Even old people will just stop using them, like “groovy”.
Dude, that’s totes bogus. Get outta here with that whackness. /s
Yeah. Thankfully nobody says things like “epic fail” anymore
I still do 👋
Can’t speak for anywhere but where I’ve lived, but I’ve heard groovy on the US west coast pretty recently, though not regularly. There was a niche little clique of geeks out in east Texas that’d say it pretty regularly some years ago though. Hippie activist/tabletop enthusiast type vibe, that group. Good people. Groovy, even.
That mighta been me
Then we may have met before. I’d rather not be identified on this account, so I’ll just text some of the old gang, and if you’re on the list, you’re on the list lol
i mean, i say it, my cool brother says it, there’s a few of us.
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Yeah I feel like not hearing people use “groovy” is more because things aren’t feeling very groovy lately.
Well I think it’s nifty.
Groovy is acceptable, but only in the way Ash from the Evil Dead uses it.
“Cool” has had greater longevity than i expected.
Marvy fab yo
Psssh, next you’ll tell me people aren’t saying “hail to the king, baby”?
Yo dawg, that would be like totally tubular unless the geezers spaz out like lamo rents gettin all agro after gettin to tha crib and finding all da homies having a jammy jam in the hizzie. Ya feel me, cuz?
Word up, homie.
What does lamo mean? I understood the rest, and yes, my back hurts.
Misspelled “lame-o” is my guess. Though my spelling of it is a guess as well.
Misspelled? Letters used to cost money, you know. 160 chars/msg.bst to shrten evrything
Nice reference.
Btw Ali G came up nice. As in Sacha wasn’t left to be defined by Ali, went on to become Borat (which was also like the 20 years ago), has done some seriously good drama shows and now is looking like this:
I’m 40 and I understand most of that, yup it’s old person speak.
C’mon Gen Z. You can’t have “tubular”. That’s clearly an 80s term, and thus belongs to the millenials. Same thing with “crib” and the 90s.
“Cuz” was early 2000s. I don’t know who that one falls to. All I know is I was about 18 before I heard it. So, basically on my last legs as far as being able to claim slang to my generation.
Geezers isn’t even my generation, or Gen X. It’s either the Boomers, The Greatest Generation, or The Silent Generation. Really pulling slang out by the roots on that one. What’s next? Are we going to take a trip to the Piggly Wiggly?
Greatest generation is dead dude. Ok maybe a few are around but like, they’re 100+
…ok? Does them being dead today negate the slang they created when they were alive?
Or are you claiming old slang gets put in the free for all bin, for any generation can adopt as their own?
Because I wouldn’t mind picking up “bees knees” when that becomes available.
Safe.
Down with the rave police !
I’m never gonna stop calling people “dawg”
Nurse! I vibe coded in my pants again
Gyatt so Ohio, on god.
“cooking” in the context of doing something well has been around for a long time. Think, “now you’re cooking!” Or the less common “now you’re cooking with gas!”
I think it’s just in more frequent use currently. It will be interesting to see if people stop using it after it goes out of fashion with the youth.
Language is freaking fascinating.
I personally think cooking will have serious staying power.
I’m cooking spaghetti for dinner tonight. Yes, I’m old.
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in the nursing home talking about how I rizzed up the nurses (i didn’t)
Based has been around forever, it’s not some new slang.
forever
Maybe like 10 years? That seem about right?
Some searching seems to suggest that “Lil B” started the words come back around 2010
Lil B in quotes like he’s a massively obscure figure from the past. The years really don’t stop coming.
Never heard of him.
¯\(ツ)/¯
As an old person today, I have no clue what these words mean. Assuming cooking has nothing to do with food. I’ve never heard rizz. I’ve at least heard people use based, though I don’t know its use.
I consider ‘based’ an opposite of ‘sour’ or ‘acidic’. That is, being alkaline and having high pH is considered socially desirable. Mixing based and sour personalities will naturally produce salt, that is, dried tears.
Cooking is a term for any time-consuming chemical reaction, which happens to include food preparation.
I have no chemistry-related explanation for rizz. Something to do with sparks?
I’m old and “cooking” was old when I was young.
Nah. It was just cooking
I haven’t heard swag in a long while and so I’m not sure how many of these words will actually be used enough later on.
My 34 year-old brother says “rats!” when something bad happens. He learned from our grandpa.
I make it a point to adopt some of my grandpa’s lingo. Funnily enough my 18-20 year old students can smell 30yo slang from a mile away and will point out it ages me, but they’ve never said anything about the random 50s teenage slang I incorporate.
Oooh, I like that, I’m terrified of rats, so that would be a great replacement, for the usual word, when around kids, too.
Nah, these expressions will just fall out of use. You think this is the first time people came up with funny fad expressions?
Sorry, but you ain’t all dat and a bag of potato chips. Fo shizzle.
All dat has become allat now in meme speak so maybe not totally out of fashion
That is not very groovy of you.
Jst lk ppl used 2 txt, amirite
Not really. Just look up the some slang words from 2000’s you’ve never heard of but what everyone in my generation would’ve been constantly using.
Ofc some of them are still around, but most aren’t.
Chillax n00b, cuz 2000’s slang is awesomesauce, biatch!
you want some amazeballs with that awesomesauce? #winning
So bomb. True that. Dope. 1337
So kewl!
Nice to see so many fellow le gentlesirs here.
tips hat to you
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