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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I’m glad that the attitude that if you don’t speak “correctly,” then you are not worth engaging with is dying out.
Well, on the grammar front, anyway.
People using they/them pronouns:
I think they are finding that they will be lonely if they want to continue to follow that path.
I’m glad the “not worth engaging with” attitude is dying out, but I do still think it’s important to push for people to communicate accurately and effectively, which includes understanding and following grammatical rules when needed.
Language and vocabulary are essential to how we think and collectively problem-solve.
There’s got to be movement on both sides to a common understanding. If one side won’t budge, then fuck 'em.
The point of language is to communicate information.
If the information was successfully relayed, the language exchange was successful.
If the person knows you MEAN “hello, I would like two of these items here, thank you good sir. hands cash and cashier says thank you You’re welcome. Have a pleasant day, sir” when you SAY “Sup, two please. Thanks man. No problem have a good one.” then you have successfully languaged.
So when my wife with a plethora of issues involving word recall says some insane thing because she can’t remember the right words, as long as I understand what she means, her language did it’s job.
Yep, I get the “Language is constantly evolving” argument, but if I have to read your sentence three times just to parse it because you were too lazy to press a few keys, I’d consider that disrespectful to whomever is reading your comments
Frfr no cap
Aye awa shite n yer haunds n’ clap bawbag eh
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Language is evolving, and part of evolution is killing off unfit new phrases
Fr fr that hot take be so skibidi you real g are goated with the sauce no cap
This but unironically /s
No seriously, I have no clue what you were talking about but it’s very normal for any social group to develop a unique way of language that you have to learn when you want to engage. It’s not as if farmers wouldn’t use terms lay people don’t understand
Everything I said is actually kinda sensible and as a sentence made sense. Obviously it uses too much slang at once and no one would make a sentence purely made of slang like that, but theoretically it’s a valid sentence with modern slang.
I’m old as hell. I solely learned this just to mess with the young ones lmao.
The people who insist on communicating incorrectly are intentionally choosing either to be stupid or to fuck with people.
Either way, I’m still not interested in interacting with them.
It should of died out long ago and on the side of academic linguistics did, but on the internet sadly not so much
should of
Why do you want to hurt us so?
Because these who feel hurt by this deserve to be hurt. No tolerant for intolerance
There’s descriptive and there’s prescriptive linguistics. The first is the scientific endeavor of finding out and explaining how a language works. The second is the realm of anal politicians from the colonialist era who used language as an oppression tool to suppress local cultures and force the hegemonic culture upon indigenous people to make it easier to dominate, eradicate and subjugate them. Currently regarded as one of the defining elements of Genocides. For examples see, Spanish, French, English, Russian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin … well you get the idea.
Are you trying to wind me up mate 🥲
CHOWDAH
In 2005 ‘Hello there - General Kenobi!’ became the acceptable greeting amongst teenagers and old timers. Lets bring it back.
‘Sup
'Sup with the whack Playstation, 'sup? Huh?
What?
It was “yo” for me. Any time I used it some old shit would complain. My mom called it n-word speak. Me and my mom don’t talk.
I use it daily, mostly out of spite.
She wasn’t ok with yo but the n word was ok? Hahaha wtf old people be crazy
My mom was about 35 when she said that. Went to services every weekend.
Oh wow, so really we were giving them a mild heart attack, every time we were saying hi? I don’t know if that really justified the grammar police (not using that other word casually, anymore) but also these are the people who created boomers, so they definitely had to have some issues they were never able to work through.
They’re gone now but moved on to inside our government
We all should have anticipated that after the “don’t say gay” law, there will be a “don’t say hey” law
It’s not the “don’t say gay” law, it’s the “stop trying to indoctrinate children with queer ideology”, law. I could see how you would get that confused…
Okay so then “stop trying to indoctrinate children with equine sustenance ideology” law
We’ll get right on that. 🙄
How about we stop trying to indoctrinate children with hetero-normative ideology.
Ok, sicko…
Being hetro is as sick as being homo.
Stop holding hands with your girlfriend in public, and don’t you dare give a kiss.
You are forcing your hetro ideology onto our kids like some kind of groomer pedophile.
Hey! Listen!
In the nineties, i had an old guy respond “‘Hey’ is the first stage of horse shit.”. I still use it to this day.
that’s so much better. I’m 100% incorporating that into my daily phrases
Not once did someone say that to me in a corrective or condescending way. It was always a playful joke.
In elementary school we used to say “hay is for horses, and cows like you!”.
It was always “and cows say moo” for me.
We had “Hay is for horses, sometimes for cows, pigs don’t eat it 'cause they don’t know hows”
Sup?
“Sup is for meal times!”
Bonus: sup means vulture in Czech. :-D
Hay is for horses… and cows like it too! -Grandpa
I’ve heard something about straw is cheaper
Hay is for horses, grass is free.
Teachers smoke it, why can’t we?
Straw is for bedding
I don’t plan on bedding any horses, thank you very much!
Not with that straw you aren’t
It’s really more like a swizzle stick than a straw.
Hay is for horses, sometimes cows, pigs don’t eat it 'cause they don’t know how.
Hey, I do.
Ha?
Dr Hah isch bei die Henna!Remember Yo?
