Whenever if feel uncool for being old I just remember that I wasn’t cool when I was younger either, so I’ve lost nothing.
Paradoxically once you get to middle age, the other middle-aged people think you're uncool if you do know slang from younger generations.
It's annoying because I can't help picking it up.
It all comes back around sooner or later.
A few years ago everyone was saying "ouf" a lot, made them sound like my family member who was born in the 1930s.
When I was a teen, I was lost too. Then I got used to being lost. Now, no matter where I go, there I am.
it still means throw but it is also phonetically close to saying "ye" (as in enthusiastically saying yes with a long 'e' but not finishing the word) so people use it as such
It's not that i don't understand it, but seeing a 40 year old guy using tiktok language just feel wrong and creepy.
Where I live, the new thing is that THE YOUTH arbitrarily mix in english with our native language. But I've been doing that for 20 years already.
Still sounds dumb though.