PSA: My 14 year old nephew yelled 'slay' at me and I had to Google it on the spot

I was making pancakes for my niece's birthday last Saturday and dropped a whole bowl of batter on the floor. My nephew Liam just stared and goes 'Aunt Gray, you slayed that one.' I thought he was being sarcastic about the mess. Turns out 'slay' means doing something really well now, so he was actually being NICE. I spent 20 minutes looking up Gen Z slang on Urban Dictionary after that. Has anyone else had a kid use a word that meant something totally different from what you thought?

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jessica_hall4920d ago

Oh man, I actually kind of disagree with this whole thing. I mean, isn't it nice that slang stays fluid and keeps us on our toes? Maybe it's just me but I think it's totally fine for words to mean different things to different generations. Like, my grandma still says "groovy" and nobody corrects her, so why can't "slay" just mean whatever we want it to mean? Idk, I feel like looking up Urban Dictionary is a fun little puzzle, not a crisis. If anything it keeps the language interesting instead of boring and stuck.

jana11920d ago

Does your grandma actually know what "groovy" means to anyone under 70, or is it just a nice sound she makes? Because the problem with "slay" isn't that it's fluid, it's that no one can agree on the rules. One day it means you look amazing, next day it means something else entirely and you're accidentally complimenting a tuna sandwich.