Submitted 3 weeks ago by Emmie@lemm.ee to [deleted]
Honestly, you sound like a boomer complaining about the youth. Language changes and evolves all the time. Older generations can’t keep up with the change and think it’s ridiculous, unlike the slang they grew up with, which is bitchin’!
They don’t overuse it as much as you demonstrated. And with time some of those words will get lost and others will enter wider usage.
Just enjoy the ride and see where it takes you.
That’s sus
FR language changes and no cap you gotta stay sigma or else you got no rizz.
Complaining about new language is shouting “I’m old and out of touch!”
How do people manage to invent intricate phrases?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology
It seems like nowadays no matter what you do there’s a word for it and it’s probably considered something horrible by someone somewhere.
For the set of all things, there is usually someone who doesn’t like said thing, yes. That is how people and things tend to work, since there are so many people and so many things.
The tone of this post makes me think you did something shady lately and you’re laughing off getting called out. And who’s unironically saying ‘kts’ in 2025? Cringe
““A struggle for life is constantly going on amongst the words and grammatical forms in each language. The better, the shorter, the easier forms are constantly gaining the upper hand, and they owe their success to their own inherent virtue””
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 1871.
Love bombing - coined in 1970s and used by actual psychologists.
It’s not a hard science. It’s still a real science. Unless you’re a scientologist then your opinion didn’t matter anyway.
Sounds like you don’t have the skibidi rizz, you prolly cooked fam ngl
It is all made up. That is the point.
People with far too much time on their hands, a desire to label everything and a tendency toward negativity. My personal gripe lately is weaponised psychoanalysis terms.
Yup. Armchair experts are just the best.
Complex ideas often get boiled down into slang or jargon - shortcuts to describe something hard to articulate. When people connect with that shortcut, they reuse it. The process repeats.
Like in baseball - if there’s a runner on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, we just say the “bases are loaded.”
“Bases loaded” quickly conveys the full situation. That phrase caught on.
Like what?
Like wildfire.
How did it spread?
Like wildfire. Wildfires spread fast, in every direction, and nothing really stops them. You could say it went viral.
Viral?
Yeah - viral.
Viral how?
Well… like a virus.
See?
Maybe switch to official French?
I think part of it is the human condition and part of it is that ai is very good at making traditionally niche words more popular in the global conscious.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My friend, you are railing against the human condition. That’s just how we roll, no cap.
shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Bet fr fr