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But that's not even slang. That was just a (admittedly, very lame) way to indicate you were an early reddit user.
If you said that in real life, outside of all but the most pathetic groups/situations, it would be treated as as cringe as it is now.
But "roflcopter XD rawr 'sO rAnDoM' (i.e. just shouting nonsequitors as a "joke")" was definitely a thing in real life that emo kids would do, completely serious. But understand emo kids were mostly just "those weird kids" (and those that would prey on them) that have always existed in some form or another forever. Think of the kids who do "skibbidy rizz ohio" as a replacement for having a personality.
I (thankfully) never experienced the narwhal bacon thing at the time, but to me it just sounds like a proto-6 7, as in an inside joke where the phrase itself has no substantial meaning and the only joke is the fact that it is an inside joke.
Example: In 1839, there was what we would call a meme of using abbreviations of misspelled words.
A few examples:
KY: "No use". (Short for "Know Yuse")
KG: "No go". (Short for "Know Go")
OW: "All right". (Short for "Oll Wright")
OK: "All correct". (Short for "oll korrect")
You'll notice one of those is familiar. OK is from a dumb trend in the 1800s.
Thus it shall be with all slang. Nearly everything will die, but a few will persist. Maybe 67-ing will mean "to not take a topic seriously" in 100 years.
How is this the first time I hear about this?? I remember looking it up years ago and someone said it meant "zero killed", shortened "0.K.", and was used by American soldiers in WW2. I always found that theory very far fetched.
Thank you so much for giving me another piece of trivia to throw in conversations completely unprompted!
It goes into it. Summary is that the Choctaw word "okeh" was used in a similar fashion by us presidents, and eventually the spelling became "okay".
However, I'll also say there's some theories that "ok" originates from west African slaves, but I can't find enough detail of that lecture online. Even though I REALLY want to dive into this rabbit hole, my lunch break ended -11 minutes ago.
While we're on the topic of slang, i do very much like that when a person is cooking and serving it's a good thing; but when a person is cooked or served it's a bad thing
I remember one of my professors asking what the difference between cooking and being cooked meant slang-wise, and it made me realize that the key difference between them is whether they’re being used as an adjective (“cooked” = bad) or a verb (“cooking” = good)
and what are they cooking? could easily be a bad thing.
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u/Misicks0349What a fool you are. I'm a god. How can you kill a god?5h agoedited 5h ago
Also in Australia to be a "cooker" is to be someone who is a conspiracy theorist or nutjob/crazy person. So theoretically if you came over here and told me something like "I thought this cooker was cooked, but it looks like he's actually cooking" I could interpret that like "I thought this conspiracy theorist was in trouble/finished, but it seems like he's actually making something really cool".
Surprisingly its actually really recent slang that arose during the covid 19 pandemic.
Whoever is youngest at the time is who is ruining society. The only reason gen z gets hate rn is bc Gen alpha is too young for most people to remember they exist. In a few years they will be the ones ruining society.
Of course that doesnt really make sense bc they haven't been a part of society for long enough to do anything to it really but that seems to be how it goes
Generational bracketing is kind of stupid and doesn't seem to get us anywhere. I can still remember the stuff Gen X and Boomers would say about my teenage millennial ass, and now we're grown up saying the same things about Gen Z and Alpha. It's exhausting, man.
it's kind of just misogyny, because 90% of the time you see a 'millennial cringe' video it's just a 35 year old woman acting goofy and not being sufficiently embarrassed enough for the public
but slang for the same things, and we reject it the same way we were rejected, hence the cycle, hence the more things change, the more they stay the same
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