You can read a book or listen to someone read something from the 1800s and there will be words you're not familiar with, but there's enough context that you can infer the meaning.
Scrolling through black people twitter (also gen z'ers because their slang is ebonic ghetto speak), it's constant speaking in what amounts to code.
Inference doesn't help, context doesn't help.
Heck, even looking it up doesn't really help half the time.
I've looked up the definition of "based" many times and still couldn't give you a good definition of it, which is why it's this catch all term that leftists use too. Because it doesn't mean anything.
There's always been slang in every generation that older people go "huh"
But basically an 80s teen could communicate with a an old person no problem even if the old person doesn't know what radical or tubular means.
With ebonics, it's much closer to a foreign language than mere slang.
I feel like if I encountered the term radical if twitter was around in the 80s, it would take me all of 30 seconds to infer the meaning....oh they say this whenever they see something really impressive....ok radical = impressive
But you go through black twitter and the worst inclined aspects of Gen z twitter and context and inference will not help you.
Again that's more the experience of stumbling upon Japanese twitter. You can stare at those Japanese letters all day long and you won't be able to pick up the meaning.
So yeah, when people call themselves black, and rarely ever identify as American, or have essentially a foreign identity, and speak a foreign language essentially, they're kind of like foreigners.
Not entirely in disagreement, but I just searched for the definition of based, and both normal online dictionaries and urban dictionary had the modern slang definition.
"The slang term "based" is used to describe someone who is confident in their beliefs and unbothered by others' opinions, especially when expressing controversial or unconventional views."
That's essentially the definition I get, but it's such a meaningless word.
I see transgender stuff being called based by leftists, and it's not like snowflake where they're trying to unsuccessfully co-opt it.
Based is literally a normie term that means "I like this".
When it can be used for any context anywhere by anybody to mean anything, it's not a word.
I mean, someone could say "well radical and tubular were catch all terms"
here's the difference. If anybody in the 80s saw two dudes kissing and said "that's rad" everyone would look at them and go "faggot".
If you called your grandmothers painting of a cat "radical", people would roll their eyes at that and think it was a bit embarrassing.
There were contexts where rad made way more sense than others.
If a guy landed a gnarly trick on a skateboard and you say "that was radical dude", that is 100% an expected use of the word.
If a guy has a girlfriend that is fun to talk to and someone says "You've got a rad chick", again, that would be an expected use of the word.
Rad was the 80s version of the word groovy. There's certain things you would call groovy, and certain things where if you called it groovy, you'd get some weird looks, because it's typically reserved for certain contexts. Like if you were listening to Pink Floyd and you said, "this is groovy, this is far out" people would think "that's the correct use of the word groovy.
You could personally like polka music, but if you called it "groovy" people would probably laugh at you. You could say "It's weird, but I kind of like it" and people would accept it even if they ragged you for liking Polka, but calling Polka "groovy" would get people mocking you full stop.
See, the slang even as catch all as they were, had pretty specific contexts in which you would expect to hear them.
Based gets used by everyone for everything and is thus completely meaningless. It's a slang that means "I like this thing according to my sesnibilities".
And here's the thing, based is one of the EASIER inferred words despite every normie using it for whatever purpose. I was on Twitter and someone made a vague post and the black people kept saying "This is loss"
That's not a typo, they kept going "Is this loss"
"This loss"
"This is loss"
and other variations of it. I could look up the slang, but I have no desire to. I'm tired of knowing things like "cap" and "keep it 100" and other bullcrap. I kept scrolling until I could figure out what "This is loss" means, and I never could figure out despite seeing dozens of examples.
I assume since these comments were posted on a vague post that "This is loss" means something like "I don't know what this means"
Which again, is like retarded code.
Wouldn't typing "???" three question marks express the same thing and not seem retarded. The question mark is the universal sign of "I'm confused by this. But "this is loss", like all the ghetto slang, sounds like someone half retarded and barely understands English had a stroke while trying to communicate an idea.
Could it have been they were saying the vague post was the loss meme? Which isn't a black thing.
Could be, have no idea what loss meme is