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Joe Hollon
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Posted: 29 July 2025 at 11:20am | IP Logged | 1 post reply
This thread lost me.
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Paul Greer
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Posted: 29 July 2025 at 11:47am | IP Logged | 2 post reply
Nope. It was used to describe an inanimate
object. A young colleague of mine called a
nice pen 'cute' a few weeks ago. Maybe it's a
new Brit thing...
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Seriously? None of this is new. That is a cute
bag. That is a cute dress. This has been part
of the lexicon for as long as I can remember.
See the Oxford dictionary.

anthropomorphism

noun
the attribution of human characteristics or
behavior to a god, animal, or object.
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John Byrne

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Posted: 29 July 2025 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
Off topic: when I first learned “anthropomorphism” it became instantly my new favorite word.

I was about 12.

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Craig Earl
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Seriously? None of this is new. That is a cute
bag. That is a cute dress. This has been part
of the lexicon for as long as I can remember.
See the Oxford dictionary.

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Yes, I get this being applied to a clothes item. But again, a pen?
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Paul Greer
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Methinks you're trying too hard not to
understand.
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Michael Roberts
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Here’s a small sample of Gen Alpha slang, currently in their tweens:

Sigma
Alpha
Rizz
Skibidi
Fanum Tax
Ohio
Mewing
Aura Points
Looksmaxxing
Brain Rot
GYAT/Gyatt
Delulu

Here’s some Gen Z slang (currently in their teens to late 20s):

Cap/No cap
Slay
Bet
Sus
Lit
Cheugy
Tea
Yeet
Bussin’
Drip
Bruh
Bop
It’s giving

Discussion over whether a pen can be cute or not is not giving. 
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John Byrne

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I just learned “shipped”, short for “relationship”.

This apparently refers to imagining couples where none are stated by the authors. (Dr Watson was a woman.. .)

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Michael Penn
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My 17 year old son and 14 year old daughter inform me regularly that most of the terms we older folk think the kids use are already falling or have fallen into desuetude... dude. :)
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John Byrne

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When I did LAB RATS I had one of the characters use “dude” prompting snark online about whether the series was “set in the 90s” since NO ONE used “dude” anymore.

Except people I saw every night on (current) TV.

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Brian Rhodes
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My wife has a collection of "cute" purses, as noted by herself and her contemporaries, most of them in their 50s. Though younger people have used the same verbiage to describe them. 

And yes, I've heard her describe a pen with the same word. 
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Brian Miller
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“Low key” is one my kids throw out often. I always reply with “Loki? What
does Thor have to do with it?”

They also actually use a lot of text speak out loud. Like, all exclamations are
OMG and they say each letter. Or they’ll say a sentence and end it with LOL.
It’s maddening.
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Brian Rhodes
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Posted: 29 July 2025 at 6:32pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply
My 17 year old son and 14 year old daughter inform me regularly that most of the terms we older folk think the kids use are already falling or have fallen into desuetude... dude. :)
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When I did LAB RATS I had one of the characters use “dude” prompting snark online about whether the series was “set in the 90s” since NO ONE used “dude” anymore.

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I think some slang terms become entrenched and stick around for decades, some fall by the wayside fairly quickly.

"Dope", "sick", "hot", "rad", and to some extent, even "groovy", are still used as positive descriptors. 

I think the ones that drop out fast are the ones people tried too hard to make a thing. Remember "on fleek"? Probably not so much. But "on point", "off the hook", and "off the chain" - pretty much all meaning the same thing - still get used.

I don't think "dude" is going anywhere soon. Kinda hoping "bruh" does...but probably not. It's just a derivative of "bro", which has been around for some time. 

I kinda like the ones that sort of abbreviate words, like "sus"(picious) or (ca)"rizz"(ma). "Delulu" is a new one to me, but I'm guessing its meaning is similar to that of "cra-cra" (which doesn't really abbreivate "crazy" as much as make it sound...cute).
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