Who’s making rules about me being able to drop F-bombs in an elementary school? Fascists? Big Brother?
“Septic” rather than “sceptic”, but yes, that’s a common British/Australian derogatory/jesting nickname for Americans, based on rhyming slang, as you note.
I knew that looked a little funny…Septic indeed.
Reddit/TikTok: “We don’t want anyone talking about suicide here! Block and ban any post that mentions suicide!”
Users of Reddit/TikTok: creates alternate word to take the place of “suicide” so they can still talk about it without being silenced by the Powers That Be.
Alessan: “They’re all just being submissive and doing what The Powers That Be want them to do!”
The term “unalived” makes me gag even when I’m just reading it. Each time I see or hear it, I automatically think of George Carlin’s bit about euphemisms from over 30 years ago, except it’s not being used as a joke.
Alessan: “The hell with Reddit and TikTok. I’m going to the SDMB where I can speak fucking English!”
*snerk*
I see what you did there.
I find it hard to conceive of anyone under the age of forty or so feeling like that’s an acceptable solution. It’d be like getting kicked out of the most popular club in town, and declaring that you’re going to hang out at the VFW in protest.
Neologisms definitely can be pretty grating. The only reason I don’t complain about them more than I do is that I know that a couple decades down the line my complaints will just sound gratuitously crotchety and curmudgeonly, because that term is just plain normal now.
Remember twenty years ago when we had Dopers starting threads to complain about the verbification of the word “action”? Some of us may still mildly roll our eyes at it, but “to action” is absolutely standard usage now, including on these boards.
Encounter a neologism enough times in enough routine contexts, and it just stops seeming annoying or ridiculous, relegating all our initial irritated complaints about how intrinsically annoying or ridiculous that stupid word is to the ash heap of linguistic evolution.
I very much get the distinction, having worked in probate and estate law as mentioned. But I’m sure it’s just a matter of time before someone “gifts” us a black eye, or something similar. 
Yep, it’ll start off as sarcasm for comic effect, and then get overused as sarcasm to the point where people simply accept it unironically. Ah, language, why you gotta be like this.
Humans are why we can’t have nice things. Not even a nice language.
Still bugs the fuck out of me.
“To do”, coporate idiots, “to do” is the phrase your painfully mindless vocabularies are missing.
Your verbing the noun “bug” and nouning the verb “fuck”.
Fortunately, I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
The way I see it, there are two ways of fighting silly and arbitrary rules, with no recourse or appeal:
The first is to bend the rules. That works, for a while, but then they change the rules, and you bend them again, and they change again, and you bend again, and they change, and you bend, and in the end you find yourself bent into a pretzel and you have no idea who you are any more.
The second is to say NO, and skedaddle to some other place where the rules are more to your liking. You won’t be in the popular club any more, but at least you won’t feel like a fucking idiot. And if enough people say NO, well, friends, they may think it’s a movement.
Thank you for reading my manifesto.
Touché, I think!
A slightly grudging acknowledgement of my mistake.
Facebook is known to reject comments and posts containing he word ‘dead’. So, I think many who have had that experience have begun to routinely use ‘unalive’ in place of ‘dead’.
Yeah, 14 year olds aren’t good at organizing resistance efforts.
No, you didn’t make any mistake at all!
Language changes. We tend to be aware of the changes that occur in our lifetime, but it was changing before then as well. The mistake would be thinking one’s own language usage has a privileged position in the history of linguistic evolution.
The Groucho Marx and Arlo Guthrie references aren’t doing wonders to dispel the “Old people yelling at clouds” aspect to this thread.
Look, kids invent new slang. We did it when we were kids, our parent did it when they were kids, and it all goes back to one day on the Serengeti when some young punks decided that instead of referring to a rock as “grunt point grunt,” they were going to start calling them “rocks,” and the whole concept of language grew from there.
And every generation grows up and complains that the new slang is stupid or doesn’t make sense, which has never once in history succeeded at getting teenagers to stop talking like teenagers.