Are you ****ing serious? This is an actual thing?

This has been around for awhile.

People get so lazy.

Calm down.

This sounds about as dumb as people saying "so X is a thing."

OP, come back here so that we can all point and laugh at you in unison.

Weird, we still say "mum" and "dad" in Norway.

We are awesome.

Totes hilare,

I'm not that old but it's amazing how far removed I am from 'young person' lingo.

What everyone is talking about here is the old "descriptive vs. presciptive" debate in linguistics. Go look it up if you want to educate yourself!

I just finished my 2nd year of Uni. People have been using 'rents' for as long as I can remember. At least since year 6 or something.

People who say aks instead of ask piss me off.

It's not just this new generation. Some people my age used to refer to parents as rents. Pretty silly, but I understood them just fine so don't bother none.

Yea its stupid, but so is most slang. But its not stupid enough to make a thread about it on a game forum. Now fo' shizzle on the other hand.

you know what's annoying? when people say 'I could care less'. Which is the opposite of what they mean, which is 'I couldN'T care less' -which is to say that they COULD NOT CARE ANY LESS. If they could care less, it means they care. See? Anyway, go preach that one on the mountain because people have been saying 'rents' for ages.

The generation before you thought your slang was dumb too.

I'm in high school and have never heard anyone say that.

@H2Oyea: You care so much about this one word, but you have no problems with run-on sentences or improperly using all-caps? There are more mature ways to express anger besides all-caps and swearing. The only reason I bring up maturity is because that's what you're claiming they do not have.

I prefer the term parentals personally. :-)

@GlenTennis said:

I call pizza "za" sometimes.

Come at me.

Im right here bro

that shit cray

I am going to draw a line in the sand Rufio style. Slang on one side non slang on the other side.

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It's like stupid, but like infinitely better than like the previous like generation adding like between like every like word.

I've never heard someone say that, and I'm a university student, so there's that.

Whatup OP First A story!

for a long time me and my buddy used to go to a sandwich store by my college and order subs (grinders hoagies) and call them "Long sandwiches" I would order an Italian Long sandwich, because t tossed a helpful abbreviation (in my part of the US the abbreviation is sub) for a really awkward horrible descriptive statement.

Try doing that to change the trend. in the total opposite direction. Refer to your parents like a viking Beowluf style like "oh yea was out shopping with Frank Son of Bill Son of Gerry King of the West"

Hey, shut up, you can't tell me what to do. You ain't my rent. Seriously though, slang is fucking stupid (most of the time).

Probably because they can't get jobs and so they can't pay rents. Like a double meaning in there thing.

And somebody probably already said just that...I mean, five pages of comments on this thread? Yeah, not going to read them.

I've heard of rents for years.

op kinda strikes me as an idiot

@H2Oyea: umadbro?

@H2Oyea: You care so much about this one word, but you have no problems with run-on sentences or improperly using all-caps? There are more mature ways to express anger besides all-caps and swearing. The only reason I bring up maturity is because that's what you're claiming they do not have.

I prefer the term parentals personally. :-)

that shit cray

Can't say I've heard someone say that since the late 90s or 2000s. Certainly not a new thing, closer to a dying trend

@IBurningStar said:

Slang tends to be fucking stupid. I learned this lesson a long time ago.

Yup. I learned this too.

I had to click this thread to see what it was about, that means it is a shitty thread. Almost as shitty as the term "rents."

I am part of that generation, and I have never heard this before.

I had to click this thread to see what it was about, that means it is a shitty thread. Almost as shitty as the term "rents."

Just like how people older than me think my generation's slang is stupid.

Allow it bruv allow it

Rents.