My school district is WAY smarter than this, all the teachers and staff just start saying the words more than the kids do until they think it’s corny.
This
Making lists like that is authoritarian and won’t work. Making the words worthless works
Maybe this is why republicans watch child porn so they think it’s corny and nobody else does it anymore.
I am almost 28 and use way more gen z/alpha slang than my 21 year old sister does. It becomes your permanent lexicon after a while and you keep using the words no matter how outdated they are. I say yeet at least once a day still.
Unironically started saying hella after life is strange made me cringe out of my fucking seat when the characters say it.
Reclaim it like slurs. Lmfao
I have been saying “groovy” for as long as I have been aware that the word existed, and that’s early 70s
Lol that’s hella awesome
I say hella every day. Slang accentuates speech and makes it fun, so I use a lot of it. Not an obnoxious amount, though. Gotta get the slang amount just right, just like swearing. It’s an art.
I don’t use skibidi because it’s too long to easily work into sentences casually. Also it’s a really fucking dumb word that feels wrong saying. Like I tried it a few times and cringed so hard I thought I was gonna flip inside out or some shit. My soul started leaving my body.
I can imagine that working, actually.
As a teacher, I can attest that it works beautifully.
“Ill bless you Youngins🥷 with the Rizz🔥 your gonna need for the low 🔑test on Monday, no cap 🧢💯!!!”
Students, I’m a total baka hentai amirite?
Guys??
Can we get a date on this? I don’t see skibidi or sus. And I’m most surprised to see the youths embracing finna
Based on my experience in the NE U.S., this list is current.
start listing them out continuously untill you get expelled
I hate finna more than all the others.
it’s AAVE, not made up, and there’s literally no reason why “gonna” should be more legit. it’s the exact same construction.
None of those words will make me like it.
“Going to” is far superior to “fixing to,” so I don’t know what you are talking about.
They don’t really mean the exact same thing, or at least not in my dialect. “Fixing to” implies that the thing will happen imminently, not just in the future.
Fair enough. I do think that connotation doesn’t necessarily carry over to the “gonna” and “finna” forms, but it’s a good point.
That said, “fixing to” still grates on my brain in ways I can’t begin to describe.
Why do you think it’s superior?
That’s a fair question. My most honest answer isn’t a very good one: I can’t stand it.
Linguistically, I don’t get it. “Fixing to” doesn’t seem to offer any benefit over “about to” or “going to” and as far as I can tell it doesn’t have any logical meaning at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3QQDAKxUIk from a linguist about finna (and gonna and other things)
Yesssss it’s language Jones!
Bruh, on God I’m not even gonna cap - you’re being such a sigma male with that low key bussin mood, but say less about the rizz because you’re doing too much with that type shit. Gucci fit, and I love that for you, but it’s giving major gyatt energy, so no cap, that’s high key straight fire, baka!
Demerits for misuse of “say less” and “baka”. Other than that, high marks!
“Say less” is etymologically tied to “say no more”. It is possible that I am wrong about “baka”, because I’m an otaku, but I presume they’re using it in the anime way, and not just completely divorcing it from its actual meaning. I might be giving them to much credit.
Doest baka more or less just mean “idiot\stupud”?
Yep
Then it looks like his statement makes total cringe sense.
You know what, you’re right, the preceding sentence is supposed to be critical of the listener, so they are actually misusing “straight fire”, which would imply something good.
So “on God” means like “on God’s authority” or “for reals”?
It’s short for “I swear on god”
If my kid ever comes home from school with a picture like this I’m having words with the teacher. Let the children have their fun ffs
The principal is getting a 3 hour tense but polite discussion on prescriptivism vs descriptivism and he’s going to be defending descriptivism whether he likes it or nor and he’s going to lose the entire while being simply unable to hangup. This will never happen again.
Literally 1984
hastily scribbles fetch on the board
Stop trying to make fetch happen.
Inappropes
Kids are gonna kids
I don’t understand what teachers think a “banned words list” is gonna accomplish except being the new target of bored kids/teens
(Unless they’re just tired of hearing it, but this isn’t a good solution imo)
You doin too much
Love that for you
Why?
Also, you can’t stop language from changing. Change is certain. We don’t talk like people 100 years ago and that’s a good thing.
Those are phrases that get repeated verbatim as responses, which is the hypothetical reason they might be included on this (maaaaybe fake?) list. I’m actually slightly tired of them too, I have a couple students that really overuse them as responses to everything.
…Though I’d never be dumb enough to tell them that.Yeah making a list like this deserves doubling down on that kind of slang.
I’m betting (hoping?) this was done with a bit of tongue in cheek, especially since there’s a nice, close up picture of the list and it uses up significant board real estate.
Humbling kids with some self awareness is great, especially in middle school. Self reflection and metacognition (why do we do what we do?) are super important tools for kids and leads to more empathy and better conflict resolution.
If this is just a teacher being a crotchety conservative, then yeah, you’re right. But I’m willing to bet the kids even helped make the list and had a good time doing it.
Love that for you
Yeah, they forgot to put “on my soul” on the list, though the kids at my school are all illiterate, so they just parrot it as “oh my SO”.
Every. Five. Seconds.
The correct solution here is to just use these back at them at every opportunity. I feed on the cringe every time they say they didn’t do something and I get the privilege to respond, flatly and with enunciation: “Cap.”
My guess is they are used sarcastically/ironically and whoever made the board is sick of hearing them.
Sweet fresh words. You da bomb, right list of legit dope slang. Boyah!
Dude, what a gnarly bunch of dweebs like, you can’t use that language, doy!
This list is missing “on my soul”, which the illiterate children at my school (who have only ever heard it on snaptok and facegram, and are only poorly parroting it) replace with “oh my SO”.
Finna has come back?
It’s never gone away!
Every cohort of kids will have their slang and in-jokey vocabulary, a very small part of which will be entered permanently into the lexicon. I’d like to nominate “rizz” as this generation’s contribution.
Man, rizz is the new yeet, and both belong on the pedestal of excellent slang.
Im finna yeet rizz into heavy rotation
skibidi [adj.]
- nonsense (derogatory)
That’s my pick.
Nah, that one is going to be emblematic of this period. In 2035 they’re going to look back at videos from 2024 and hear all the skibidi and cringe the same way we do looking back at 2006 and hearing “FAIL!” every other word.
