"Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day
Submitted 23 hours ago by Preventer79@sh.itjust.works to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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toynbee@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
kieron115@startrek.website 2 hours ago
One of these days I need to go and read through the Calvin and Hobbes collection I bought for my bookshelf when it was on a steep discount. I remember reading them all the time as a kid.
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
A relatable situation; when my kid can read a little better I mean to very enthusiastically introduce them to it.
Though honestly they might enjoy the beautiful artwork without bothering to read. Or it might encourage them to practice. Hmm.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 53 minutes ago
You don’t say!
olafurp@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Jst lk ppl used 2 txt, amirite
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 59 minutes ago
Oh the t9 era of texting, I miss d tym wen t9 ws d nly optn
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I’m cooking spaghetti for dinner tonight. Yes, I’m old.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 52 minutes ago
Who has a problem with spaghetti?
dil@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
they already are in black communities, teens see tiktok comments and go wow new slang, a lot of this shit isnt new tho, like bop wasnt new but everyone acted like it was a new tiktok word, neither was thot on twitter or many others, rizz isnt new, its been around, cooking and based? not new at all
Zahille7@lemmy.world 34 minutes ago
Nothing is new under the sun.
I heard that once in a bible class and it’s stuck with me ever since. And imo it beautifully encapsulates humanity’s trends and fads.
Language is an ever-evolving thing, but at the same time, how many variations of something can be made before we’ve made all of them? Humanity has been around for thousands of years; I find it hard to believe that just about any word we could come up with is actually brand new and no other human has heard it before.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
What is “bop”? Are bop-its popular on TikTok?
HereIAm@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
How is rizz not new? I’ve never seen it until tiktok.
dil@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Where do you think tiktok slang comes from? It’s just popular slang someone uses in a comment that middleschool kids who are from different areas, that have never heard it before parrot, because they literally just copy popular comments bar for bar hoping to get likes
reddig33@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Even old people will just stop using them, like “groovy”.
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Well I think it’s nifty.
thejoker954@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Dude, that’s totes bogus. Get outta here with that whackness. /s
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Groovy is acceptable, but only in the way Ash from the Evil Dead uses it.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Marvy fab yo
CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Psssh, next you’ll tell me people aren’t saying “hail to the king, baby”?
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Xant speak for anywhere but where I’ve lived, but I’ve heard groovy on the US west coast pretty recently, though not regularly. There was a niche little clique of geeks out in east Texas that’d say it pretty regularly some years ago though. Hippie activist/tabletop enthusiast type vibe, that group. Good people. Groovy, even.
thejoker954@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Yeah I feel like not hearing people use “groovy” is more because things aren’t feeling very groovy lately.
WALLACE@feddit.uk 20 hours ago
Yeah. Thankfully nobody says things like “epic fail” anymore
pilferjinx@piefed.social 17 hours ago
At least epic and fail are actual words.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Cooking is not new slang. That shit goes back decades.
Dasus@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yup
Phrase what’s cooking? “what’s up, what’s going on” is attested by 1942. To cook with gas “do well, act or think correctly” is 1930s jive talk.
The expression “NOW YOU’RE COOKING WITH GAS” has bobbed up again — this time as a front page streamer on the Roper Ranger, and as the banner line in the current advertising series of the Nashville (Tenn.) Gas and Heating Company, cleverly tying gas cooking to local food products and restaurants. “Now you’re cooking with gas” literally took the gas industry by the ears around December 1939 — Remember? — when it flashed forth in brilliant repartee from the radio programs of the Maxwell Coffee Hour, Jack Benny, Chase and Sanborn, Johnson Wax, Bob Hope and sundry others. [American Gas Association Monthly, vol. xxiii, 1941
EndOfLine@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Yo dawg, that would be like totally tubular unless the geezers spaz out like lamo rents gettin all agro after gettin to tha crib and finding all da homies having a jammy jam in the hizzie. Ya feel me, cuz?
don@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
Word up, homie.
CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de 21 hours ago
What does lamo mean? I understood the rest, and yes, my back hurts.
Laristal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Misspelled “lame-o” is my guess. Though my spelling of it is a guess as well.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
I’m 40 and I understand most of that, yup it’s old person speak.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
C’mon Gen Z. You can’t have “tubular”. That’s clearly an 80s term, and thus belongs to the millenials. Same thing with “crib” and the 90s.
“Cuz” was early 2000s. I don’t know who that one falls to. All I know is I was about 18 before I heard it. So, basically on my last legs as far as being able to claim slang to my generation.
Geezers isn’t even my generation, or Gen X. It’s either the Boomers, The Greatest Generation, or The Silent Generation. Really pulling slang out by the roots on that one. What’s next? Are we going to take a trip to the Piggly Wiggly?
Marketsnodsbury@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
“Cuz” was early 2000s
It’s been around a lot longer than that.
My dearest cuz,/ I pray you school yourself – MACBETH, IV ii
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Greatest generation is dead dude. Ok maybe a few are around but like, they’re 100+
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Totally tubular, dude! That’s like, the raddest thing ever, and I’m stoked to be part of it. It’s got that gnarly vibe that makes you wanna bust a move and just hang loose. You’re on point, and it’s all that and a bag of chips. Keep it up, ‘cause you’re totally on the money!
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
“cooking” in the context of doing something well has been around for a long time. Think, “now you’re cooking!” Or the less common “now you’re cooking with gas!”
I think it’s just in more frequent use currently. It will be interesting to see if people stop using it after it goes out of fashion with the youth.
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 minutes ago
I personally think cooking will have serious staying power.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Language is freaking fascinating.
expr@programming.dev 17 hours ago
Based has been around forever, it’s not some new slang.
jve@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
forever
Maybe like 10 years? That seem about right?
Some searching seems to suggest that “Lil B” started the words come back around 2010
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Lil B in quotes like he’s a massively obscure figure from the past. The years really don’t stop coming.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Nurse! I vibe coded in my pants again
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 21 hours ago
Gyatt so Ohio, on god.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
idkmybffjill
Dasus@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Not really. Just look up the some slang words from 2000’s you’ve never heard of but what everyone in my generation would’ve been constantly using.
Ofc some of them are still around, but most aren’t.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Chillax n00b, cuz 2000’s slang is awesomesauce, biatch!
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
you want some amazeballs with that awesomesauce?
j_elgato@leminal.space 16 hours ago
That would be rad…
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Totally gnarly
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Grouse!
Threeme2189@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Foshizzle
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
NOT.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Forsooth.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I haven’t heard swag in a long while and so I’m not sure how many of these words will actually be used enough later on.
darkmarx@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
As an old person today, I have no clue what these words mean. Assuming cooking has nothing to do with food. I’ve never heard rizz. I’ve at least heard people use based, though I don’t know its use.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 23 hours ago
Rizz = Charisma
Based = Cool; Awesome; Good.
Cooked = Fucked (as in up, not sexually).
Cooking = Doing something (usually good, but does not necessarily have to be).
Sincerely,
A 40 year old Millennial.
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
‘cooking’ specifically implies either creativity or efficacy (or both, some novel solution that results in success)
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Based also sorta meant woke for a bit before woke
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Based is like ‘unpopular, but I agree.’
pelya@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I consider ‘based’ an opposite of ‘sour’ or ‘acidic’. That is, being alkaline and having high pH is considered socially desirable. Mixing based and sour personalities will naturally produce salt, that is, dried tears.
Cooking is a term for any time-consuming chemical reaction, which happens to include food preparation.
I have no chemistry-related explanation for rizz. Something to do with sparks?
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
Yep me too, I bet as it's young people it's mainly texted and in txt spk
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
txt spk
Ahh, the first Kid Pidgin.
rem26_art@fedia.io 22 hours ago
in the nursing home talking about how I rizzed up the nurses (i didn't)
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I’ll be ambling through nursing home hallways in a threadbare robe on the way to the ol’ skibidi while some orderlies with multicolor levitating hair make modem noises at each other.
That’ll just be the microplastic poisoning setting in though.
__siru__@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
You had me in the last sentence… sadly
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
And their grandkids will ask “based on what?”
CubitOom@infosec.pub 22 hours ago
Gag me with a spoon
Acamon@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I was today years old when I relaised that “gag” in that phrase presumably means “make me vomit” not “silence me”. I’ve spent many decades being confused about that…
solidsnake@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
Based is already old though
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
Woah, you lost me there with your hip young lingo, son
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
memento te senescere
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Skibiddy Rizz YOLO my chat in Christ, based yeets.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 31 minutes ago
My 34 year-old brother says “rats!” when something bad happens. He learned from our grandpa.