It's not just us, not just our generation. We're all guilty. Our parents, even our grandparents are guilty of using slang. In some weird way we’ve all come to catch ourselves using slang. Bae this, on fleek that, thot, hella, all some examples of words we use to emphasize and describe different things. Where did we get these from? Who was the first to say these and become ridiculed by friends before it went viral to everyone and their mother's vocabulary?
BAE.
When this first went viral, I personally had no clue what it meant. Tweets like “I miss bae,” or “this is bae,” were confusing the hell out of people everywhere. It’s hard going into using new slang words because you never know if its endearing or harshly offensive, so its so important to look into it. I decided to look into it on the most reliable source on the internet, urban dictionary. “An acronym for Before Anyone Else, Bæ/bae is a Danish word for poop. Also used by people on the internet who think it means baby, sweetie etc.” Look at us now, you can even type bae into dictionary.com and get results. Don’t you just love our generation?
Ratchet.
This just doesn’t sound good. You have to automatically assume that if someone calls you this, it's an automatic eight out of ten on an insult level. After looking it up, urban tells us it is “A diva, mostly from urban cities and ghettos, that has reason to believe she is every man's eye candy. Unfortunately, she's wrong,” then followed by some pretty awful descriptions. Long story short, don’t ever be ratchet.
Fleek.
The vine that went viral about someone's eyebrows had my mom telling me last week that the breakfast I made her was “on fleek.” Another slang word that went viral, and there's no going back, no matter how much it doesn’t make any sense. It's defined as “on point” and I have no idea what the point is of saying “on fleek” is, rather than “on point.” There’s the same amount of syllables and everything, but I guess we had to add some flare to the English language.
F*ckboy.
Run for the hills if your "bae" calls you this. I have no idea where it came from, but it's pretty self explanatory. “A guy who tries to get with everyone. A player. A guy who will lie to a girl to make them hook up with them or send pics.” Got to add the i at the end so that it’s even more insulting.
T.H.O.T.
Personally, I was convinced that people were just spelling the word “thought” wrong to be cute. Just like the word “doe,” but we’ll get to that another time. It's defined as “that hoe over there. Not exactly ratchet, but no where near a dimepiece,”This one just concerns me.
Well now you know, in case you didn’t before these were the halfway decent trending words all over the web that I initially had no idea what they meant. Tag your friends that overuse these words and must be stopped. Swag on.
