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I'm getting better at understanding them
But damn sometimes I spend more time searching for definitions to understand it than it actually takes to read it
dude even I can't keep up anymore and I can't even legally vote yet
shit evolves too fast
I did an indoor skydiving thing once and there's a lesson beforehand. My partner and I did the required skills well and our young instructor said "Let's go" and so we got up to leave the room. Incorrect, he was just expressing approval.
lessgooo
Skibidi brain straight up goated.
This is such a weird performative thing, why are we pretending kids are speaking some incomprehensible foreign language? Aside from a couple pieces of really specific slang, most of which is only ever used ironically anyway (I'm looking at you, "skibidi"), it's the exact same evolution of language and slang as every other previous generation before it, just perhaps with a wider spread and more global influence. And almost all of it can be deciphered with little effort: Rizz = ChaRISma, Gyatt = GYATTdamn (goddamn), etc.
Like I know we're all eventually going to become the next generation of boomers, such is the curse of time, but jesus christ y'all don't have to fucking speedrun to that conclusion.
I don't know about you, but personally I always planned to be better to the generation that followed me than the generation that preceded mine was to us.
personally I always planned to be better to the generation that followed me than the generation that preceded mine was to us.
And this is why I make the effort to understand. We don't have to make the same mistakes of the past, we have to tools to understand.
And I do my best, I look up the words I don't know and can't figure out. And worst case I simply ask.
Shibby
I was listening to H.G. Wells on audiobook today and it's both cool and sometimes difficult to listen to the old timey English. Like it's close enough to be familiar and mostly understood, but also different enough to sound like a whole other language.
Language evolves and I think that's cool. The more people we have and the more ways of communicating, the more it will evolve.
This modern slang is damn gibberish. Back in my day, at least our slang made some gramatical sense, it was simply noun replacement, and some adverbs/verbs. Now get off my lawn.
Cool beans man, cool beans
Pretty hip if I say so myself.
I used to be with it, but 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!
Copacetic, one might even say
Indubitably
It do be like that
It isn't gibberish and it makes grammatical sense. You just don't understand the unspoken rules around the slang.
But sure grandma let's get you to bed :P
Jive was the same way.
But do you speak jive?
I don't speak it, but considering this scene from Airplane (1980) ( on YouTube ) I understood the whole conversation.
Of course this is Hollywood jive, and like other languages, it's subject to regional vernacular variance which might be beyond me.
Lol that's exactly what I was referencing, hell yeah
The evolution of language is beautiful IMO
I've read books from over a hundred years ago and their modern translations and the differences are sometimes pretty drastic
Listening to those radio plays from back in the day is pretty awesome as well
this morning I shat masel fr fr fam no cap bet go brrrrr.
Curously, bet. is short for a bet you can take to the bank while bet? is short for a bet you might not want to take.
Back in my day we didn't call it rizz, we called it relatability
Rizz is Kah-RIZZ-mah (charisma). Usually used in the context of one person hitting on another with reciprocated attraction.
No, rizz is game.
Pretty much the same thing, but the term rizz is literally the shortening of the word charisma. Probably related to pizazz.
Skibidi toilet fanum tax Ohio
Yes. snatching food off the plates of strangers is weird and off-putting.
Behold! Beowulf in the original English:
i mean it's a bit unfair to show it in a different font, if i wrote this in wingdings you wouldn't understand shit either.
Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon. Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum, monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah, egsode eorlas. Syððan ærest wearð feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad, weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah, oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra ofer hronrade hyran scolde, gomban gyldan. þæt wæs god cyning. ðæm eafera wæs æfter cenned, geong in geardum, þone god sende folce to frofre; fyrenðearfe ongeat þe hie ær drugon aldorlease lange hwile. Him þæs liffrea, wuldres wealdend, woroldare forgeaf; Beowulf wæs breme blæd wide sprang, Scyldes eafera Scedelandum in.
Different font? This is literally a picture of the original.
yeah, and as you can very obviously see it does not look like modern text, the average person would struggle to identify most letters.
My point is that using a text written in what is effectively a completely different writing system isn't a fair comparison, of course it's going to be impossible to understand when you can't tell what the letters are! That doesn't tell you anything about how different the actual language is.
yeah, and as you can very obviously see it does not look like modern text
Because it's not; that was the point. It's still English, but is unrecognizable as such. It literally looks like "some kind of elvish."
except the major difference is just that it uses funny letters, which you can do with any language and that doesn't mean the actual language itself is different!
You're effectively taking dutch, writing it in cyrillic script, and going "look at how different the languages are" when in fact dutch is generally easier to comprehend than a thick scottish dialect.
He/she probably meant hand, not font. Most people don't know the terminology regarding letterforms.
卄乇ㄥㄥ ㄚ乇卂卄 乃尺ㄖㄒ卄乇尺
Meeting the kids are why I don’t care about global warming anymore.
Yeah, we can tell you and your generation don't care.
Most millennials care. I’m just over us. Humans deserve the slap down coming.
No they don't, if they cared they would've done something about the state of things.
They don't care exactly like you. They are "over us".