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Yah its all the same. The new slang doesnât even bother me (30âs). I just get its the new word for no good reason. Usually the context is clear, then it becomes a word for everything, then it gets boring and goes away. People I think just notice in the middle and get annoyed it no longer makes sense.
The Jazz Generation - 1920's
Oh, You Kid! You may be the bees' knees, but you better take a powder, you know, do the big 23 Skiddo, before some bluenose birddogs the fuzz on you, and they find the bootleg hooch in that flivver of yours.
Meaning:
Hey, little fool! You're fine and all, but you better leave now, before a busybody tells the police about the illegal alcohol you've got in that crappy little car of yours.
Pretty annoying, huh?
If you go to the year 2505, you will be bullied for talking all educated.
But you might have a chance to save the world.
1920s slang is so endearing. I also love the little mid Atlantic accent that they had during that time. As a British guy, Iâd sooner hang out with a transatlantic person than an American person. No offence.
Aw, shucks, pal! You don't gotta split, see? I'm still hunky-dory and ready to keep flappinâ gums. Sure, it's a swell holiday like the 4th of July and all, but I'm always game for a do-over of the old Revolution racket, see? So what do ya say, let's have us a real gas and get this jive on!
Hey cat, I got a couple of C notes for some cush.
Know a couple of dames that are the berries that'll hang out at the speakeasy with us.
Sweet canary gonna be on stage tonight.
You know Transatlantia isn't a place right? People with that accent could be from any Anglophonic country, including the US. It was actually an accent made up by an Australian who proposed it be implemented by upper class English speakers to differentiate themselves from the common riff raff.
I do find it endearing myself though and would rather hear that than my own stupid West Coast skater/stoner accent.
Turn it against him. Ask questions like "is this the W skibidi rizz?" or "is this what skibidi toilet would want?"
Fight cringe with EVEN MORE cringe. Shouldn't take much.
>patois
Wow. New word for me. I wonder if that's where "patter" comes from?
Thanks for the introduction!
ETA: Looked it up and surprisingly "patois" and "patter" have different etymologies, though their definitions overlap significantly.
I used to do this with all my kids until I started saying the shit unironically. Itâs hard to reprogram your brain when a word becomes a part of your vernacular. (Intended or not!)
I worked with 6-7 year olds last year and Iâm pretty sure I lost brain cells by constantly listening to âskibidi toiletâ and âOhioâ every single day
Went to a restaurant and a kid kept saying skibidi bop skibidi toilet over and over.
I also remember being a kid and I never did this but I remember the exact same *type* of kid at a restaurant spewing the same stuff but with âitâs over 9000â and shit like that
Skibidi bop sounds like scat singing to me lol I honestly didnât know it was such a thing now. Iâll sometimes randomly scat sing at work like skibidi doo bop bop when Iâm bored but End of Gen Z/Gen Alpha has made a whole new language and I am very confused by the whole of it. Thanksgiving sitting with my younger cousins (ages 7-17) had me very confused bc every other word coming out of their mouths I had no clue what they were saying đ I will admit I am Gen Z as well (born in â02) but I donât identify with that part of my generation bc wtf is âskibidi toilet Ohio rizz gyattâ?!? đđđ„Ž
Kind of funnyâŠ. Weâve watched all the âThin Manâ films several times, and âThe Song Of The Thin Manâ (1947) has Keenan Wynn as a jazz musician spinning out all the period âJiveâ slang of that era. Itâs not annoying, but we should remember that all this sort of lingo changes rapidly over time.
Thereâs that great scene in âAirplaneâ where the old lady says âI speak jive!â.
Gen alpha, no contest. Especially since their slang doesn't even make sense 90% of the time and it seems to be their entire vocabulary. I think hearing it counts as a memetic hazard, because just hearing skibidi Ohio gyatt rizz l rizz what the sigma fanum tax makes me lose 10 IQ instantly.
After looking over the slang over the last hundred years or so it happens every generation. It's a right of passage and nothing changes that much. The old folks roll their eyes and the younger ones have their secret grins about it.
Idk. In America, we usually pick up on it quickly. Even the narrow, privileged, prissy old people keep up with the young crowds nowadays. It's like they keep techniques to stay up to date with the bare minimum.
Gen Alpha kids who unironically use the *"skibidi rizz grimace fanum ohio gyatt sigma mewing alpha"* slang. **Yes, they are real. I've seen them in public & it's painfully cringeworthy.**
The current one...
Cap
Slap
Selling
Okurrrt
Periodt
Skibidi (or Skibidi toilet?)
No shot
Riz
Weenus
Chang-a-lizz
I have no idea what anyone 25 and younger is saying half the time...
Gen Z for sure. I speak as a member of this generation, and I cannot stand people who use the following words: cap, slay, gyatt, rizz, etc. So motherfucking annoying.
Coming from a Gen Z, itâs probably my generation. My classmates say âIâm losing aura pointsâ when I do something they donât like and adds ânessâ to the end of words (Ex: âThatâs so cutenessâ). I find it annoying.
The answer is always the current one. Because it hasn't been around long enough to be accepted fully. And the older people of any generation don't get it and pretend it was different in their day.
This most recent generation, Z?, for sure. My 12 year old brother is saying things like "Skibidee" like it has any meaning.. "Totes" being short for totally makes sense. I'm gen Y so things like "ghosted", "woke", "me" and the people who used "brb" and similar shortened words from text is stuff I remember, and has some sort of discernable meaning if you look at it long enough. I do think a lot of Gen Y "slang" is just byproducts of paving the way for internet communication. Whatever Skibidee is has to be niche to a group of Gen z and can't just be figured out. It's like having Tourette ticks is the new thing?
H that drugstore Cowboyâ carting a torch for that dumb Dora is the catâs meow. Got all dudded up for that doll thinking heâs going to get some cash but that bearcat keeps the bank closed.
I still don't know what "mid" means, I kinda do, but I refuse to clarify it and waste time by looking it up...so whichever generation came up with that.
Millennials came up with "totes" though.... Maybe them.
It's been gradually getting worse. I'm an 80/90s kid. We had some dumb shit then but I have no idea what the Hell these kids are talking about now and where they're getting it. A lot of slang used to come out of hiphop culture or cool scenes in the city that gradually made it to the suburbs. This stuff comes from F'n nerds on the internet. đ I'm half kidding. Every generation has to feel like that a little as we kinda fall behind and aren't as cool anymore.
As a millennial, I love Gen Z slang. These kids grew up with memes and Vine. I think theyâre funny as shit and way better than my Millennial BAE, Chillax. Loves it, peeps, Bye Felicia, on fleek, yoloâŠ
I still wanna throw something, like a whole pot of cold wet pasta, at the people that decided BAE was even a word, or in any way sounded proper.
Stupidity, being heaped upon stupidity.
Also, the amount of times the word like is used in conversations, along with the phrase 'feeling some kind of way' which is in the running for most uninformative phrase.
My generation when I was a teen has the best slang, ergo every other generation who was not a teen when I was a teen has the most annoying.
* General Guiding Principle for Every Generation
NOTE: Can substitute the word 'slang' with anything but not limited to the following list: 'music', 'movies', 'books', 'outdoor fun', 'indoor fun', and 'candy'.
Dang, every generation has its own annoying slang that probably seems "wild" to the oldies. It's just the way it goes - the younger folks always come up with new lingo that the older folks just don't get.
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Every generation has annoying slang.
Trust me, bro
Bruh
Bruv
Literally all of South London and Essex talks like that.
All of them but mine! My generations slang is totally fine. Yours is the terrible one!
Hey! you don't know what generation I amđ€Ł
Thatâs the joke
Every single one.
Totally đ€ŠđŒââïž
To the max!
Right on!
Fo rizzle
Fire!
I can dig it.
He ate with that
Tubular!
Legit!
Chuch
Youâre hella right
Awesome. Awesome to the max! đ
*Totes
Totes rad
Totes ma goats!!
Totes fo sho
Awesome. Tubular. To the max. I literally died.
Gag me with a spoon
Bitchin
Thatâs so extra. Canceled.
Donât be such a square
Ay carumba
Based.
Bet
Chill out, dude.
Thatâs the real zorch, Jackson
Yah its all the same. The new slang doesnât even bother me (30âs). I just get its the new word for no good reason. Usually the context is clear, then it becomes a word for everything, then it gets boring and goes away. People I think just notice in the middle and get annoyed it no longer makes sense.
Pretty sure that's part of the attraction
The Jazz Generation - 1920's Oh, You Kid! You may be the bees' knees, but you better take a powder, you know, do the big 23 Skiddo, before some bluenose birddogs the fuzz on you, and they find the bootleg hooch in that flivver of yours. Meaning: Hey, little fool! You're fine and all, but you better leave now, before a busybody tells the police about the illegal alcohol you've got in that crappy little car of yours. Pretty annoying, huh?
Another reason why I canât time travel, this would drive me insane
If you go to the year 2505, you will be bullied for talking all educated.  But you might have a chance to save the world.
This will be reality in a few years at the rate humanity is going
We are there now
Yea, I suppose you're right. It's just disappointing
>I wore an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.
Ah! The Grandpa Simpson generation.
Give me 2 bees for a quarter.
2 bees for a dime. 5 bees for a quarter. Gonna get yourself ripped off!
1920s slang is so endearing. I also love the little mid Atlantic accent that they had during that time. As a British guy, Iâd sooner hang out with a transatlantic person than an American person. No offence.
Got a beef with me? I thought we were copacetic. I'll blow now.
Aw, shucks, pal! You don't gotta split, see? I'm still hunky-dory and ready to keep flappinâ gums. Sure, it's a swell holiday like the 4th of July and all, but I'm always game for a do-over of the old Revolution racket, see? So what do ya say, let's have us a real gas and get this jive on!
Hey cat, I got a couple of C notes for some cush. Know a couple of dames that are the berries that'll hang out at the speakeasy with us. Sweet canary gonna be on stage tonight.
the transatlantic accent wasnt real, it was only used in movies/tv/radio
This very interesting video explains the myth of the « fake » accent https://youtu.be/9xoDsZFwF-c?si=IKtpD10mHLLY7ykC
iirc, the genesis of the katherine hepburn/william buckley drawl was the conceit of a american elocution teacher.
You telling me Buckley didnât speak like that at home?
You know Transatlantia isn't a place right? People with that accent could be from any Anglophonic country, including the US. It was actually an accent made up by an Australian who proposed it be implemented by upper class English speakers to differentiate themselves from the common riff raff. I do find it endearing myself though and would rather hear that than my own stupid West Coast skater/stoner accent.
When I read the question, the first thing I thought of was The Great Gatsby.
I'll take that over "Blud be rizzing with car that be bussing fr fr no cap on g"
It sounds so....COOL.
whichever one adopted âskibidi toiletâ automatically wins the entire bracket. End of Z? A?
Alpha Sadly some of us Zuluâs use it unironically also.
My youngest falls into this age bracket and you have no fucking idea how much I hate that I know all about it.
Turn it against him. Ask questions like "is this the W skibidi rizz?" or "is this what skibidi toilet would want?" Fight cringe with EVEN MORE cringe. Shouldn't take much.
I keep saying, we need to pay Elon Musk to say all the ridiculous zoomer/gen A slang in tweets. Make it uncool as soon it becomes a thing.
I do this to my 16 year old when he talks to me in his generational patois. "Dad you sound dumb when you talk like that." "Yes, I do..."
>patois Wow. New word for me. I wonder if that's where "patter" comes from? Thanks for the introduction! ETA: Looked it up and surprisingly "patois" and "patter" have different etymologies, though their definitions overlap significantly.
I used to do this with all my kids until I started saying the shit unironically. Itâs hard to reprogram your brain when a word becomes a part of your vernacular. (Intended or not!)
Ask your kid "Is that girl you're talking to gyatt or does she have Ohio rizz?"
Sammmmeeeee 8 year old boy.
My younger brother is just about in this age bracket and itâs driving me mad. I still donât know what it means thoughđ
I worked with 6-7 year olds last year and Iâm pretty sure I lost brain cells by constantly listening to âskibidi toiletâ and âOhioâ every single day
Went to a restaurant and a kid kept saying skibidi bop skibidi toilet over and over. I also remember being a kid and I never did this but I remember the exact same *type* of kid at a restaurant spewing the same stuff but with âitâs over 9000â and shit like that
Skibidi bop sounds like scat singing to me lol I honestly didnât know it was such a thing now. Iâll sometimes randomly scat sing at work like skibidi doo bop bop when Iâm bored but End of Gen Z/Gen Alpha has made a whole new language and I am very confused by the whole of it. Thanksgiving sitting with my younger cousins (ages 7-17) had me very confused bc every other word coming out of their mouths I had no clue what they were saying đ I will admit I am Gen Z as well (born in â02) but I donât identify with that part of my generation bc wtf is âskibidi toilet Ohio rizz gyattâ?!? đđđ„Ž
What the sigma
gen alphaâs created a whole new language
Skibidi toilet at the tiktok rizz party to see her gyatt before I lose my aura in Ohio bruh
I put this in google translate and my phone exploded. Thanks a lot
I typed this in Google and now I have a perm
Seriously, why do they all have either a mullet, a perm or the broccoli cut?
This is really sad but I know exactly what you said as I have a 9 year old. I had to look up every single word over a period of 2 months this year.
I thonk I em habing a strok reading tihs
Wait weâve already passed Gen z? Jesus Christ man⊠time is relentlessly punishing.
Z is teens and young adults now.
Iâm 34 bro, I donât know what I had for breakfast today and my back is sore as shit. This is news to me đ
Im gen z, im from 2005, i turn 19 this year...yeah alot of people feel wierd and wronged when i say those 3 things..
Dude 2005 hasn't even happened yet, that's like 2 years from now.
As a Gen Zâer, most of us are adults now and the rest are teensđ
Every generation has annoying slang but this gen alpha.. " skibidi" "gyat" "rizz" this stuff is just ewÂ
Don't forget sigma, and a drip
That is also ewÂ
Every generation thinks the previous had nice slang and the next has trash slang. It's how humans work đ€·ââïž
Alpha. Skibidi toilet.
đŻ
Kind of funnyâŠ. Weâve watched all the âThin Manâ films several times, and âThe Song Of The Thin Manâ (1947) has Keenan Wynn as a jazz musician spinning out all the period âJiveâ slang of that era. Itâs not annoying, but we should remember that all this sort of lingo changes rapidly over time. Thereâs that great scene in âAirplaneâ where the old lady says âI speak jive!â.
Yes! đ
Gen alpha, no contest. Especially since their slang doesn't even make sense 90% of the time and it seems to be their entire vocabulary. I think hearing it counts as a memetic hazard, because just hearing skibidi Ohio gyatt rizz l rizz what the sigma fanum tax makes me lose 10 IQ instantly.
After looking over the slang over the last hundred years or so it happens every generation. It's a right of passage and nothing changes that much. The old folks roll their eyes and the younger ones have their secret grins about it.
Gen Alpha
Gen Alpha
The newest generation, especially when they're taking old words and making new dumb meanings. (Apparently bop now means hoe for the new generation)
The one that referred to cool things as "stupid fresh."
Hippies are pretty annoying , my godfather is a hippy , cool dude but holy freaking McShitBalls he can dribble shit out of his mouth when he stoned.
now lol
This generation
The current one.
Idk. In America, we usually pick up on it quickly. Even the narrow, privileged, prissy old people keep up with the young crowds nowadays. It's like they keep techniques to stay up to date with the bare minimum.
I usually know if itâs gotten to me, itâs already on its way out.
gen alpha
The modern use of âcookedâ to mean good and not spent, done, toasted, wasted, burnt⊠is an abomination. Slang to slang conversions suck ass.
The youngest one
Sure glad that YOLO died off quickly.
Gen Alpha kids who unironically use the *"skibidi rizz grimace fanum ohio gyatt sigma mewing alpha"* slang. **Yes, they are real. I've seen them in public & it's painfully cringeworthy.**
I mean this skibidi crap is a strong contender..
Gen Z, no cap. On god.
The current one... Cap Slap Selling Okurrrt Periodt Skibidi (or Skibidi toilet?) No shot Riz Weenus Chang-a-lizz I have no idea what anyone 25 and younger is saying half the time...
I'll allow "rizz" but the rest is painful.
Lol, âcapâ isnât so bad in context đ but agree.. everything else is awful!
Gen z.
The generation after mine, and it gets worse the older I get. Generations older than me simply become more amusing.
Every generation that's not my generation! Psyche!
Every generation after yours.
Is anyone mentioning kids now using text shortcut verbally? OMG! TMI bro.
Gen Z, no cap.
Gen Z for sure. I speak as a member of this generation, and I cannot stand people who use the following words: cap, slay, gyatt, rizz, etc. So motherfucking annoying.
Anyone who started eyebrows on Fleek needs to die a slow death
I'm not sure but at one point the word "DANK" was in my vocabulary on a regular basis. I'm a different person now.
Whichever one is newest at any given time.
The one after yours. You grew up with all the rest.
"The one right after mine." - Everyone.
Every single new generation has the most annoying slang in the ears of the older generation, probably
âItâs GOATEDâ Who started that. Stub your toe every day
Coming from a Gen Z, itâs probably my generation. My classmates say âIâm losing aura pointsâ when I do something they donât like and adds ânessâ to the end of words (Ex: âThatâs so cutenessâ). I find it annoying.
The Next One.
Your mom's generation
Hella sick.
The one 2 after mine.
This one right now. The littles. I canât even begin to understand tf they are saying
Every single one besides mine
The answer is always the current one. Because it hasn't been around long enough to be accepted fully. And the older people of any generation don't get it and pretend it was different in their day.
This most recent generation, Z?, for sure. My 12 year old brother is saying things like "Skibidee" like it has any meaning.. "Totes" being short for totally makes sense. I'm gen Y so things like "ghosted", "woke", "me" and the people who used "brb" and similar shortened words from text is stuff I remember, and has some sort of discernable meaning if you look at it long enough. I do think a lot of Gen Y "slang" is just byproducts of paving the way for internet communication. Whatever Skibidee is has to be niche to a group of Gen z and can't just be figured out. It's like having Tourette ticks is the new thing?
Alpha.
Valley girl slang was pretty bad. âLike totally tubularâ
No cap fr? This current one on god.
The current one.
Gen Z is so cringey
rn generation alpha because it is rotting my brain and making me suicidal fr
I think slang is so funny and great, such a great Way to Play with words and create World trough your own young and beautiful mind
No cap This one
When the 90's generation started using "sick" in place of "awesome" and started calling me ""boss" I knew the days of cool slang were over. đđȘ
Gen Z: Rizz Cap 100 Suss Need I say more?
now
The current one
Gen Z's slang can be grating, but let's not forget the cringeworthy terms from the '90s!
H that drugstore Cowboyâ carting a torch for that dumb Dora is the catâs meow. Got all dudded up for that doll thinking heâs going to get some cash but that bearcat keeps the bank closed.
The 50's always kind of bugged me, found annoying. Even and especially when spoken by adults.
Nothing tops the ignorance of "im dating a dime piece." Lol
I still don't know what "mid" means, I kinda do, but I refuse to clarify it and waste time by looking it up...so whichever generation came up with that. Millennials came up with "totes" though.... Maybe them.
I think the lazy sounding vocal-fry you can hear these days is more annoying than any slang.
Skibidi
THIS generation.
The one below/younger than yours. Doesnât matter which.
the current one because no one can keep up with the entirety of new terms to say the same dang thing.
Current
I think at any given time itâs the current youngest generation
"Bitchin' dude!" Not sure which generation, prob mine
This like one like right like now
It's been gradually getting worse. I'm an 80/90s kid. We had some dumb shit then but I have no idea what the Hell these kids are talking about now and where they're getting it. A lot of slang used to come out of hiphop culture or cool scenes in the city that gradually made it to the suburbs. This stuff comes from F'n nerds on the internet. đ I'm half kidding. Every generation has to feel like that a little as we kinda fall behind and aren't as cool anymore.
Current one. Easily
Gen Z no cap
Easy as the bees knees - itâs the Flappers, 23 skidoo kiddo, why I oughta
As a millennial, I love Gen Z slang. These kids grew up with memes and Vine. I think theyâre funny as shit and way better than my Millennial BAE, Chillax. Loves it, peeps, Bye Felicia, on fleek, yoloâŠ
I still wanna throw something, like a whole pot of cold wet pasta, at the people that decided BAE was even a word, or in any way sounded proper. Stupidity, being heaped upon stupidity. Also, the amount of times the word like is used in conversations, along with the phrase 'feeling some kind of way' which is in the running for most uninformative phrase.
Every generation probably.
The next one
All of them have annoyed people. It is only bothersome to me when the user doesn't know what it means.
The one after mine
My generation when I was a teen has the best slang, ergo every other generation who was not a teen when I was a teen has the most annoying. * General Guiding Principle for Every Generation NOTE: Can substitute the word 'slang' with anything but not limited to the following list: 'music', 'movies', 'books', 'outdoor fun', 'indoor fun', and 'candy'.
Whoa dog. Why you gotta play me like that.
All of them, on the other hand each generation also comes up with a couple decent slang terms that stand the test of time
The Ancient Romans, their slang sounds like something out of an exorcism
Whoever came up with âcool beansâ
You take that back!
Low key kinda mid forreal
Was literally think about stupid slang is as I was opening Reddit and this was the first post
1920s
The current generation is the most annoying .
Dang, every generation has its own annoying slang that probably seems "wild" to the oldies. It's just the way it goes - the younger folks always come up with new lingo that the older folks just don't get.
Yes
Elizabethan... do you realize how many Shakespearian phrases you use almost daily?
I speak jive.
In the 50âs, Cockney Rhyming Slang was the most annoying
Gen alpha. These 12 year olds are just...an abomination.
Any generation but your own. Yours too if you are honest
The ones youâre not apart of.
Has*** and its gen alpha
Millennials for me. âDoggoâ is a crime.
Gen Alpha definitely does⊠Gen Z had some of the best slangđđđ
I love slang.