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[A dog is walked by an old lady wrapped in a blanket siting in a wheelchair] Old Lady: A doggo! [Close up of the old lady’s happy, yet not all there expression] Old Lady: A heccin good pupper. [A Nurse rushes to the Old Lady’s chair. The dog stairs at the Old Lady, the owner off screen] Old Lady: 13/10 good boi. Dog Owner: huh? [The nurse wheels the Old Lady away] Nurse: Don’t worry no one understands her- Old Lady: Could be a fren.

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  • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
    26·
    16 hours ago

    Right? Much better to get your skibidi rizz on than have your cortisol spiked by 67 mogged millennials.

  • Lucius Finkter@piefed.socialEnglish
    78·
    6 hours ago

    There’s a difference between being funny and referencing something funny. This isn’t humor, it’s recall.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    22·
    17 hours ago

    This is what I love about any movie/tv show/book/novel/short story about the future … it’s all spoken in the same language that we all understand now.

    But if we could listen to regular everyday English spoken in North America 100 years ago, it would sound a bit off and unusual. Listen to English as it was spoken in England 300 years ago and it would probably sound very strange and unsual, go back to 500 years ago and we would probably have a hard time understanding.

    The same thing is going to happen in the future (IF there is any kind of future and we don’t blow ourselves up or kill ourselves off in some unusual, creative and complicated way) … historians will listen to recordings of how we talk today and think of us in the same way we think about someone from 1800. Go even far into the future about 500 years and someone from 2526 will probably not be able to understand anything we’re saying unless they use a translator of some kind. Those people 500 years from now will probably look back us like we’re making grunting sounds like some cave people from prehistory.

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        14 hours ago

        That is interesting … but that’s the written language. Up until about 1950, literacy was only reserved for those who could actually afford a decent education. A hundred years ago, it was only a very small percentage of the population who could actually read or write. The vast majority of speakers spoke only a common language that was particular to their location and history … so the English they spoke was probably very different than what was being written by a nobleman from their time period.

        Another fascinating read is just basic Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain … one of the reasons his writing became so famous was the fact that he wrote his characters speaking in every day language that people spoke … not a polished aristocratic uptight proper English that only the most wealthiest and properly educated people could appreciate.

        The excerpts in that blog post are interesting but they would only represent the language of the most wealthiest people of their particular time. If you spoke and listened to a common worker from their same time period, you’d probably hear an entirely different language being spoken … and the difference would be even more pronounced the further back in time you went.

    • Aneb@lemmy.world
      3·
      14 hours ago

      To play devil’s advocate since sound recording modern English has only gotten more succinct. Also everyone speaks their own variation of English they know. Besides actors

      • kalpol@lemmy.ca
        12·
        16 hours ago

        Sure you could. That’s basically Shakespeare. Reading it is a little tough but you can make it out. Hearing it is probably just a matter of getting used to a different accent. But it’s modern English.

      • Agrivar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        14 hours ago

        Did you really intend to write 390 years, or is 9 a typo like the end of understanf?

  • kn0wmad1c@programming.devEnglish
    41·
    20 hours ago

    And after millennials pass, old folk’s homes will be filled with people shouting “SIX SEVEN” over and over

    • MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works
      920·
      17 hours ago

      My least favorite term is “adulting”.

      When I hear it, I want to respond with, you mean taking care of shit on your own? Because you’re not living at home?

      Early 20’s it’s cringey. When someone is pushing 35, I want to vomit on them.

      • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        17·
        19 hours ago

        “I don’t like it when people say ‘life is hard’ in ways that I disagree with. When I hear it I say ‘you mean exact synonyms that take longer to say?’”

      • Aitolda@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        21 hours ago

        When someone is pushing 35, I want to vomit on them.

        Out of context that’s quite a statement.

      • Jaycifer@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        18 hours ago

        I usually just say “I feel like the people who are good at adulting don’t use the term ‘adulting’” and get a “yeah, that sounds about right” in return.

      • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world
        91·
        21 hours ago

        I think there’s a brief window of time that it fits, like college-age when young people are learning how to do a bunch of stuff for the first time.

        After that, it just sounds like arrested development (as in “perpetual adolescence”, not the show).

        • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
          10·
          21 hours ago

          It doesn’t seem to bother me as much as others in this thread. I just read it as being responsible or doing the daily shit you are supposed to do. Which is often annoying to do.

          It almost sounds like something that could have come from Seinfeld, predating the term by almost a generation.

    • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works
      17·
      18 hours ago

      This is just translated to today’s standard English. Future English obviously will become a tonal language, where all expression is based on different intonations of the word “skibidi”.

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      17 hours ago

      Of course!

      Here’s the start of a really good series, all in normal English:

      Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licóur Of which vertú engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne, And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open ye, So priketh hem Natúre in hir corages, Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes, To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes; And specially, from every shires ende Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende, The hooly blisful martir for to see, That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke

      • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        6 hours ago

        Ugh, this gives me PTSD from junior year high school English class, we had to memorize & recite that Chaucer’s Canterbury tales 🤮

      • kalpol@lemmy.ca
        6·
        16 hours ago

        Middle English, yeah, that’s Chaucer from 700 years ago. Hearing someone read this is a treat, though. It is an amazingly musical language, I feel much more so than Modern English.

        • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
          6·
          15 hours ago

          To be fair, survival bias. This is the poetry that was so beautiful and engaging it was repeated and preserved for 500+ years. I’m sure there were vassals trading japes in Middle English who didn’t rise above the erudition and imagery of your average teenage wastrel shooting the shit in Modern English.

          And there is still plenty of good poetry being created, which I can’t always appreciate fully because I don’t get the references or even some of the words. Which will last? Let’s check back in 500 years.

  • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    20 hours ago

    Apropos of nothing, the term “doggy” or “doggo” is possibly going back to the roots of the word; the Middle English word “dogge” kind of came out of nowhere and it’s hypothesized that it might have been a diminutive slang word (like “doggy” or “bunny”) that ended up becoming the standard term for the animal, supplanting “hound”.

  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
    122·
    22 hours ago

    This tends to be how I think of the generation that fell in love with words like “yeeted” and “gabbin”* and all those words that are completely unnecessary in lingual context, and just meant for style points or whatever.

    * ach, it’s not exactly that, but something similar

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      20 hours ago

      Aw c’mon, I kind of like yeeted, it’s better than chucked. But then I’m in my 60s so I’ve seen a lot of slang come and go.

      • X@piefed.worldEnglish
        4·
        20 hours ago

        ‘Tis better to yeet than be yoted. – proverb of some dubious kind

      • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        20 hours ago

        I like some pop-slang, not others. “Neckbeard” is pretty good, because there wasn’t quite a word like that, and it really does capture a certain type. Meanwhile, “yeet” doesn’t mean anything to me, and wasn’t needed in the slightest IMO.

        Languages naturally change over time, but usually that’s down to stuff like peoples mixing, and new situations & tech coming along, or dying out. This pop-slang stuff is okay for what it is, but I also feel the OC captured the other side of how useless it can be.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      12·
      22 hours ago

      and all those words that are completely unnecessary in lingual context

      I mean, some of the most beautiful prose I’ve ever read has “unnecessary” words

      • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
        32·
        20 hours ago

        EDIT: That’s fine and all, but not what I was talking about.

        What I’m thinking of are more like cool / pet words used to help establish the uniqueness of a younger generation, helping to draw a divide from those older than them. Which actually makes a certain amount of sense…

        • 🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          14 hours ago

          cool

          Like that word. They’re isn’t anything temperature related in that sentence. It’s impressive how long “cool” keeps being used.

          These words are important though. Without them you get in a 1984 world where some fool forces people to use double plus good.

          • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            14 hours ago

            Without them you get in a 1984 world where some fool forces people to use double plus good.

            What, dog-whistling?

            These words are important though.

            Now here I have to call BS, just like the OC.