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List of Generation Z Slang
- bediger4000 3y agoThis is helpful. I now understand what younger co-workers mean when they talk.
- lebean 3y agoNo cap this is wiggity wack
- t-writescode 3y agoWow. A *lot* of these are far older than Gen Z. Like "tea", among others. And it's not "af" like ahf, it's "A. F."; and "As. F". This reminds me a bit of those Parenting magazines that got like half the slang or origins wrong
- mturmon 3y agoRelated to your parenting magazine comparison: the evergreen hoax, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge_speak#Grunge_speak_words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge_speak#Grunge_speak_word... My bona fide Gen Z son does not allow me to use any of the words in OP, especially not in front of his friends.
- paradox242 3y agoHey son, you and your fellows are looking full drip, no cap. Remember to be back in time for dinner, your mom is making pork chops, and it is going to be bussing bussing af.
- culopatin 3y agoFrfr
- niam 3y agoIt's not saying the slang originated there, so much as it is slang that is used by gen Z.
- t-writescode 3y agoSeveral of them do say that the slang originated in Gen Z
- Lornedon 3y agoBut the "tea" one, which the parent comment mentions, is described as originating in the 90s. So it's not really a valid example.
- add-sub-mul-div 3y agoI never see "af" capitalized or with periods.
- prng2021 3y agoTIL that there’s someone in the world who spends the time to type af or asf with caps and periods. L.O.L.
- bmer 3y agoIt's kinda crazy how confident they are about it too.
- pavon 3y agoThe one that surprised me was yap. I’ve heard that used frequently by at least four generations. Did it fall out of use such that it could repopularized recently?
- 7ero 3y agoskibidi toilet
- nunez 3y agoevery time i see this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDFBTdToRmw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDFBTdToRmw
- dcmatt 3y agoThis list is bussin, no cap
- moxvallix 3y agofr fr
- yogorenapan 3y agoAs a member of gen z, I have no idea what most of these mean. I won’t bother learning them. By the time I can memorize 5 or 6, they’ve probably already moved on to even more indecipherable abbreviations and random words
- viraptor 3y agoMany of them have been valid for years. I was surprised things like lit and af were considered gen z. The vocabulary is not moving that fast fortunately.
- steve_gh 3y agoYeah. Late 1980s I had a girlfriend from California who used "ick" all the time. So I think the TV show referenced as an origin was just picking up a word that was already out there.
- bdjsiqoocwk 3y agoBDE
- ym496 3y agonot so based are you, blud?? /s
- voidhorse 3y agoI always assumed "no cap" was short for "no capitulation" which originally was used to mean something like, "this is what I really believe, without altering my views to kowtow to anyone", but has morphed more generally into the less nuanced and more general "no lie".
- satvikpendem 3y agoHeh, asl used to mean something different 20 odd years ago. I also like using "based" quite often, especially to agree with something controversial which is primarily how I've seen it used. The linked article to -ussy is also hilarious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ussy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ussy
- ChrisArchitect 3y agojust because some terms became mainstream doesn't mean the current young generation of the day gets credit as their slang..... Gaslighting, Gatekeeping and even Ghosting I'm sure were terms used in certain professional realms like therapy etc before Gen Z was kicking them about. They're not even used as 'slang', they're just ...words that people use and apply, because they're mainstream now. Ultimately these kinds of things are what drives me crazy about Gen Z is their ephemeral disdain for history or context, existing only in the now.
- defrost 3y ago> what drives me crazy about Gen Z is their ephemeral disdain for history or context, existing only in the now. That's not Gen Z, that's "the youth today" at any point in history. Unless there was a generation noted for hanging out on street corners trading unexpurgated copies of Gibbon's Decline and Fall.. ?
- ChrisArchitect 3y agonah it's not the same now. Others previously of course were 'we're doing our thing and we're the freshest' - but we knew of or about what came before. We knew there was a reason how we got here. In many cases like music etc we were actually very interested in the elders and history! Now it's "this is the thing currently" and it might as well have just appeared out of thin air, no context, no past, and not really any future either, only right now, and with fleeting attention spans, gone in a short while also. (like the example elsewhere in here about not learning the slang because it'll be gone in a second anyways) And that leads to trends being appropriated, copied, absorbed like it's nothing. And then forgotten. It's cultureless.
- topherclay 3y agoNot only that but nowadays they also no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoHow does this kind of article get allowed by Wikipedia anyway? Wiki editors are ok with pages being used as a concise edition of Urban Dictionary? heh
- advael 3y agoCame looking for "spicy", was disappointed Gen Z vernacular usage of "spicy" is one of those difficult idioms to pin down/describe but not that difficult to understand, so I was curious about a wikipedia list's take on it
- voidpointercast 3y agoIt's wide ranging. For example, when I was diagnosed with one of those things that requires a hematologist I told the receptionist jokingly: "I got the spicy diagnosis"
- advael 3y agoYea like I've heard everything from "neurospicy" to describe neurodivergences to "spicy autocomplete" to describe GPT. My best shot at a concise usage definition is that it's like an especially flippant way to say "special" or "different" but there are places where that would fall apart You also sometimes get it having a connotation of sexuality but that actually seems like a holdover of an older (maybe millenial?) idiomatic usage of the word
- stephenr 3y agoI've heard several people my age (early 40s, but generally pretty young at heart I guess) refer to covid as spicy cough. In context it made sense the first time they said it, out of context I'd probably have had no idea what they meant.
- huytersd 3y agoBasically 85% African American slang.
- mbg721 3y ago(Mrs. Cleaver raises hand) I speak Jive...
- 082349872349872 3y agolike any US-centric youth culture since (at least) the Beats?
- paradox242 3y agoAs someone over 40, I probably enjoy too much the ability to destroy any exclusivity or sense of cool these words may have previously held to the younger generation by using them excessively in their presence.
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- andrewstuart 3y agoI am clearly not hip to the scene.
- cainxinth 3y ago“I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!“
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- mharig 3y agoIs this an already dead language, then?