I’ll be ambling through nursing home hallways in a threadbare robe on the way to the ol’ skibidi while some orderlies with multicolor levitating hair make modem noises at each other.
That’ll just be the microplastic poisoning setting in though.
You had me in the last sentence… sadly
As an old person today, I have no clue what these words mean. Assuming cooking has nothing to do with food. I’ve never heard rizz. I’ve at least heard people use based, though I don’t know its use.
I consider ‘based’ an opposite of ‘sour’ or ‘acidic’. That is, being alkaline and having high pH is considered socially desirable. Mixing based and sour personalities will naturally produce salt, that is, dried tears.
Cooking is a term for any time-consuming chemical reaction, which happens to include food preparation.
I have no chemistry-related explanation for rizz. Something to do with sparks?
Yep me too, I bet as it’s young people it’s mainly texted and in txt spk
txt spk
Ahh, the first Kid Pidgin.
Rizz = Charisma
Based = Cool; Awesome; Good.
Cooked = Fucked (as in up, not sexually).
Cooking = Doing something (usually good, but does not necessarily have to be).
Sincerely,
A 40 year old Millennial.
Based also sorta meant woke for a bit before woke
And then it swung the other way and meant being racist pos for a wide minute, too
Based is like ‘unpopular, but I agree.’
I thought it was recognizing that the person acted/spoke their conscience, more or less
Temba, at rest.
Shaka, when the walls rizzed.
‘cooking’ specifically implies either creativity or efficacy (or both, some novel solution that results in success)
Ah but then there is the phrase “let him cook,” which tends to be used when someone starts doing something that seems foolish. I would think it at least somewhat relates to “cooking.” If you fail, you are “cooked.”
Edit: To clarify, this phrase is commonly seen after someone says something like “hey, don’t do that;” I did not mean to imply the phrase itself has an inherent good/bad connotation, merely what has been pointed out that they want to “wait and see” the results before making judgement.
that is the creative part of the equation
I’d say “let him cook” is foolishness-agnostic. It could be good or bad, but it’s definitely unexpected
This version of cook seems aligned with “hold on.”
As in “it’s not yet apparent that what’s happening makes sense/is good.”
Where’s that tiktok linguist kid when ya need him.
Cooking - you are doing something good
Cooked, getting cooked - someone is messing around with you and you fall for it, kinda like this maybe could be better explanation.
“You are cooking” - you made a song, for example, and it was great song.
“You are cooked” - kinda like when you, as a child, do something bad and your parents are going to be mad when they find out — you are basically cooked.
“Let him cook” is more like “I wanna see where this is going”
I haven’t heard swag in a long while and so I’m not sure how many of these words will actually be used enough later on.
I’m cooking spaghetti for dinner tonight. Yes, I’m old.
Who has a problem with spaghetti?
GenZ HATES spaghettis because their not WOKE like “bucatini” or “far fale”
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I heard this thing that humans are tribal creatures and in any group, family, friend etc, they will invariably develop their own language, and they didn’t mention it but generationally specify slang is so much more beautiful when viewed through that lens. So even if it’s an old person thing, for those of us privileged to be able to stay on this earth that long, it will still be your tribes language and you will feel at home saying it. And that’s all that matters.
One of these days I need to go and read through the Calvin and Hobbes collection I bought for my bookshelf when it was on a steep discount. I remember reading them all the time as a kid.
A relatable situation; when my kid can read a little better I mean to very enthusiastically introduce them to it.
Though honestly they might enjoy the beautiful artwork without bothering to read. Or it might encourage them to practice. Hmm.
Either way is good IMO. Even if they just look at the pictures and imagine their own stories I have to believe that’s good for a developing mind.
You don’t say!
if they last… most slang dies in a few years
Yo dawg, that would be like totally tubular unless the geezers spaz out like lamo rents gettin all agro after gettin to tha crib and finding all da homies having a jammy jam in the hizzie. Ya feel me, cuz?
Safe.
Down with the rave police !
C’mon Gen Z. You can’t have “tubular”. That’s clearly an 80s term, and thus belongs to the millenials. Same thing with “crib” and the 90s.
“Cuz” was early 2000s. I don’t know who that one falls to. All I know is I was about 18 before I heard it. So, basically on my last legs as far as being able to claim slang to my generation.
Geezers isn’t even my generation, or Gen X. It’s either the Boomers, The Greatest Generation, or The Silent Generation. Really pulling slang out by the roots on that one. What’s next? Are we going to take a trip to the Piggly Wiggly?
Greatest generation is dead dude. Ok maybe a few are around but like, they’re 100+
…ok? Does them being dead today negate the slang they created when they were alive?
Or are you claiming old slang gets put in the free for all bin, for any generation can adopt as their own?
Because I wouldn’t mind picking up “bees knees” when that becomes available.
“Cuz” was early 2000s
Reminds me of reading Macbeth in high school:
My dearest cuz,/ I pray you school yourself – MACBETH, IV ii
The Yellow Stocking Tales blog has a neat list of words used by Shakespeare and how the meanings have changed over time (or haven’t changed, in the case for the word “cuz”)
What does lamo mean? I understood the rest, and yes, my back hurts.
Misspelled “lame-o” is my guess. Though my spelling of it is a guess as well.
Misspelled? Letters used to cost money, you know. 160 chars/msg.bst to shrten evrything
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Nice reference.
Btw Ali G came up nice. As in Sacha wasn’t left to be defined by Ali, went on to become Borat (which was also like the 20 years ago), has done some seriously good drama shows and now is looking like this:
REDE
Word up, homie.
I’m never gonna stop calling people “dawg”
I’m 40 and I understand most of that, yup it’s old person speak.
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idkmybffjill
Based has been around forever, it’s not some new slang.
forever
Maybe like 10 years? That seem about right?
Some searching seems to suggest that “Lil B” started the words come back around 2010
Lil B in quotes like he’s a massively obscure figure from the past. The years really don’t stop coming.
Never heard of him.
¯\(ツ)/¯
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Yup
Phrase what’s cooking? “what’s up, what’s going on” is attested by 1942. To cook with gas “do well, act or think correctly” is 1930s jive talk.
The expression “NOW YOU’RE COOKING WITH GAS” has bobbed up again — this time as a front page streamer on the Roper Ranger, and as the banner line in the current advertising series of the Nashville (Tenn.) Gas and Heating Company, cleverly tying gas cooking to local food products and restaurants. “Now you’re cooking with gas” literally took the gas industry by the ears around December 1939 — Remember? — when it flashed forth in brilliant repartee from the radio programs of the Maxwell Coffee Hour, Jack Benny, Chase and Sanborn, Johnson Wax, Bob Hope and sundry others. [American Gas Association Monthly, vol. xxiii, 1941
in the nursing home talking about how I rizzed up the nurses (i didn’t)
Jst lk ppl used 2 txt, amirite
Oh the t9 era of texting, I miss d tym wen t9 ws d nly optn
Whn txtng was xpnsive af, gud tyms
Based is already old though
And it was never not lame. Poor fad, never got to be fetch.
Stop trying to make fetched a thing.
