I've heard it explained that "hey" used to be more of an urgent way to get someone's attention, rather than a casual "hello" like it is now, so it sounded rude to some older folks.
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Teachers in 2023: “NOOO you can’t end your sentences with ‘fr fr nocap skibidi’ those aren’t even real words!”
2033:
2033: "Why would you say any of that corny old shit? You sloopy old frond!"
2035: We flippin' grunts out here or what?
2050: ARTMEWTC (Acronyms Are The Most Efficient Way To Communicate)
Binary solo. Also the humans are dead.
I poked one, it was dead.
Can we just talk to the humans?
No. Because they are dead.
The humans are dead
2070: The unification war is over, we can all be chooms again.
2480:
You are so real choomfie.
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Me n my grepies outta die sinkies by flipoin grunts
Seriously. The "Fr fr no cap" is closer to our generations "Swag yolo". Or the past generations "Tubular"
This is a bitchin observation.
I think it's a pretty good example of something that totally lost all meaning and got beat into the ground, rather than getting worked into some individual lexicon or accent, and having a specific kind of role.
Totally passing observation on top of that, but I think, it's probably much easier for that to happen to specific references, than for that to happen to actual novel uses of language.
Do we have a RemindMe bot for Lemmy yet? I want to re-read this prophecy in 10 years
A bit late but
@RemindMe@programming.dev 10 years
Is it a reference to this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skibidi_Toilet? Is it used as punctuation like "lol"?