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[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Remember when comic artists and cartoonists would make up some outlandish slang for a character and it was supposed to make fun of millennials, but we thought that was stupid too?

Gen Z actually talk like that.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago (8 children)

I know you probably joking but as a millennial I kinda hate this take.

Every generation used words that our elders didn’t and every future generation will continue to do so and I support that.

In fact I like to try and learn the new words as it’s cool to know what’s happening. Don’t use them though else the kids will cringe.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Do use them though, because it makes the kids cringe

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I would but I’m not allowed within 50 feet of child. You beat one child and you’re labelled for life.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Unlucky, I caught them in a group.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't have a problem with new slang in general - it's interesting to see what new words become popular. Sometimes, though, I just don't like them. I never got used to "yeet" and still dislike it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ugh… yeet and Kobe were some of the best at that time for me.

Like yeet sounds somewhat like an onomatopoeia. Like the sound of it flying through the air.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, it just never connected with me. Which is fine, since I'm an old fart Gen X and it's not for me anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

do they? maybe i'm hanging out in the wrong places but the only place i've ever seen this sort of "slang" is posts mocking Gen Z

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

I've got some coworkers that fit this meme pretty well. Though I do admit they may be among the... slower ... of their generation.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

Oh, stewardess! I speak jive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

No they don’t. My Zoomer son and his friends mock this bs savagely.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Can someone translate back to non-fuckwit human please?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago

Nah fam, it's lit ong fr fr

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Is this cap

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

On God, you are cappin' rn fr.

I am the danger.

A hater gets caught lackin' in the crib and you think that's my vibe?

A guy opens his door and gets shot, and you think that of me?

Deadass,

No,

I am the one that's bussin'

I am the one who knocks!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

I will note that a line for line translation doesn't quite work, as you can see above. This is more of a general translation than a direct word for word translation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I too want the translation so I can brush up on my Fuckwit. Still not available in Duolingo!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

No cap seems to mean "no lie". So it maybe means "I swear to god, you are talking shit right now for real". Bit I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Fo shizzle.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Skyler be like: "Are you having a stroke?"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

Nah Skylar's response is just "cap"

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

On god, you cappin' rn fr

"Honestly, you are lying right now for real"

A hater gets caught lackin' in the crib and you think that's my vibe

"Someone who doesn't like me gets caught without enough to defend themselves in the house, and you think that's what I'm about/like"

Deadass, I'm bussin'.

"...in all seriousness, I'm great/fantastic/amazing."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Interesting as the second caption should be I am the one who knocks right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It was pretty funny on an unintended meta level because the Italian verb for knocking is "bussare."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Huh the more you know. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

To be clear I'm fairly sure that that was not intended, but still :P

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Is it cap because of capslock or what is the origin?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's believed to have been a part of black American slang for decades, possibly from the term "high-capping" which essentially means bragging. Rapper E-40 used the term in his 1995 song "Da Bumble".

https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/08/some-history-meanings-of-african.html?m=1#:~:text=%20to%20believe.-,%22no%20cap,about%20something%20hard%20to%20believe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Thanks for the explanation and link!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

He was a pretty big crybaby for being "the one who knocks".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wonder why I never see this for The Sopranos

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Somehow, we're using the same language.

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