• LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

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 It becomes your permanent lexicon after a while and you keep using the words no matter how outdated they are.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

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      23 hours ago

      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

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        18 hours ago

        I have been saying “groovy” for as long as I have been aware that the word existed, and that’s early 70s

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        20 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.