To hate the term 'woke'

[crunchymint]

Seriously annoying. Am I the only one who hates it?

i am shook. or even worse, I am shooketh. makes me want to physically hurt people

We need an Arseholes Anonymous to send these people to. They are chewing the English language into bits. I know people say language is always changing but COME ON Bae? Woke? My Bad? Go eat? Fuck off.

I used to be one of the yunguns on MN

I don't really understand lit or shook either. And when somebody posts a picture with the caption "I'm screaming" I can't tell if it means they are freaked out or find something so hilarious that they are screaming with laughter.

I find out all the latest words from my teenager. I'm not a fan of "woke" but I quite like "lit".

"Sick" is the one I've never really liked, but youngsters use it so naturally.

I felt old for the first time today when my DC made a joke that referenced a song I'd never ever heard. I used to understand all their cultural references. 😩

I can remember being young in the 90's and getting irritated by 'Dude' and 'Bitchin' It's not a young thing. It's a twat thing.

Never heard of it, it makes me glad I'm old.

It's not for you to like it's for the young kids it's normal for slang to evolve, when I was at school everything was 'peak' words like woke and lit are this generations slang, I can't get worked up over this.

I mainly hear woke from from conspiracy theorists who are considerably older than millenials. I find 'sheeple' more irritating.

I mainly hear woke from from conspiracy theorists who are considerably older than millenials

That's what I associate it with, too (and the Nuwaubian Nation fits nicely in their UFO cult crap). You're "woke" when you see past what all the sheeple think is true, past the lies of the establishment etc.

Anyone who self-identifies on twitter as being "woke" is a prime candidate for instant blocking. It's not a youth thing. There are people having their mid-life crisis and claiming to be woke. Prats.

cannot stand “bae” particularly when the couple have only just met & clearly won’t last very long. 🙄

I used to be in denial and kid myself that I wasn't one of "those" older people until I was sat amongst a group of young people. I couldn't keep up with the conversation because I had no clue what they were talking about due to the slang they were using e.g.

Young person 1: Michael is a G, but I was triggered when Michael said blah blah, I was dead, seriously I was just dead.

Young person 2: yeah yeah Michael is a G and I used to think he was woke, but naaaa fam, when he said blah blah I was dead.

Nurse buttercup : pretends the entire conversation didn't happen.

I can't wait until my girls are teenagers so I can accidently on purpose use slang incorrectly in front of their friends.

Yeah SICK to describe something great is an odd one!

Like a few others on here, I cannot get worked up about it either. I don't mind it at all.

As some have said, it's language evolving.

SHADY is another one, and MY BAD, but I feel they may have been around for a decade or 2!

People used to say 'groovy baby' and 'it's a gas' and 'be cool man!' back in the 1970's, I bet the old farts of the time (people born before 1930,) used to complain about that then too!

I love the dynamism of language and it is a really useful way of identifying people to interests or 'tribes' (not necessarily in a bad or judgemental way) these are verbal/linguistic tics - but they also deliberately serve to include/exclude people. MN uses lots of phrases and codes.
Woke is annoying though as it assumes a moral high ground and infers everyone outside of that 'enlightenment' is figuratively asleep, i.e stupid or yet to realise.

well if you don’t like the term woke you can cheer yourself up by reminding anyone who uses it sincerely that if you were truly woke you wouldn’t use it if you are white as it’s (debatably) appropriating US black vernacular. Worth bearing in mind that a lot of the words mentioned on this thread eg. shook, bae are also words that have the same issues attached. So you’ll have to decide if you don’t like bae cos your a racist or beacuae it’s cultural appropriation. Good luck everyone!

Also that’s a semi ironic post above but it is an interesting area if your Interested in the politics of language

I work with a millenial, I need simultaneous translation...

I do associate Woke (or it's more extreme pal, WokeAF)with middle aged conspiracy nuts though.

I hate it.

I’m sure when I was growing up “g” used to mean gangsta. I still use shady & cool #awks!

I can't wait until my girls are teenagers so I can accidently on purpose use slang incorrectly in front of their friends

This is indeed one of life's greatest pleasures.

Ah yes, shook, woke, lit, legit, bae.
Can't be on Instagram five minutes without all this bizarre new lingo.
Also the overuse of bitch all over the place.
Or the infamous "I can't even". You can't even what? Finish a damn sentence? Indeed...
Oh and my top of the list -yuk: "being so extra".

@Redcrayons hehe 😆

red if you can get quite a few into the same sentence they especially like it
“So bae was legit woke and we got so lit I was shook and now I can’t even, I’m dead”

Woke and shook are buzzfeed headline staples. They drive me up the wall (and I definitely count as a millennial).