Years ago I dated this person from a teeny tiny European country - a country with almost no history with the US, low tourism, a country even Europeans would struggle to place on the map.
And I remember us going on our first date and them immediately launching in African American slang, I'm not even going to try to replicate it here in writing. I initially thought this must be leading up to some sort of joke, because surely you can't talk like this - it is sooooo far removed from what should come organically to you. I was wrong, that's how they spoke and it made me so incredibly uncomfortable and confused.
I noticed later on that they spent an embarassing amount of time on TikTok. They were the personification of their TikTok feed, never seen anything like it.
this is WILD. absolutely wild!!!!! i feel like...that's going to become a norm, especially as (i'd assume) many persons who speak (or are learning english) are going to be parroting various aspects of digital speak. that's "not new" but i think this person and the tweens saying slay, bestie, cunt, skibidi, etc. are drinking from the same well. OY!!
Yes to the brain rot. I don't think it's an accident that it's political btw. The Internet hyper stimulates the left brain at the expense of the right brain. Politics being more left brained than, say, culture, which is more right brained.
Years ago I dated this person from a teeny tiny European country - a country with almost no history with the US, low tourism, a country even Europeans would struggle to place on the map.
And I remember us going on our first date and them immediately launching in African American slang, I'm not even going to try to replicate it here in writing. I initially thought this must be leading up to some sort of joke, because surely you can't talk like this - it is sooooo far removed from what should come organically to you. I was wrong, that's how they spoke and it made me so incredibly uncomfortable and confused.
I noticed later on that they spent an embarassing amount of time on TikTok. They were the personification of their TikTok feed, never seen anything like it.
this is WILD. absolutely wild!!!!! i feel like...that's going to become a norm, especially as (i'd assume) many persons who speak (or are learning english) are going to be parroting various aspects of digital speak. that's "not new" but i think this person and the tweens saying slay, bestie, cunt, skibidi, etc. are drinking from the same well. OY!!
Yes to the brain rot. I don't think it's an accident that it's political btw. The Internet hyper stimulates the left brain at the expense of the right brain. Politics being more left brained than, say, culture, which is more right brained.
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