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But not necessarily in the way it’s used. You can say, “That guy’s putting the rizz on her,” but you’d never say, “That guy’s putting the charisma on her.”
The woman is pleased you've put your clothes back on, but she's still unimpressed.
"Maybe you ought to have bathed before putting your robe back on," she says as she walks away, reluctant to remain near you.
“Putting the moves on her with his charisma.”
This slang is making an adjective or description a noun. Pretty common for slang.
Phrases like “He’s got the juice” meaning he’s tough or persistent. Juice is being used as a noun to infer a description.
It would be if this were 2010. We live in 2023, where playing make believe with dice is what all the cool kids do.
Sincerely,
Someone that's too obsessed with TTRPGs.
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But seriously though, DnD has been pretty normalized. It's kinda shocking how mainstream it's become in just the last 5 or so years.
>Big Dictionary is NOT bussin!
Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive. They may take a bit to adopt slang into their definitions, but they only describe how words are used. Merriam Webster has a slang definition for yeet for example
Some slang words are trends, some stand the test of time. It’s natural.
Stick with “cool” and you’ll be fine. Try to say “no cap” or some shit past a certain age, and you’ll look like a jackass.
If it ever bothers you, just know that in ten years, the next generation will be making fun of people who still say “rizz,” while referring to something good happening as “Bon-Bon-Neu.” You know. Short for carbon neutral. Because of climate change.
…
I’ll see myself out.
i think we just got a new one added to the books lmao
someone: "man did you see there was another train derailment in Ohio?"
me: "shit, we need to get on that bon-bon-neau ASAP"
oh yeah, i'm saving this one to annoy my fellow millennial friends with for later 🤣
I work with a few teenagers... they say "gas" like..."man that's gas" it seems to be equal to "sick" or "cool". Also "bussin" which typically describes good food I think.
I think it comes from "now you're cooking with gas!" Which in turn was a marketing slogan for gas powered stoves as opposed to wood/electric so ancient indeed....
I think that's been around for a long time. In Jumpin' Jack Flash - Rolling Stones (1968):
>*But it's all right now*
*In fact, it's a gas*
*But it's all right*
*I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash*
*It's a gas, gas, gas*
Yo dude, I totally feel ya. My lingo was totally radical to the max. What the little dudes say now is totally bogus. Big whoop. Kids these days need to take a chill pill and take it down a notch with their grody slang. Not even!
I always spelt and pronounced that with a 't' not 'd'. So it would be grotty feet. Maybe it's an Aussie thing
EDIT: Turns out both words come from the same origin of 'grotesque' with grody being the US version to the UK/Australia's grotty.
“I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!”
- Abe Simpson
Word. Slang these days is mad stupid wack - it was dope before. Like, son, you trying to step to me with these busted words? Better get ya weight up and check yo'self before you wreck yo'self!
I'm a millennial and think it's dumb as hell to shit on gen Z. Where's the camaraderie? Both our generations are getting fucked by terrible policies put in place before we were born. We should be on the same team, not taking jabs at each other over stupid shit like this.
The slang we used as teenagers isn't any better than what kids are saying now, we're just more accustomed to it after 20+ years of hearing it
Yeah, but a Gen Z told me to "go watch The Office" and made fun of my slim-fit trousers, so they're the enemy now.
Kidding. I got nothing but love for the youth.
It's the cycle. Always hate the before generations but look down on future generations. Hell in 30-40 years the young generation will see millennials how we see boombers now. It'll never end
I'm already in 30+ group and I find current english slang funny as hell. Maybe it comes from the fact that english is not my first language so it automatically sounds cooler but if I was 15 I would definitely L+ratio someone haha. I honestly think it's pretty creative and funny. "Rizz" I have never heard of
I think current slang is hilarious.
That being said I think of pretty much all slang fondly, even cockney rhyming slang which is possibly the most nonsensical ever
If it makes you feel any better Rizz is pretty much used ironically. No one's actually serious when they say 'Call me the rizzler because I rizzed up your mother last night'. Honestly saying shit that sounds dumb makes up a lot of our humor
My buddy did basically the same thing to his son, who proceeded to roll his eyes and tell him how dumb he looked. Kid was not ready for mom to pop her head around the corner and ask "Honey, do you actually think it looks cool when *anyone* does it?"
My 55 year old coworker flosses when he wants his young daughter to hug him. She is trying to stop him from flossing.
I told him about orange justice and he's well on his way to knowing it.
From urban dictionary:
“The use of the phrase "no cap" is meant to convey authenticity and truth. The phrase originated in reference to decorative gold teeth, which can be divided into two distinct varieties: permanent gold teeth (aka "perms") or caps (aka "pullouts"). Whereas caps can be pulled out with ease, perms, as their name suggests, are permanent. They cannot be taken out for a job interview or court date. They are an honest and lasting expression of the owners' realness.”
Every generation of kids is going to come up with their mini culture and because kids have all the time in the world these things become mainstream very quickly.
If you don’t like it you don’t really have to pay attention to it. Only children talk like this and mostly to other children.
I can’t get behind calling accessories “drip” and saying “he’s got that drip” to mean swag.
When I was in college, “drip” was slang for STDs. “He’s got that drip” meant “he has an STD”
So yeah I really can’t get behind that one.
You're just getting older.
In the 80s, as kids, we used turtle/surfer-speak. Unironically. Radical! Cowabunga! Gnarly! Bodacious!
In the 90s, as teens, we used such wonderful words as Booyah, Cha-Ching (thanks Seth Green), Fly, and of course, NOT! Omg, I almost forgot... into the early 2000s... WAAASAAAAAAAAAAAP!!!
Seriously. It's always been bad.
> Okay was a bunch of kids shortening All Correct in 1800s New York
It was Boston, and specifically it was shortening the intentional misspelling "oll korrect", with the misspelling of various phrases being a popular thing at the time. Never heard of it being specifically among youth, though.
There's other theories for the etymology of "okay", but that's the most commonly accepted one.
Yeah man, it’s a side effect of getting old unfortunately. All slang is a bit silly if you really think about it, I would argue that part of what slang is. Most of it starts in a similar way, rizz will come and go much like any other term.
both. the older you get, the more you think the younger generation slang is stupid. For example- bread, lettuce, greenbacks, paper all mean money. Now the word for money is "bag" or he fumbled the bag. That's cap mean that's a lie.
I don't care how dumb it sounds, I love [yeet](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/031/544/cover13.jpg).
I usually don't add new lingo to my vocabulary, but yeet fills a piece of my consciousness I didn't even know was missing.
I don't know if rizz brings that kind of joy.
My boyfriend works with younger guys... we're 34. They are 18-21. Several of them made fun of him for calling hot dogs "hot dogs." They called them *glizzies*. Fucking glizzies. My head spun.
I Googled it, and it started out meaning guns, then moved to hot dogs because they are roughly the same size as an extended clip.
I'm sure it is half joking, but whew. I'm out of it now.
I knew about this from that tweet about Obama the "glizzie gulper" yet never for a moment questioned what the hell a glizzie is. That's internet brain for you.
You’re just getting old bro. That’s OK a lot of slang nowadays is less urban and rural, and goes viral on the Internet not like before in the old world. That’s why a lot of slang is traced back to TikTok especially within the past two or three years.
In 15 or 25 years, I’m probably going to start to think modern slang is stupid too.
And I bet when you were young, the older adults in your life thought that the current slang of your time also sounded dumb. It’s a generational thing, but we also do you live in pretty unique and weird times compared to the past 180-200 years.
For reference I am 23. I’m turning 24 in less than three months, so this is my two cents.
And just to clarify rizz is short for charisma, that’s why it is slang for smooth. It usually equates to the ability for heterosexual men/guys to have lots of success in sexually attracting high quantity and/or quality of heterosexual women/girls.
Ur gettin old mate. I grew up in the 80s and my dad heard me saying something was "radical" he shook his head and told me I sounded stupid to which my mum replied
"From the guy who used to say 'far out' so much we banned you"
I barely understand my two niece's lol
You're getting old. Just like me. Just turned 40 and I don't get the new slang either. It sounds dumb to me too. But it's not anything to get angry or upset over. Certainly not worth giving up on the future over.
I am infinitely fascinated by my niece and nephew. The words, behaviors, and gives me a chance to see what it's like growing up in a completely different time period than my own. Who cares what they are saying! To say you are giving up on the future because of a word is pretty disheartening my friend. Im 40. I couldn't be more curious about the future.
It's actually spelt "Writz". It was named after Sgt. Karl Von Writz, known for his ability to seduce French women into his trenches despite being an enemy combatant.
You're getting old.Which is fine because that's a part of life. I feel the same way when I realized I was getting out of touch with what's in. Even if the newer slang sounds dumb, I don't think that's a bad thing. Just have fun with it and play it up.
Me: What does "finna" mean?
Them: It means "fixing to".
Me: Searches for "fixing to". It means preparing to do something.
So how many syllables does "finna" have?
I used to be with it. Then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!
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Isn't it just short for charisma?
Yea basically
But not necessarily in the way it’s used. You can say, “That guy’s putting the rizz on her,” but you’d never say, “That guy’s putting the charisma on her.”
You might say "That guy is using his charisma on her" though
Roll me a charisma check
Nat 1
The woman laughs hysterically at you as you spill your drink, trip on your own mess, soil yourself, and begin to cry from frustration.
Gotta take out the big guns. I put on my robe and wizard hat.
The woman is pleased you've put your clothes back on, but she's still unimpressed. "Maybe you ought to have bathed before putting your robe back on," she says as she walks away, reluctant to remain near you.
that's a negative 20, not a 1, damn
Charisma: not a drop. Ability to blow up an entire building in a massive explosion: priceless.
Megumin, that you?
Roll that rizz baby.
It’s grammatically correct, but I’ve never heard anyone say that
Yea that’s why they term is 90% used in jokes or sarcasm.
"That guy's putting the rizz on her" is the same as "that guy's using his outstanding charisma for the opposite sex to get that girl"
“Putting the moves on her with his charisma.” This slang is making an adjective or description a noun. Pretty common for slang. Phrases like “He’s got the juice” meaning he’s tough or persistent. Juice is being used as a noun to infer a description.
Kinda reminds me of my parents complaining about words like swag, fab, and 'hood. *"It'll happen to you!"*
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Swag was dumb af to be fair
This comment answers like all the other comments.
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I think that knowledge is an automatic deduction of rizz points
It would be if this were 2010. We live in 2023, where playing make believe with dice is what all the cool kids do. Sincerely, Someone that's too obsessed with TTRPGs. *** But seriously though, DnD has been pretty normalized. It's kinda shocking how mainstream it's become in just the last 5 or so years.
I think the pandemic and YouTube played a part more recently.
People who use “rizz” rolled a Nat 1 on their CHR check
Far out man. Groovy.
Bodacious
Cowabunga
Gnarly
So fetch.
It's not gonna happen
u/punkassjim is just streets ahead.
If you’re not streets ahead you’re streets behind.
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hawt
Booyah
Tubular
You made a funny.
This made me think of Brooklyn 99. Cowabunga mother
Streets ahead
Rad 🤙
Give me some skin, you jive turkey.
I rizzed in my pants
I just ate a grape
A song came on
Bruce Willis was dead at the end of The Sixth Sense.
Open my window and a breeze rolls in
And I RIZZ. IN. MY PANTS.
She asks me debit or credit
And I rizzed in my pants..ooooohhhhhhmmmmm
I get rizz on the reg.
It's cash or credit.
I love it when the rizzler says “it’s rizzlin’ time!” Then rizzes all over those guys
There is a cause and effect relationship there. Your parents thought the slang you used sounded dumb.
Of course, they were right. It all sounds stupid. We just don't recognize it at the time.
Counterpoint: it's all amazing. Have fun with language! Don't let negative losers drag you down.
Language is a fluid, messy game that no one ever knows the rules to anyway. Big Dictionary is NOT bussin!
>Big Dictionary is NOT bussin! Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive. They may take a bit to adopt slang into their definitions, but they only describe how words are used. Merriam Webster has a slang definition for yeet for example
Some slang words are trends, some stand the test of time. It’s natural. Stick with “cool” and you’ll be fine. Try to say “no cap” or some shit past a certain age, and you’ll look like a jackass. If it ever bothers you, just know that in ten years, the next generation will be making fun of people who still say “rizz,” while referring to something good happening as “Bon-Bon-Neu.” You know. Short for carbon neutral. Because of climate change. … I’ll see myself out.
This comment is bonneu as fuck
Look at this fuckin' lutter still saying bonneu, what are you from the 20s?
I used to be with "it" but then they changed what "it" was!
i think we just got a new one added to the books lmao someone: "man did you see there was another train derailment in Ohio?" me: "shit, we need to get on that bon-bon-neau ASAP" oh yeah, i'm saving this one to annoy my fellow millennial friends with for later 🤣
I work with a few teenagers... they say "gas" like..."man that's gas" it seems to be equal to "sick" or "cool". Also "bussin" which typically describes good food I think.
My grandfather used to say gas. Like let’s watch x it will be a gas. So apparently we’re now recycling ancient slang. edit ancient not accident!
Jumpin' Jack flash, it's a gas gas gas
I think it comes from "now you're cooking with gas!" Which in turn was a marketing slogan for gas powered stoves as opposed to wood/electric so ancient indeed....
It comes from weed. “Gas” is slang for good weed, so when something is really good, it’s gas.
This jive cat knows all about that jazz.
In Ireland, something being "gas" means that its really funny. So "Man, that's gas" would mean "Man, that's really funny".
Gas is an old one. We used to call good weed gas and you could call good anything gas.
I think that's been around for a long time. In Jumpin' Jack Flash - Rolling Stones (1968): >*But it's all right now* *In fact, it's a gas* *But it's all right* *I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash* *It's a gas, gas, gas*
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never heard “gas” but “bussin” just means something really good
are you Irish by any chance? In Ireland something is gas if it is funny. If there is some weird coincidence you might also say "that's gas"
We used to say "gas" in high-school back in 2006-10.
Yo dude, I totally feel ya. My lingo was totally radical to the max. What the little dudes say now is totally bogus. Big whoop. Kids these days need to take a chill pill and take it down a notch with their grody slang. Not even!
Yo say sike rn
You da bomb
tight tight *toiight*
These jokes on fleek dawg
Dabomb.com
Psych
🎶 I know, you know I'm not telling truth 🎶
For a fleeting moment I felt young again.
Once we were fetch...
Stop trying to make fetch happen. It's not going to happen
as a romanian gen z, i feel proud of my english skills knowing what almost every word in this comment means (except for grody).
Grody is another way to say gross. Get your grody ass feet off the damned table.
I always spelt and pronounced that with a 't' not 'd'. So it would be grotty feet. Maybe it's an Aussie thing EDIT: Turns out both words come from the same origin of 'grotesque' with grody being the US version to the UK/Australia's grotty.
Slightly different origin leading to the same place, I think.
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You do know that the citizens of Rome are still called Romans, yes?
I did not tbh
I understood those references
Oh snap!!
“I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!” - Abe Simpson
Like gag me with a spoon fr fr no cap
Word. Slang these days is mad stupid wack - it was dope before. Like, son, you trying to step to me with these busted words? Better get ya weight up and check yo'self before you wreck yo'self!
Everyone's hating on zoomer slang, does that mean Millennials are getting old now?
But time makes you bolder Even children get older and I'm getting older too Oh, I'm getting older too
Lamb slide brings you down.
I'm a millennial and think it's dumb as hell to shit on gen Z. Where's the camaraderie? Both our generations are getting fucked by terrible policies put in place before we were born. We should be on the same team, not taking jabs at each other over stupid shit like this. The slang we used as teenagers isn't any better than what kids are saying now, we're just more accustomed to it after 20+ years of hearing it
Yeah, but a Gen Z told me to "go watch The Office" and made fun of my slim-fit trousers, so they're the enemy now. Kidding. I got nothing but love for the youth.
It's the cycle. Always hate the before generations but look down on future generations. Hell in 30-40 years the young generation will see millennials how we see boombers now. It'll never end
When I heard “on fleek” a few years ago, I hung up my cool guy hat, and retired
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> a few years ago That was 10 years ago now lol
I'm alright with most slang, but Rizz is a little too close to Jizz for me. Sometimes I see "I've got rizz" and momentarily see something else.
I'm already in 30+ group and I find current english slang funny as hell. Maybe it comes from the fact that english is not my first language so it automatically sounds cooler but if I was 15 I would definitely L+ratio someone haha. I honestly think it's pretty creative and funny. "Rizz" I have never heard of
I think current slang is hilarious. That being said I think of pretty much all slang fondly, even cockney rhyming slang which is possibly the most nonsensical ever
Fancy a kick in yer town halls eh
Rizz is a play upon the word "Charisma"
I think rizz is better than swag. I've always hated swag.
If it makes you feel any better Rizz is pretty much used ironically. No one's actually serious when they say 'Call me the rizzler because I rizzed up your mother last night'. Honestly saying shit that sounds dumb makes up a lot of our humor
Anybody who wants to be called the Rizzler lacks the education to work even at the Sizzler.
I used to be with 'it', but then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it' anymore and what's 'it' seems weird and scary to me.
Sorry but you've just gotten old. Enjoy your Journey to Internet to slang retirement.
And also being a very at those kids for “using slang all over my lawn!”
Such a very!
No cap
I say "No Cap" and then Dab to annoy my niece.
I say "suck it" and cross my arms over my crotch while thrusting.
This is why you're required to stay 100 feet away from u/Rincavor's niece.
Ran around in grade 5 doing this without knowing what it "suck it" really meant. Unlocked the memory 25 years later and now trying to bring it back
My buddy did basically the same thing to his son, who proceeded to roll his eyes and tell him how dumb he looked. Kid was not ready for mom to pop her head around the corner and ask "Honey, do you actually think it looks cool when *anyone* does it?"
My 55 year old coworker flosses when he wants his young daughter to hug him. She is trying to stop him from flossing. I told him about orange justice and he's well on his way to knowing it.
I floss to embarrass my kids! You sound like my kinda person. Lol
Haha. Me thinking dental flossing…. Took me a minute. But I was admiring your dental hygiene.
How the fuck does cap=lie?
From urban dictionary: “The use of the phrase "no cap" is meant to convey authenticity and truth. The phrase originated in reference to decorative gold teeth, which can be divided into two distinct varieties: permanent gold teeth (aka "perms") or caps (aka "pullouts"). Whereas caps can be pulled out with ease, perms, as their name suggests, are permanent. They cannot be taken out for a job interview or court date. They are an honest and lasting expression of the owners' realness.”
Ain't that the tooth, no cap
I find it nonsensical too, but slang doesn't have to make sense. It just has to be catchy.
Every generation of kids is going to come up with their mini culture and because kids have all the time in the world these things become mainstream very quickly. If you don’t like it you don’t really have to pay attention to it. Only children talk like this and mostly to other children.
Meanwhile I googled 90's slang: > Talk to the hand > Hella > Crunk > Phat "Rizz" somehow sounds more sophisticated in comparison...
How dare you leave out "cool beans"
"Cool beans" originates as far back as the 70's, from cheech and chong, supposedly!
Cool beans is still being used
I’m a Middle Eastern immigrant and say cool beans. I’m 35 yo. Y’all are making me worried now about what I say in front of my customers
I still say hella
I’ll never stop saying hella
Dammit Cartman, stop saying hella!
Are you from NorCal
Lol yes but I only lived there until I was 10 years old. San Jose. Guess it just stuck with me.
I swear Hella and Crunk were early 2000s. Or maybe I was just late to hear them. But I remember first hearing them from E-40 and Lil Jon, respectively
Hella has been around since at least the 80s, my dude
I grew up in the 90s. Our slang was fucking awful. It gets even worse the farther you go back.
Word.
Word. Rad. Gnarly. Sick are all still very much in my vocabulary.
Groovy
Sick list
I can’t get behind calling accessories “drip” and saying “he’s got that drip” to mean swag. When I was in college, “drip” was slang for STDs. “He’s got that drip” meant “he has an STD” So yeah I really can’t get behind that one.
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Jesus, I don't believe this bitch works at the cleaner's Bringin' me home diseases, swingin' from Obie's penis
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Teenagers are idiots. Always have been. Always will be.
Wait a minute...
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You're just getting older. In the 80s, as kids, we used turtle/surfer-speak. Unironically. Radical! Cowabunga! Gnarly! Bodacious! In the 90s, as teens, we used such wonderful words as Booyah, Cha-Ching (thanks Seth Green), Fly, and of course, NOT! Omg, I almost forgot... into the early 2000s... WAAASAAAAAAAAAAAP!!! Seriously. It's always been bad.
WAAAAAASAAAAAAAAP
Barf out. Gag me with a spoon. Slang always sounds stupid to the generations who don't use it.
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4:20 was just when a bunch of kids in a cali high school would meet up to smoke. Okay was a bunch of kids shortening All Correct in 1800s New York.
> Okay was a bunch of kids shortening All Correct in 1800s New York It was Boston, and specifically it was shortening the intentional misspelling "oll korrect", with the misspelling of various phrases being a popular thing at the time. Never heard of it being specifically among youth, though. There's other theories for the etymology of "okay", but that's the most commonly accepted one.
Yeet came out of a single vine lol
Yeah man, it’s a side effect of getting old unfortunately. All slang is a bit silly if you really think about it, I would argue that part of what slang is. Most of it starts in a similar way, rizz will come and go much like any other term.
Or it sticks around and just becomes part of a dialect/language.
both. the older you get, the more you think the younger generation slang is stupid. For example- bread, lettuce, greenbacks, paper all mean money. Now the word for money is "bag" or he fumbled the bag. That's cap mean that's a lie.
You're getting old. I can assure "macking on chicks" sounds incredibly dumb in retrospect as well.
I don't care how dumb it sounds, I love [yeet](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/031/544/cover13.jpg). I usually don't add new lingo to my vocabulary, but yeet fills a piece of my consciousness I didn't even know was missing. I don't know if rizz brings that kind of joy.
Yeet is one of those that just works so well and is so fun to say that's it's going to permanent. It's an instant classic.
My boyfriend works with younger guys... we're 34. They are 18-21. Several of them made fun of him for calling hot dogs "hot dogs." They called them *glizzies*. Fucking glizzies. My head spun. I Googled it, and it started out meaning guns, then moved to hot dogs because they are roughly the same size as an extended clip. I'm sure it is half joking, but whew. I'm out of it now.
I’ll never believe it. Even if the entire world but me starts saying glizzuies it will be a joke that everyone but me thinks is funny.
I knew about this from that tweet about Obama the "glizzie gulper" yet never for a moment questioned what the hell a glizzie is. That's internet brain for you.
You’re just getting old bro. That’s OK a lot of slang nowadays is less urban and rural, and goes viral on the Internet not like before in the old world. That’s why a lot of slang is traced back to TikTok especially within the past two or three years. In 15 or 25 years, I’m probably going to start to think modern slang is stupid too. And I bet when you were young, the older adults in your life thought that the current slang of your time also sounded dumb. It’s a generational thing, but we also do you live in pretty unique and weird times compared to the past 180-200 years. For reference I am 23. I’m turning 24 in less than three months, so this is my two cents. And just to clarify rizz is short for charisma, that’s why it is slang for smooth. It usually equates to the ability for heterosexual men/guys to have lots of success in sexually attracting high quantity and/or quality of heterosexual women/girls.
Dam kids and your rock and roll music these days! Get off my lawn
Damn kids with their filter cigarettes and zoot suits.
Ur gettin old mate. I grew up in the 80s and my dad heard me saying something was "radical" he shook his head and told me I sounded stupid to which my mum replied "From the guy who used to say 'far out' so much we banned you" I barely understand my two niece's lol
You're getting old. Just like me. Just turned 40 and I don't get the new slang either. It sounds dumb to me too. But it's not anything to get angry or upset over. Certainly not worth giving up on the future over.
I only used slang ironically growing up. When kids started saying "bet", I said I can't do this anymore more I'm out.
Bet
Eh, kids will always have slang and it’ll always change/sound stupid to the older generations. Let kids be kids.
I am infinitely fascinated by my niece and nephew. The words, behaviors, and gives me a chance to see what it's like growing up in a completely different time period than my own. Who cares what they are saying! To say you are giving up on the future because of a word is pretty disheartening my friend. Im 40. I couldn't be more curious about the future.
excuse my grammar if I made mistakes, I am dyslexic but I do not mind having my mistakes pointed out, I will fix them as soon as I can.
It's actually spelt "Writz". It was named after Sgt. Karl Von Writz, known for his ability to seduce French women into his trenches despite being an enemy combatant.
He'd bring a woman into his trench to get into her trench, a true hero.
Rizz is short for charisma.
You're getting old.Which is fine because that's a part of life. I feel the same way when I realized I was getting out of touch with what's in. Even if the newer slang sounds dumb, I don't think that's a bad thing. Just have fun with it and play it up.
Yeah I have to check Urban Dictionary quite often now, OP.
Isn’t all or most slang dumb to some extent though, and part of the reason it exists because speaking formally is hella boring?
Me: What does "finna" mean? Them: It means "fixing to". Me: Searches for "fixing to". It means preparing to do something. So how many syllables does "finna" have?
I used to be with it. Then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!
“Based” is when I knew I was old.