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Effective_Pear4760@reddit

My son uses NGL a lot. It occurs to me, if you have to say "not gonna lie" it low-key implies you're lying the rest of the time.

One of my coworkers some years back used to say "skirt, skirt". Never did really figure out what that was.

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Effective_Pear4760@reddit

That makes a whole lot more sense than skirt :) she was from Baltimore.

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You get my support that you are in fact yelling at the clouds…we think it was different with us, it wasn’t, we think we were cooler, we were, but that’s how this works…this is the Middle Ages, we shouldn’t be in the loop at this point, embrace it and double down on your Gen-X’ness

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Sunhammer01@reddit

I’m a teacher and what I have clubs is that since kids access to the internet expanded, the time between new catchwords and phrases has shrunk. So now instead of learning new words as they gradually appear, I’m stuck with a set of new words at the beginning of each school year, especially with freshman.

I actually had to check this out. 0: 'invalid connection or MMI code. 1-411: we are unable to complete your call.

Skibidi and Ohio were old two years ago - and I'm pushing 40.

Then again, I'm arguably what people call "terminally online."

I don't know what this year's words are, but I know those ones ain't new.

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shagieIsMe@reddit

I forget which science fiction novel it was... it was from sometime in the '00s when I had the dangerous combination of disposable income and three bookstores within a few blocks of the pub that was within walking distance of my apartment... I got a lot of books on the "this looks interesting" thing.

So, in that book there was clothing that was customizable now. Change color, patterns, and some style features were things that could be changed in under a minute. The kids in the novel were listening to various stream channels of music that would occasionally update them with what is the latest fad - which could change by the hour.

So you're listening and then it's "oh, reds are out and blues with clashing orange stripes are in." ... And then all the kids in the class would be frantically changing their clothes to match the new style.

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formercotsachick@reddit

I agree, and I'm firmly GenX having been born in 1971. I spend a good amount of time online, and I consume a lot of current books, music, movies and TV. Also my daughter and her fiancée are early GenZ/late Millennial and we hang out often.

It's not difficult to transition or adjust to new slang unless you're only ever listening to Huey Lewis and the News or watching The Breakfast Club for the umpteenth time.

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Flaky_Wheel60B@reddit

Yeah. There be a lot of whining going on that’s for sure.

I do my best to keep my mind and body young.

Work out 4-5 days a week and constantly check out new music. I don’t just listen to 80’s and 90’s.

Actually my 15 year old stepdaughter loves music from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s more than present day stuff.

She gets upset when she plays a song from the 80’s. Then asks me do I like it, and I answer with a “meh”. I tell her I’ve been lost to that song for 40 years. I’m over it.

melophat@reddit

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I often use the phrase "kids these days", but it's not disparaging. I genuinely feel for them. It's as if they don't really enjoy life. Not like I did as a young adult.

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SmashmySquatch@reddit

Ignorance is bliss and they have access to most of human knowledge in their pocket. This planet is fucked. The "American Dream" has been exposed as a lie. They watch billionaires get away with rape and whatever the hell else they want to do. They can access videos of genocide happening right now that nobody is doing anything about.

They are launched into a world where they cannot afford rent, the job market is terrible, College sets them back decades financially to be offered barely over minimum wage.

I have seen some of them saying that they expect to die at their own hands in a dystopian nightmare world.

It's not good for your mental health to have empathy and knowledge right now and they have both.

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OstrichMean7004@reddit

No, see... we were right in that the older generation was wrong. But now we're right in that the younger generation is wrong...

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Their music and their clothes are pretty lame too. Same thing - it’s not that I hate them, they’re just so lame. I had hair metal, NWA, and punk. My kids have The Kid Leroi. I feel bad for them.

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lollipop-guildmaster@reddit

After we swore we'd never be like that, too.

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homebrewmike@reddit

There is a reason that phrase has been very popular.

I think it stems from the fact that our generation, and previous generations, are no longer cool. I don’t know the slang and if I hear one more car with crappy music, I’m going to scream my eyes out.

romulusnr@reddit

Tubular!

Amazing. Kid's only 15 and already talking about construction design.

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Zapp_Rowsdower_@reddit

Grody to the max!

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MichiganGeezer@reddit

Bitchin'! Totally tubular!

Yeah, we were idiots too

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cheesegoat@reddit

Bitchin needs to make a comeback, let's make it happen

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MichiganGeezer@reddit

Only if the Camaro returns again.

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Warshrimp@reddit

Don’t try to pin all of this (looks around) on us!

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Mysterious-Dealer649@reddit

Probably drove them nuts? It absolutely drove them nuts, and wasn’t that the point?

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Curmudgeon_I_am@reddit

As a boomer I would admit that our slang wasn’t as groovy as yours.

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SweetsMurphy@reddit

“Dude” “Grody” “Gnarly” “Choice” “Wicked” (though this one may have transcended generations)

Ship / Shipping = Relationship

But that one is on us.

While the concept of shipping has been around a ling time, the term was started on the XF-Romantics listserv in the mid-90s. Source: I was there.

The term "slash" does go back much further to the ST:TOS days.

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ApplicationCapable19@reddit

I think it's one of those word, I say speculatively, that may well predate 'relationship' as we understand the term, to take it far enough back.

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Western-Calendar-352@reddit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_(fandom)

Under “Etymology”.

dddybtv@reddit

I've had a few interactions like that where in person it's like GODDAM!!! Now that I think about it, ol Kate was o e of my first crushers as a lad. Lucky you!

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KittyTB12@reddit

It should also be noted that it was mostly women who were behind the Spirk slashfic and are largely to thank for scifi/culture conventions becoming a thing, because they would organize Star Trek meetups and eventually got big enough to start inviting cast members.

The fan fiction relationship concept, yes, goes back to Kirk and Spock fans in the early ‘70s.

But it wasn’t called “shipping” until the X-Files online fandom in the mid ‘90s.

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LetTheBloodFlow@reddit

You are correct, in TOS fanfic terms they were called slash or slashfics because of the format "Kirk/Spock" that was coined.

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craterglass@reddit

Spirk

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La-Belle-Gigi@reddit

I'll see your Spirk and raise you McSpirk for an OT3.

Tangentially: will we ever hear of a Vulcan named Spork? (There's a very cute series of posts about a Vulcan named Stork on Tumblr.)

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craterglass@reddit

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srgh207@reddit

Oh, as if J. Tibs could commit to anything longer than it takes to bang Yeoman Rand when the fancy strikes him - usually after she puts her hair up in that big beehive.

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monsterlynn@reddit

Oh shit TIL why it's called slash!

Fuck it's so obvious now.

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SunshynePower@reddit

I still had to look it up I'm blaming that on a long week 🤷🏼‍♀️🤪

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lollipop-guildmaster@reddit

And "The Premise". Because if you were into gay fanfic in the 60s, you needed to code that shit.

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You need the Urban Dictionary app.

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Austin_Lannister@reddit

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ShirazGypsy@reddit

My daughter texted me from college: “I slayed a fit during my CS lab.” ChatGpt and I got to work translating

100% trust isn't necessary. I don't have that for my fellow humans. I review the content it produces, and decide if it's worthwhile. It recently produced completely hallucinated information regarding a PDF file I asked it to read, it was unrelated to the content of the PDF file, but it gave the hallucinated answer authoritatively and in great detail.

For python programming, it gets it right most of the time, especially for mundane tasks.

My god. So now outfit is one too many syllables?

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clever_username23@reddit

So now outfit

people been saying fit since the '90s

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ancientastronaut2@reddit

Today I learned...

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clever_username23@reddit

Are people really that bad at context clues? Like, all language works that way.

Your post is giving Grandpa Simpsons... ducks flying onion

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LessIsMore74@reddit

Honestly, my search for online comedy led me through Instagram to tiktok, and there are some hilarious bits involving all of the Gen Z slang. One is a recreation of the musical Les Miserables in Gen Z. Another great one is a fake Grey's Anatomy scene where they're breaking the news of a deceased grandparent to the grandkids, using gen Z slang so they understand. It's hilarious.

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Substantial_Layer_79@reddit

They use "raw dogging" in a completely different context than we did. I found this out the hard way a few years back, at an airport, with an 80-something-year-old. The young adult got off the plane and loudly announced they had raw dogged a 4-hour flight. I suspect, by the shade his parents turned, they were Gen X'ers.

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Three3Jane@reddit

The funniest part of this is that they think it's something extraordinary to manage a four hour flight without some form of entertainment.

Sit alone? With your own thoughts? Nothing to distract? Well, I never.

That’s what I was getting ready to say. I use urban dictionary constantly

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cballowe@reddit

Wallahi

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Yo slang is lowkey scuffed, fam. Capped rizz, no drip.

Sincerely,

A 40 something Xennial

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Londin2021@reddit

I love to use the slang around my 20 year old son but always in a purposefully cringe way.

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ReeseIsPieces@reddit

Most slang is colonised by European Americans from African Americans so they, the EAmericans, can seem 'hip' and 'cool'

Might be the reason why a lot of GenXers dont know what the phraseology entails

Whereas Im not only GenX but ALSO "of color", so I know to what these terms refer

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Oh stewardess, I speak jive...

OMG. If that isn’t a recipe for disaster, I don’t know what is…. At least if I was the one receiving that message

Trees_are_cool_@reddit

It's the fact that it already fucking means something else. In slang. Goddamn kids and their music.

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MDaddy360@reddit

mental breakdown

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This is way too logical and meaning based for any current slang. I love it.

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1kreasons2leave@reddit

Freaking out, man!

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RemyJe@reddit

It’s not so different from our meaning though, just taken to an extreme.

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151Ways@reddit

It's practically the opposite, in idea.

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RemyJe@reddit

“Crash” indicates more than just “going to sleep.” No literal crash has occurred of course, but it indicates a sudden end, as opposed to something gentle.

Haha I just learned this one! It’s freaking out/flipping out/becoming enraged.

“Joey totally crashed out when his computer ate his final”.

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TalFidelis@reddit

This is the one that gets me too - I don’t care about the rest of it.

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MsTyped@reddit

My mom just told me this as we started watching Dobie Gillis Season 1 at about 7:30 p.m.

I said Maynard kinda reminds me of Gilligan. She replied, "he IS!!!!". 😳

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Careless_Lion_3817@reddit

When my daughter says “Divaaa” but meaning more like bad ass vs annoying mean girl queen

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HighBiased@reddit

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willowbard@reddit

I still, and will always, use "no worries"

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PuhnTang@reddit

I still use almost all of these on a daily basis.

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yeahwellokay@reddit

I almost forgot about I'm Audi 5000

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Fun-Distribution-159@reddit

i still use some of those.

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user86753092@reddit

This was in my local paper for back to school.

Remember this?

I can’t stand “finna do it”

The g and o are too hard to type instead?

No I didn’t…

TheJokersChild@reddit

var. "tryna" for "trying to:" "White people tryna sound all black when they on TikTok fa no damn reason."

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No-News-3608@reddit

That makes sense , but I’m old and I still hate it haha

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RowSilver1592@reddit

Ship is like when you wish there was a relationship between 2 people, right. Like people ship, actually can’t think of any examples. I find that the older I get the less I care. I still say awesome and cool. Urban dictionary is our friend though.

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You know what a glizzy really is, right?

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Michellenjon_2010@reddit

Lol where I come from, it was a Glock. But now, hotdogs!? Make it make sense, please 🙄

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TheJokersChild@reddit

Yep. Apparently a Glock's magazine is the size of a hot dog, and now they're connected forever.

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Michellenjon_2010@reddit

When I look at a Glock magazine, the last thing I think of, is a hot-dog lol

I guess that's why we're Gen x and they're not!

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Only-Breadfruit-2935@reddit

Having both a 17 and 14 yrs old daughters keeps me pretty up to date.

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sfdsquid@reddit

I got to go on frequent joy-rides with my 17-year-old, when she would otherwise have been doing it with friends. She'd give me an education in new music and we'd drive around aimlessly for an hour or so.

Context: Damaged teeth are capped with a material that makes them look like undamaged teeth.
"Capping" is lying to cover up something. "No cap" means not capping and instead showing the truth.

You have my full support. I’ve fully leaned into it however and used my powers of dad cringe.

If my kids start up any smart-ass slang silliness, I say as loud as possible

“You mother is Skibbidy THICC with TWO ‘C’s and she’s got that BBL drizzy… GYATABAYOOOOOO!”

The poor kids cringe so hard I assume they’ll turn inside out.

I have a 15 year old step daughter

No cap is it’s good

For real for real is a modifier like

“This sandwich is good no cap for real for real”

Bussin is good

Straight bussin is really good

Vibe is mood or how we used to say “your aura is positive “

Crash out is losing it

Rizz is charisma

Is bro new though? I remember hearing that one for years.

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viskoviskovisko@reddit

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tubular1845@reddit

No cap means no lie, not it's good

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Electrical_Nobody196@reddit

I distinctly remember me and my friends saying “no cap”, or “just capping, in the early eighties. Usually in the context of joking around or messing with someone.

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TangyMarimba13@reddit

pound sign, dammit :D

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thecatsofwar@reddit

Sorry boomer lite, it’s hashtag.

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RemyJe@reddit

That too. It’s ALSO called a hash. As in “hash marks.” And number sign. It’s also called an octothorpe.

In computing it’s called a hash, and for example can be found in Unix operating systems at the beginning of interpreted programming scripts as “#!” (Called a shebang, because an exclamation point is also called the bang symbol.)

That’s why it was adopted for things like channel rooms in IRC (Internet Relay Chat) and (bringing us back to the topic) the original use of hashtags on Twitter. @ to tag a person, # to tag a topic.

Which, while we’re at it, reminds me of my (minor) complaint about @. It meant AT long before computing, which is why it originally adopted as a delimiter in email addresses to indicate “this person AT this domain.” That easily translated to using it when wanting to indicate to whom it was you were talking to online.

TheAmethystDragon@reddit

A person is giving, or giving off certain vibes, if there's something about them that makes you think of a particular thing or a particular kind of person.

"He's giving off 'divorced dad in midlife crisis' vibes."

"She's giving 'old nun.'"

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Da12khawk@reddit

Look, I tolerated "sus". Isn't that enough?

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TheAmethystDragon@reddit

I still have three teenage offspring living in my house (my youngest two are 15), so I pick up on this sort of thing.

There will always be newer slang and newer words, and older ones that fall out of use, so I try to learn their meanings when I encounter them. I may not use them, but I do like to understand what's being said.

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Michellenjon_2010@reddit

I'm still looking for the meaning of Sigma?

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Trick_Few@reddit

Get yourself a Gen Z. If you don’t know what they are saying, you will figure it out as they are shamelessly making fun of you for it.

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Dagger_26@reddit

Gen X here...I look at it this way. We were so cool and edgy with our slang and fashion. The 80's/90's were the best time to be a kid in my opinion...but now it's their turn to be cool and edgy and cooked and aura farm, etc. They got that spirit from us and we should celebrate our Mini Me's. After all our style is due to come back soon anyway and we can connect with them and learn their slang when they learn that the beat to their fav song has been used since the 70's.

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Responsible-Shower99@reddit

I like the slang that changes to even more slang because automatic internet censors figure it out.

hoe ---> 40e ---> 403 ---> 304 all referencing the same garden tool (which is also an acceptable stand in) . Most of it is slang that we could have done on the digital calculators we used to put 80085 on.

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zambizzi@reddit

Honestly, I always love new slang. It's hilarious! I love throwing 80's and 90's slang at my 20-something GenZ coworkers and watch them try to work it out.

One kid told me my work "has buns". He explained, "it means if it has buns, it has cheeks!" I said, "oh I get it, you mean it's the tits!"

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Background-Tax-1720@reddit

Your post is giving boomer. No cap. But I stan you anyway.

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Vegetaman916@reddit

That's what happens if you don't stay on top of trends and social crap. Spend more of your time interacting with younger generations and hanging out in the chat of your COD/Apex/PuBG sessions, which you are still playing regularly right? right!?

Do the new stuff, with the new people. You won't even notice it before you start talking like them.

WUT😂

Go by some running shoes homez 🤙

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BKBiscuit@reddit

Help yourself. Urban dictionary web site.

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75artina@reddit

I use them just to troll my Gen-z offspring, no cap. It's giving Mom is still cool. (not!)

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1tiredmommy@reddit

Urban dictionary is the best way to keep up with this stuff.

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duchess_of_nothing@reddit

I'm terminally online AND most of my friend circle are queer.

I'm always up on the latest but don't use most of it.

And most of it is stolen from queer culture, specifically black queer culture.

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None of that slang is hella dope. Mid at best. Definitely cap on some of it.

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yoursweetbaboo@reddit

I use “giving” all the time, and I’m 56. No cap and ship are not in my lexicon.

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Evening_Tree1983@reddit

I'm a geek for language so I pick up slang wherever I go, I love it and love trying to deduce the origin.

Like Rizz? I think it might be short for Charisma?

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TinyBaaarb@reddit

Ever hear of Google?

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shreddit0rz@reddit

I spend a lot of time on the internetz so I hear a fair amount of the new generational slang. Gen Z sound like f'n idiots.

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MoreVinegar@reddit

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At least “cool” is still cool, yes?

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CleverNickName-69@reddit

You have three choices:

Be mad about it. (not recommended)
Ignore it. You don't have to know. It is just young people being young, all frontin' and being gnarley.
You could google it. Here, I'll help you: https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=what+does+no+cap+mean

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Lexiluv2@reddit

I hate the new slang....

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xxDailyGrindxx@reddit

I agree, my initial reaction was that it was just the continued dumbing down of America. It seems to have diverged so much from "normal English" that I'd almost consider it a foreign language, which reminded me of the following video...

No cap means No lie

cap = lie

Does anybody remember the 1992 Grunge Hoax? It was a bogus list of "grunge slang" made up on the spot by Megan Jasper at Caroline Records, formerly of SubPop while talking to a dipstick from the NY Times. They ran it.

Hilarious

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge_speak

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smapdiagesix@reddit

Never thought it would happen

If you finally got together with that girl from Clapham, please please work on getting sober and on that gambling problem.

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Historical-Gap-7084@reddit

No cap= no bullshit/not lying

Ship= relationship or "shipping together" = imagining two people in a relationship

Giving= giving off vibes. "It's giving love" is like "The vibes are loving."

Sufficient_Space8484@reddit

“No cap” is in the running for the dumbest slang of any generation.

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MW240z@reddit

Everyone should note, most the terms here are wildly out of date. Skibidi - 4-5 years gone and only for elementary kids. Cap, no cap 2-3 years old…not used by teens much anymore.

The interwebs have it turning on a dime.

New one “get sendy” along with a hand to mouth pretend chug. My 15 yo and his buddies do this as a mocking term for old people who posted it on the webs. Said old people - 32 years old.

Note, get in on the joke, by recognizing not performing the chug maneuver- and you’re good.

By the time you read this, it may be out of style.

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Bunnawhat13@reddit

“No cap” is like for real. It’s old as well. All of the slang they are using is from old subcultures.

“Giving” is what it’s putting off. Like that’s old dude is giving creepy vibes.

I get to cheat I have godchildren that live with me that keep me up with slang, lol.

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ZZoMBiEXIII@reddit

Just remember every time someone, some dirty adult, told us that "radical" didn't mean what we thought it meant when we'd say something was "rad".

Don't be that guy. Don't give into Boomerisms. Refuse! You can still remain cool if you just try! Don't be this person, please. For the sake of Gen-X at large.

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t2writes@reddit

Even using context clues can help you figure it out. Shipping means you want a couple to get together. Giving means it reminds someone of something. No cap means "for real." Bussing, in case you hear that, means a good tastes good.

I am Gen X but I will never be as old as some of you all. Remember what out parents said about "rad."

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nouniqueideas007@reddit

The “new” word that I cannot handle is snatch. They want to lose weight, so they “be lookin’ all snatch”. Contoured makeup, to get that snatched look.

Hope that makes sense. My daughter knows all this stuff. Not because she's a kid, but because up until recently she was a Starbucks manager and worked with lots of GenZ kids.

I talk to her a lot, but I also spend too much time on reddit, and up until a few months ago, tiktok. I uninstalled tiktok because I could feel my gray matter liquifying. And because I can no longer stand constant exposure to political stuff. It's too fucking bleak right now.

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Megerber@reddit

Naw. I wasn't a fan of my mom trying to get me to stop using slang in the 80s. Let them have their words. If you don't know the word, then you aren't the target audience.

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freakerbell@reddit

Today I learnt…

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EvilLLamacoming4u@reddit

"No cap" means you're dead serious.

As is, "you're gonna crush your test, no cap".

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Mercuryshottoo@reddit

I'm not capping (lying).

Relationship or pairing.

Evoking or communicating.

Oh oh, I know the first two, got me on the last one… but two outta three ain’t bad

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Low_Cream1167@reddit

The one more recently that I heard that I was like huh was Crash out. Im wash thinking oh you going to sleep, they then show me a video of somebody who was upset trashing a Satrbucks. I thought when did that change and when did people start having so many tantrums because someone got their order wrong?

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golfdisneylady@reddit

Cap means lie.

Giving is kind of self explanatory in context. It’s kind of a shortened way of saying “it’s giving off this impression”.

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zigzag1239@reddit

Isn't it great how your kids are so shocked that we can understand their misuse of the English language? Lol. It's funny. I can't wait to see how their kids do the same. Hopefully their kids will say something like

MS$ lassy on the humpback off the yellow twigs juice

Translation for Gen alphas kids at 7 yrs old.

Made some money working hard at the lemonade stand

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thestreep@reddit

I have asked my grandkids to "translate that into boomer-speak, please".

Sometimes I get the eye rolls, mostly they just laugh.

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FloresPodcastCo@reddit

I guess the kids aren't using "getting jigging with it" anymore.

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Winsome43@reddit

So glad my Millenial son quickly stopped using the word raped to mean win after just a couple of months (that was 15+ years ago)

He was on a lot of winning teams. I didn't like hearing how many teams they raped.

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rei1004@reddit

No cap means something like ‘it’s true, not lying’. These gen-zs use a lot of weird words. Keep your ears open to words like ‘sigma, skibidi’ too 😂

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electrons_are_free@reddit

My two younger Gen Z kids would recoil in horror if sigma and skibidi were pinned on their generation. They firmly disavow those and blame Gen Alpha. Gen Alphas are already sophomores in high school.

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leesie1205@reddit

I use this to translate my texts to 'cringe' lol https://genalphatranslator.com/

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CornTreeRoad@reddit

Jesus, this whole post is exhausting.

Whatever.

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WatersEdge50@reddit

Nevermind

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GboyFlex@reddit

Maxi zoom dweebies.

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fearthecookie@reddit

No cap - not lying

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rundabrun@reddit

Cap basically means bullshit. So no cap means i'm not bullshitting.

Ironically it evolved from genx slang. We used to call rolling the dozens "capping". It's like the caps from a cap gun. When you're insulting someone in a joking fashion.You're not serious so it's not real bullets.

"I'm hype." is the phrase currently driving me insane.

For about 10 years, "versing" has driven me up a wall. "Who is our team versing tonight?" is possible the most ztarded use of language ever.

My sibling in Mister Rogers, you just used the word "brainrot". (Also 1337 sp33k was textual, not oral.)

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bakewelltart20@reddit

Reading younger people's posts, I forget that they use 'crash out' to mean a rage outburst, rather than going to sleep.

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liddybuckfan@reddit

My sister teaches 5th grade and I don't know how she does it. It's like learning another language.

My kids are Gen Alpha so I know all the slang. It’s stupid but if you go back and watch old movies, all the slang of those times sounds stupid too.

It’s not for us and it’s not supposed to be.

I quit caring after my kids graduated from HS. Shit changes daily.

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I lose it a bit when I hear anyone say “that’s Gucci” or “I’m Gucci”. Are you fucking kidding me? How the hell did that happen?

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Just-Ice3916@reddit

Totally feeling the same way.

Here's how I've mitigated handling it: if there's something I don't understand, I ask. I'm not going to change today's vernacular nor should I try, but I should at least be aware of what the hell the kids are saying even if I'm not using the same language myself. (This has dramatically reduced the temperature at which my blood boils, it seems!)

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Photobuff42@reddit

Amen! There is nothing wrong with expressing ourselves here in the Gen X sub either way.

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Cutthechitchata-hole@reddit

Man, that is whack!

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sunqueen73@reddit

Stop trippin, man.😄

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Limp_Rip6369@reddit

Crash out kills me. Crash means to stay at someone's house over night. We were tired so we all crashed at Jenny's last night. Crash out = tantrum

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Imnotthatduder@reddit

Cap = lying

No cap = not lying

It sounds made up, but originated with bald dudes seemingly tricking women by wearing a hat (cap).

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Independent_Mix6269@reddit

sure you aren't a boomer? Why don't you just google it?

Low key

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Roguefem-76@reddit

At least ours was more creative, and NOT cribbed from incels.

1970Diamond@reddit

It means no lie… I’m not lying

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TX-Pete@reddit

Seriously? You’re angered by random semi-organized sounds chosen to communicate?

Zero support here. Why the fuck do you care what words people use? Do you get angry every time you hear a foreign language?

Just stop.

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GrandElectronic9471@reddit

https://lifehacker.com/series/out-of-touch-adults-guide-to-kid-culture

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HelpfulRN@reddit

You need counseling. You have lost your “whatever” gene. You are at risk of being kicked out of Gen X lol!

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BoozeIsTherapyRight@reddit

Old man yells at clouds, film at eleven.

Seriously? You don't remember the slang we used as kids? And "ship" literally came from our generation.

Most of the slang anymore is just quoting what they hear on Tik Tok. So it's really just like quoting movie lines out of context and if you've seen the movie, you get it. Problem is, most people outside of that age range haven't seen "the movie" so it just sounds random.

I just go full on Princess Bride: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." With the accent, of course.

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chloe38@reddit

Haven't heard ship it giving. But no cap means no lie.

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vankirk@reddit

It's come back around, but with different meanings. I saw a video title the other day that said somebody "crashed out" during a live interview.

Did anyone use "hurtin" when describing someone who was really awkward and crappy?

"No cap" means the speaker isn't lying. Literally, they aren't wearing caps on their teeth, these are their real teeth.

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3yl@reddit

Urban Dictionary is your friend!

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=no%20cap

no cap

A phrase that is akin to “it is true that” or “I think that”, “no cap” is often used to describe an opinionated statement or a statement that is believed to be true. Stemming from the verb capping (basically, “to lie”), it quite literally means “no lie.” Because of this, no cap can be used to describe something that is not thought to be true by the speaker’s audience. No cap can be used to describe factual statements, but due to its slang nature, it is most often used in an exclamatory manner.

“No cap, this pizza is amazing!” “I think I actually like Ty, no cap.” “Dude, I’m serious about this— no cap.”

by TimeForAVibeCheck December 24, 2019

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foshab@reddit

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=No%20Cap
Urban dictionary is good for these (for the most part).

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LittleCeasarsFan@reddit

Cap is short for bullcrap, so “no cap” means “not lying”.

Last I checked “ship” is short for relationship and used primarily in fanfiction. IE in Harry Potter fanfiction someone may “ship” Neville and Hermione.