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My school district is WAY smarter than this, all the teachers and staff just start saying the words more than the kids do until they think it's corny.
This
Making lists like that is authoritarian and won't work. Making the words worthless works
Why is it even a goal to stop kids saying these words
Because some adults feel out of touch and must crush the new slang while forgetting that the same thing happened to them as kids until their slang became common parlance. Eventually this current crop of kids will do the same to the next generation and the cycle will continue.
What? You mean language changes? I can't take it, that's literally insane!
Exactly this. Bunch of adults that forgot they too were kids once
Because schools are supposed to be raising up people who speak in a way that can be understood and indicates some intelligence.
Languages are primarily created and evolved by teenagers. It's always been this way. Each new generation finds new ways of contextualizing the world, and new ways of explaining aspects of it. Teenagers create tons of new experimental words. Most have short half-lives and peter out over time. Some turn out to be genuinely linguistically useful and survive the test of time.
It's a safe bet that the vast majority of words you use on a daily basis were first uttered by a teenager somewhere in the recent or distant past.
Language evolves through teens.
It's funny how true it is. I speak completely differently than before I was a teen, and then after being a teen, and now that I have teenage kids, I don't speak like when I was a teen either. then entire language I use on a daily basis has shifted at least twice in significant ways.
until it's boring again, it's very funny. which is disruptive, unfortunately kids gotta focus. playground? yeah who care, but there's kids in classrooms that really can't deal with a full blown case of the giggles, were a poor small town, we need our kids to actually get somewhere.
Maybe this is why republicans watch child porn so they think it's corny and nobody else does it anymore.
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I am almost 28 and use way more gen z/alpha slang than my 21 year old sister does. It becomes your permanent lexicon after a while and you keep using the words no matter how outdated they are. I say yeet at least once a day still.
Unironically started saying hella after life is strange made me cringe out of my fucking seat when the characters say it.
Reclaim it like slurs. Lmfao
I have been saying "groovy" for as long as I have been aware that the word existed, and that's early 70s
Far out.
Right on!
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I say hella every day. Slang accentuates speech and makes it fun, so I use a lot of it. Not an obnoxious amount, though. Gotta get the slang amount just right, just like swearing. It's an art.
I don't use skibidi because it's too long to easily work into sentences casually. Also it's a really fucking dumb word that feels wrong saying. Like I tried it a few times and cringed so hard I thought I was gonna flip inside out or some shit. My soul started leaving my body.
Lol that's hella awesome
The new thing is "what the helly"
I can imagine that working, actually.
As a teacher, I can attest that it works beautifully.
"Ill bless you Youngins🥷 with the Rizz🔥 your gonna need for the low 🔑test on Monday, no cap 🧢💯!!!"
That's out of pocket!
Students, I'm a total baka hentai amirite?
Guys??
On god you raw dogged the whole squad with that one cuh