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Vent: my 13 year old niece said 'cherry-picked' at dinner and I'm scared this new slang wave is spreading too fast
So last Friday at my sister's place in Columbus, my niece looks at my plate and goes "you cherry-picked all the good rolls, that's so mid." I laughed it off, but then she used "cherry-picked" three more times in ten minutes, once about homework and once about her friend's Spotify playlist. Here's the thing: cherry-picked used to mean something specific, like when a study only picks the data that helps its case, and now it just means picking anything. I also heard "mid" from her four times and "cooked" twice in that same dinner. A guy at my work told me his kid said "six seven" to describe something and I had to look it up on my phone under the table. I'm not saying slang is bad, I'm saying the speed is wild, like these terms get pulled from one TikTok video and then boom, everyone in middle school is using them wrong. Has anyone else noticed a word getting stripped of its original meaning this fast, and which one bugged you the most?
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