I’ve heard it explained that “hey” used to be more of an urgent way to get someone’s attention, rather than a casual “hello” like it is now, so it sounded rude to some older folks.

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Teachers in 2023: “NOOO you can’t end your sentences with ‘fr fr nocap skibidi’ those aren’t even real words!”

2033:

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2033: “Why would you say any of that corny old shit? You sloopy old frond!”

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2035: We flippin’ grunts out here or what?

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2050: ARTMEWTC (Acronyms Are The Most Efficient Way To Communicate)

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Me n my grepies outta die sinkies by flipoin grunts

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Seriously. The “Fr fr no cap” is closer to our generations “Swag yolo”. Or the past generations “Tubular”

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This is a bitchin observation.

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I think it’s a pretty good example of something that totally lost all meaning and got beat into the ground, rather than getting worked into some individual lexicon or accent, and having a specific kind of role.

Totally passing observation on top of that, but I think, it’s probably much easier for that to happen to specific references, than for that to happen to actual novel uses of language.

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Do we have a RemindMe bot for Lemmy yet? I want to re-read this prophecy in 10 years

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A bit late but

@RemindMe@programming.dev 10 years

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Sloopy is the opposite of woke

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Is it a reference to this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skibidi_Toilet? Is it used as punctuation like “lol”?

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Actually they’re just fans of Scatman John

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