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Slang based in extremely crude sexual terms that are now mainstream verbiage – butthurt and rawdogging are two that come to mind. I’m not a verbal prude in social conversation, but the first time I heard a Gen Z drop a “butthurt” in the middle of a work meeting with senior staff, I was clutching my pearls like a Southern Baptist catching another Southern Baptist in a liquor store.
Aesthetic. Use it correctly. What type of aesthetic are you referring to when you say it. Otherwise you’re just saying “type of look” when you say something is aesthetic. What type of look? Complete a thought!
“baby mama” or “baby daddy”. My god, I cringe and want to curl up in a fetal position every time I hear somebody say those phrases. Not sure why people can’t just say, the mother of the baby or the father of the baby.
The mashing up of a couples name. It was original and funny and worked with Bennifer TWENTY years ago, but now the names are just dumb and don’t even sound right. Stop mashing up names it’s fukn stupid and it’s over. Bennifer was the one and only
This is very specific, but people who do cooking demos and say “I’m coming in with” when they add ingredients to their aluminum pan of slop and cream cheese… Just stop it. Stop all of it.
Slang that comes from NSFW stuff when NSFW stuff isnt the topic. So anything I wouldn’t want to explain the origin of to my mother or hear from my nephew.
Rawdogging, bussin’, any -ussy portmanteau.
I get it, I really do. I even SAY things like this. But I wish I could easily stop and I wish it wasn’t such a thing. Embarrassing.
In sports jargon, the term “drinking the KoolAid” has become a metaphor for an athletic team listening to their coach and collectively buying into the coach’s strategy in a successful way. For example, “Woo hoo! The Bears drank the KoolAid from their coach and are on a winning streak!”
The origin of this term comes from the Jonestown massacre when faithful followers of Jim Jones followed the advice of their spiritual leader and willingly drank KoolAid spiked with cyanide in an enormous mass suicide. Parents served it to their children who also died.
I can’t think of a more disgusting event to create a metaphor from.
Referring to people as “random” when they mean someone with whom they are unfamiliar. The server who comes to the table to take your order isn’t random. They work there. They’re supposed to approach you and ask you questions. Now, if a stranger on the bus asks you what you want for lunch and if you have any allergies, they are a random person.
Yeah I agree. It should be regional and that’s probably my main issue. You can tell when someone has grown up saying it vs it saying forced to the point where it sounds ironic
I’m tired of people “curating” things. You’re not a museum. You just have some stuff.
While I’m bitching….you have no “brand”. You’re a regular person, not a breakfast cereal
Anyone who refers to other people as NPCs should have to fight a bear in single combat
Sus. Game-changer. It’s used for everything from medicine to politics, but seldom for sports. Adding “thon” to sales events: Toyotathon, etc. It has nothing to do with the original meaning.
Lot’s of them, but “plug” substituting for “connection” to refer to one’s dealer is kind of dumb because it removes the meaning of “connection”, as a relationship to obtain weed.
I have a very visceral dislike of hearing “salty” being used in the slang way, but lately things like “bussin” are about as bad. I never used much if any slang as a kid, because I am very literal and also very unsure of popular culture type stuff.
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Acronyms. People stopped writing. Learn to write like an adult.
Definitely, without hesitation, “cooked.”
Every trend is “Gen-[whatever]”
Bet.
I still say “I can dig it” as a verbal indication that I’m in agreement with what you just said.
Bruh
I recently overheard; “She was flexing her engagement ring!” Flexing? What happened to bragging about?
Life hack
Baby daddy or baby mama.
Instead use “my child’s daddy” or “my child’s mama”
Based. It doesn’t make sense.
Just quit saying hack when you are giving a tip or hint.
Woke. I don’t even know what that means and I don’t think anyone else does either.
Riz and the way people use the word bet.
I don’t have anything that I wish could be used instead. Just quit using them.
“Less than” is not a complete thought.
You have to say “less than something”.
For instance, “he makes me feel less than…” is not a complete sentence and says nothing.
“He makes me feel less than 100 feet tall” or “He makes me feel less than average in intelligence,” are both a complete sentence.
Stop saying “less than” and then ending the sentence like you expressed something when you did not.
Girlies
The use of literally to mean figuratively. I will stand and fight and if need be die on this linguistic hill!
Boomer = Wise Elder
Skill issue. No, having a headache is not a skill issue.
Slang based in extremely crude sexual terms that are now mainstream verbiage – butthurt and rawdogging are two that come to mind. I’m not a verbal prude in social conversation, but the first time I heard a Gen Z drop a “butthurt” in the middle of a work meeting with senior staff, I was clutching my pearls like a Southern Baptist catching another Southern Baptist in a liquor store.
Completely sick of seeing “cringe”
Aesthetic. Use it correctly. What type of aesthetic are you referring to when you say it. Otherwise you’re just saying “type of look” when you say something is aesthetic. What type of look? Complete a thought!
-coded, -core
Woke. I immediately roll my eyes.
“baby mama” or “baby daddy”. My god, I cringe and want to curl up in a fetal position every time I hear somebody say those phrases. Not sure why people can’t just say, the mother of the baby or the father of the baby.
I wish they’d stop trying to make “fetch” happen.
The mashing up of a couples name. It was original and funny and worked with Bennifer TWENTY years ago, but now the names are just dumb and don’t even sound right. Stop mashing up names it’s fukn stupid and it’s over. Bennifer was the one and only
“Vibe” Replace it with “Stench” for accuracy
Cali
If I hear one more ‘Let’s Gooooo!!!’ I’m going to fucking loose it. My god Gen Z is mind-numbingly uncreative.
it’s A no-brainer.
Sus. Just free the tongue and say the word suspect or suspicious.
“Glizzy” for a hot dog.
F bombs. They’re like punctuation these days.
Where to begin, where to begin.
Bruh
Life hack
Duuuuupe
“Let me put you onto …”
Obsessed
Deceased
Bet
Period
Girlypop
Girly/Girlies
My <fill in the blank> era.
Edited to add: On G-d
Talking to my 12 yr. old grandson is like an obstacle course through the Urban Dictionary.
This is very specific, but people who do cooking demos and say “I’m coming in with” when they add ingredients to their aluminum pan of slop and cream cheese… Just stop it. Stop all of it.
Goat. “Greatest of All Time.” In my day, the goat was the guy who lost the game.
Cooked and chat. You’re not in a chat right now, please stop!
Putting non-alphabetic characters in words as if to somehow disguise them e.g. ‘terrrist” or “sx” or b**bs”. It looks intellectually cutsey.
Slang that comes from NSFW stuff when NSFW stuff isnt the topic. So anything I wouldn’t want to explain the origin of to my mother or hear from my nephew.
Rawdogging, bussin’, any -ussy portmanteau.
I get it, I really do. I even SAY things like this. But I wish I could easily stop and I wish it wasn’t such a thing. Embarrassing.
Girlie and Mama just sound cringe when referring to other women
I don’t like being called “boss”
Calling something mid instead of mediocre.
In sports jargon, the term “drinking the KoolAid” has become a metaphor for an athletic team listening to their coach and collectively buying into the coach’s strategy in a successful way. For example, “Woo hoo! The Bears drank the KoolAid from their coach and are on a winning streak!”
The origin of this term comes from the Jonestown massacre when faithful followers of Jim Jones followed the advice of their spiritual leader and willingly drank KoolAid spiked with cyanide in an enormous mass suicide. Parents served it to their children who also died.
I can’t think of a more disgusting event to create a metaphor from.
Referring to people as “random” when they mean someone with whom they are unfamiliar. The server who comes to the table to take your order isn’t random. They work there. They’re supposed to approach you and ask you questions. Now, if a stranger on the bus asks you what you want for lunch and if you have any allergies, they are a random person.
“Ahh.” Just fucking stop.
I’m not American. So absolutely my answer is “y’all”. I can’t stand it
Starting a sentence with “like”.
Based
What the fuck does it even mean?
Yeah I agree. It should be regional and that’s probably my main issue. You can tell when someone has grown up saying it vs it saying forced to the point where it sounds ironic
fuckton
…”sando” for sandwich. Don’t know why, but it puts my teeth on edge. Only used by dude-bros might be why.
My bad. It never made sense.
Electrolytes, or something.
Not slang, but just a bad habit:
“no problem: or – the even worse “no prob” in response to “thank you”.
“It’s giving…”
“You ate that / she ate that”
Also, the constant use of ending sentences with “lol” when it isn’t funny. “Pardon my spelling mistakes my mom is in the hospital lol” type of thing.
So sick of y’all.
Hack
Obsessed. No, you’re not “obsessed” with that face cream,or the perfume, or the blouse. You really like it, but that’s not what obsessed means.
I’m tired of people “curating” things. You’re not a museum. You just have some stuff.
While I’m bitching….you have no “brand”. You’re a regular person, not a breakfast cereal
Anyone who refers to other people as NPCs should have to fight a bear in single combat
Calling something a “mood”. What does that even mean?
Getting tired of hearing “chef’s kiss” as well.
Tired of people who can’t pronounce important on TV. Instead they say impor-Ant. T is silent.
Bet. So dumb.
I teach in high school. I’m already over the expression “crash out”.
Sus. Game-changer. It’s used for everything from medicine to politics, but seldom for sports. Adding “thon” to sales events: Toyotathon, etc. It has nothing to do with the original meaning.
I tend to become exasperated at the ubiquitous use of “awesome”, unless describing the Grand Canyon, or behind a fence at the Cape Kennedy launchsite.
“Sick” as a positive statement.
“it’s giving”. makes me cringe every time.
I wish people would stop using the term “perfect” for things like thank you, you’re welcome, etc.
Lot’s of them, but “plug” substituting for “connection” to refer to one’s dealer is kind of dumb because it removes the meaning of “connection”, as a relationship to obtain weed.
Riz.
I’m sorry there are so many syllables in charisma.
Clearly far too much time would be wasted.
Not really slang, but “impoh-int”
Really?
It’s that hard to just say important?
I have a very visceral dislike of hearing “salty” being used in the slang way, but lately things like “bussin” are about as bad. I never used much if any slang as a kid, because I am very literal and also very unsure of popular culture type stuff.
24/7. Makes me want to band my head against the wall.
Let’s do ths! is as tired as Don’t you die on me! Writers really need to come up with something new.
Karen. I know I really nice person named Karen.
Baby bump…it just sounds so stupid.
Based. Random. Quirky. Hack. Triggered. Smashing it.
Bro, and life hack.
I’ve been over this and I’m now aware there’s no disrespect meant. So I’m cool with it. Not mad anymore. But.
I prefer “you’re welcome” to “no problem.”