I almost feel bad for you guys. You guys are gonna feel old a lot sooner than I did. The way I spoke was still relevant at least until I was 23ish and then slowly tapered off.

Just take solace in the fact that when you guys are all my age you're gonna cringe so fucking hard at the way you spoke you'll collapse into a black hole. It happens to all of us so it's probably better if you know less.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I already cringe at how I spoke a year or two ago (whenever pog was a thing) 👍

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's was certainly 3 years ago, in 1998

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

1998 was 10 years ago lol.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Hey, let's not choose violence here, this is a family restaurant

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Pog was a thing when Bleeding Gums Murphy died.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Lol was pog ever a thing?? I've only ever heard streamers use it, and verbalizing emote names is always gonna be cringe imo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

After I watched slang evolve multiple times across only a couple of generations, I stopped worrying about being in, and realized as a writer that slang older than the parental generation stays classy. Also, there's no correct way to use a living language. References might tell us what was the norm at the moment they were published, but they were obsolete before they were sold.

I may have to invent a dialect combining Newspeak and Nadsat and go extra crunchy.