Older people of lemmy what is some nuance sayings or typed on the net that you would like to have explained to you?

I'm already hep to your jive, so I know what's fly.

Streets ahead.
I'm just picturing June cleaver speaking jive on an airplane now...

Younger people of lemmy, what are some nuanced sayings that you would like to have explained to you?

Privacy - Privacy is the state or condition of being free from public attention or unsanctioned intrusion, allowing individuals to control their personal information and maintain boundaries from others. It involves the right to keep one’s personal life, thoughts, and activities confidential, and to decide what information is shared and with whom. Privacy ensures protection from surveillance, interference, and misuse of one’s personal data, supporting autonomy and dignity in personal and professional contexts.

I know y’all had a rough start growing up online, but that word really used to be important to us grey beards who watched all this online stuff unfold over the decades.

Sometimes I wonder if the younger folks realize you don’t have to document your life on the internet.
Why do old people always follow the same rules of syntax and grammar?

Just kidding I’m old and I want to know why young people mangle english so much.
- bcuz its qwiker
- Stupidity, laziness, memes, twitter, AAVE
- I think it’s probably an attempt to be unique. Our written words have a massive forum of eyes on them that was never achieved before in human history. So we all wanna be unique? Unsure but that’s my guess. That and it’s possible humans inner monologue is being displayed more accurately and with less fear of repercussion.
what's a lefty-capucinno ?

"Older" needs a reference point, son.

I'm 5 yrs older than a caterpillar that turned into a cocoon. I've never seen it again for two decades
- Found the nuanced saying.

There was a multi panel comic posted today or yesterday, I think the final panel mentioned skibidi.

Found it. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3caedeba-754f-4af7-8130-bbc45aa77ce1.jpeg

1: Father, you have no respect. You simper over mother without end, and it brings shame upon me.

2: Quite. I may be "skip to the lou, my darling", but your mother has earned my undying respect. My world goes crazy without her.

3: She's a gentleman of audacious taste.

4: Double France? Double France.
- Fr stands" for real"
Is…is this Loss?

Skibidi. I know it's based on some YouTube things but I don't get it.

Skibidi comes from Scatman and no one can convince me otherwise.
- Skee ba bop ba dop bop, ba bop ba dop bop
It's part of a lyric from an Arabic song that was featured in some viral Tiktok videos, most notably this one

It became sort of a filler word, but mostly think of it as being synonymous with "cool"
- Does that have anything to do with skibidi toilet or is that an entirely different thing?
- Huh and here I thought it was a reference to the Little Big song of the same name
I think that is a person or at least something can somewhat let me know?

My son told me that DTF means "Doing the Face Book", but I sometimes see it being used in other sites that I like to visit that aren't social media sites. Does the Face Book really carry that much weight on the Internet? What does "Doing the Face Book" really mean exactly?

Pretty sure you’re shitposting, but for any parents who don’t know, it means “down to fuck.”
- Well don't know if he is shitposting but for the longest time I thought Netflix and chill was just inviting someone over and watch a movie. Until the other day someone told me that the expectation is to fuck.
It means "down to fuck", it means your open to sexual activity. Doing the Facebook is a lie hea telling you to avoid the awkward situation
ROFLcopter
- ROFL:ROFL:ROFL:ROFL _^___ L __/ [] \ LOL===__ \ L \________] I I --------/
I work in accounting and had a boss (younger than me) who abbreviated Due to/from as DTF and I never figured out if he was trolling us or just had never come across it. If he was trolling he never once broke. I still talk to him but can't bring myself to ask.
- If they have a sense of humor that would laugh at this concept. They fucking know.

Oh my God one day I walked out of my room and my high school kid looked at me and said:

"That fit shreds"

And it was the first time I had been honestly perplexed by slang, had absolutely no idea what they were trying to convey. Turns out they liked my clothes that day.

TIL I hang out with just enough youngins to read this and be like "they like your outfit." It's gotta be the early 20s kids at work that I've caught onto what they're saying lol.
"That fit shreds" = that's an awesome outfit

Synonyms for Fit: outfit, drip, gear, cloth(es), getup

Synonyms for shreds: killer, swag, gnarly, rad, sick, dank, cool, fire (🔥),

Your drip is fire

Your outfit is cool

Your gear is rad

Your clothes are sick

Your getup is dank

Your cloth is killer

All pretty equivalent statements which you may relate to more based on era of terminology you grew up with.

(This is from my brain dictionary, real life experiences may be different)

Edit: Proper spacing to avoid aneurysm
I'm so sick of everything being a "fit". OUTFIT. Drip? Ugh.
- Oh do I have a song for you. Jason Isbell "Outfit". His dad's advice on being a man.
  
  "Don't call what you're wearing an outfit, don't ever say your car is broke.."

I hear it more in-person recently, but also online. What does "out-of-pocket" mean when describing behavior? I've only ever heard it used to describe financial circumstances until a couple years ago.

It seems like it's roughly synonymous with "crazy" or "rude" or "unexpected", but I'd love to have it explained better.

That's pretty much it. It's when somebody's behaviour is out of line.

Use it as an adjective: e.g. "You are/that is out of pocket"
In finance, out-of-pocket is synonymous with cash on hand, liquid assets. Means you can pay now without needing to incur a debt.

In business, out-of-pocket is usually synonymous with out-of-office, like AFK Away-From-Keyboard. Often shorter term than being fully on vacation. "I'll be OOP after 2pm for a doctor's appt."

I have recently heard out-of-pocket used among youngsters or the terminally-online to mean rude or crazy, like you said. "Beyond the standards of normalcy".
Same here the only out of pocket I have ever heard is either when your broke or having to pay for something.
"out of pocket" is what you pay, but may not be the total cost of the item/service. "I only had to pay $50 out of pocket and my insurance covered the rest"

It can also be used in business to mean unavailable. "I have to take my kid to the doctor and will be out of pocket for a couple of hours"

Based?

Don't know exactly but something similar to a mixture of a brave, true, and cool statement. Think it was first used by right wing chuds but then adopted ironically by terminally online liberals.

You'd say "based" if you agree with the political messaging of something.

(Pls correct me if I'm wrong)
- Generally agree, but I think right wing chuds were the second wave usage trying to co-opt the meaning to be opposite of woke.
I've often seen "based" as a shorthand for "based in reality" or "true"
It's just signalling for members of the clique. Totally fetch.

Pog/poggers. I’m old but usually up on things as a long-time knight-of-new but this term slipped by me years ago and I never caught its meaning.

Twitch is a popular live stream platform, on it users can post emotes which have names. One of the oldest and most popular emotes is pogchamp, it used to be the face of a streamer who made the expression after winning a game of pog but he got banned for some controversial statements (typical right wing covid denial, jan6th apologia) and the emote was replaced with a lizard making a similar face. This has slowly bled into the mainstream just as the word pog or poggers.

The facial expression sums up it's meaning, but it's basically one of shocked happiness, you would use it if a streamer does something rare/lucky/skillful. Luke sky-walker turning off his targeting computer but still destroying the deathstar is poggers. Getting an A on a multiple choice test despite guessing every answer is poggers.
- Is it really pogs that started this and not "Play Of the Game"?
- Eh, we still have the better definition of Pogs. Remember Pogs?
It’s an expression of shock and excitement. It comes from a specific image that became a Twitch emote of the same name. If you look up “pog” or “pogchamp”, you should find the image. The face pretty much speaks for itself. It’s one of the staples of Twitch chat culture

The term has also evolved in everyday speech as essentially being equivalent to “sick” or “dope”
- I always thought pog was the thing in the 90's where you would have to flip them and whatever flipped you got to keep.
- It's like when gg became I surrender or it's gg, it's lost.
POG = Play of the Game

It was used by people in the chat when watching video game streamers pull off an impressive play.

It just kind of morphed out of that to mean something awesome happened.

"Ohio"

What does it mean? Yknow other than a place in the US that had some scary chemical leaks some time ago.

Ohio as a state is a liminal space full of cornfields and a feeling of wasted potential. A disproportionate number of American astronauts come from Ohio, proving that the primary thing on the minds of Ohioans is getting as far away from Ohio as possible no matter the cost.

If something is Ohio it's a place or a situation that you don't want to be in. It's a dead end with a feeling of vague discomfort.
- Thanks, that's the most explanatory answer I got
Basically New Jersey
Does anyone actually want to be in Ohio? If something is Ohio, it's that vague uncomfortable ugly failure feeling.
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I think it means boring.
Ohio has a LOT of people in it for no real reason, if you look at the population for states the top 3 all have something that's unique... then there's Ohio. There's nothing going on from Ohio it's just kinda.. there. So naturally it became a meme
- What I'm getting out of all these replies is that Ohio is to the United States as Acre is to Brazil.
  
  ... I wonder if every country has a place like this. Some god-forsaken part of the country that has nothing at all going for it and so people like to clown on it (for Acre the joke we do is "it doesn't actually exist" and/or "it's home to all sorts of cryptids and bizarre creatures")

Why don't the people of Hex Bear get new jokes? They were worn out already on reddit after the first couple of years.

What is GOAT? Someone here called me that, and I'm not sure if it was good or bad.

Being "the goat" or "goated" is good. No clue as to the etymology though.
- I finally was brave enough to Google, and it means Greatest Of All Time.