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Came 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 un
by advael 3y ago
Came 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.