@[email protected] to Lemmy [email protected] • 1 year agoI used to be with it, then they changed what "it" islemmy.worldimagemessage-square130fedilinkarrow-up1652arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1642arrow-down1imageI used to be with it, then they changed what "it" islemmy.world@[email protected] to Lemmy [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square130fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoMy problem is, right about when a word starts to appeal to me and I’m like “oookayy I’ll start saying it,” it’s way too late. I guess I could balance it by always appending a Dude-like “…in the parlance of our times…”
minus-squareDecoy321Mlinkfedilink10•1 year agoThat’s the thing. Once it starts appealing to you, it loses value to the original group. It’s one of my favorite ways to fuck with my nephews and nieces.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 year ago“Of course I know about fork-knife and Scooby-Doo toilet”
minus-squareDecoy321Mlinkfedilink1•1 year agoPrecisely. Another fun subtle thing to do is add “the” to the term. Gives it an extra sense of dismissiveness. It ain’t “TikTok”, it’s “the TikTok.” Or better yet, “the tikkity tok.”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•1 year agoThats why I just start saying words Ironically immediately and then get infected into using them unironically
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•1 year agoThis was me in high school. I even listened to boy bands ironically and then noticed I was singing them unironically.
My problem is, right about when a word starts to appeal to me and I’m like “oookayy I’ll start saying it,” it’s way too late.
I guess I could balance it by always appending a Dude-like “…in the parlance of our times…”
That’s the thing. Once it starts appealing to you, it loses value to the original group.
It’s one of my favorite ways to fuck with my nephews and nieces.
“Of course I know about fork-knife and Scooby-Doo toilet”
Precisely. Another fun subtle thing to do is add “the” to the term. Gives it an extra sense of dismissiveness. It ain’t “TikTok”, it’s “the TikTok.”
Or better yet, “the tikkity tok.”
Thats why I just start saying words Ironically immediately and then get infected into using them unironically
This was me in high school. I even listened to boy bands ironically and then noticed I was singing them unironically.