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.