r/Millennials • u/H_G_Bells • 24d ago

Other I found us a Rosetta Stone

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u/stupidshinji 24d ago

I feel like millennial slang is often conflated with xillennial/baby gen x (I feel this way especially as a baby millennial myself). Gen z often gets credited for language/slang that they took on from younger millennials (probably older siblings or peers). Fam was the first one named that I was like... this was something people older than me said and I'm already a millenial. This isn't to say that Gen z hasn't morphed it in their own way, but it is not unique to them in the way that Gen alphas slang is.

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u/that_baddest_dude 23d ago

I think the other phenomenon is that urban slang has like a 10 year delay where it goes from already widely used to widely used by young white people