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Gen Z/Gen Alpha slang is interesting linguistically
Also there’s been a trend of older generations hating on the slang of younger generations for hundreds of years, and I guess you got caught up in the older part
It isn’t just slang; people often hate any sort of language change. Cue to the Appendix Probi, written in the fourth century; the whole list boils down to “write this, not that” because the new generations of the times were saying stuff like
and writing it as such! (Those examples are specially fun once you look at the Romance languages.)
It hasn’t happened to me yet. I literally edited AMVs of Evangelion to System of a Down in iMovie on a gen1 iMac back in high school, but I can still understand the kid’s slang alright. I don’t think that everyone become a curmudgeonly generation hater as they age.
Absolutely, and you don’t even have to understand it to not be an ass about younger generations doing what every generation does.
I had no idea what the fuck the “younger gf” part was saying until I read the translation. But I’ve just accepted that I’m not young and cool anymore, and that’s okay.
There are way more important things happening in the world to get mad about than some people not using the same words and phrases that I grew up with.
I never said it’s everyone, I just said there’s a trend of it happening, sorry if you misunderstood what I meant
I don’t think you said that either, just musing.