• bcoffy@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Excessive swearing, as if they just learned how to say “fuck”.

    Not that any damn amount of fucking swearing means they are are a young fucker, but you can fucking tell when you read that shit and they manage nine goddamn swear words in one fucking sentence you know they’re a young bitch who aren’t allowed to swear any other damn time.

      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Yeah, what’s this fucker on about? I’m an adult that doesn’t even get carded at the liquor store anymore, I fucking swear whenever I damn well please and as often as I give a shit to. Nothing wrong with some cursing, especially at those young fucks that won’t stay off my goddamned lawn. Shit, they’re at it again.

        Brb, gotta yell at some asshole kids.

        • bcoffy@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          Don’t get it twisted, I love cursing like a sailor and do so regularly. But when I see it excessively in an internet post that makes someone seem like they’re trying too hard to fit in with adults online and be extra edgy

    • wieson@feddit.org
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      10 months ago

      Or they speak English as a foreign language. Then all the swear words hold no value or weight, unlike in your native language.

  • communism@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    I don’t think there is a “dead giveaway”. Plenty of kids can pass as adults online and plenty of adults seem like kids online. And sometimes with stuff like word usage/grammar/etc you can’t tell if it’s a child or someone who doesn’t speak English very well or maybe an English-speaking adult who happens to type like that. There’s a lot of different people in the world.

    • Freefall@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      I can’t get over ironically using stupid lingo, without being good at presenting it as ironic use…so I often seem like a child. I am certainly bad at forming sentences that are not stream of thought (with weird punctuation like parentheses containing clarification…like this…and overused ellipsis…)

      • Linssiili@sopuli.xyz
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        10 months ago

        It’s interesting to meet someone else who also struggles with an overuse of parentheses and ellipsis (I didn’t know what they were called, thanks for that!).

        This is a complete shot in the dark, but do you also happen to be on the spectrum? (I have nothing to base this on expect my theory that overclarification could be more common among neurodivergent people)

        • Freefall@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          I don’t present as on the spectrum, but I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was a kid. I haven’t suffered from it much as an adult. I have heard that the parenthetical over clarification and typing as your thoughts would flow naturally is a sign of Autism in particular. I can control it when I focus, but if I am ranting it comes out in force.

        • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          Add to your knowledge- they are ellipses. A single … is an ellipsis. Many words that end in “is” are pluralized as “es”

          This is pronounced like iss versus eeze.

    • Badabinski@kbin.earth
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      10 months ago

      I imagine that part of it comes down to motivation. I pretended to be an adult on a special-interest forum when I was twelve years old because I needed an escape from my miserable existence. At that time, I had no control over my life and every morning I woke up meant I had a new chance for traumatic shit to happen. I desperately needed to be someone else, so I took my time, researched shit, and avoided any conversation where I might be outed. I’m sure I didn’t fool everyone, but I got some shocked responses when I went back as an adult and owned up to it.

      Kids doing it for the authority boost or just as a childish fancy will be easier to spot. Kids doing it as a coping mechanism for their horrible lives will probably blend in a lot better.

    • morrowind@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      Yeah seriously, every time someone makes a generalization online “that subreddit is all 12 year olds anyway”, “r/teenagers is mainly grown me”, it really bothers me because no, you’re just overconfident in estimating people’s ages from text

      • Freefall@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        I would die without autocorrect. I grew up with “mom, how do I spell (word)” and getting “sound it out”, witch werks grate in Inglish…

  • mindlight@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Unable to understand and/or admit that both sides can be bad. It’s ok to admit the “your team” did some nasty shit and it doesn’t in any way cancel out what the other “team” did.

    Also, Winning an argument doesn’t in any way make you a winner. Actually, an argument that someone “won” often doesn’t lead to a change for the better or even make anyone convinced that your arguments were valid.

  • Lyre@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    My general metric:

    Hahaha = gen x

    Lol = older millenial

    Lmao = younger millenial

    💀 = Gen z

  • Shawdow194@kbin.run
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    10 months ago

    Asking basic questions that can usually be answered with internet experience (“how do bans/kicks work”, or “what is an administrator”, “what is LAN” etc.)

    Flaunting “new” features that existed on older products. (“This game let’s us upload our own music to soundtrack!”, “I’ve never seen a platformer like this” etc.)

    • Obinice@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      That assumes you live in one of a small number of countries for which politics significantly shifted after one of those countries was attacked.

      And also that you’re at least old enough to have had a reasonable mature understanding of the political landscape before 2001, so as to appreciate how things changed. Let’s assume that’d make you at least 20.

      …So, we have to be at least 43 years old, and American, or you’ll assume we’re children?

    • someguy3@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      To actually understand you’d have to have been following politics pre 9/11, which would make you probably 16 at the time. That means 39 right now. That’s a lot of adults you’re ruling out.

      If you want to say understand society pre and post 9/11, then you’re probably talking 12 at the time, so 35 right now. Still a lot of adults you’re ruling out.

        • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Why? How does knowing how politics worked before I could vote, help me as a voter today?

          I understand enough about politics to cast my vote and beyond the act of voting, I generally don’t follow politics. I vote based on party platforms (what they intend to do) and the likelihood of those things happening. Eg, if a party was to say that they’ll make everyone rich, I would consider that statement to be delusional, unrealistic and not something that could be fulfilled even if that party was voted in. This is an extreme example, but I think you get my meaning.

          Beyond doing my due diligence in figuring out who I want to vote for, and then voting for that party… What else do I realistically need?

          My district always elects the same party anyways, whether I vote for them or not. I’ve landed in a gerrymandered location and that party basically always wins, but I still vote regardless.

          IMO, I shouldn’t need to take a political history course to be considered to be a responsible voter.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I don’t care for politics.

        Your sphere of control should match your sphere of concern; and neither of those things are what you think they are.

        • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
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          10 months ago

          You think politics are in my control in any way, shape, or form? They’ve gerrymandered my vote to irrelevance.

          I still vote, I look at the platforms and vote for whomever I feel serves my interests the most, not that the party’s platform means jack or shit. They’re all just pandering to whatever they know you want to hear, and once they get into power, they do whatever the hell they want.

          My district leans a particular way, and whether I vote with them, or against them, the same party is elected to govern. I’d say my vote is pretty useless in that context.

          I was too young to vote, pre-9/11, and had even less interest in politics than I do now. I’ve vaguely followed along since I got registered to vote when I got old enough to do so, but it’s not like learning about what happened before I was registered to vote will help me in any way. I make the best choice based on the information that is available, and in the end, it doesn’t even matter.

          • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

            Could anyone persuade you to vote on what’s better for most people instead of what’s better for yourself? Maybe it’s the same policies maybe not.

            • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
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              10 months ago

              I usually want whatever is best for the majority. I’m done college, and I paid my student loans, I’ll vote for student loan forgiveness and a restructuring of that system so others don’t have to go through what I did.

              I’m pretty healthy and rarely need hospitals but universal healthcare is something that everyone should have.

              I would also vote for UBI, though I would get no benefit from it, as I’ve been employed pretty much non-stop since I left college.

              I would also vote to raise the minimum wage, though my salary is significantly amount the minimums.

              My principles are in line with what most people would consider to be the greater good for all people. I believe in true equality, and I don’t feel like that’s what we have, some people just aren’t given the same basic rights, especially in America with roe v. Wade being overturned. Bodily autonomy and the right to love, and marry whomever you want. I don’t believe in lowering the bar to give the illusion of things being “fair”, eg, allowing people who are otherwise mentally or physically incapable of doing a job, to do the job just because they’re a particular race, gender, or something else (making it more about who they are than whether they’re the best fit for a job).

              I don’t think I need any convincing to vote for what’s good for someone else.

              • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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                10 months ago

                Agreed, we are like minded in many ways. Thanks for the kind and long response. I believe your earlier comments were being taken by myself and others as fuck everyone I’ll get/I’ve got mine. Sorry I don’t mince words at the moment.

                • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
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                  10 months ago

                  No apology needed. No offense taken.

                  I know that text replies, especially terse ones can be interpreted in many ways. Often I tend to be rather verbose to get my point across accurately. Some then complain about the verbosity of my replies.

                  It’s a struggle to find the right amount of terse while being verbose enough to not be misunderstood.

    • Zangoose@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Hate to break it to you but people born in 2006 are turning 18 this year (and are technically considered “adults”).

      • jaaake@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Having just turned 43, I can tell you that I don’t think I became an adult until my early/mid 30s.

        • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          10 months ago

          This is a truth that everyone under 30 denies until the day they turn 30. It’s like a magic spell is suddenly broken, and you realize you’re alone in an aging meat husk that now knows the glory of back pain.

          I know a young person will read this and think this won’t happen to them. To that person: I am you from the future. Remember us as we were.

          • EllE@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

            I think it’s kinda like the old dating age formula; you can date people (your age) / 2 + 7 years old, and you feel like that’s the age of an adult.

            When I was 15 I felt like ann adult, but people younger than me were teens. When I was 25 I felt like an adult but people under the age of like 20 were just kids. Now I feel like people in their early/mid-20s are just about adults. I’m sure when I’m 50 I’ll think back to myself now and consider myself barely an adult.