It took me a while to realize this wasn’t a lookup table
Me too. Felt old before realizing it wasn’t a lookup table and then felt older after realizing it was a simple list.
I hate finna more than all the others.
it’s AAVE, not made up, and there’s literally no reason why “gonna” should be more legit. it’s the exact same construction.
I mean it’s as made up as any other slang
why do i never hear someone bitch about “gonna” then
Because “gonna” is centuries old, while “finna” only started getting popular around 2010.
Not exactly an apples to apples comparison, ‘younger’ slang is always going to be less ‘familiar’/‘normal’-sounding.
My school district is WAY smarter than this, all the teachers and staff just start saying the words more than the kids do until they think it’s corny.
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 It becomes your permanent lexicon after a while and you keep using the words no matter how outdated they are.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.
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
This
Making lists like that is authoritarian and won’t work. Making the words worthless works
Why is it even a goal to stop kids saying these words
Because some adults feel out of touch and must crush the new slang while forgetting that the same thing happened to them as kids until their slang became common parlance. Eventually this current crop of kids will do the same to the next generation and the cycle will continue.
What? You mean language changes? I can’t take it, that’s literally insane!
Because schools are supposed to be raising up people who speak in a way that can be understood and indicates some intelligence.
Languages are primarily created and evolved by teenagers. It’s always been this way. Each new generation finds new ways of contextualizing the world, and new ways of explaining aspects of it. Teenagers create tons of new experimental words. Most have short half-lives and peter out over time. Some turn out to be genuinely linguistically useful and survive the test of time.
It’s a safe bet that the vast majority of words you use on a daily basis were first uttered by a teenager somewhere in the recent or distant past.
Language evolves through teens.
It’s funny how true it is. I speak completely differently than before I was a teen, and then after being a teen, and now that I have teenage kids, I don’t speak like when I was a teen either. then entire language I use on a daily basis has shifted at least twice in significant ways.
until it’s boring again, it’s very funny. which is disruptive, unfortunately kids gotta focus. playground? yeah who care, but there’s kids in classrooms that really can’t deal with a full blown case of the giggles, were a poor small town, we need our kids to actually get somewhere.
Students, I’m a total baka hentai amirite?
Guys??
On god you raw dogged the whole squad with that one cuh
I can imagine that working, actually.
“Ill bless you Youngins🥷 with the Rizz🔥 your gonna need for the low 🔑test on Monday, no cap 🧢💯!!!”
That’s out of pocket!
It’s such a bizarre list too.
They’re not cusses. What’s wrong with “love that for you”? I could’ve easily seen myself saying that in 2009, is the meaning vastly different than what I think?
It’s passive aggressive
Spent my whole High School career being passive aggressive, because swearing was the bridge too far.
If you can’t even be passive aggressive you may as well never leave your front door.
How is being upfront about your feelings, worse than hiding them with snide comments? Passive aggression is a tool for funny people and people who are afraid of confrontation.
start listing them out continuously untill you get expelled
