Comment on "Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day

• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What year did you first start hearing the word rizz?

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  • dil@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How the fuck would I remember a specific year

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  • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    rizz comes from African Americans Vernacular English and has been around for decades…. white kids on tiktok recently learned it…

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    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve been around for decades too, even living in California, and the first time I’ve heard the word is recently with the new generation of tiktok people.

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      • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        well slang is very regional, as well as specific to different subcultures… like gamers have tons of slang/jargon…
        seems like kids like to appropriate slang from elsewhere (often black slang, probably from music), then they assume they invented it and gatekeep it, then it progresses to boring or becomes part of the language like “cool”….
        but whatever, i’m down with it… it’s totally tubular!

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