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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 95 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

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.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

This

Making lists like that is authoritarian and won't work. Making the words worthless works

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 13 hours ago

Maybe this is why republicans watch child porn so they think it's corny and nobody else does it anymore.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 19 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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 It becomes your permanent lexicon after a while and you keep using the words no matter how outdated they are.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.

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

I have been saying "groovy" for as long as I have been aware that the word existed, and that's early 70s

[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

Lol that's hella awesome

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

I say hella every day. Slang accentuates speech and makes it fun, so I use a lot of it. Not an obnoxious amount, though. Gotta get the slang amount just right, just like swearing. It's an art.

I don't use skibidi because it's too long to easily work into sentences casually. Also it's a really fucking dumb word that feels wrong saying. Like I tried it a few times and cringed so hard I thought I was gonna flip inside out or some shit. My soul started leaving my body.

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I can imagine that working, actually.

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 20 points 21 hours ago

As a teacher, I can attest that it works beautifully.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago

"Ill bless you Youngins🥷 with the Rizz🔥 your gonna need for the low 🔑test on Monday, no cap 🧢💯!!!"

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

Students, I'm a total baka hentai amirite?

Guys??

[–] CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 20 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 7 points 21 hours ago

Based on my experience in the NE U.S., this list is current.

[–] multiplemigs@sh.itjust.works 72 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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!

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Doest baka more or less just mean "idiot\stupud"?

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Then it looks like his statement makes total cringe sense.

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

You know what, you're right, the preceding sentence is supposed to be critical of the listener, so they are actually misusing "straight fire", which would imply something good.

[–] wabasso@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So “on God” means like “on God’s authority” or “for reals”?

[–] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It’s short for “I swear on god”

start listing them out continuously untill you get expelled

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 9 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I hate finna more than all the others.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

it's AAVE, not made up, and there's literally no reason why "gonna" should be more legit. it's the exact same construction.

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 3 points 17 hours ago

None of those words will make me like it.

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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 15 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 14 hours ago

The principal is getting a 3 hour tense but polite discussion on prescriptivism vs descriptivism and he's going to be defending descriptivism whether he likes it or nor and he's going to lose the entire while being simply unable to hangup. This will never happen again.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

hastily scribbles fetch on the board

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stop trying to make fetch happen.

[–] BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago
[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

Literally 1984

[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 11 points 23 hours ago

Kids are gonna kids

I don't understand what teachers think a "banned words list" is gonna accomplish except being the new target of bored kids/teens

(Unless they're just tired of hearing it, but this isn't a good solution imo)

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah making a list like this deserves doubling down on that kind of slang.

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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 20 hours ago

Sweet fresh words. You da bomb, right list of legit dope slang. Boyah!

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

On my list ...

Um

Like

Perfect

Know what I mean?

End of the day.

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 4 points 21 hours ago

This list is missing "on my soul", which the illiterate children at my school (who have only ever heard it on snaptok and facegram, and are only poorly parroting it) replace with "oh my SO".

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 6 points 23 hours ago

How did all of this brain damage manifest itself?

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 18 hours ago

Dude, what a gnarly bunch of dweebs like, you can't use that language, doy!

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Every cohort of kids will have their slang and in-jokey vocabulary, a very small part of which will be entered permanently into the lexicon. I'd like to nominate "rizz" as this generation's contribution.

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