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[โ€“] Asafum@feddit.nl 44 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Ahhhh thanks for the explanation!

I like your ice cream example, but I'm going to be an old man and say I hate this new phrase lol it reads terribly how they used it.

[โ€“] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not you not groking Gen Z ๐Ÿ˜ฉ

The keeds, they are thee fuutureee

[โ€“] Asafum@feddit.nl 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Goddamn it I'm "only" 37 and I don't understand English anymore lmao

[โ€“] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

It was a good run!

At least grok has been around since โ€˜61.

[โ€“] Sombyr@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 months ago

Don't worry. I'm 25 and neither do I.

I'm convinced we've hit a point thanks to the internet where language just evolves so fast that by the time I'm elderly kids will literally be speaking a different language.

[โ€“] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm a young man and I have to agree with your old man take on this. I hate this trend also. A few of my friends have been using it irl conversations.

[โ€“] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Tell them that the old men on Lemmy say stop it.

[โ€“] Rolando@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Hey, we're literally shaking our fist at The Cloud.

[โ€“] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

So it goes with language, always evolving. It can be hard to keep up, but the kids are just having fun.