I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is
Is "no cap" next? I'm like way old.
Is "no cap" next? I'm like way old.
Not to be yelling at kids to get off my lawn, but gnarly was at least a decade before rad. Also, epic is nearly 2 decades later.
I'm old enough to experience slang which isn't native to my generation. But let me just say, this current generations slang is the shittest in a long time.
Previous gen slang (fam, lit, yeet) was a 6/10
Current gen slang (frfr, no cap, rizz) is 2/10
Next gen has such a low bar to beat, it'll be hard for them to fuck this up.
Hemlo, inventor of PWN here.
It was a misspelling of "Owned" in a Warcraft 2 map that I made. People thought it was funny that it upset me when I noticed the typo and perpetuated the map version with the misspelling.
"Player 1 was pwned."
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I fucking did. The Internet will never let me live it down.
However, it belongs to you all now!
Be free
And get rekt :p
Thank you for this incredibly interesting yet highly unexpected history lesson. I really enjoy knowing this now.
..... I can't tell if you're serious or joking but since it's Lemmy I want to think you're serious and that's pretty fucking cool if it is, bud
Rad, gnarly, sick are still widely used in skiing and snowboarding circles at least.
As a millenial, yeet is still the greatest new word ever added, and why I personally will never be against the new generations choice of words. Fuckin Rizz is starting to appeal to me too
Especially with how you pronounce yeet, I cannot think of another English word that is as fun to say
My problem is, right about when a word starts to appeal to me and I'm like "oookayy I'll start saying it," it's way too late.
I guess I could balance it by always appending a Dude-like "..in the parlance of our times.."
That's the thing. Once it starts appealing to you, it loses value to the original group.
It's one of my favorite ways to fuck with my nephews and nieces.
Precisely. Another fun subtle thing to do is add "the" to the term. Gives it an extra sense of dismissiveness. It ain't "TikTok", it's "the TikTok."
Or better yet, "the tikkity tok."
I mean its just a shortened form of Charisma. Cha sounds weird, and Risma sounds like the set up for a "MUH BAWLZ" Joke
Sure, but what the hell happens to charismatic
in this situation? Does that get shortened too, so now we've got people saying "Yo Zendaya is totally rizzmatic!". Or does everyone just need to re-arrange all sentences that would use charismatic
so that only the noun form gets used and we avoid ever having to use it as an adjective?
I mean, Rizzmatic sounds awesome, I'm down to hear that variation. Language is constantly in flux. It has never stayed static. Multiple variations of 1 word just means you get to pick which one you like best
We say CHA in my D&D group when talking about the stat, but I'm gonna start saying rizz at the table and see how people react.
I'm a little sad I had to scroll so long to even find a reference to the old "pogs". Damn what a weird fad.
I sometimes use the weird words 90s kids used here in Germany. My favorites are definitely lazer and Porno. Porno literally meaning porn.
Whats the timeline on these? I feel like pwn win and epic all happened at the same time. Also i dont see leet or '1337"