Younger people of lemmy, what are some nuanced sayings that you would like to have explained to you?
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I know y’all had a rough start growing up online, but that word really used to be important to us grey beards who watched all this online stuff unfold over the decades.
Sometimes I wonder if the younger folks realize you don’t have to document your life on the internet.
Why do old people always follow the same rules of syntax and grammar?
Just kidding I’m old and I want to know why young people mangle english so much.
Stupidity, laziness, memes, twitter, AAVE
I think it’s probably an attempt to be unique. Our written words have a massive forum of eyes on them that was never achieved before in human history. So we all wanna be unique? Unsure but that’s my guess. That and it’s possible humans inner monologue is being displayed more accurately and with less fear of repercussion.
what’s a lefty-capucinno ?
“Older” needs a reference point, son.
I’m 5 yrs older than a caterpillar that turned into a cocoon. I’ve never seen it again for two decades
Found the nuanced saying.
There was a multi panel comic posted today or yesterday, I think the final panel mentioned skibidi.
Found it. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3caedeba-754f-4af7-8130-bbc45aa77ce1.jpeg
1: Father, you have no respect. You simper over mother without end, and it brings shame upon me.
2: Quite. I may be “skip to the lou, my darling”, but your mother has earned my undying respect. My world goes crazy without her.
3: She’s a gentleman of audacious taste.
4: Double France? Double France.
Fr stands" for real"
Then why in the opening olympic ceremonies do they use it to mean france. I think you need to revise whether you take your sources from dubious online forums vs an entire olympics commitee, hmm
The Olympics committee is corrupt and paid off by big France. I think you might need to reconsider who you trust.
Big France only exists to further the agenda of Little France, and after having watched Little Britain, I think you should reconsider what it means when the “computer says no”
And goat is greatest of all time. Of course since people don’t know they can just stand in for what they feel is right and spread “misinformation”
Is…is this Loss?
Skibidi. I know it’s based on some YouTube things but I don’t get it.
Skibidi comes from Scatman and no one can convince me otherwise.
Skee ba bop ba dop bop, ba bop ba dop bop
Ok, I’m convinced. You’re the Scatman.
Thanks for the hearty chuckle this morning!
I’m the Yes, I’m the Scatman, and if I can do it so can you
yes yes!
It’s part of a lyric from an Arabic song that was featured in some viral Tiktok videos, most notably this one
It became sort of a filler word, but mostly think of it as being synonymous with “cool”
Does that have anything to do with skibidi toilet or is that an entirely different thing?
Huh and here I thought it was a reference to the Little Big song of the same name
same here! confused why a 2018 Russian groups pop song became popular in 2024, but i guess that’s the internet 🤷♂️
I think that is a person or at least something can somewhat let me know?
My son told me that DTF means “Doing the Face Book”, but I sometimes see it being used in other sites that I like to visit that aren’t social media sites. Does the Face Book really carry that much weight on the Internet? What does “Doing the Face Book” really mean exactly?
Pretty sure you’re shitposting, but for any parents who don’t know, it means “down to fuck.”
Well don’t know if he is shitposting but for the longest time I thought Netflix and chill was just inviting someone over and watch a movie. Until the other day someone told me that the expectation is to fuck.
See I would totally be down to just hang and watch a movie with a friend, then GTFO.
I think Netflix is becoming an increasingly hard-sale on it’s own these days.
Very true. It’s upsetting on Netflix or prime to search for a movie and it autocompletes but then they just show you “I know you really want to see X, but how about Y instead”?
come and look at my etchings was a euphemism well after etchings stopped being fashionable, it’ll be the same with netflix and chill.
Come Qbit torrent and vibe (it’s commercial free)
As an ace individual, yeah. Let’s watch a movie, maybe cuddle close. Cuddling is great. But don’t get all slobbery and block my view of Deadpool
It means “down to fuck”, it means your open to sexual activity. Doing the Facebook is a lie hea telling you to avoid the awkward situation
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I work in accounting and had a boss (younger than me) who abbreviated Due to/from as DTF and I never figured out if he was trolling us or just had never come across it. If he was trolling he never once broke. I still talk to him but can’t bring myself to ask.
If they have a sense of humor that would laugh at this concept. They fucking know.
Oh my God one day I walked out of my room and my high school kid looked at me and said:
“That fit shreds”
And it was the first time I had been honestly perplexed by slang, had absolutely no idea what they were trying to convey. Turns out they liked my clothes that day.
TIL I hang out with just enough youngins to read this and be like “they like your outfit.” It’s gotta be the early 20s kids at work that I’ve caught onto what they’re saying lol.
“That fit shreds” = that’s an awesome outfit
Synonyms for Fit: outfit, drip, gear, cloth(es), getup
Synonyms for shreds: killer, swag, gnarly, rad, sick, dank, cool, fire (🔥),
Your drip is fire
Your outfit is cool
Your gear is rad
Your clothes are sick
Your getup is dank
Your cloth is killer
All pretty equivalent statements which you may relate to more based on era of terminology you grew up with.
(This is from my brain dictionary, real life experiences may be different)
Edit: Proper spacing to avoid aneurysm
I’m so sick of everything being a “fit”. OUTFIT. Drip? Ugh.
Oh do I have a song for you. Jason Isbell “Outfit”. His dad’s advice on being a man.
“Don’t call what you’re wearing an outfit, don’t ever say your car is broke…”
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Don’t know exactly but something similar to a mixture of a brave, true, and cool statement. Think it was first used by right wing chuds but then adopted ironically by terminally online liberals.
You’d say “based” if you agree with the political messaging of something.
(Pls correct me if I’m wrong)
Generally agree, but I think right wing chuds were the second wave usage trying to co-opt the meaning to be opposite of woke.
I’ve often seen “based” as a shorthand for “based in reality” or “true”
It’s just signalling for members of the clique. Totally fetch.
I hear it more in-person recently, but also online. What does “out-of-pocket” mean when describing behavior? I’ve only ever heard it used to describe financial circumstances until a couple years ago.
It seems like it’s roughly synonymous with “crazy” or “rude” or “unexpected”, but I’d love to have it explained better.
That’s pretty much it. It’s when somebody’s behaviour is out of line.
Use it as an adjective: e.g. “You are/that is out of pocket”
In finance, out-of-pocket is synonymous with cash on hand, liquid assets. Means you can pay now without needing to incur a debt.
In business, out-of-pocket is usually synonymous with out-of-office, like AFK Away-From-Keyboard. Often shorter term than being fully on vacation. “I’ll be OOP after 2pm for a doctor’s appt.”
I have recently heard out-of-pocket used among youngsters or the terminally-online to mean rude or crazy, like you said. “Beyond the standards of normalcy”.
Same here the only out of pocket I have ever heard is either when your broke or having to pay for something.
“out of pocket” is what you pay, but may not be the total cost of the item/service. “I only had to pay $50 out of pocket and my insurance covered the rest”
It can also be used in business to mean unavailable. “I have to take my kid to the doctor and will be out of pocket for a couple of hours”
Pog/poggers. I’m old but usually up on things as a long-time knight-of-new but this term slipped by me years ago and I never caught its meaning.
Twitch is a popular live stream platform, on it users can post emotes which have names. One of the oldest and most popular emotes is pogchamp, it used to be the face of a streamer who made the expression after winning a game of pog but he got banned for some controversial statements (typical right wing covid denial, jan6th apologia) and the emote was replaced with a lizard making a similar face. This has slowly bled into the mainstream just as the word pog or poggers.
The facial expression sums up it’s meaning, but it’s basically one of shocked happiness, you would use it if a streamer does something rare/lucky/skillful. Luke sky-walker turning off his targeting computer but still destroying the deathstar is poggers. Getting an A on a multiple choice test despite guessing every answer is poggers.
Is it really pogs that started this and not “Play Of the Game”?
Yes I’m pretty sure. Here is the video where the face for the :pogchamp: emote used on twitch comes from (if your confused it’s an outtake vid from Here). That emote was the one of the most popular emotes on twitch for a very long time, people would go onto other platforms and just type :pogchamp: and other twitch users would know what they meant. Eventually it was shortened to just pogchamp and then just pog. Here’s the oldest example of pogchamp I can find from 2013 when it first started migrating to reddit (video came out in 2011 and became a platform wide emote on twitch in 2012).
Also FWIW I would abbreviate Play of the Game to PotG.
Hmm, so I learned of pog in 2016 when my friends were into Overwatch, and pog was definitely used as an acronym from Play Of the Game (POTG is very clunky to say).
However, the PogChamp usage is from 2011, so the play of the game usage is either coincidental or an intentional decision on the part of Blizzard/Activision.
Most importantly, the POG in PogChamp does actually refer to the beverage disks. Weirdly enough, they were just a prop in an awkwardly acted ad for a gaming peripheral by a professional Street Fighter player/streamer. The actual usage of PogChamp probably started on 4Chan before appearing on Twitch, after which it spread.
I learnt PotG from Overwatch lol. I pronounce it “p-tog”. It’s what the fandom wiki for Overwatch calls it, it’s what reddit calls it (I couldn’t find even one example of pog being used that way from /r/overwatch, but I can see literally thousands of examples of PotG used that way) and what news organizations called it.
You can’t find a single example from r/Overwatch? You’re not looking very hard then:
“Jump scare at the end of POG” “Supports almost never get POG, now we don’t even get a card at the end of the match.” “First POG is match POG” “We want to talk after the PoG” “This guy’s whole team left after the first round so we gave him POG…” “Behind every Rein Pog is a support going through a rollercoaster of emotions” “I remember when PoG was tweaked for assist points and every pog was Mercy rezzing two people and dying.” “My friends and I have always called it POG. Not sure why but its what we do. I guess thats where it came from”
In fact, the large majority of the use of “pog” refers to Play Of Game and not hype. I did notice that this usage is more common in the last 4 years, while pogchamp is mostly used 4-7 years ago. The earliest upvoted usage of POG I can find there is “Taking Trobjorn and Bastion POG into a new dimension.” from 8 years ago though, so it was used contemporaneously with PogChamp.
POTG is definitely much more popular there, but saying the POG usage doesn’t exists is just wrong.
Also, news organizations have a horrendous record with slang, that’s terrible evidence. Especially when your source is a 404.
Besides, I can get spurious souces too (and they work!):
“POG” an overused term on twitch that means “Play of Game” Woah, that was pog. by SSR Rules September 23, 2020
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It’s an expression of shock and excitement. It comes from a specific image that became a Twitch emote of the same name. If you look up “pog” or “pogchamp”, you should find the image. The face pretty much speaks for itself. It’s one of the staples of Twitch chat culture
The term has also evolved in everyday speech as essentially being equivalent to “sick” or “dope”
I always thought pog was the thing in the 90’s where you would have to flip them and whatever flipped you got to keep.
That’s true, but I believe in this case it’s a double meaning referencing a twitch streamer playing that game Pog, and the acronym “Play Of [the] Game”.
It’s like when gg became I surrender or it’s gg, it’s lost.
POG = Play of the Game
It was used by people in the chat when watching video game streamers pull off an impressive play.
It just kind of morphed out of that to mean something awesome happened.
“Ohio”
What does it mean? Yknow other than a place in the US that had some scary chemical leaks some time ago.
Ohio as a state is a liminal space full of cornfields and a feeling of wasted potential. A disproportionate number of American astronauts come from Ohio, proving that the primary thing on the minds of Ohioans is getting as far away from Ohio as possible no matter the cost.
If something is Ohio it’s a place or a situation that you don’t want to be in. It’s a dead end with a feeling of vague discomfort.
Thanks, that’s the most explanatory answer I got
Basically New Jersey
I think it means boring.
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Does anyone actually want to be in Ohio? If something is Ohio, it’s that vague uncomfortable ugly failure feeling.
Ohio has a LOT of people in it for no real reason, if you look at the population for states the top 3 all have something that’s unique… then there’s Ohio. There’s nothing going on from Ohio it’s just kinda… there. So naturally it became a meme
What I’m getting out of all these replies is that Ohio is to the United States as Acre is to Brazil.
… I wonder if every country has a place like this. Some god-forsaken part of the country that has nothing at all going for it and so people like to clown on it (for Acre the joke we do is “it doesn’t actually exist” and/or “it’s home to all sorts of cryptids and bizarre creatures”)
Well in Germany people joke that Bielefeld doesn’t exist, so there’s that. I feel like there’s a lot of different themed places that exist in many countries though, like “the incest place” (Alabama in the US, Saarland in Germany)
What is GOAT? Someone here called me that, and I’m not sure if it was good or bad.
Being “the goat” or “goated” is good. No clue as to the etymology though.
I finally was brave enough to Google, and it means Greatest Of All Time.
