Nobody says it anymore

Teachers in 2023: “NOOO you can’t end your sentences with ‘fr fr nocap skibidi’ those aren’t even real words!”

2033:

When I was a waiter, there was no shortage of boomers getting genuinely upset with me saying "No problem" as a reply to "thanks".

I'm glad that the attitude that if you don't speak "correctly," then you are not worth engaging with is dying out.

Well, on the grammar front, anyway.

It was "yo" for me. Any time I used it some old shit would complain. My mom called it n-word speak. Me and my mom don't talk.

I use it daily, mostly out of spite.

"Hej," pronounced "hey" is Swedish for "hello." Also "Hej hej" these days if you want to be more casual. It seemed weird to me at first, like "Hej mormor," for "Hello, grandmother," seemed informal, but if I said, "God afton," (good afternoon) my cousins said I sounded like a government issued language tape.

In the nineties, i had an old guy respond "'Hey' is the first stage of horse shit.". I still use it to this day.

My grandfather used to say that, but it was more of in a dad joke way rather than a 'you shouldn't say that' way.

"Hay is for horses" is such a dope saying. I loved it, horses are dope.

I think someone took a dad joke too seriously.

I remember my mom getting uptight over the word "sucks", as in "that sucks" or "it really sucked". Literally everyone was saying it, there was no way I could help it lol

A few years ago a very boomer gen-xer tried this on me and got very enraged when I would say "hey" instead of "hello {his name}". At one point even threatened me.

Sup?

"Sup is for meal times!"

I still say this to my kids because they don’t understand why and it’s hilarious.

In 2005 'Hello there - General Kenobi!' became the acceptable greeting amongst teenagers and old timers. Lets bring it back.

I fought in the hey/hay wars in my early childhood. Weost many good soldiers, but their sacrifice was not in vain.

My old man used to say (in a sing-song voice):

Hay is for horses

Sometimes cows

Chickens would eat it

But they don't know how

They're gone now but moved on to inside our government

My grandpa would do this to me when I was a kid, but it was never in like a rude way. It was just one of the funny ways we would mess with each other.

Not once did someone say that to me in a corrective or condescending way. It was always a playful joke.

In elementary school we used to say "hay is for horses, and cows like you!".

The calling parents "dude" wars are still raging, though.

Remember Yo?

This actually happened to me at a supermarket in Chilliwack. The description is spot on. Grumpy old dude, 19 year old me.

Hey

Hey ho.

Hey! Listen!

The proper response to someone saying hay, is straw.

This reminds me of that old joke "what do gay horses eat? Hay hay haaaayyyyyy" that was told to us by a teacher in I dunno, middle school probably. Gotta love the 90s

hAy is for horses, hEy means hello, they're literally different words.

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The Pumpkin Dipshit, @ParSpec

Remembering how common it was in like the early nineties for a kid to say "hey" and some old timer to respond "hay is for horses!" as part of some campaign to label "hey" as rude and force kids not to say it. They're gone now and we still say hey. You lost, old timers.

I've heard it explained that "hey" used to be more of an urgent way to get someone's attention

Used to?! O_O

Isn’t that just Swedish for “hello”, brought here by Swedish immigrants?

Hej hej

Y'all was different back then too. Now it's the most neutral greeting and that's really odd for my 90s brain.

Hay is for horses… and cows like it too! -Grandpa

Oh wow, so really we were giving them a mild heart attack, every time we were saying hi? I don't know if that really justified the grammar police (not using that other word casually, anymore) but also these are the people who created boomers, so they definitely had to have some issues they were never able to work through.

Same thing in Russian:

• на "Эй!" зовут лошадей!

The modern day version of this is the response to "Thank You".

You're welcome?

No problem?

Ha?
Dr Hah isch bei die Henna!

What the hay?

Frankly, I knew one person who replied "hey is how you call a horse".

A debt owed to Felicity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBohdltpVUY

Hey, I do.