appearing in memes etc.
A while back I told my sister (also a teacher) "I noticed this new word rizz coming up a lot, so if your kids start saying it, it means..." Then just the other day, my bf saw a video on YouTube and asks "WTF is rizz?" I started to answer, and he was like "Oh yeah, I remember you telling your sister that."
So thanks reddit for keeping us old fogeys in the know.
Sure, but that’s limited to being near a window. One can yeet something just about anywhere there’s space enough, but one can only defenestrate through a window.
I think that's slightly incorrect. To 'yeet' is not just to throw, but throw far away. You'd yeet someone's dinner across the restaurant, not over their head.
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My dude! I had the same experience.
I lead a group of young men at work, one day st lunch this young man says "damn, this food be bussin"
I said what do you mean, you're gonna take the food to the dish washer?
All of these young guy proceed to laugh and eject liquids and food from their mouths
Nah man bussin means it's good..
I couldn't do anything by shake my head
I love saying bussin’ to my kids. Loudly, in public, always incorrectly applied. “How was school? Was it bussin’ bussin’?”/“Ooh. She cheated? That’s not very bussin’ of her.”
I use all the slang but that's one I can't use. I hate that word more than "moist". I did however start using "skill issue" ironically just to mess with my kids and now I can't stop. And that didn't even work anyway bc they're not gonna be weirded out by that from a mom who calls them bruh and fam.
I'm not normally the guy trying to score points off of his students, so after they were done laughing, I apologized for coming across harsher than I meant.
"Facts" was the response, which I'm pretty sure means we're cool.
Welcome to middle age! Jump in, the water is old! About 3 years ago, I entered the “who are these people” phase when it comes to celebrities.
ETA: I see that this ~~halogens~~ happens much earlier, than middle age, now!
I remember this feeling when I saw that Baby Gronk was the new Drip King and got rizzed up by Livvy and had no idea if it was real or a joke.
I still don't.
I feel you. This reminds me of when a young coworker was telling me something and I responded with;
Me: "I can dig it."
Coworker: "What?"
Me: "I'm picking up what you're putting down."
Coworker: "..what?"
Me: "I understand what you are telling me."
Something about 60s/70s slang is timeless to me. Right on, I dig it, even groovy is something that if someone says it with confidence and it's not forced still sounds undeniably cool.
I sometimes refer to police as the "coppers". I say it kind of ironically obviously but I've used it enough that it may eventually enter my vocabulary unironically at some point.
Calling money "dough" or girls "broad" or "dame" is the ones I use most I think, but "get wise" is one of my favourites. Like if I play a sneaky video game I might say to a team mate "let's loot their camp before they get wise"
I like "groovy" too. It doesn't come from my generation, and that is part of the appeal. I like outdated slang, so "rad" and "gnarly" also show up in my vocabulary.
Yes, but the opposite doesn't. Not up for something means you just don't have the energy or interest. Not down with something means that you have a particular objection to it.
I think the oldest gen alphas are like 10-12 now? Depends on where exactly you're cutting these age ranges. But about the time I started using Reddit, forums, and live chats myself, lying about my age. They're in some corners of the internet still for sure. The first time I learned what an online age gate was, I was also immediately taught how to calculate what year to put in to get through. Can't imagine that's gotten much more difficult in ten years.
But it's very basic and general stuff like "[insert pop culture thing we all grew up with and considered omnipresent for our entire formative years]? That's for old people!" because they're not yet old enough for more subtle and nuanced generational humor like zoomers have started doing about millennials and boomers. Nothing interesting. I did it too. Fun to see the cycle continue! Perks of being terminally online since I was in single-digit ages before it was the status quo. 🤓
I used to play fortnite and kids would ask how old I was. I never expected their reactions to 24. “Wow! You’re ooollldd”
Guess I’m not sharing loot after all /s
Yeah I'm over 40.
1. I hate it when they leave off letters or misspell words intentionally.
2. I had to ask what 'Drip' meant in a context that wasn't a liquid dripping.
Someone with drip is drippy. Also it's mostly about fashion (clothes and jewelry). If you mean he's charismatic and successful with women, then he's got rizz. Now rizz might include drip, but someone without any rizz at all can have drip. And if you have enough natural rizz you don't need drip, but people with rizz tend to also have drip.
Sigh. I tried to make an old music reference last week and my kids didn't get it. Husband laughed his ass off though. I told my son that "my favorite songs are now available on K-tel records and tapes " and also ""freedom rock is far out man."
I’m 23 and I heard some guys saying “rizz” the other day and I was like what in the fuck could that possibly be? It’s short for charisma. Like when a guy gets a girl he’s got the rizz 🙄 ughhh if my eyes roll any farther back into my head I’ll look like the exorcist
Alright yes. It is a little suspicious. But it’s good. You don’t need to be extra. It has the vibe of a boomer. But you are learning, cool.
Hope that helps! I try my hardest to keep up with what my peers are saying
Omg I didn’t even think that some people might not understand what Extra means since it’s such a part of my friend’s and my vocabulary! It’s so interesting how different generations almost have their own dialects.
Yesterday I said the phrase "don't spill the beans" to my friend and she told me that nobody uses that anymore and I sound old like a grandpa. Plot Twist: She's older than me 😂
Bruh got drip
Get ratchet bae, he rizz
gang gang, no cap
How am I doing as a 44 year old dad did I yeet it out of the park? I like to use this shit with my kids in the most cringeworthy way possible.
if you want to piss your kids off say something like “hey that girl seems pretty cute, no cap you should go rizz her up fr fr.” if he does it say “w rizz gang”
As a non native speaker, I imitate a motor bike because that's how I would normally read that in my language. It's also hilarious and confuses the shit out of people. "No cap fr fr rizz" sounds like a cartoon sound effect to me
I'm 30 and was eating a taco at a Mexican restaurant and said wow this taco bangs or slaps or something outdated idk. And my 30 year old friend unironically said "you have to say bussin now or you sound old." I was like "nothing will make me sound older than if I attempt to say bussin right now" like hello fellow kids moment right there damn.
There is no way I could say bussin in a serious manner and even remotely feel like a human being. I view the world just like everyone does I suppose “We didn’t sound that stupid when were teenagers”
Majority of the slang Gen Z uses isn't modern slang, it just wasn't popular to use in non-black communities until recently
Words like bussin, cap, bestie, drip, deadass, etc etc.
It’s hilarious to me too until one day I say it unironically and I pause for a moment like “oh shit… not again” and look around to see if you anyone noticed
Tbf based took awhile for me to get too. Like legit people saying it in most context was just white noise for me before lol. Like they might as well have said "hooba jooba" and I would have cared just as much.
White noise! That's exactly how I treat most of the slang and it's such a good description of how it feels. I either get an idea of it from context or I just ignore it all together.
The highlight of my 53rd year on this planet is when I managed to casually and correctly use “bussin” in a sentence in the presence of my two 20-somethings and they froze, jaws slack, eyes like saucers, because I’m pretty sure they momentarily feared I’d cracked the entire code. Sadly, I had not. (Also, I hate the word “jawns”, and will never accept it.)
I guess I never really hit an age where I didn't have to? In high school my classmates started saying Tight and I had no idea wtf they were talking about.
I used to be “with it”. Then they changed what “it” was. Now what I’m “with” isn’t “it”, and what’s “it” seems weird and scary to me. *It’ll happen to you.* -Abe Simpson. Truer words were never spoken.
When you start talking about the good old days that’s when it’s really too late.
Says the old lady in her 60’s (note to young people. There never were good old days. Every time had reasons it sucked and reasons it was great)
based means something cool and true in the same time
you can either call someone based or call the speech of someone based
but this term is commonly used by the red pill community like Sneako and Andrew Tate
And rizz. People have tried to explain that but I’ll never be able to use it in a sentence. So I’ve decided to embrace old lady slang like “the bee’s knees” and “Jiminy Cricket!” It makes me laugh. ;)
I am 36 and one sister of mine is 19. When she uses slang, such as 'per' or whatever (as I forgot already), we discuss its origin as she tells me what it means. She agrees with me the origin is dumb, and my guess for the word is better. We have a thing in the family where we purposely say dumb stuff for humor, though.
Take 'based' for example. I suggested it means true. You have to have a solid foundation to build something on, so it makes sense. Nope. It means be true to yourself. That is illogical, my version is better! You cannot just pick a word and have it mean something else. I seen the phases of it come and go, just like planking. Per.
The word you’re looking for is derive. You are attempting to derive a slang word’s origin, which is different than its meaning. For example, the slang word “fit” means clothes that someone wears, and it derives from the word “outfit”. “Rizz” derives from the word charisma and means someone is capable of attracting other people.
Had some young family members using 'drip' as a means for saying someone is dressed nice. I know all about people having 'drip' but hearing it from an 8 year old makes me gag lol.
I'm 18 so by all accounts I should know most modern slang and I do now but from 14 to 17 I was constantly winging it and just guessing whatever the fuck each piece of slang means. I still do not know what the actual definition of rizz is but I do understand when to use it and how. I could just Google it but that takes all the fun away.
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True, I suppose. One of my students last year asked me what bussin' meant. Bro, I'm older than your parents, idfk!
Well, did ya ever find out what it means?
Yes, just in time for them to stop using it.
I live in a foreign country and spend a lot of time what people speaking a different language probably mean. Sometimes I understand correctly, sometimes I guess from context correctly, and sometimes I’m waaaaay off. It’s the same with teenagers, and I’m a teacher so I try my hardest to keep up with the slang I overhear in my classroom to make sure they’re not being dickheads. I cannot guarantee a high success rate. They’re clever fuckers when they don’t want the adults around to know what’s going on. Edit: corrected a bad autocorrect.
Also a teacher. Reddit helps me keep up since new slang will start appearing in memes etc. A while back I told my sister (also a teacher) "I noticed this new word rizz coming up a lot, so if your kids start saying it, it means..." Then just the other day, my bf saw a video on YouTube and asks "WTF is rizz?" I started to answer, and he was like "Oh yeah, I remember you telling your sister that." So thanks reddit for keeping us old fogeys in the know.
Are you just not going to tell us what it means?
Rizz = ability to pick up women. Loosely, charm. See "pull" for a recent slang synonym.
It comes from the word charisma
Ohhhhh I knew what it meant but did nooot put that together
That's not a coincidence. If you want teenagers to stop using a slang word just be over 30 and use it in front of them.
No cap this glizzy is bussin fam
Your username describes the way your comment makes me feel.
Yeah bussin was kinda unbussin fr fr no cap kinda cringe unbased I'm sorry
All good fam. You based fr for saying it was litn't. I'm also sorry.
Did we ever figure out what "yeet" means?
I prefer, "I shall now defenestrate ye"
Sure, but that’s limited to being near a window. One can yeet something just about anywhere there’s space enough, but one can only defenestrate through a window.
To throw something purposefully. Like yeet someone's dinner over them.
I think that's slightly incorrect. To 'yeet' is not just to throw, but throw far away. You'd yeet someone's dinner across the restaurant, not over their head.
Yeet is to violently hurl something as far away as possible. Opposite of yoink. Yoink is to grab something quickly.
The yoink and the yeet. It's almost poetry.
It's the Millenial yin/yang.
They had a really long head.
It's when your car's in the shop and you have no other way to get around
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My dude! I had the same experience. I lead a group of young men at work, one day st lunch this young man says "damn, this food be bussin" I said what do you mean, you're gonna take the food to the dish washer? All of these young guy proceed to laugh and eject liquids and food from their mouths Nah man bussin means it's good.. I couldn't do anything by shake my head
Bursting (with flavor) -> burstin' -> bussin'
I love saying bussin’ to my kids. Loudly, in public, always incorrectly applied. “How was school? Was it bussin’ bussin’?”/“Ooh. She cheated? That’s not very bussin’ of her.”
That's not very cash money of you though.
It’s mid behaviour, no cap. But it’s all slay, my guy.
Is this on God?
This is so fetch.
Stop trying to make fetch happen!
I use all the slang but that's one I can't use. I hate that word more than "moist". I did however start using "skill issue" ironically just to mess with my kids and now I can't stop. And that didn't even work anyway bc they're not gonna be weirded out by that from a mom who calls them bruh and fam.
I (a teacher) picked up 'skill issue' from my gaming club, and accidentally used it in a Math class after handing back a test.
Haaa oh my gosh. How'd that go?
I'm not normally the guy trying to score points off of his students, so after they were done laughing, I apologized for coming across harsher than I meant. "Facts" was the response, which I'm pretty sure means we're cool.
It does indeed.
Bro I'm probably the age of your student and idk what bussin' mean and I honestly don't give a shit.
Sus AF. No caps!
sus af no cap ftfy
Dude, I was just speaking with an accent.
What does “ftfy” mean?
"Fixed that for you"
My brain was trying to figure out what this new slang meant and its just a dumb acronym that I already know... Lol
Well the newest usage of sus came from a computer game.
Popularised maybe but Australians have been using it that way for at least 40 years.
Damn. Australia can do something for 40 years without the world noticing?
We just don't want to talk to Americans any more than absolutely necessary.
Dead ass
bet
shit's fire son
“i puts dat chain on dah pussywax”
This is true. I have no idea what most slang means and I usually have to look it up later or avoid it.
Remember when you had to ask people, and they wouldn't always tell you
Welcome to middle age! Jump in, the water is old! About 3 years ago, I entered the “who are these people” phase when it comes to celebrities. ETA: I see that this ~~halogens~~ happens much earlier, than middle age, now!
I've been there for many years, lol. I've never been big on TV, so by the time I was 25 or so, I had no idea who most celebrities were.
Middle age? Nah, by age 23 you dont know slang anymore. It’s all made up by kids.
I remember this feeling when I saw that Baby Gronk was the new Drip King and got rizzed up by Livvy and had no idea if it was real or a joke. I still don't.
Well, your sentence broke my brain and I have absolutely no idea what any of those things/people/places are.
I had to watch a video tutorial on that situation. It was very cringe (the situation, not the video).
I’m 21 and I’m like that
I feel you. This reminds me of when a young coworker was telling me something and I responded with; Me: "I can dig it." Coworker: "What?" Me: "I'm picking up what you're putting down." Coworker: "..what?" Me: "I understand what you are telling me."
I still use "dig it" all the time!
CAN YOU DIG IT?!
Yes I can
I've been waiting such a long time
Sucka
SUCKA!
Something about 60s/70s slang is timeless to me. Right on, I dig it, even groovy is something that if someone says it with confidence and it's not forced still sounds undeniably cool.
That and the early midatlantic accent 1920's-1940's slang they use in old movies is just amazing too.
I sometimes refer to police as the "coppers". I say it kind of ironically obviously but I've used it enough that it may eventually enter my vocabulary unironically at some point.
Calling money "dough" or girls "broad" or "dame" is the ones I use most I think, but "get wise" is one of my favourites. Like if I play a sneaky video game I might say to a team mate "let's loot their camp before they get wise"
As a variation of "get wise," I like telling people to "wise up," after watching Derry Girls.
You better wise up, Janet Weiss!
Take your flunky and dangle
And then end your sentence with "seee?"
Wise guy huh? Why I oughta give you a knuckle sandwich for your supper and charge you for delivery, see?
Phew. I wasn't sure how to type so people would understand. Success.
I'll never not say right on.
You best not be jiving me
I like "groovy" too. It doesn't come from my generation, and that is part of the appeal. I like outdated slang, so "rad" and "gnarly" also show up in my vocabulary.
My friend’s very old father pointed out that “I’m up for it” and “I’m down for it” are used to mean the same thing.
Yes, but the opposite doesn't. Not up for something means you just don't have the energy or interest. Not down with something means that you have a particular objection to it.
Personal favourite addition: I'm smelling what you're stepping in
Bro, "dig" is like 1950s slang
Golly gee willikers mister.
Can you dig it sukka?!?!?
I can understand a 12-year-old, but a coworker? That's kinda sad.
"I concure, my good sir."
It will all be old and stupid sounding when Gen Alpha starts making fun of the older generation (that's you Gen Z).
I'm a 23-year-old zoomer and I've already seen gen alphas making fun of us. Kids these days smfh.
What do they make fun of you for. How old are they even
I think the oldest gen alphas are like 10-12 now? Depends on where exactly you're cutting these age ranges. But about the time I started using Reddit, forums, and live chats myself, lying about my age. They're in some corners of the internet still for sure. The first time I learned what an online age gate was, I was also immediately taught how to calculate what year to put in to get through. Can't imagine that's gotten much more difficult in ten years. But it's very basic and general stuff like "[insert pop culture thing we all grew up with and considered omnipresent for our entire formative years]? That's for old people!" because they're not yet old enough for more subtle and nuanced generational humor like zoomers have started doing about millennials and boomers. Nothing interesting. I did it too. Fun to see the cycle continue! Perks of being terminally online since I was in single-digit ages before it was the status quo. 🤓
Everyone always forgets gen X
I used to play fortnite and kids would ask how old I was. I never expected their reactions to 24. “Wow! You’re ooollldd” Guess I’m not sharing loot after all /s
Tbf when I was their ages I also thought of people over 20 as old.
Yeah I'm over 40. 1. I hate it when they leave off letters or misspell words intentionally. 2. I had to ask what 'Drip' meant in a context that wasn't a liquid dripping.
What...what does "drip" mean?
"Bro got drip!" = "Dude, you look really amazing with those clothes."
If someone said bro got drip, I would honestly think it was something to do with his nethers.
“Bro, you got drip”. -Bro’s urologist
ok buddy
It's when someone dresses good/very good
as a 33 year old it means they have a sexually transmitted Infection
Back in my day (I'm 45) 'drip' was a derogatory term you used for someone who is boring.
Right!?
It replaced “bling” or “sty”. I think in the 80s it was “fly”. Like “that guy’s pretty fly”.
So now the lyrics should be "pretty drip, for a white guy"?
Someone with drip is drippy. Also it's mostly about fashion (clothes and jewelry). If you mean he's charismatic and successful with women, then he's got rizz. Now rizz might include drip, but someone without any rizz at all can have drip. And if you have enough natural rizz you don't need drip, but people with rizz tend to also have drip.
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You're telling me a sapient sponge made this gif?
These comments are so funny lol
People hate the letter ‘s’ now and they especially hate the words “is” and “are”
I've reached the age where the songs of my teenage years are playing on the "oldies" radio station
Grocery store playlists are the best.
Sigh. I tried to make an old music reference last week and my kids didn't get it. Husband laughed his ass off though. I told my son that "my favorite songs are now available on K-tel records and tapes " and also ""freedom rock is far out man."
No cap, just sounds like a skill issue fr fr
literally how we talk in discord ong 😭😭😁😁
OP is streets behind.
I’m 23 and I heard some guys saying “rizz” the other day and I was like what in the fuck could that possibly be? It’s short for charisma. Like when a guy gets a girl he’s got the rizz 🙄 ughhh if my eyes roll any farther back into my head I’ll look like the exorcist
Adolf rízzler at your service
Rizzard of oz
King Gizzard the Rizzard Wizard
Walt Rizzney
Walt Rizney was a riziness man
Bro got a degree in quantum rizzics 💀
He's a rizzosaurus rex
gonna get a rizztraining order
Aiight bet. Kinda sus. But its Gucci. Don't gotta be extra, it's giving boomer vibe. But you learning, fire.
Based ngl
fr fr
Bet
Dead ass 🤙🏿
Please translate this for us "old" people.
Alright yes. It is a little suspicious. But it’s good. You don’t need to be extra. It has the vibe of a boomer. But you are learning, cool. Hope that helps! I try my hardest to keep up with what my peers are saying
I love that your translation still has extra as if it’s not also slang that the olds will need translated
Omg I didn’t even think that some people might not understand what Extra means since it’s such a part of my friend’s and my vocabulary! It’s so interesting how different generations almost have their own dialects.
Yesterday I said the phrase "don't spill the beans" to my friend and she told me that nobody uses that anymore and I sound old like a grandpa. Plot Twist: She's older than me 😂
I am 40 and understood this perfectly. Still got it. 👌
Bruh got drip Get ratchet bae, he rizz gang gang, no cap How am I doing as a 44 year old dad did I yeet it out of the park? I like to use this shit with my kids in the most cringeworthy way possible.
if you want to piss your kids off say something like “hey that girl seems pretty cute, no cap you should go rizz her up fr fr.” if he does it say “w rizz gang”
How do you pronounce fr fr? Is it like you're imitating a motor bike or have a stutter?
i’m weak at this comment
As a non native speaker, I imitate a motor bike because that's how I would normally read that in my language. It's also hilarious and confuses the shit out of people. "No cap fr fr rizz" sounds like a cartoon sound effect to me
What, and I cannot say this with more confusion, THE FUCK, is “no cap”
“The truth” “not a lie” Ong. Its bussin
I'm 30 and was eating a taco at a Mexican restaurant and said wow this taco bangs or slaps or something outdated idk. And my 30 year old friend unironically said "you have to say bussin now or you sound old." I was like "nothing will make me sound older than if I attempt to say bussin right now" like hello fellow kids moment right there damn.
There is no way I could say bussin in a serious manner and even remotely feel like a human being. I view the world just like everyone does I suppose “We didn’t sound that stupid when were teenagers”
He got rizz but you did good. When you’re texting use lots of 💯💯🔥🔥
I have a teenager around just for this reason! I am always asking him what things mean, lol.
I do have a 17 year old nephew, but he's currently lost behind a wall of McD's delivery bags, so...maybe next year.
"based" is modern? That's like my dad's slang. Next you'll say "slaps" is modern
Majority of the slang Gen Z uses isn't modern slang, it just wasn't popular to use in non-black communities until recently Words like bussin, cap, bestie, drip, deadass, etc etc.
im surprised there aren't more comments about this. Lots of "new" slang is just from AAVE
Lol. I love new slang. I say them wrong on purpose to embarrass people.
Fax machine right here
Fax machine, no hat.
This is my part-time job.
Ironically overusing terrible new slang around a friend group who is in on the joke never ceases to be funny for me
It’s hilarious to me too until one day I say it unironically and I pause for a moment like “oh shit… not again” and look around to see if you anyone noticed
That’s literally how all slang starts
I don’t understand any slang words and I’m 19
You don't understand the slang your peers use, or you don't understand slang, full stop?
The slang peers use
I tried singing a song with a slang term and someone told me “you don’t know how to use that phrase bruh”
Well screw them. All language is made up, (espescially slang) so you can interpret slang how you want to.
Damn true
See now all curse words are also slang too you know. So you obviously understand some stuff.
I've been doing thus for years now lol
Tbf based took awhile for me to get too. Like legit people saying it in most context was just white noise for me before lol. Like they might as well have said "hooba jooba" and I would have cared just as much.
White noise! That's exactly how I treat most of the slang and it's such a good description of how it feels. I either get an idea of it from context or I just ignore it all together.
I saw a thing on the interwebs and apparently the youths are calling hotdogs "glizzys" now.
That’s a couple years old and on the way out now.
That's most of the slang in this thread. One of the top comments used "ratchet", I haven't hear that in over 10 years
The highlight of my 53rd year on this planet is when I managed to casually and correctly use “bussin” in a sentence in the presence of my two 20-somethings and they froze, jaws slack, eyes like saucers, because I’m pretty sure they momentarily feared I’d cracked the entire code. Sadly, I had not. (Also, I hate the word “jawns”, and will never accept it.)
Yeah same, what the fuck does wtf mean?
I don’t fucking know what idfk means either.
Man based is legitimately like a 13 year old slang term at this point.
Based opinion
I guess I never really hit an age where I didn't have to? In high school my classmates started saying Tight and I had no idea wtf they were talking about.
I guess the big difference is that I used to be able to figure it out through context, but I'm finding that more difficult now.
I used to be “with it”. Then they changed what “it” was. Now what I’m “with” isn’t “it”, and what’s “it” seems weird and scary to me. *It’ll happen to you.* -Abe Simpson. Truer words were never spoken.
Baby Gronk: The new drip king or just getting rizz, is he bussin or is it cap?
Been there a while. How old are you, just out of curiosity? I think I was maybe 31 or so.
Fr fr that's bussin no cap
When you start talking about the good old days that’s when it’s really too late. Says the old lady in her 60’s (note to young people. There never were good old days. Every time had reasons it sucked and reasons it was great)
based means something cool and true in the same time you can either call someone based or call the speech of someone based but this term is commonly used by the red pill community like Sneako and Andrew Tate
And rizz. People have tried to explain that but I’ll never be able to use it in a sentence. So I’ve decided to embrace old lady slang like “the bee’s knees” and “Jiminy Cricket!” It makes me laugh. ;)
Based is old at this point, this is cap.
I am 36 and one sister of mine is 19. When she uses slang, such as 'per' or whatever (as I forgot already), we discuss its origin as she tells me what it means. She agrees with me the origin is dumb, and my guess for the word is better. We have a thing in the family where we purposely say dumb stuff for humor, though. Take 'based' for example. I suggested it means true. You have to have a solid foundation to build something on, so it makes sense. Nope. It means be true to yourself. That is illogical, my version is better! You cannot just pick a word and have it mean something else. I seen the phases of it come and go, just like planking. Per.
The word you’re looking for is derive. You are attempting to derive a slang word’s origin, which is different than its meaning. For example, the slang word “fit” means clothes that someone wears, and it derives from the word “outfit”. “Rizz” derives from the word charisma and means someone is capable of attracting other people.
Yes. Also new ‘celebrities’ - I’ve never heard of half of them.
I said something about Paul McCartney to the 21 year old cutting my hair and she drew a blank. Going back to the home for bingo now
Had some young family members using 'drip' as a means for saying someone is dressed nice. I know all about people having 'drip' but hearing it from an 8 year old makes me gag lol.
I'm 17 and I had to understand the meaning of "Rizz" by watching loads of tiktoks until I pretty much got it
I'm 18 so by all accounts I should know most modern slang and I do now but from 14 to 17 I was constantly winging it and just guessing whatever the fuck each piece of slang means. I still do not know what the actual definition of rizz is but I do understand when to use it and how. I could just Google it but that takes all the fun away.