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I'm getting better at understanding them

But damn sometimes I spend more time searching for definitions to understand it than it actually takes to read it

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[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

This modern slang is damn gibberish. Back in my day, at least our slang made some gramatical sense, it was simply noun replacement, and some adverbs/verbs. Now get off my lawn.

[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 10 points 2 years ago
[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

Pretty hip if I say so myself.

[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 13 points 2 years ago

I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you!

[-] DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Copacetic, one might even say

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago
[-] Freefall@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Whatup dawg, I am fly as well!

[-] darvit@lemmy.darvit.nl 3 points 2 years ago

It do be like that

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago
[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago
[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't speak it, but considering this scene from Airplane (1980) ( on YouTube ) I understood the whole conversation.

Of course this is Hollywood jive, and like other languages, it's subject to regional vernacular variance which might be beyond me.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lol that's exactly what I was referencing, hell yeah

[-] weker01@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

It isn't gibberish and it makes grammatical sense. You just don't understand the unspoken rules around the slang.

But sure grandma let's get you to bed :P

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