Goyim
Isn't that just Yiddish for "boy" or something? I haven't seen or heard that one anywhere other than from Jewish people who sprinkle Yiddish into their English.
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2026
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@laurenceOfSuburbia Makes me think of the band Devo. I believe the name is short for "devolution". Though I think they meant something else.
I think I might officially be old now. I don't know what the bottom left two are and I have no desire to google them.
We need to counter them with good, non-cringe slangs!
Step down, old guard
To where? The uneducated?
At least we aren't graduating high school with a 5th grade reading level at best.
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I think an even older generation would ut their slang in the strong soyjack section and would put yours in the stupid soyjack section.
Applesauce! This post isn't the bee's knees! I'm going to a blind pig to chug some giggle water to forget it!
How skibidi of you
Foid and Goyim aren't normal slang, they're slurs used by fascist weirdos. -maxxing is only used by non-fascist weirdos in ironic contexts.
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Oh no, kids today speak as differently to us as we did to prior generations, how cringe!
Let's go, there's a Gammelfleischparty at the club tonight.
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Isn't Goyim Yiddish?
A lot of modern slang started on right wing sections of 4Chan and is full of Jewish words intentionally used as code to make fun of them. EtymologyNerd on YouTube has talked about the right leaning origin of slang some
Goy and goyim are also just actually words that are fairly commonly used by many English speaking Jews.
Fair amount of other Yiddish and Hebrew words other than goy/goyim are used this way as well.
Its like... an additional vernacular.
Chutzpah, means basically ... shameless audacity, or ... arrogant presumption of privilege, something like that.
Oi Vey! ... basically 'Woe is me!', but also kind of more like 'Oh shit/fuck/no'... sort of.
... I'm not saying you can't use these words and phrases as like, part of a cariacature, but they are also just words and phrases you'd have probably picked up, growing up in a Jewish family, or around them.
Similar to how you'd have an additional vernacular set if you were from some other cultural/ethic/religious background...
... not exactly the same, but Evangelical Christians for example have a weird tendency to pluralize 'evidence' into 'evidences', use 'discernment' in common speech waaay more often than others do, etc.
So incels that think they're clever got ya
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NGL I like "-maxxing" because of how versatile it is.
"Whatever" is hardly slang, however.
It's the way you said that is representative of the generation. It was "what-everrrrr." Nobody says it like that nowadays.
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tfw when you're getting old and crabby