You can make up words at any age.
this post was submitted on 06 May 2025
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If you also make up a way to pronounce them, a grammar and potentially a culture to go with it, you've just made a conlang
Marvy fab
Older generations need to start inventing slang again to noogle the kids.
Even if you have a butcher's at what already exists the belly fruits won't know whether to shit or go blind, you can really lair it up
We can just use what we always have, ya dig?
That'd be reet kewl.
"Yeet" is 10 years old now.
Jesus Christ.... I'm old enough to have kids that would have said yet.... where's my ibuprofen?
This helped me but it is only valid for 15 minutes 
13 of those terms are not new at all lol glad to see there’s at least some overlap between generations.
Now if we can just psyop them into using “rad” and “sick” again 👀
The earliest urban dictionary entry for yeet was made in 2008, when you are literally part of the generation that popularized the word.
And it was a dance move performed on bikes. Literally pumping the chest up and down with arms spread wide (like flying an airplane), while riding a bicycle, in a group.
I remember using it around the early 2000s to be throwing something.
You would have been a child when yeet started becoming popular though
Up to 24 people are sympathetic. You will find a lot of people that will (correctly) say "you're young. Just enjoy your time you don't need to worry about where you're headed. It will come to you". Wait until next year. 25 is when that changes to "what the fuck are you doing with your life". Basically what I'm saying is you're not old. Until next year.
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I'm old enough to literally not care one bit what the youngins do or if I really understand them. I don't need them to be my clone to live them. They got their thing just like I had mine. Circle of life.
I'm old and new words are neat
I like to use 1920s slang to even things out.
Well, got to skedaddle.
I'm 40+ and I keep inventing words with friends, why blame the young ones ?
(I mean except for the fact that they listen to shitty music and ours was better 👴)
You probably just forgot about all the bad music you used to listen to and now compares all the new stuff to the best from your time.
That was supposed to be an old grumpy man joke
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OP glazing
Isn't he cheering in that scene?
You're zenging, mosh
Is now a bad time to point out that all words are made up? If your generation got to do it, there's no reason to begrudge any other.
Yeet