The Real King Gordon@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 day agoWhat is something only old people say?message-squaremessage-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down12
arrow-up130arrow-down1message-squareWhat is something only old people say?The Real King Gordon@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 day agomessage-square34linkfedilink
minus-squareconsidine@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-213 hours ago“Knee high to a grasshopper” (short) “Beyond the pale” (outside social norms, I think. Maybe just strange) “Dance maven” “I’ll just do that in my copious free time…” (sarcastically, because you are too busy) “Copacetic” (it’s all good) “Heavy” (meaning important, grave) I learned all of these thirty years ago from a man in his fifties. He was full of interesting expressions.
minus-squareWhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 hours agoIf the question is things “only” old people say, you have to exclude phrases old people say that were repopularized through media. “Heavy” (meaning important, grave) For example this is a really quotable line from Back to the Future, so kids would pick it up.
minus-squareFooBarrington@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 hours agoI’ve started saying “beyond the pale” and “copacetic” after playing Disco Elysium
“Knee high to a grasshopper” (short)
“Beyond the pale” (outside social norms, I think. Maybe just strange)
“Dance maven”
“I’ll just do that in my copious free time…” (sarcastically, because you are too busy)
“Copacetic” (it’s all good)
“Heavy” (meaning important, grave)
I learned all of these thirty years ago from a man in his fifties. He was full of interesting expressions.
If the question is things “only” old people say, you have to exclude phrases old people say that were repopularized through media.
For example this is a really quotable line from Back to the Future, so kids would pick it up.
I’ve started saying “beyond the pale” and “copacetic” after playing Disco Elysium