• foggy@lemmy.world
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    As a millennial, describing something as fire, or mids, that was us. Y’all youngings are appropriating old people culture. That’s how we described weed in the 2000s.

    Edit: also when kids were saying ‘ratchet’, that was a direct descendent of Nurse Ratchet in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Ken Keasy used that name to be a homonym for “rat shit.” Next time you hear so e drop ‘ratchet,’ ask them what it means. They won’t even know.

    It’s weird how old slang crops up like that. Ratchet was like, the 60s.

    Edit2: I predict “kind” will get taken in, like “KB” or “kind bud” to mean “dope”. Like “you those shoes are kind, fam”.

    I also predict that “beasters” might make it’s way in, but “beast” already meaning “dominate” might trip it up, because “beasters” were weed that was grown rushed with phosphates in the soil in indoor hydroponic labs, and that shit had lower THC content than most mids, looked better, but smelled off. Dead giveaway was hollow stems. Idk. Calling beats by dre headphones “beasters” would be a fitting insult to their products.

    Fleek died the moment someone managed to get that fire started. Good riddance.

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      “Yo” is another one that the Zoomers love. I haven’t heard so much usage of that word since the mid 90s. And “bruh” is just another form of “bro”/“brah”.

      Another good example is when twerking made a comeback a few years ago, despite not being a thing since 2000s hip hip.

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        there was a book (Terry Pratchett?) I read as a young adult that had a character called Yoless because it was the 90s and he didn’t ever say “yo” and everyone thought that was notable, weird and hysterical

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        I hear mid and I think oh shit, cheaper for more that isn’t overpriced shiny crystal smelly shit but still almost smokes the same.

        Kinda like every movie, song, and game ever describes as mid lol.

        I swear people can’t just enjoy popcorn shit anymore which is all anything mid is. Sometimes I don’t want to watch the best movie ever. Sometimes I just want to watch stupid lighthearted comedy that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Sometimes I just want another stock standard Meteoidvania or Harvest Moon clone.

        When you quit chasing new highs constantly, even the old highs work well. And I don’t even smoke lol.

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        I take it as average rather than great, which while it does have a less than stellar implication, doesn’t seem like it is inherently bad. Moreso a “meets expectations” with a hint of “there are better options available”

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          I had never heard that slang for weed before in my life and I was meeting up with an old friend about 10 years ago who was going to get weed for me and he said, “I can get mids.” And I said, “I don’t do pills, man. I’m just interested in weed.” I thought he said “meds.”

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      ask them what it means. They won’t even know.

      I’d argue they’d know what it means but wouldn’t know the origin. Words evolve. I just learned this etymology now but I’ve always known what it meant implicitly when said. Tbh I assumed it was more local/rural slang when I was younger because I mainly heard it from other kids, not in media, etc.

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        I guess what I mean is if you asked them with regard to the etymology… Ratchet is a word. It has a meaning highly disparate from “shitty.” Like, it’s a tool. A noun. It does things.

        So kids using this word against its actual meaning, ask them why and they won’t understand.

        Like if I asked you why you were using the word ratchet (say yesterday), which is a tool that helps turn bolts, in place of the word “shitty” and you’d be all 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

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      I thought it was an AAVE corruption of “wretched”. Nurse Ratched was certainly that, but it didn’t derive from the character’s name. Urban Louisiana slang, more like.

      Is teaching AAVE a thing anymore or did they decide it was racist? I can’t keep up. I know for a while there was an argument that teaching AAVE at schools was designed to entrench a kind of linguistic class ghetto, but then you also had the liberal “hecking valid” argument, and I’m not sure what the current party line is.

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        Nurse Ratchet has nothing to do with African American Vernacular English, or “ebonics”.

        Just gonna add that bringing AAVE and education into the conversation (which has nothing to do with ebonics or education whatsoever) makes you come off a bit like a possible race baiting dog whistler. It’s an amazingly easy thing to avoid, so I’ve tagged you with a cute lil nickname to keep track.