I'm 33, that's not the age where there's a giant gap in how people talk, not this type of gap, where there's a nearly foreign difference.

A 33 year old in the 80s would not be confused by the teens using rad and tubular and whatnot. Just like "Fa shizzle my nizzle" wasn't particularly confusing, even though it was retarded.

An 80 year old in the 80s would be confused by rad and tubular.

That sort of language degredation between people just over 10 years apart is not expected.

The reason is because the ebonics crap has been utterly confusing for decades. If you ever encountered even in mid to early 2000s, black people hanging out, it was so difficult to understand half of what they were talking about. Ebonics has been a seperately sort of developed thing all along. I was a teenager in camp and when the black guys were speaking the Ebonics, I couldn't understand anything. Was I "too old" as a teenager?

The reason Gen Z is non-understandable is because their slang is rooted in an entirely different culture than young people in the 80s were rooted in.

80s young people, were still iterating on the same white culture slang since like the 40s and 50s. Cool Cat, hip, square...things like that in the 50s became the rad, tubular, and bogus...thus the common throughline.

The more that slang among white culture has adopted ebonics, starting with the late 90s/early 2000s today, the harder it is to make an inference about what it means.

Someone who was young in the 50s and used "hip" would instinctively understand the term rad when they were 50 in the 80s even if they didn't personally use the word.

Ebonics is a totally different starting point, and Gen Z has embraced ebonics slang wholesale.

That's why it sounds foreign to a 33 year old, because it sounded foreign to teenage me as well.

I'm 33, that's not the age where there's a giant gap in how people talk, not this type of gap, where there's a nearly foreign difference.

A 33 year old in the 80s would not be confused by the teens using rad and tubular and whatnot. Just like "Fa shizzle my nizzle" wasn't particularly confusing, even though it was retarded.

An 80 year old in the 80s would be confused by rad and tubular.

That sort of language degredation between people just over 10 years apart is not expected.

The reason is because the ebonics crap has been utterly confusing for decades. If you ever encountered even in mid to early 2000s, black people hanging out, it was so difficult to understand half of what they were talking about. Ebonics has been a seperately sort of developed thing all along. I was a teenager in camp and when the black guys were speaking the Ebonics, I couldn't understand anything. Was I "too old" as a teenager?

The reason Gen Z is non-understandable is because they're slang is rooted in an entirely different culture than young people in the 80s were rooted in.

80s young people, were still iterating on the same white culture slang since like the 40s and 50s. Cool Cat, hip, square...things like that in the 50s became the rad, tubular, and bogus...thus the common throughline.

The more that slang among white culture has adopted ebonics, starting with the late 90s/early 2000s today, the harder it is to make an inference about what it means.

Someone who was young in the 50s and used "hip" would understand the term rad when they were 50 in the 80s even if they didn't say it.

Ebonics is a totally different starting point, and Gen Z has embraced ebonics slang wholesale.

That's why it sounds foreign to a 33 year old, because it sounded foreign to teenage me as well.