Some of these definitions are hilarious. Someone who didn't know what "Bussy" meant could read the entry for it here, and still be just as confused.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My favorite is "facts": literally the dictionary definition of facts

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Popularized in 2017

How could those silly old folks be expected to know what 'facts' means? It wasn't popularized until 2017!

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

Also the use of "period" as an interjection, which according to the list was invented in 2010 and has not been in use in some form since the 3rd century BCE.

[–] LordAmplifier@pawb.social 11 points 1 year ago

"Boujee: a high-class/materialistic person"

Because nobody can freaking spell ~~bougewazee~~ ~~boojoa~~ ~~bushwa~~

[–] seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

The definition for "ded" is bespoke:

Laughter and death as a combined concept has been present since Ancient Greece, where it is held that Zeuxis died from laughing at a portrait of an ugly woman he was painting. Ded stems from a folk etymology for dead reckoning. Emerged on the internet in the early 1990s as a representation for regional speech.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

you might even say it's joever

[–] Miphera@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Idk, I'm 28 and know like 95% of these. Maybe I just spend too much time online lol

[–] Wutchilli@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

It's surprisingly accurate