It took me a while to realize this wasn’t a lookup table
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My school district is WAY smarter than this, all the teachers and staff just start saying the words more than the kids do until they think it's corny.
This
Making lists like that is authoritarian and won't work. Making the words worthless works
Why is it even a goal to stop kids saying these words
Because some adults feel out of touch and must crush the new slang while forgetting that the same thing happened to them as kids until their slang became common parlance. Eventually this current crop of kids will do the same to the next generation and the cycle will continue.
Exactly this. Bunch of adults that forgot they too were kids once
What? You mean language changes? I can't take it, that's literally insane!
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I am almost 28 and use way more gen z/alpha slang than my 21 year old sister does. It becomes your permanent lexicon after a while and you keep using the words no matter how outdated they are. I say yeet at least once a day still.
Unironically started saying hella after life is strange made me cringe out of my fucking seat when the characters say it.
Reclaim it like slurs. Lmfao
The new thing is "what the helly"
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I can imagine that working, actually.
As a teacher, I can attest that it works beautifully.
"Ill bless you Youngins🥷 with the Rizz🔥 your gonna need for the low 🔑test on Monday, no cap 🧢💯!!!"
That's out of pocket!
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It's such a bizarre list too.
They're not cusses. What's wrong with "love that for you"? I could've easily seen myself saying that in 2009, is the meaning vastly different than what I think?
Bless your heart
It's passive aggressive
Spent my whole High School career being passive aggressive, because swearing was the bridge too far.
If you can't even be passive aggressive you may as well never leave your front door.
How is being upfront about your feelings, worse than hiding them with snide comments? Passive aggression is a tool for funny people and people who are afraid of confrontation.
I never made the rules. No swearing in school was always the rule.
Seems absolutely nutty to ban “love that for you” but apparently fuck is fine? No swearing is not up there.
That's a fair point
Bruh, on God I'm not even gonna cap - you're being such a sigma male with that low key bussin mood, but say less about the rizz because you're doing too much with that type shit. Gucci fit, and I love that for you, but it's giving major gyatt energy, so no cap, that's high key straight fire, baka!
Bet
Demerits for misuse of "say less" and "baka". Other than that, high marks!
"Say less" is etymologically tied to "say no more". It is possible that I am wrong about "baka", because I'm an otaku, but I presume they're using it in the anime way, and not just completely divorcing it from its actual meaning. I might be giving them to much credit.
So “on God” means like “on God’s authority” or “for reals”?
It’s short for “I swear on god”
Even using "on" like that is a young zoomer thing I think.
I hear "on accident" a lot and it wasn't a thing back in the day.
hastily scribbles fetch on the board
Can we get a date on this? I don’t see skibidi or sus. And I’m most surprised to see the youths embracing finna
Skibidi isn't on the list because no one unironically says skibidi. If you think they are, they're trolling you.
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You doin too much
Love that for you
Why?
Also, you can't stop language from changing. Change is certain. We don't talk like people 100 years ago and that's a good thing.
Those are phrases that get repeated verbatim as responses, which is the hypothetical reason they might be included on this (maaaaybe fake?) list. I'm actually slightly tired of them too, I have a couple students that really overuse them as responses to everything.
...Though I'd never be dumb enough to tell them that.
Yeah making a list like this deserves doubling down on that kind of slang.
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If my kid ever comes home from school with a picture like this I'm having words with the teacher. Let the children have their fun ffs
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