You know how it goes, first people start saying the silly meme phrase “ironically”, then they can’t stop themselves saying it, then it becomes awkwardly unironic, and then it gets embedded in the lexicon and Miriam-Webster adds it to the dictionary
2060 is going to be lit fam AHEM I mean it’s going to be funny
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Not to discredit your point, but 80 years ago was 1944, and everybody then would know what you mean by that 2nd sentence.
Cool goes back to Shakespeare and beyond. But it was also popular in the American vernacular in the 1930s.
“Cool” was hardly the only thing modern vernacular about that sentence. It’s use 80 years ago would not have the same meaning now, and in the syntax of the sentence would seem odd, much like the OP’s usage of contemporary slang.
Believe it or not, just because a word has previously been used as slang doesn’t mean the meaning hasn’t shifted through time. See: “low-key.”
Sure, the point is that 80 years isn’t that long ago. And your example still wouldn’t be so obscure as to be unintelligible at that time, regardles. Believe it or not.
I hear what you’re saying, but my original point was that even in 80 years, accepted syntax, vernacular usage, and general language construction can change quite a bit, so the OP post isn’t that odd. It’s still “intelligible,” and, indeed, language does change. Quite often, in fact.
When I said “nearly unintelligible,” I meant it hyperbolicly to accentuate the fact that the modern language being highlighted by the OP is, similarly, not unintelligible. They are just examples of relatively new language use.
I was highlighting the second sentence due to its modern syntax and the ways many of the words have grown to encompass broader meanings.
Believe it or not, it didn’t even occur to me that “cool” was a slang word that might have shifted in the last 80 years, it’s so deeply embedded in my own idiomatic language that I was using it in that sentence as the word with historical stability in the sentence.
Though, now that I’ve looked into the etymology, the usage in that sentence would also be a bit odd 80 years ago.
Word.
Merriam-Webster’s been adding stuff to the dictionary long before it’s even really embedded in the lexicon lately. Probably trying to stay relevant.
fr fr ive thought that too over the past few years
Although that said I just tried to find some examples to justify that sentiment… and all their newly minted words seem legit to me. Maybe I’m just a silly outdated millennial now
Are the front curls really such a zoomer thing? I’ve been dealin’ with’em for decades now because Arabic and Irish heritage means my hair is constantly in rebellion against british beauty standards
It’s become a zoomer thing. Last Xmas my friend’s little cousin of Polish and Polish heritage was rocking them instead of his usual arrow straight hair.
cousin of Polish and Polish heritage
Sure he doesn’t also has some Polish in him? Maybe a bit of Polish too?
I imagine, with that heritage, every part of you is in constant rebellion against the British!
As well they should be.
Broccoli cut
Fuckin Birds nest
and the al-qaeda be like: “lmao gotem”
Airplane hits tower… pilot yelling “KOBE”
The zoomer haircut xD
The Brokkoli, it’s pretty fetch.
It’s called the “meet me at McDonald’s” haircut. No joke
It’s actually typically called the “Broccoli cut.”
At least that’s the only way I’ve heard it.
Situation is very sus
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I know I’m old but what does ‘no cap’ mean?
It means you’re being On God Fr Fr about something
*sumfin
Bet
It means “I am not being capricious”
Jk I have no clue and don’t care don’t correct me
This is now fact in my head cannon
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“Cap” is a lie or exaggeration.
So “no cap” is “I’m not lying/I’m being serious.”
popularized from the Young Thug and Future track of the same name:
My bitch can’t sleep at my house
Make her sleep at a hotel now
And when you talk, man, you talking off cap
And your diamonds they looking like tap
I was always ducking from the paps
Keep an R&B bitch in my lap
Out in Beverly Hills, I adapt
But I still had to ride with that strapYellow diamonds like banana, that’s cap
Put some dirty in Mello Yello, no cap
Rocking Maison Margiela’s, that’s cap
Red bitch, Cinderella, no cap
I can turn perroI can turn Pedro
Bad bitch out the ghetto
Bruh moment
Aight imma head to my crib finna pop some caps yall
sir the twin towers got phanum taxed
Iraq Sus!
Rizz
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I see your rizz and raise you a skibidi. (probably b/c I like the way that word sounds in my head… sk-i-bi-di do dah day 🎵 🎶 )
Also, rizz means “the ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner” so… now I have to think about GWB strutting his stuff, thanks for that:-P (that’s surely what made me think of my own word… gotta flush it out somehow?)
This is going to be “too soon” until all of the millennials are dead.
Don’t make me feel old. That’s not nice! But yeah I know. It’s just still such a gut punch.
George Carlin was first.
Joan Rivers got there just after.
We’ve been laughing at jokes about 911 for ages. Being edgy isn’t new, even boomers do it
I remember Gilbert Gottfried at a Friar’s Club roast. Can’t remember what the actual joke was, but I remember he lost the whole audience, and then won them back with a spontaneous telling of “The Aristocrats”
Kudos for Carlin, who made fun of government propaganda. Maybe not so much for Joan Rivers for making fun of FDNY widows.
(I’m not a boomer, though. Or a millennial. Or really that edgy anymore, if I ever was…)
Oh I know. And there’s some lessening of the emotions, I’m not enraged by the jokes this time. Just…sad.
Millennials in NY were cracking dark jokes about 9/11 in high school. “Too soon” never existed for some of us.
That’s coping humor. There’s no stopping that.
Maybe, but we’re already dead inside.
Why does zoomer Bush look like Tony Khan?
Why does Tony Khan look like zoomer Bush?
It’s the brown-eyed cocaine stare.
Fuck now I can’t unsee it
Jus me bro but dick cheynz be acting sus tho fr fr
YouTuber Sven Johnson: Someone copystrike this meme, they stole my hair.
I got bullied in elementary school for having that haircut 😂
