The world is screwed. It's Over. It's done!!! The Future is No More!

[ShelbyDawn57]

The proof?


Phrases like this have creeped into the our languages.

"I’m lowkey rambling bout nothin ... "​

WTF is 'lowkey' and how did it pollute everyday statements?


Post your signs of the de-evolution of humanity into unintelligible chaos.

Chill, man, it's cool, on the sly, like whispered in the dark to no one there. Feel me? Mellow is where it's at. Just be caz, cuz it's all lowkey, dude.

 

[AwkwardMD]

Chill, man, it's cool, on the sly, like whispered in the dark to no one there. Feel me? Mellow is where it's at. Just be caz, cuz it's all lowkey, dude.

This is streets ahead.

(This is a deep cut Community reference, for the unaware)

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

'It's OK Stewardess, I speak Jive.'

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Cripes.

Language evolves, don't cha know, old bean?. Deal with it.

Especially English, often in back alleys with disproportionate force.

 

[stickygirl]

Oftentimes

where did this recently emerge from?
It has the flavour of Olde-English, like hereinafter or aforesaid, but at least those have purpose.

Oftentimes is pointless - it's often.

No need to give it that just-stepped-off-the-Mayflower vibe.

 

[PennyThompson]

WTF is 'lowkey' and how did it pollute everyday statements?


Post your signs of the de-evolution of humanity into unintelligible chaos.

Imma tryna ....

'It's OK Stewardess, I speak Jive.'

Oopsies, I'm starting to think that maybe you just don't like how certain kinds of people talk, or rather a very narrow stereotyped perception of it based on things you've seen on tv... Got any strong opinions about popular musical genres or ways of wearing pants too?

(Yes I know the last quote was from Airplane!)

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I don't watch TV.

 

[AwkwardMD]

Oopsies, I'm starting to think that maybe you just don't like how certain kinds of people talk, or rather a very narrow stereotyped perception of it based on things you've seen on tv... Got any strong opinions about popular musical genres or ways of wearing pants too?

(Yes I know the last quote was from Airplane!)

I noticed that too

 

[Rob_Royale]

The proof?
Phrases like this have creeped into the our languages.
"I’m lowkey rambling bout nothin ... "
WTF is 'lowkey' and how did it pollute everyday statements?
Post your signs of the de-evolution of humanity into unintelligible chaos.

People have been ranting about that since the contraction 'ain't' came to common use. So far, the sky hasn't fallen.

 

[THBGato]

So presumably you're also cross that we aren't using thou, thee, thy and thine? Are you also bemoaning the use of slang terms such as talented, cool and gay?

 

[dirk2024]

Starting a sentence with the words, "I mean..."



It's becoming so prevalent I see author's who are writing it into their dialog here on Lit.

 

[Erozetta]

Starting a sentence with the words, "I mean..."



It's becoming so prevalent I see author's who are writing it into their dialog here on Lit.

I mean... Fair.

(also, I do this a lot and make no apologies for it.)

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Waves to my AH Fan Club.


Y'all's a hoot.

 

[Erozetta]

Look, I grew up in Ohio and Alabama then moved to Massachusetts. My vernacular is quite fucked.

I can be fixin' to grab a buggy from a shop to pick up a mango and pop and get water from a bubbler at any moment.

 

[SimonDoom]

"I mean" is, like, excellent.

 

[dirk2024]

I mean... Fair.

(also, I do this a lot and make no apologies for it.)

 

[onehitwanda]

I had a friend from the UK who did this and I started doing it. I caught myself once and laid into him and told him I'd hate for the first time we meet in person to result in me murdering him for fucking up my already lacking grammar skills.

He stopped using it after that.

We'll stop doing it when you fuckers stop putting Z everywhere.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

I mean it's like lowkey hella sick

 

[AwkwardMD]

I mean it's like lowkey hella sick

Shaka brah

 

[SouthernCrossfire]

"End of."
"[Adjective] as" - "sweet as", for example, or "sexy as".

Both of these without completing the phrase or comparison. I know everybody is in a hurry these days, but come on!

I'm not sure about the first one (and haven't heard it) but the second often seems like an attempt to look hip without adding the implied "fuck" (or, among the older crowd, "hell" or maybe "shit") at the end. Maybe they're sparing the ears of younger kids who don't understand the implication, but most adults do.

The similar one that I'll throw out is "sweet AF" or "sexy AF" or "cute AF," often proclaimed on a t-shirt. Talking about one's date with friends with one of those terms might be one thing, but someone proclaiming one of them about oneself on a t-shirt would make me question how snobbish the person was and have doubts about the wearer's veracity.

 

[iwatchus]

Starting a sentence with the words, "I mean..."



It's becoming so prevalent I see author's who are writing it into their dialog here on Lit.

That's hardly new. That was common in discussions when I was in elementary school, way too many decades ago. Arlo Guthrie uses it Alice's Restaurant and that's almost 60 years ago now. I don't know how much older than that it is.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

We'll stop doing it when you fuckers stop putting Z everywhere.

Zaddy? Sorry

 

[Erozetta]

We'll stop doing it when you fuckers stop putting Z everywhere.

We'll stop swapping s's for z's if y'all will stop calling a tire a tyre and a curb a kerb.

I do prefer grey and dreamt, though.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

We'll stop swapping s's for z's if y'all will stop calling a tire a tyre and a curb a kerb.

I do prefer grey and dreamt, though.

Queueing remains useful, as does putting the boot in.

 

[StillStunned]

The only acceptable time to pronounce "Z" as "zee" instead of "zed" is when you're talking about ZZ Top.