Every generation has slang, but Gen Alpha’s has a particularly unhinged quality, some parents say. Still, experts say their bad rep isn’t totally deserved.

In the beginning, there was “skibidi.

It appeared abruptly in the lexicons of kids under 14 — the first slang term unique to Generation Alpha. Parents’ ears perked up as they began to hear it around the dinner table. It could mean bad, cool, or nothing at all, their kids explained. Then a dozen more incomprehensible terms followed suit.

Gen Z’s “slay” and “tea” are officially vintage, giving way to “sigma, “gyatt” and “fanum tax.

Everyone’s getting whiplash.

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    It could mean bad, cool, or nothing at all, their kids explained

    So it’s a Schrodingly word

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      Not any different from, cool, hot, or ass.

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        Well it’s different from cool, hot, or ass because skibidi and gyatt isn’t a real word. I never heard a new word that got so many meaning shoved into them so fast it become meaningless.

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          skibidi and gyatt isn’t a real word

          Every word that we use wasn’t a real word until it started getting used. Rejecting new words is a prescriptivist fallacy. If anything this is an exciting time, because we get to study accelerated language changes.

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            Rejecting new words

            That wasn’t my intention at all lol, please reread what i wrote.