That’s because to you it was just normal.
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Plopp@lemmy.world 2 months agoI don’t remember getting any new slang as a kid.
db2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 2 months ago
What I remember from the 90/00s: sinch, hella, coolio, jam (going), spaz, poser, chillax, bitchin, burn, noob, booyah, aight, duh, phat, sup, stoked, jiggy, harsh, buzz kill
There’s a shitton more, but that’s what I got off the top of my head
TheDoozer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes to all except jiggy. I feel like that was just Will Smith trying to make Fetch happen.
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
He was streets ahead!
wavebeam@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Idk, I got like all the jiggy’s before beating gruntilda
FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Don’t casually throw “spaz” in there with a load of inoffensive stuff!
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You were learning slang along with everything else. At that age, it doesn’t stand out against everything else the same way it does when you’re older.
brandocorp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I think this is true, but I also grew up without Internet or social media so maybe things were more regional as opposed to this larger shared culture those things have enabled. So that may be part of it?
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As someone who grew up in rural Canada, I feel that. We always felt a decade out of date on fads and slang lol.
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Just because you don’t remember it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. You had to learn it at some point. You weren’t born with a lexicon of slang that revealed itself when it suddenly became modern/relevant lol
systemglitch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
80s had a ton.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Yeah, we just called people fags (sorry) or gay.
90s and early 00s were N O T LGBT friendly
WillFord27@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Companies 12 hours after June ends
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 months ago
“PRIIIIIDE 🏳️🌈”
next day
“So you fags wanna buy our products or what”
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Don’t forget how casual the r word was. Every comedy of the 90s and 2000s called somebody that.
pyre@lemmy.world 2 months ago
not to mention the casual use of the hard R. even Linus from LTT admitted to have dropped his fair share of hard Rs back then.
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Plus there was a lot of n*rcissist thrown around back then
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Ok now THAT’S a weird one to censor.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 months ago
What’s the r-word?
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
“retarded”
dan@upvote.au 2 months ago
This is what we called cigarettes in Australia.
FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Same in Britain. Damn homophobia ruining perfectly good slang!
BakerBagel@midwest.social 2 months ago
We had a couple weeks calling people “F.A.G.s’ and “M.A.G.s” for 'female ass grabber” and “male ass grabber”. As in someone how grabd a females ass or or a male ass. I have no idea how the teachers were able to do anything about that with a straight face.