Dictionary.com's word of the year has been used by kids and teenagers over the past year.
  • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
    52·
    7 个月前

    I literally only heard of it last week. Was it really that big of a trend to be considered the word of the year?

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    442·
    7 个月前

    My friends will continue to intentionally and enthusiastically mis-use all the kid-pidgin as a form of sarcastic performance art, as it has so far achieved the main goal of embarrassing their two girls into never using any of it. They speak like people, instead of vapid 'gram zombies; at least at home.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      7 个月前

      Speak to your kids like little adults and their speech and vocabulary explodes. They also sense the respect that many adults don’t give them. I loathe adults that talk down to children.

      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        12·
        7 个月前

        My friend has a toddler and I always spoke to her like a regular person who just happened to not know things. She seemed to respect it a lot.

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          7 个月前

          Yes! Treat them as ignorant, not stupid. Asked my ex-wife why kids like me when I’m don’t like them so much. “You talk to them like real people. They get that.”

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      7 个月前

      I do this too. I’ll come home and say “heyyy 6-7-8 my bruhs!” and their eyes will roll right out of their skulls.

    • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 个月前

      I’m trying, but they think I’m in the joke and love it. thought id get ahead and use it so they will cringe, but it backfired. now my house uses the 67 joke unironically

  • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    26·
    7 个月前

    Other terms that made the shortlist of finalists for this year’s Word of the Year included “agnetic,”

    Surely they mean “agentic”, right? Right???

    I searched for “agnetic” to see if I was out of the loop and it’s kind of funny, kind of sad. I found a lot of what I guess is AI slop that took a typo and just ran with it. Like this one: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/clash-intelligences-agnetic-ai-vs-agent-explained-robin-biwre

    Agnetic AI is a newer conceptual framework that extends beyond the traditional agent-based model. The term “Agnetic” is derived from the word “magnetic,” signifying its dynamic, adaptive nature.

    https://www.agnetic.ai/ also looks like slop, but it’s realllllly hard to distinguish between AI bullshit and traditional tech marketing bullshit.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      18·
      7 个月前

      “Slop” ought to be another word that’s gained popularity in use. I’m still having trouble with it, mainly because I think it’s overused a lot in short insults and dismissals of things. Not aimed at you here, at least you define WHY you consider it in that category. I’m talking more the “AI slop” that mirrors the “fake news” or “git gud” or any other reply that avoids actual discussion and screams “I hate this, but have nothing more to contribute”.

        • Rhaedas@fedia.io
          1·
          7 个月前

          Maybe not. Any idea when it became a thing online? It seemed to coincide with when AI images started to get a lot better (and thus used a lot more), and that could have been a few years ago, or this year, depending on your standard of “better”.

          • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            7 个月前

            it used to be used in a racist way on 4chan for media that was made for mass consumption, contrasted by things that were flawed but had “sovl” (soul).

  • QuantumTickle@lemmy.zipdeleted by creatorEnglish
    241·
    7 个月前

    Isn’t “6 7” supposed to be a rating? Somebody does something and you rate it mid by giving it a 6 or maybe a 7 on a scale of 10. Why on earth would this semantic meaning come from a basketball player’s height?

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      19·
      7 个月前

      No, it’s from a rap song, but almost everybody doesn’t have the context. Just tell the middle-school kids that it really means a 10-67, that at least for the rapper’s local police codes, means they found a dead body.

      All of the other theories are made up.

    • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
      74·
      7 个月前

      No. It’s just “6-7”. It is not supposed to be a rating or something with actual meaning at all. It’s just a pattern.

      • Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        261·
        7 个月前

        Yes, but that’s got nothing to do with it 🤣

        My joint pain started when I was a teenager and has just gotten worse now that I’m 35. Though apparently my brain is perpetually 12 because I pick up this new slang very quickly. Much to the annoyance of my teenage son and the amusement of my 5 year old twins.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    7 个月前

    Even the kids that say it don’t even take it that seriously and are 100% aware that it is just brainrot, at least from what I have seen. Although, I do still enjoy saying “sixty seven” to my nephew whenever it comes up.

  • someguy3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    7 个月前

    some say it can be interpreted as another way of saying “so-so,” “maybe this” or “maybe that,” the dictionary states.

    pronounced “six-seven” and never “sixty-seven,” the dictionary notes

  • etherphon@midwest.socialdeleted by creatorEnglish
    102·
    7 个月前

    Right, kick ass. Well, don’t want to sound like a dick or nothin’, but, ah… it says on your chart that you’re fucked up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit’s all retarded. What I’d do, is just like… like… you know, like, you know what I mean, like…