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I've always been this way.
Oct. 25th, 2024 03:40 pmOriginal Facebook post: Image of a tweet reading "Dostoyevsky kinda ate with "your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.""
Me: Ate what?
Them: “he ate” = “he did a great job, excelled, dominated”
Me: Uh, no, "he ate" means he had food he chewed up and swallowed. LOL did you fail preschool?
Them: lol have you never heard of slang?
Me: Yeah but that's the stupidest slang I've ever heard of. Capitalism has us so beat down that we're using having an actual meal as slang for winning. Yet we're still not eating the rich. Pathetic.
Them: capitalism is awful, but I really can’t see why this usage is a problem
Me: "He ate" reads to me like an incomplete sentence. Also it's the stupidest slang I've ever heard. Makes "skibidi" and "whackadoo" sound cultured.
Them: it follows the grammatical pattern of “he slayed”. It’s pretty silly to have such a strong opinion about this.
Me: Yes but "He slayed" is at least a complete sentence.
And if it's silly for me to have a strong opinion on this, then you're being just as silly arguing with me about it.
Them: Alexander Antonin “he ate” is also a complete sentence
Kitty Auburn Payne: (at Them) eh, Alex can be stubborn about things. Though, more often than not he usually is correct about stuff he is being stubborn about
This is one of those things I'm inclined to just let him be silly stubborn about, as a treat
Kitty Auburn Payne: (At Me) Now you've joined the ranks of grumpy old codgers that made claims about slang from our generation 😛
I might look up the dumb crap codgers said about us... if I care about it or have energy
I'm inclined to just let you be stubborn about this--as a treat 😛
Me: (At Them) Point to me any instance where anyone has ever said "He ate." in a non-slang way, I dare you. Usually what gets said instead is "He has eaten (already)" or "He's eaten." "Ate" is used right before specifying what specific food someone ate.
Even if you did use "ate" the wrong way, it usually comes paired with "already," like "He already ate." Nobody ever just said "He ate" as a complete sentence on its own before it became this weird slang thing.
Me: (At Kitty Auburn Payne) I complain about plenty of stuff from other generations as well. The Beatles' music is horrible, most of the modern popular music is horrible but that's always been generally true; pretty much the only reason most enduring oldies music continues being played is that everyone got their music tastes from radio, and most people are too lazy to explore beyond that. Now that we have various Internet services competing for our listening, it's pretty much required to go searching around for stuff you like. The lowest common denominator people still stick with whatever's played the most on their service of choice, but there's fewer of them than in the radio days, so the music they like is correspondingly worse. But plenty of good music is still being made, if you're not too lazy or stupid to look for it. Hell, there's many times more good music now than ever before.
Back to slang, I have fewer issues with older generations' slang mostly just because all the really stupid things from those generations have already long since fallen into disuse.
Also, I only really have issue with "he ate" and "skibidi." For the most part I not only have no issue with modern gen z / alpha slang, I even use a lot of it myself. It's mainly just those two terms in particular that bug me, and the level of annoyance I get from "skibidi" is almost nonexistent, TBH. Mostly I just consider it an absurdist humor reference.
Me: (At Kitty Auburn Payne) Mostly I complain about things because I'm autistic and lots of things neurotypicals think is normal are utterly bizarre and nonsensical to me. I give the vibe of seeming like an old coot because I don't care for most things that are popular in society, but I've been like that since I was a small child. I like what I like and I complain about what I don't like or don't understand, and I've always been doing that my entire life. Just now that I happen to be 42 it's now being viewed as being due to my being old, but nope. I've literally always been this way.
Me: Ate what?
Them: “he ate” = “he did a great job, excelled, dominated”
Me: Uh, no, "he ate" means he had food he chewed up and swallowed. LOL did you fail preschool?
Them: lol have you never heard of slang?
Me: Yeah but that's the stupidest slang I've ever heard of. Capitalism has us so beat down that we're using having an actual meal as slang for winning. Yet we're still not eating the rich. Pathetic.
Them: capitalism is awful, but I really can’t see why this usage is a problem
Me: "He ate" reads to me like an incomplete sentence. Also it's the stupidest slang I've ever heard. Makes "skibidi" and "whackadoo" sound cultured.
Them: it follows the grammatical pattern of “he slayed”. It’s pretty silly to have such a strong opinion about this.
Me: Yes but "He slayed" is at least a complete sentence.
And if it's silly for me to have a strong opinion on this, then you're being just as silly arguing with me about it.
Them: Alexander Antonin “he ate” is also a complete sentence
Kitty Auburn Payne: (at Them) eh, Alex can be stubborn about things. Though, more often than not he usually is correct about stuff he is being stubborn about
This is one of those things I'm inclined to just let him be silly stubborn about, as a treat
Kitty Auburn Payne: (At Me) Now you've joined the ranks of grumpy old codgers that made claims about slang from our generation 😛
I might look up the dumb crap codgers said about us... if I care about it or have energy
I'm inclined to just let you be stubborn about this--as a treat 😛
Me: (At Them) Point to me any instance where anyone has ever said "He ate." in a non-slang way, I dare you. Usually what gets said instead is "He has eaten (already)" or "He's eaten." "Ate" is used right before specifying what specific food someone ate.
Even if you did use "ate" the wrong way, it usually comes paired with "already," like "He already ate." Nobody ever just said "He ate" as a complete sentence on its own before it became this weird slang thing.
Me: (At Kitty Auburn Payne) I complain about plenty of stuff from other generations as well. The Beatles' music is horrible, most of the modern popular music is horrible but that's always been generally true; pretty much the only reason most enduring oldies music continues being played is that everyone got their music tastes from radio, and most people are too lazy to explore beyond that. Now that we have various Internet services competing for our listening, it's pretty much required to go searching around for stuff you like. The lowest common denominator people still stick with whatever's played the most on their service of choice, but there's fewer of them than in the radio days, so the music they like is correspondingly worse. But plenty of good music is still being made, if you're not too lazy or stupid to look for it. Hell, there's many times more good music now than ever before.
Back to slang, I have fewer issues with older generations' slang mostly just because all the really stupid things from those generations have already long since fallen into disuse.
Also, I only really have issue with "he ate" and "skibidi." For the most part I not only have no issue with modern gen z / alpha slang, I even use a lot of it myself. It's mainly just those two terms in particular that bug me, and the level of annoyance I get from "skibidi" is almost nonexistent, TBH. Mostly I just consider it an absurdist humor reference.
Me: (At Kitty Auburn Payne) Mostly I complain about things because I'm autistic and lots of things neurotypicals think is normal are utterly bizarre and nonsensical to me. I give the vibe of seeming like an old coot because I don't care for most things that are popular in society, but I've been like that since I was a small child. I like what I like and I complain about what I don't like or don't understand, and I've always been doing that my entire life. Just now that I happen to be 42 it's now being viewed as being due to my being old, but nope. I've literally always been this way.
