Tuesday Top Ten: Slang I Just Can’t Use (Part II)

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Tuesday Top Ten: Slang I Just Can’t Use (Part II)

Now that you think you’re not cheugy and that you are full of rizz because you know all the bussin words all your moots are drippin…

In english:

Just when you thought you were up on the new new slang kids these day are using, making you stylish being able to say the proper vernacular your friends are using, there are ones you probably haven’t come across unless you are a parent of a Gen-Alpher.

Many of the words, unsurprisingly, have their origins from social media. I was going to include examples, but there are many web pages that go into more detail.

Top Ten Slang Words I Can’t Use (Part II)

10. Yeet: An expression of excitement, or happiness or to throw something forcefully without care.
9. Ohio: something bad or stupid
8. Bet: Used to respond to agree to do something.
7. Ate: This word, often used as a verb, describes something that is exceptionally good or awe-inspiring.
6. Delulu: Short for delusional.
5. Mewing: A behavior that involves changing the appearance of your jawline by repositioning your tongue in the mouth.
4. Sigma: Someone (or something) who is cool or popular but not domineering as an alpha male/female
3. Gyat: A short form of “goddam” Used while responding to something shocking or fascinating, but it can also be a comment on the size of someone’s rear.
2. Skibiti: It can be used to describe something as bad or being up to no good.
1. Fanum Tax: to snatch food away from another.

Okay, I said I wasn’t going to give examples, but the last two are probably making you wonder. So…

Skibiti

There is a YouTube series called Skibiti Toilet (no I didn’t make that up) about toilets with human heads coming out of them (no I didn’t make that up either) bent on taking over the world. It spawned many memes on social media.

I was going to include the video for it, but after watching it, I couldn’t bring myself to subject you to the…what’s the word…oh, yeah…the Ohio of it all. But if you have $50, here’s a costume idea for your kids:

Nope. I didn’t spend an hour photoshopping that. but if you are really curious: Skibiti Toilet Episode 1

Is it safe for work? Sure, but your coworkers might raise an eyebrow, unless they have kids of a certain age, then you’ll have something to talk about. And when I say talk, I mean bitch and complain about “Kids these days.”

Fanum Tax

Made popular by a live streamer, Fanum, on the platform, Twitch. Fanum was invited on a show where he took fries off the plate of the host and said that it was the cost of hanging out and being friends with him. So in order to curry favor with the popular kids you have to pay the “Fanum tax.”

While looking up some of the meanings, I discovered a site, Bark.com, to help you relate to your Gen Alpha kids which asks:

Need to talk with your child about slang meanings? Here are a few conversation starters for kids to help you teach them healthy tech habits.

Well, here are those conversation starters and the answers I suspect would follow:

Q: “What’s a new word you and your friends are into right now?”
A: [eyeroll]Q: “When I was your age, people would say something was ‘all that and a bag of chips’ if it was awesome. What’s your favorite word to describe something as cool?”
A: [eyroll] “You’re so Ohio, Dad,”Q: “I know emojis can mean something different to kids than they do to parents. Are there any emojis I use that you think I should stop using?”
A: “ALL OF THEM, MOM, ALL OF THEM. Just please stop.”Q: “If you could describe yourself using just one emoji, which one would you pick?”
A:

-Leon

Here’s the first one:

Tuesday Top Ten: Slang I Just Can’t Use

*Annoyed

Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.

My new book page: http://books.linesbyleon.com/