while discussing current linguistic trends in a small group we were talking with an older zoomer and someone around my age and how some words become âtrendyâ (this is where some red flags starting going off in my head), and how some people use slay to seem âin touchâ and just comes off as off putting. the person near my age then said that words like âslayâ and âperiodâ were, essentially, trends two years ago. hereâs where my sleeper agent was activated. what i would have said was how we (we were all white in the discussion) tend to appropriate and steal words as they are pushed into algorithms and become colloquial speach without acknowledging their sources (which 90% of the time is from queer poc, especially from the ballroom and drag scene). i forgot iâm one of few who actually knows this and tries to subvert my usage of said language for words that arenât bastardized and stolen from other cultures even though i may be queer myself, that doesnât give me or others a pass to use words that can sound unintentionally stolen, misused, or worse. just wanted to say that â sorry for not really reaching a âpointâ with this itâs just a very special cross-interest of mine with linguistics, semantics, and drag/ballroom culture with which i am all interested in :p