Speaking of words changing meaning I wish Quaint still had its original meaning.
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The somewhat similar word 'queynte' appears several times in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (c. 1390), in bawdy contexts, but since it is used openly, does not appear to have been considered obscene at that time.[27] A notable use is from the "Miller's Tale": "Pryvely he caught her by the queynte." The Wife of Bath also uses this term, "For certeyn, olde dotard, by your leave/You shall have queynte right enough at eve .... What aileth you to grouche thus and groan?/Is it for ye would have my queynte alone?" In modernised versions of these passages the word "queynte" is usually translated simply as "####".[28][29] However, in Chaucer's usage there seems to be an overlap between the words "####" and "quaint" (possibly derived from the Latin for "known"). "Quaint" was probably pronounced in Middle English in much the same way as "####". It is sometimes unclear whether the two words were thought of as distinct from one another. Elsewhere in Chaucer's work the word queynte seems to be used with meaning comparable to the modern "quaint" (curious or old-fashioned, but nevertheless appealing).[30] This ambiguity was still being exploited by the 17th century; Andrew Marvell's ... then worms shall try / That long preserved virginity, / And your quaint honour turn to dust, / And into ashes all my lust in To His Coy Mistress depends on a pun on these two senses of "quaint".[31]
Nah, nothing burger is an acceptable term for the Gen X and Millennial class humans.
Gen Z probably have some barely intelligible term none of us have heard of before.
Speaking of which referring to generations as Gen Y (less used now) and Gen Z. Is the defining characteristic of Gen Z that they are two generations after Gen X?
Last year I was in Oregon walking in a campground with my daughter. Some kid was walking toward us and said "skibbidy toilet," she immediately replied "ohio rizz," and this kid nodded his head in approval.
Weirdest interaction ever and the only explanation I got was 'it's just brain rot'.
Gen Xers have raised a really weird bunch of people.
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God I wish our parents had the internet so we could go back and read what they thought of our slang, which of course was perfect and totally cool. Alas it's not us who are wrong it is the children.
Last year I was in Oregon walking in a campground with my daughter. Some kid was walking toward us and said "skibbidy toilet," she immediately replied "ohio rizz," and this kid nodded his head in approval.
Weirdest interaction ever and the only explanation I got was 'it's just brain rot'.
Gen Xers have raised a really weird bunch of people.
Which is funny because Gen X had some of my favourite styles of humour (“I have 5 fat friends and you’re 4 of them” kind of thing). I would have hoped the Gen Zers would have inherited that kind of wit, but oh well. I’m a millennial and we are responsible for a lot of the absurdist styles of humour (I’m thinking Charlie the unicorn) which was funny but looking back it’s total brain rot.
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Well! Google tells me that 'rizz' is to be short for Charisma and 'Ohio' is just Ohio because apparently Ohio sucks. I have never been to Ohio and will have to take their word for it.
In which instance it appears that Sliver's daughter accused said stranger of having a weak pick-up/flirting game.
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God I wish our parents had the internet so we could go back and read what they thought of our slang, which of course was perfect and totally cool. Alas it's not us who are wrong it is the children.
There is a difference, honestly.
They can speak in an entirely different language. Ours wasn't even close to the same level. Maybe our parents said "groovy" and we said "rad" instead. They said "far out" and we said "whack" or "messed up". You didn't need a dictionary to decipher our slang and there just honestly wasn't a lot of it.
