You can make up words at any age.
this post was submitted on 06 May 2025
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I feel dead at 24
Marvy fab
If you also make up a way to pronounce them, a grammar and potentially a culture to go with it, you've just made a conlang
Older generations need to start inventing slang again to noogle the kids.
Even if you have a butcher's at what already exists the belly fruits won't know whether to shit or go blind, you can really lair it up
These jerps don't know their hand from their splint when it comes to laying lair, kin. Ytk tho on some true dangler shit lololol
I feel that the memery at TenForward have a lot of potential to add here. I don't know enough about their inspiration material to understand why, but from what I can tell they've certainly got a lot of beans. More beans than these young'uns could ever hold in their tiny little kling-ons.
Janeway would lair them up dozens, maybe even hundreds of times, and they wouldn't even know they were dangling the whole time.
For all I know these are fighting words to them. If so, I will try to die with my honor.
We can just use what we always have, ya dig?
That'd be reet kewl.
I am a bit older than 24 and enjoy learning the new patois tbh. It's super interesting to me how language evolves endlessly in all these innumerable offshoots and how niche cultures generate all these different codes and concepts and wordplay and stuff.
I like that the youth are forever both borrowing from the old and scouting new grounds of their own in these ways and in countless others as well. So the renewal and rechristening of culture is based and I-like-it-pilled akchooly 🤓
Edit: a letter
Good use of patois, but it's spelled with an 's' :)
Kids ain't even know how to spell patwa, I feel u tho cuz I'm cool af. Fr fr.
$rm cli args make the best slang.
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Nice to know. Thanks for the lesson!
Bro you are so hip that your rizz is higher than the Empire State Building.
That’s so skibidi Ohio, chat, no cap.
This is something I don’t like - calling the viewers "chat". I mean, it’s gender neutral, but I’d just randomly call them Ladies, Gentlemen, Ladymen, Gentles, viewers, guys, gals, bros, sis’s, folks, roflcopters, grills…
I’m no streamer btw. Maybe I‘d just get skibidi cancelled lol xD
They are literally referencing a live chat though—when you see it recorded on YouTube you aren’t always seeing what they see. Most times I have seen people say “chat”, it is because they are literally looking at a chat room screen, or they are saying it somewhat ironically to reference the community of chatters that they typically interact with.
Furthermore, the way those chats work is sort of like an anonymous hive mind rather than individual users, so people say “chat” to refer to the meta-consensus of comments rather than an individual. If you imagine their community as a summer camp, it is the same energy as saying “good evening campers” when addressing the hoarde of identical kids in scout uniforms—their identity is being addressed as a group.
I'm cool with it for streams, but it got really confusing because I've also heard slightly older young'uns refer to ChatGPT as "Chat"
So, like, "Idk I heard it from Chat" can either be a horrifying revelation that they listen to and trust random twitch users, or a horrifying revelation that they listen to and trust inchoate AI tech.
"Yeet" is 10 years old now.
Jesus Christ.... I'm old enough to have kids that would have said yet.... where's my ibuprofen?
This helped me but it is only valid for 15 minutes
13 of those terms are not new at all lol glad to see there’s at least some overlap between generations.
Now if we can just psyop them into using “rad” and “sick” again 👀
Totally tubular!
Ts pmo sm vro 🥀🥀 u mst b empl*yed gng 🙏🥀🥀🥀🪫🪫
The earliest urban dictionary entry for yeet was made in 2008, when you are literally part of the generation that popularized the word.
And it was a dance move performed on bikes. Literally pumping the chest up and down with arms spread wide (like flying an airplane), while riding a bicycle, in a group.
I remember using it around the early 2000s to be throwing something.
I remember early 2010s, people were making funny videos yelling "YEET" & throwing things super far.
Up to 24 people are sympathetic. You will find a lot of people that will (correctly) say "you're young. Just enjoy your time you don't need to worry about where you're headed. It will come to you". Wait until next year. 25 is when that changes to "what the fuck are you doing with your life". Basically what I'm saying is you're not old. Until next year.
Then there's 26, when in the US you get kicked off your parents' insurance & you can go fuck yourself! 🤗
fr fr no cap
I'm old enough to literally not care one bit what the youngins do or if I really understand them. I don't need them to be my clone to live them. They got their thing just like I had mine. Circle of life.
You would have been a child when yeet started becoming popular though
I'm old and new words are neat
I like to use 1920s slang to even things out.
Well, got to skedaddle.
Scientists: ^(hold^ ^beer)^ ...
I'm 40+ and I keep inventing words with friends, why blame the young ones ?
(I mean except for the fact that they listen to shitty music and ours was better 👴)
You probably just forgot about all the bad music you used to listen to and now compares all the new stuff to the best from your time.
That was supposed to be an old grumpy man joke
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You're zenging, mosh
OP glazing
Yeet
Is now a bad time to point out that all words are made up? If your generation got to do it, there's no reason to begrudge any other.
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