"Current year" terms that piss you off

[Hakase Shinonome]

My main problem is that it is the exact opposite meaning of how it is traditionally used in reference to people. If I say somebody crashes, it usually means they dropped like a rock falling asleep, not throwing a tantrum. Can't figure how such a radically different definition seemed to emerge practically overnight.

I think the correlation is with computers, and how crashing on a computer, to regular people, is like glitching in a video game, something's gone wrong;

 

[Hakase Shinonome]

Seeing this reddit comment is what prompted me to post about it here, though I've been thinking it for a while.
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dumbassery. buffoonery, even.

I don't have the post on hand, but I saw a question being asked about "What does F to pay respects mean?"; and someone answered "No one knows, people just spam it in chat whenever something sad happens. It's just a thing people do."

It's funny whenever Redditors can't do one simple Google-search worth of research.

 

[Susan-O]

For me it's no terms in general, but kids constantly using Anglicisms while speaking German. It's truly nerve-wrecking, and fills me with an extreme inner-rage. I do wonder why it's just Germans doing so, and no Spanish, Polish or Italian kids.

 

[Hakase Shinonome]

For me it's no terms in general, but kids constantly using Anglicisms while speaking German. It's truly nerve-wrecking, and fills me with an extreme inner-rage. I do wonder why it's just Germans doing so, and no Spanish, Polish or Italian kids.

OH MY GOD, SO IT IS A EUROPEAN THING. Every single fucking language in the EU getting Americanized. I truly fucking despise the Americanization of Europe as a whole. No I don't want your fucking Burger King burger in Germany, I want your Bradwurst.

My friends and I have been affected by this, though, but we keep each other on the look-out for when we say retarded, anglicized shit. We forget terms and expressions in our native language but do know them in English, it's honestly just pathetic.

I turn on the news, and then some dumbass-smug cunt says "AI", even though, that doesn't make any fucking sense, it should be "KI". "Trendy", "cool", "all-inclusive", "cute", "awkward", "bacon", "gay", "bro", "limited-edition", all these obviously English-ass words because we as a society failed to properly teach our fucking kids our fucking language properly.

I'm glad for Trump; if only it's because it makes Europeans go independent from America. I envy you Germans sometimes with your "Dub over every single piece of media"-law.

 

[I Hate The Disabled]

I hate how YouTube has gotten content creators to self-censor by talking like babies when discussing serious topics.

SA= Sexual Assault
Grape = Rape
Unalived= murdered/killed

There's no reason for it.

 

[ChompChomp]

I turn on the news, and then some dumbass, smug cunt says "AI," even though that doesn't make any fucking sense; it should be "KI," "Trendy," "cool," "all-inclusive," "cute," "awkward," "bacon," "gay," "bro," "limited-edition," [...]

Fixed your dodo bird grammar in this section, which is enough effort for one day.

Please, keeping posting your inane opinion(s) on linguistics and global socioeconomic trends.

pussification

Hot damn! I'm glad someone else uses this word.

 

[Something Awful]

I saw someone use "keep it a buck" in a thread here, hadn't heard it before. Apparently it's "African-American Vernacular" and means something like "to be real". Not sure where it comes from, I guess something simple and honest like a product you'd buy at a dollar store? Idk.

Anyway, the above doesn't piss me off, but apparently there is an alternative version "keep it a bean". What the fuck is that? Fuck off with that zoomer babble.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

bigot

This term was used before Current Year, but of course it's used more now. By claiming that dissent "wrongthink" is "bigotry" (even if it's true), SJWs try in yet another way to BS or "struggle session" people into believing "woke" BS. For example, the cultists may claim you're a "bigot" -- meaning unreasonably or intolerably devoted to a view as they see it -- if you object to unrestricted mass immigration of military-aged men from 3rd world nations, or if you merely mock the length of the LGBTQETC+++ abbreviations.

 

[Ratboy Genius]

What's truly annoying is that this is "TikTok slang" or "Gen Z slang" to the uninitiated but it's all borrowed from AAVE (African American Vernacular English) and to a lesser extent SAE (Southern American English).

Heya I know it's been a hot minute since we've spoken but I thought of something and remembered your posts. So in your opinion, which (if any) of tiktok/zoomers' favorite words and slang are NOT borrowed from aave or sae? Just curious what you think ^^

I saw someone use "keep it a buck" in a thread here, hadn't heard it before. Apparently it's "African-American Vernacular" and means something like "to be real". Not sure where it comes from

Oh. First time I heard "keep it a buck" was from a white boy mcyt streamer (Karl Jacobs) in 2020/2021. I figured it's just yet another of many phrases that mean let me be frank.

 

[ohmynights]

I hate how YouTube has gotten content creators to self-censor by talking like babies when discussing serious topics.

SA= Sexual Assault
Grape = Rape
Unalived= murdered/killed

There's no reason for it.

For the first two, I can somewhat understand due to kids and everything (even though they really shouldn't be exposed to content about those topics), but it feels incredibly insensitive. Though, anything related to murder shouldn't have to be substituted with a more "gentle" word. Most kids are aware of what murder means, but they don't understand what rape or sexual assault means.

 

[Mukhrani]

bigot

This term was used before Current Year, but of course it's used more now. By claiming that dissent "wrongthink" is "bigotry" (even if it's true), SJWs try in yet another way to BS or "struggle session" people into believing "woke" BS. For example, the cultists may claim you're a "bigot" -- meaning unreasonably or intolerably devoted to a view as they see it -- if you object to unrestricted mass immigration of military-aged men from 3rd world nations, or if you merely mock the length of the LGBTQETC+++ abbreviations.

This one is especially funny because of the etymology of the word. It was originally an ethnic slur invented by the French to mock the Normans, who would apparently constantly say 'bi God'. It was the Medieval European version of calling foreigners ching-chong or durka-durka, with the connotation of 'overly zealous outlander barbarian'.

 

[I Hate The Disabled]

For the first two, I can somewhat understand due to kids and everything (even though they really shouldn't be exposed to content about those topics), but it feels incredibly insensitive. Though, anything related to murder shouldn't have to be substituted with a more "gentle" word. Most kids are aware of what murder means, but they don't understand what rape or sexual assault means.

They use the words on the news. Kids typically don't watch things where those topics come up anyways.

The language policing on YT is infantilizing and insulting. People shouldn't be demonetized for saying rape or murder.