I remember Gilbert Gottfried at a Friar’s Club roast. Can’t remember what the actual joke was, but I remember he lost the whole audience, and then won them back with a spontaneous telling of “The Aristocrats”
Kudos for Carlin, who made fun of government propaganda. Maybe not so much for Joan Rivers for making fun of FDNY widows.
(I’m not a boomer, though. Or a millennial. Or really that edgy anymore, if I ever was…)
You know how it goes, first people start saying the silly meme phrase “ironically”, then they can’t stop themselves saying it, then it becomes awkwardly unironic, and then it gets embedded in the lexicon and Miriam-Webster adds it to the dictionary
2060 is going to be lit fam AHEM I mean it’s going to be funny
fr fr ive thought that too over the past few years
Although that said I just tried to find some examples to justify that sentiment… and all their newly minted words seem legit to me. Maybe I’m just a silly outdated millennial now
“Cool” was hardly the only thing modern vernacular about that sentence. It’s use 80 years ago would not have the same meaning now, and in the syntax of the sentence would seem odd, much like the OP’s usage of contemporary slang.
Believe it or not, just because a word has previously been used as slang doesn’t mean the meaning hasn’t shifted through time. See: “low-key.”
Sure, the point is that 80 years isn’t that long ago. And your example still wouldn’t be so obscure as to be unintelligible at that time, regardles. Believe it or not.
I hear what you’re saying, but my original point was that even in 80 years, accepted syntax, vernacular usage, and general language construction can change quite a bit, so the OP post isn’t that odd. It’s still “intelligible,” and, indeed, language does change. Quite often, in fact.
When I said “nearly unintelligible,” I meant it hyperbolicly to accentuate the fact that the modern language being highlighted by the OP is, similarly, not unintelligible. They are just examples of relatively new language use.
I was highlighting the second sentence due to its modern syntax and the ways many of the words have grown to encompass broader meanings.
Believe it or not, it didn’t even occur to me that “cool” was a slang word that might have shifted in the last 80 years, it’s so deeply embedded in my own idiomatic language that I was using it in that sentence as the word with historical stability in the sentence.
Though, now that I’ve looked into the etymology, the usage in that sentence would also be a bit odd 80 years ago.
What kinda boomer crap is this lmao. Millennials and xers like to act all high and mighty as if we didn’t birth the evil that is 1337 (leetspeak). Don’t forget our cringy “le so random” phase 🤢
tHe nOrWHaLe bAcONs aT miDNigHt roflcopter!!! Rofl!!!11111
Hooman, what r u doing hooman?
I can has cheezburger was peak humor for us at one point ffs. If we don’t get over ourselves and stop dunking on gen z we’re just as bad as the assholes that made all those braindead articles about avocado toast and how millennials are killing the diamond industry.
Besides, gen z is just us but raised with less false hope and American dream bullshit. The people you gotta worry about are gen alpha. Those are some feral mfers right there. They’re being raised by the internet and it shows lol
All those people can get thrown in a lake too and I thought that at the time. Almost all your examples are stuff that was exclusively on the Internet and a subculture on the Internet at that
Least they didn’t all have only one broccoli haircut.
I always thought I was pretty well put together and low-cringe, but every now and then I get a Facebook memory (I know, but I moved to another country and this is my lifeline to my friends and family) from ~2010 that really sheds some fucking light on exactly why I didn’t have a girlfriend. These memories reveal to me that I was indeed very cringe, and very much a product of some of the lamest internet culture in recent memory. The frequent use of the cat face emoticon :3 when interacting with girls is enough to make me want to bury these things where they can never be seen again. Conversely, these memories serve as a reminder of not only just how far I’ve come as a man, but also as a husband, a father, and a member of society.
EDIT: It’s worth mentioning that these mishaps are extremely prevalent in old exchanges between my wife and I as well, so at the very least her and I are able to cringe over them together.
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