A trainer goes viral on TikTok for his 'Gen Z time period dictionary' that includes phrases like 'baddie' and 'no cap'

• Highschool trainer Larry Lexicon confirmed his class his “Gen Z time period dictionary.”
• It included phrases and phrases akin to “baddie,” “no cap,” and “slaps.”
• Lexicon additionally identified the origin of many of those phrases was African-American Vernacular English.

A highschool trainer made a “Gen Z time period dictionary” for his class in a sequence of latest TikToks, together with phrases akin to “no cap,” “baddie,” and “getting sturdy.”

“All 12 months lengthy I have been listening to you and making an inventory, which I’ve compiled right here for you — the Gen Z time period dictionary,” stated the trainer, who makes use of the pseudonym Larry Lexicon.

Lexicon would not give his actual identify, however teaches someplace in Vacaville, California.

He confirmed his class his work in a PowerPoint presentation.

“You guys can let me know in the event that they’re correct or if I must revise them, or perhaps you’ll be able to assist me to make use of them in a sentence,” he stated.

Lexicon has grown a following of 1.8 million on TikTok for his relatable and academic movies that present his shut relationship together with his college students. His Gen Z dictionary was delivered in three TikToks that received a mixed 4.6 million views.

One other of his viral movies was an evidence of why many US lecture rooms now had buckets in them — they’re filled with provides wanted to outlive for an prolonged time period if there is a lockdown due to a faculty taking pictures.

The primary phrase, “bruh,” Lexicon stated was “apparent” and a “staple” of the era. He described it as a substitute for “bro,” or that it “can be utilized as an exclamation.”

The following phrase, “rizz,” Lexicon stated was pretty new to him, and had discovered it meant “to have charisma.”

He stated he thought “bussin'” meant good, particularly when speaking about meals, and “bussin’ bussin'” meant actually good, additionally with reference to meals. “Delulu,” he thought, was an adjective to explain somebody who was delusional.

In a second TikTok, Lexicon stated he had compiled extra phrases, and can be utilizing them day-after-day till the tip of the varsity 12 months.

Listed here are some examples:

• “Baddie” — “A reasonably lady, sometimes very curvy and unbiased.”
• “Gyatt” — An exclamation which is a “substitute for ‘gosh darn’; sometimes utilized in response to seeing a baddie.”
• “Getting sturdy” — A dance normally used “when successful.”
• “Wager” — One other means of claiming “OK” or “alright.”
• “Slaps” — One thing that is good, “sometimes with reference to music.”
• “Cap” — A lie.
• “No cap” — The reality.

“And if it is actually, actually no cap, it is ‘on God,'” Lexicon stated.

In a 3rd TikTok, Lexicon responed to feedback, saying he wished to make some revisions to the title slide of his dictionary.

He stated lots of people identified that lots of the phrases have roots in African-American Vernacular English.

“I do know you suppose you got here up with quite a lot of these phrases, however you did not, and so they’ve been round for a very long time,” Lexicon stated. “They sort of make their means into society, and into your lexicon, via popular culture and issues like hip hop music and stuff. And so they sneak their means into your every day vocab.”

Historically, these phrases and the language related to them are “appeared down upon by society as uneducated or one thing like that,” Lexicon stated.

“However then what occurs is it makes its means into like, white suburbia, and also you get a middle-aged dorky white dude mislabeling it only for an entire era as a time period dictionary,” he stated. “And it finally ends up erasing the significance of it, and the affect that it has on tradition.”

Lexicon stated he would re-title the information as “The AAVE-inspired Gen Z time period dictionary.”

“The error was simply merely resulting from ignorance on my half,” he stated. “However that is OK, as a result of all you have to do is study. I simply write the suggestions that I received, studied a bit of bit and discovered and now I am not so ignorant anymore.”

Being ignorant was OK, he stated, “however being willfully ignorant and never doing something about it — not so OK.”